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  • » Name: Brillyance
  • » Age: 25
  • » Location: Long Beach, CA
  • » Member Since: 04/16/07
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The Reality From out West

Where in the hell have I been...randomness for ya


August 31, 2007 | Tags: none

                For all two of all ya’ll wondering where I been, the man is back (I’ll never call myself “The Kid”. I’m grown). Recently I’ve been going through a lot of bullshit, which nearly persuaded me to move out of the state I love and have spent most of my life in. As it appears, I’ll be holding down the 562 (Long Beach) a little while longer. Another couple weeks like the past one however, and I will be setting up shop OT in the town Lebron built (the original one), therefore, the people of Akron better hope I find peace and happiness in the LB.  Anywayz, enough about me, time for some more about me. I had several blogs I wanted to write, but my lack of focus has kept me from completing them. To make up for that, I figured I’d drop another one of those random ass blogs that covers a wide array of topics.



“Why when niggas from the west wear dickies it’s too bangin, but when other out-of- towners  do it it’s a fashion statement/ Why Djs out here say they support the west/ bump us on hump day but chump us out the rest”
-Mitchy Slick “Co-operation”



                So in my absent minded absence and Meka’s rare absence for a couple days, J-23 took a break from doing everything that needs to be done that Shake isn’t responsible for and started doing more blogs. His blogs were mainly dedicated to videos, two of the aforementioned blogs were west coast specific. The first featured a wide spectrum of artists, from King Tee, to Pharcyde, to Spice 1 (you can check that blog here) the other was videos from the oft-forgotten legend Ice Cube (check that here). In other west coast news, Strong Arm Steady dropped “Deep Hearted” this Tuesday, and I hate to admit it, but I don’t really have plans of buying it. See, like everything else, I got the album early. This wasn’t an album, shit  it wasn’t even a best of mixtape. It was more like a “Worst of” mixtape, and not in the same manner that Mood Muzik was. This is bad. With all the material these cats did, if they were gonna go back and get shit to put on the CD, I can think of a lot better shit they did. I guess they went back and got old shit in the first place because they figure cats in other regions may not have had easy access to songs we’ve been hearing out here in the west coast mixtapes, but this definitely isn’t worth copping, and it hurts me to say that. Mitchy Slick doesn’t make enough appearances (I feared this would happen), Phil the Agony seems Lil Wayne-lazy, and Krondon… he showed up physically, but not lyrically. They’re all capable of better. Add in the fact Chace Infinite, whose probably made more appearances with Strong Arm Steady than Mitchy Slick, whose one of the dopest LYRICISTS out right now on ANY COAST, makes one less appearance than Juvenile on the album (which equals one guest spot for Juvie, none for Chace), and this album is definitely lacking. It makes me wonder what things would be like if they never left Xzibit’s Open Bar. Then again he never released the Golden State project (which was him, Ras Kass, and Saafir…speaking of which, I’m wondering if Xzibit and Ras Kass are even cool anymore, considering X’s Game feature…) All of this, and the fact that people actually want to see it is forcing me to bring back my Friday shit. “West Coast Future Friday’s” in 3 weeks, hit the MySpace , my email, or hit me with a pm here on hiphopdx with info on artists, I already know who I want to cover the first week. It’s gonna be someone I was supposed to do before I stopped it last time, I’m not gonna say the name,  but to dude who put me up on this cat and requested him several times…just know, 3 weeks, I’m on it fam.



