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Ozone Mag Chin Check June 08

June 30, 2008 | Tags: none

We now take a small break from being positive and uplifting our community to criticize this culture that we love called Hip Hop. Why? In the immortal words of TIP off the T.I. vs. T.I.P. album, Act Three, Track 16, Verse Three (song Tell Em' I Said That), bar 11, "Cause the Game Feels Like The Real NI**AS on Strike!" There is just a lot of bullshit going on in the industry that is rubbing Cthagod the wrong way. For a giant, these are just small things that are bothering me almost like that small pea the princess felt through those 20 mattresses and 20 feather beds. (Step your fairy tale game up).

1) Nas changing his album title - Nas is my second favorite MC of all time. Number one is Ghostface Killah, two is Rakim Allah, four is Andre 3000 and five is TIP if you're wondering. It pisses me off that he changed the title of his album because we know the reason he did it is because he buckled under the pressure of Corporate America. Nas is more concerned about his bottom line, the almighty dollar and not the impact that title would have had on the world. There was a sense of urgency to go out and grab that album because Nas was rebelling against the system and going against the grain. People who where not even fans of Nas where going to grab that album just off the title alone because they wanted to know what could this guy possibly be talking about. Now that sense of urgency has dissipated. Diehard fans like me will support him but I'm still disgusted. People get a Revelation of Truth and they're scared to stand on that truth because of the persecution that comes with that truth. People who really believe in the message they're delivering have a spirit that knows no matter what persecution they encounter on account of those words will only make them stronger.

I guess Nas isn't willing to fight for his truth. That is why the scripture reads "Many are called but only a few or chosen." Nas had a Revelation to call his album Nigger but he obviously doesn't have the strength to stand up for it under the persecution of his record label and whoever else pressured him to change the title of his CD. What's funny is he would not have been the first to do it. ODB had Nigga Please, 2 Pac Had Strictly for My Nigga, Richard Pryor, Bicentinnial Nigga and That Nigga's Crazy. Hell, NWA stands for Niggas With Attitude! What's even more funny is the conversation probably went like this from the higher ups at Universal, "Hey, call that Nigga LA Reid and tell him to tell that Nigga Nas to change his album title or we're firing both them Niggas." End quote.

2) Lil Punk Ass Wayne - How many passes are we going give this clown Lil Wayne? It's to the point that we're all are going to have to start taking the blame for his bullshit. The media, the consumers, radio stations and video channels. We are the enablers of this guy's ignorance. He said he's going to kill newborn babies. He said he stopped sniffing cocaine because it gives him acne? That is the best reason he could find to stop using cocaine? Now he says he created the whole genre of mix tapes, he says fuck mix tape DJ's and you guys let him slide with a half ass apology to DJ Drama? Please, I totally cosign my brother DJ Chuck T and his movement to download Lil Wayne's CD to death. I hear yall, "Naw that's fucked up." "You are taking money out Wayne's pockets!" Negro please the only check Lil Wayne needs right now is a reality check. No need to get into a whole bunch of rhetoric over Lil Lame, check the archives of Ozone and read my Fuck Lil Wayne editorial. I heard the Carter 3. It's good, nothing amazing, just like the writer of the album. I keep telling yall Lil Wayne is overrated, over hyped, he has over extended his welcome and he'll probably die of and overdose.

3) Dj Drama - Drama is my man but damn he was soft on Wayne. I distinctly remember MTV asking Lil Wayne about Dj Drama's situation after the federal raid and Wayne said, "Smarten up." "It's a bad thing, but you gotta play the game fair." "If you don't play fair, all kind of things can happen." "You gotta watch people like DJ Clue; watch people like DJ Khaled, they do it right." "You gotta do it right." Wayne said, "It's gonna be a message, the authorities, ain't playing." "They gonna make an example." "They gonna straighten the game out." "A lot of companies take a fall with those mix tapes." "Niggas (Dj Drama) be caking up off them mix tapes." The artists can drop his album and everybody knows that hip-hop album sales are in decline; nobody ain't gonna buy the album and everybody gets the mix tapes off of the Internet or whatever way they get it." "The artists ain't caking, but the nigga you made the mix tape with is caking up." "Thank God I ain't got that problem, but I know a lot of people who do!"

He threw Drama under the bus and Drama should have returned the favor when he called in with that I apologize but I meant every word I said, fuck yall, I'll chew your face off apology. What really bothered me about this interview is when Drama let Wayne diss every DJ that uses Serato or Final Scratch. Wayne talked about how Djs be in the club with the computer on top of the turntables. Duh! Drama, how you let this cornball diss damn near every DJ in the game? Name a Dj who is not using Serato or Final Scratch? Fred Flintstone ass Djs still using turntables probably can't afford to upgrade. Wayne called Drama and basically said I apologize but fuck yall anyway. So he basically said fuck mix tape Djs twice and Drama let him.

Not only did Drama let him but asked him to do a Dedication Three. Last time I checked, Drama was one of the kings of the mix tape game, so when Wayne says fuck mix tape Djs, I would think this means you too Drama. For Wayne to say fuck mix tape Djs, apologize, then say fuck mix tape Djs again and Drama still ask him to do a Dedication is the equivalent of a man slapping the shit out of a female, apologizing, slapping the shit out of her again and then that female ask that man for sex. Drama you my man but the same way you carried the cross for mix tape Djs when you got busted is the same way you should have carried the cross when that drug addict called into your show.

4) Voice coder Epidemic – What is wrong with you dudes? Since when is it okay to just take a bite out of another man's swagger? T Pain came with the voice coder thing for this generation. (Salute to Roger Troutman) and now every rapper and their weed carrier wants to use the voice coder! Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, 50 Cent. Even local rappers in any Hood USA are using this shit. I want to speak for T Pain because he is too much of a gentleman to say it, "Get off my dick!" "Can I live?" "Can I at least get a third album out before yall start chewing on my shit?" I saw this happen with Das Efx, that bumstiggidy style was dope but before they could get a second album out, other MC's bit off their style and played it out so bad that by the time the originators of the style came back around, nobody wanted to hear that shit! Imitation is not always the best form of flattery.

5) Shawty Lo vs. TI - We all know TI in a rap battle against Shawty Lo is about as competitive as a John Deere lawn mower against grass but what bothered me is that Shawty Lo was calling out TI for not being from Bankhead when in reality he should be an equal opportunity hater (like myself) and call out every person repping the "A" who wasn't even born in Georgia! Wikipedia some of these people: Usher - Chattanooga, Tennessee, Ludacris – Champaign, Illinois, Young Jeezy – Columbia, SC (wish you would have stayed Jeezy), Ciara - Austin, Texas and Jermaine Dupri – Ashville, North Carolina. I mean these are just the ones I can name off the top of my head. I'm sure there are a bunch of cats in the "A" reading this ready to send a list of performers from the "A" who where not born there. Actually JB, I think this should be a future feature in Ozone entitled, "It Ain't where you from, it's where you at, but where exactly are you from again?"

6) The saying "It Ain't where you from, it's where you at" - People that use this phrase bother me because they never want to be where they're from to begin with. People tell me that all the time in New York. "It ain't where you from it's where you at." That statement makes a lot of since physically, mentally, emotionally, financially and spiritually. Physically if you are an obese, fat fuck like Star Jones and you lost weight like she did, then physically it's not where you're from it where you're at. Mentally if your brain wasn't filled with what it needed to be filled with and you where just a dumb jackass but over time you educated yourself, then it's not where you're from it's where your at. Emotionally if you where disturbed, distraught, unhappy but you grew to cope with your emotions and now your loving and have self-esteem and you are more secure then it's not where your from it's where you're at. Financially if you where broker than Chingy's road manager (cause no one is booking the "Corniest of All Time" for shows) and you came up and got rich like say Plies' road manager then it's not where your from it's where your at. Spiritually if you where caught in a triple state of unawareness and ignorance commonly called dumb, deaf and blindness and then you acquired a knowledge of self and where awakened then it's not where your from it's where your at. Geographically it's all about where your from! The things you learned where you are from dictate how you survive where you are at. So the saying should be fuck where your at, it's where your from!

Now I'm done venting I got real shit to go write about. I just want you suckers to remember that the Cultural Critic Charlamagne Tha God is always watching. Salute to Bianca Barnes over at BET for coining me the Cultural Critic, thank you. I can't stop calling myself that now! P.S. South Carolina aka South Crack The Album in stores August 19th!

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the writer and not necessarily those of HipHopDX.com or Cheri Media Group.