                Madden Football really doesn’t care for hip hop. Late last week, I bought “Madden 08” for the second time. Originally, I bought it for PS3. I had heard the PS3 version was running at half the frames per second that the 360 version was running at…but ehh, who cares right? Well, I got a Xbox 360 again (hit up Longbeachzking on Xbox Live, get ya ass whooped), and when I did, I decided to try out Madden….WOW. It’s a HUGE difference. I don’t know what the fuck I was playing before. Anywayz, back to the subject. So I seen before that two of my favorite artists had landed spots on the soundtrack, Murs and Brother Ali.  YES…give these dudes some damn props. Madden football would give these cats a chance to get their music to the masses who would have never heard of them on the radio. All I can say now is….WOW. First of all, Murs’ track on Madden is “Dreadlocks”. Originally I complained about the song when I first heard it. Yea I know, I was on some bitch fan shit “Oh, this doesn’t sound like what he normally does” but as I listened to others, I realized “well, he is kicking knowledge about dreads…” The problem is Murs is a huge gamer…but would he have gotten on the Madden soundtrack had it not been for the Hyphy-esque beat by Rick Rock on “Dreadlocks”? I seriously doubt it. Now that’s just my opinion, but I felt that way even more when I seen Zion I and Grouch made it on the soundtrack too, but the song they got on with featured Mistah Fab. Maybe the people at EA just have a thing for Hyphy. They don’t really have issues with hip hop do they? I saved the worst for last. Brother Ali’s track “Whatcha Got” made it on the soundtrack. He doesn’t have a hyphy beat or artist featured on the track, however, the sample Ant used which said “going out to Scott La Rock” was removed. WTF? Was this really necessary? Not only am I upset at EA about this, but I’m sure they didn’t just have someone at their offices edit the track, so Ant must have had to do this. WHY? The man lost his life trying to keep the peace, and now he can’t even get his name mentioned on a Madden video game? That’s fucked up.



                So yesterday while everyone was excited about finding the clean copy of Kanye’s album, I had the dirty version. HA! Not only do I go by the aliases Brillyance, Brillyance Star, and Longbeachzking, I’m also the Bootleg King. Yes, yes, yes, I’m Jack Sparrow of the hood. I don’t dress up as a pirate for Halloween, cuz I’m a pirate ever day. My opinion on the album? It’s dope. Truthfully, I don’t see 50 out doing this, plain and simple. For him to beat this album, he’d have to beat “Get Rich or Die Trying”…and with the songs I’ve already heard from him, it’s not gonna happen bruh. Truthfully, I’ve been sitting on “Curtis” for awhile now, I just haven’t cared to listen to it. Unless the first track on the album is the best song ever in hip hop history, and he continuously out does each song back to back to back, to the end of the album (excluded his whack ass singles), I don’t see it being a good album. Sales wise? Well let’s just say I’m pretty sure come September 11th, a big chunk of 50’s vitamin water cake is gonna vanish, and not for taxes to the government either. It’s funny how when asked about him VS Kanye, or him VS Lil Wayne, 50 brings up sales, but yet and still, he doesn’t give Oprah her props, and she has one of the biggest followings out of everybody in everything PERIOD. I guess number of fans is only important when it comes to 50 and somebody obviously more talented them him. (yea, I said it, ‘Ye and Wayne are better than dude, face it. While “POTD” and “GRODT” were definitely dope, what has he done lately? And if you don’t know what both of those acronyms stand for, and you’re a so-called 50 fan, get off his dick, cuz you don’t even know his good music.) Truthfully, I’m thinking right now Kanye’s album is better than Common’s. That’s what I’m saying now, let’s see if it has staying power. Talib’s album had vanished for awhile, but I’ve been listening to it again now, and it’s still dope. Classic….NO! I’m not really feeling “Drunken Hot Girls” or “Stronger” but I think we (real hip hop fans) need to stop judging albums on a scale of garbage…classic. There is a in between. This album is closer to classic, but not that close. I’d give it a 4.25 out of 5. (ha, J-23 said he couldn’t do that in a review…well I can).



                Next week in a lot of people’s eyes I’m gonna cross the line. I gotta holler at my dude Mav of the JUICE (Just Us Intentionally Changing Everything…a crew I’m apart of ) for some help on something, he normally helps me when I take it where I’m gonna take it, but I’ve never gone this far. This goes to show how much I really don’t give a fuck. I wanna say so bad what I’m gonna do, but I can’t. It seems like such the obvious thing to do, I’m surprised nobody has ever took it here, oh well, I’m used to starting some shit. I’ve already ran it by some people, some laughed, one said it was going too far…oh well. Everyday people upset others over bullshit, if anyone is offended by me, I feel it’s worth it. I’ll apologize now, cuz I won’t next week.  



                On that note, I’m out. Somobe’s “Great Communication” drops September 18th. I’ll have more info on how you can purchase that before it drops. In the mean time, PEACE!


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