10 Reasons JD Must be a Leprechaun....

June 10, 2008 | Tags: none

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10 Reasons Jermaine Dupri must be a Leprechaun a.k.a. The Luckiest Little Man in Hip Hop

10) Money Ain't a Thing Video - This video was all the Luck of the Leprechaun. Using his Leprechaun luck, a phone book, and pedal extensions, he was lucky enough to be able to reach the pedals of those hot ass cars he was driving in this video. This video did a lot for the Leprechauns image and had him mentioned in the same breath as Sean Combs, but only when people said damn JD trying to be like Puffy.

9) Kris Kross - This was one of the Leprechauns first pots of gold. He was lucky enough to discover two childhood friends, Chris Kelly and Chris Smith in 1991 at an Atlanta shopping mall. Dupri thought the two "looked like a rap group" and proceeded to gas these twelve-year olds to wear their clothes backwards. There debut album “Totally Krossed Out” went 4 xs platinum in the US and to this day nobody really knows why? I also always wondered if he encouraged them to wear there boxers backwards? If he did, with the hole in the back instead of the front, their album should have been called "Totally Assed Out".

8) Whoever introduced him to Bow Wow - In 1998 at the age of eleven, Bow Wow was introduced to JD who sprinkled a little Leprechaun luck on Bow Wow's young career. Now I don't know who introduced Bow Wow to the Leprechaun but half of this pot of gold should have gone to them. Nobody gave a damn about Slow Slow Death in 1998. I mean nobody cares now, but they where damn near dead then. It was rumored that Bow Wow was a Leprechaun, but nobody would really knew until he got older. Those rumors have been shot down now that he's older because he's too tall to be a Leprechaun and has established himself pretty well in the music and film industry (without the Leprechaun's assistance).

7) His Braids - JD was lucky enough to wear cornrows years after going bald. This combined with his natural Leprechaun height kept up his youthful appearance so he didn't look like Bow Wow's vertically challenged father in Bow Wow's videos.

6) Da Brat - Now this is when rumors of JD being a lucky little Leprechaun really started. He swagger jacked Snoop and reincarnated his style in the form of a female MC and Da Brat was born. Even though much better MCs like Queen Latifah and MC Lyte came before her and had commercial and critical success none of them ever went platinum, but Da Brat did. She was the first female solo artist to ever go platinum. The Leprechaun strikes again.

5) The Street Single - This is what Greg Street was talking about when he said the Leprechaun was a BDS A&R. He goes and grabs pots of gold that are already out there and claims them as his own for example: Bone Crusher (Neva Scared), J-Kwon (Tipsy), Youngbloodz (Damn), Franchise Boys (I think They Like Me) and Rocko (Umma Do Me). A deaf man could hear these where going to be hits, but JD was lucky enough to sign these artists at key periods in Slow Slow Deaths existence. These records have served as life support for a label that should have been dead years ago.

4) Michael Mauldin - The Leprechauns father and former President of Columbia Records. What, you thought JD worked his way into the game? No! He was lucky enough to get handed his position in the game. This explains why he doesn't really have an ear for talent most of his artist where introduced to him by someone else (see # 8) or they where more gimmick than talent i.e., Kris Kross, Da Brat and Bow Wow, or they already had a single buzzing (see # 5) and JD just stamped So So Def on it and called it his own. Who needs an ear for talent when your father was a president for a major record label? Lucky bastard!

3) The Emancipation of Mimi - Mariah Carey's comeback record went 6 xs platinum, fueled by the singles “It's Like That”, “We Belong Together” and “Shake it Off”, all co produced and co written by JD. This had to be the luck of the Leprechaun (see # 2).

2) Janet Jackson - This is the moment when people realized JD was not human, but was an actual real live Leprechaun living among us. How did he bag Janet Jackson? The Luck of the Leprechaun!! This is how we know the Emancipation of Mimi was pure leprechaun luck because he had two chances to bring Janet back with 20 Y.O. and Discipline and couldn't do it. He used all his pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers to bag Janet in the first place. He had no more luck left as far as she was concerned to make pots of gold appear at the end of the rainbows of her last two albums.

1) DJs playing Slow Slow Death Records - If it wasn't for the DJ, not one record JD produced or wrote would have ever been played! If it wasn't for the DJ, Da Brat and Bow Wow would be nobodies! If it wasn't for the DJ, he would have never established the So So Def DJs even though we know he did this just to have a coalition of people to force his latest batch of hot garbage down the world's throats! Now since his, “The DJ is dead” comments, the Leprechaun’s luck has run out. The DJ has no reason to support a mediocre talent, with a mediocre roster of artist and a very mediocre label. R.I.P. to the Leprechaun’s career, sadly it was already dying a Slow Slow Death.