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The Reality From out West

"Street Cred" and why I wouldn't trade a ham sandwhich for it

First of all, let's list some of the rappers in the game who have street cred....


Shyne-This nigga still locked up

Mysonne- Where the hell is he. I shouldn't have even listed him, is he still in the game?

Styles P- All the street cred in the world couldn't stop Puffy from financially going in that asshole raw. No Vaseline

Remy Ma- Yea...do I even gotta speak on her

T.I.-Yea, if he didn't have it before, I'm sure he has it now. He also now has a lot less money

Tru Life-While I'm pretty sure it was his street cred that landed him on Roc-a-Fella (is that even still a label?), he's racked up approx 0 records sold

Saigon- Saigon is my dude, but he's still yet to drop an album. Could it be that he's too real for this bullshit industry?

Ice T-You gotta respect an ex-pimp and drug dealer, who can make it to the point where he can play a cop on a popular TV show and leave all that illegal shit alone. I got much respect for Ice T (no matter how bootleg that C-walk looked on Hip Hop Honors)

Ghostface Killah-I give, Tony his props, but that's where it stops.



I could go on, especially with cats a lot of ya'll probably don't know, (Tray Dee from the Eastsiderz...in jail) but why? I'm sure you see what I'm getting at. Let's look at some rappers who DON'T have street cred.

Nas- Some say the quality of his music has dropped since he was no longer sitting in that project window looking at other people's lives to copy, I still think he's one of the dopest in the game

Eminem-Don't let that trailer park fool you, if Em had any "street cred" he definitely lost it after attack somebody with a gun with no bullets.

Lil Wayne- Being a drug addict does make you "street credible"....it makes you a drug addict. It hasn't stop Wayne from becoming one of the most followed rappers out of all of the rappers who haven't OD'd or been left fool of holes.

Jay Z-There's been a lot of talk about the boy from Marcy in the past couple of years. A lot of street dudes have a lot of negative things to say about Jay. I'd imagine it's hard to hear the talk from behind the doors of all those business meetings where Jay keeps get $100 million plus deals. I'm sure sound can't travel from the streets of Marcy to whatever island Jay finds himself on in between business deals

Ice Cube-Yea, back in the day some of ya'll thought Cube was a real gangster. Sorry you were wrong! However, Cube does continue to rack in the bucks, whether it be from old publishing rights he had from his albums Jerry Heller didn't get to rape him on, or the movies he continues to make. (Which aren't even interesting but obviously somebody is watching them)

Will Smith- Will Smith may not have the streets on lock, but he outta be respected as one of the ultimate hustlers. Will Smith went from a novelty act as a rapper, to a TV show, to one of (if not the highest) the highest paid actors in Hollywood. No, not one of the highest paid BLACK actors, one of the highest paid actors PERIOD. If that ain't a hustler than what do you call that?



You should definitely see what I'm getting at now.

Street Cred=0


Sure, you could say this is because the rap game is now based off bullshit and the bullshit and fakes will prevail over the real all day there, but where does street cred mean anything? I'll tell you one place...prison! Street Cred will probably make sure you get all your phone time. It also might get you some extra spread...but who REALLY aspires to be in prison? If your lifetime goal is to become a lifer, yeah, you rack up all the street cred you want, but going into some business meeting or some shit...that "street cred" won't get you anywhere. In fact, it might hold you back. Look at the executives behind the rap game. Suge Knight is LOOKED AT as having the most street cred...and he's a nobody. He's no Russel Simmons, He's no Puff, and He’s no Kevin Lyles. Cats with REAL street cred like Jimmy Henchmen even said that Suge Knight has fucked the game up for people like him. Before Suge, business people may have taken him as someone who has reformed. Post Suge, any kind of street cred scares people away. Look at those BMF cats; look at the results of Supreme's venture into the hip hop world. Sure, they committed crimes, how the hell else were they gonna maintain their "street cred"? Where did that land them?

I won't front, at one time; I paid attention to shit like that. I still respect a Tru Life way more than...Jim Jones. The question I had to ask myself is though, who are you trying to be? Was my next interview gonna be with Microsoft....or La Costra Nostra? Am I try to get involved in Real Estate, or dope and coke? Do I want people to say, "I wanna be like him, I should do business with a cat like that" or "I wanna be him, but I have to kill him first"? Had I chose the second answer on those questions, I guess street cred would be important, but I didn't.

I try to avoid talking down on the hood, (your hood, my hood, whatever, same shit) but that's a serious problem with it and many of the people from there. The attention paid to bullshit. Fights over streets you don't own, chasing street cred, shit like that. On a smaller scale, somebody asked me the last week, "How many people has Kobe dunked on this year?" I said "Shit, I don't know,". Then they said, "The Lakers won, but did you see how Iverson crossed over Fisher," Too much attention paid to the shit that doesn't matter. Street Cred is basically what the crossover has become today in basketball. Before, people would cross you over and go shoot a layup. Now, they'll cross you over, then come back, and attempt to cross you over again, or cross you over, and miss the shot, and still brag about the cross over. Too much focus on the shit that doesn't matter.


Street Cred is some shit that was made up by some loser. He did some shit in the street, then, when he wasn't successful, whether it be due to a bid, or crippled in a wheel chair, he threw that in the faces of people who were successful. "Yea, that nigga made it, but I got more street cred than him though. He not real like me," You little niggas can brag about all the street cred you want from a wheel chair, but they just created an electric car that goes 125mph. By the time they come out with the one that does 200, I wanna have the cake to cop it, cuz I definitely can't walk into the car dealership with "street cred" and drive it off the lot.




Oh yea, in case you missed it. I don’t ban/block people. I don’t request people get banned/blocked. I could care less what you say about me or anybody down with me. I put my email, my MySpace all that shit on here. If I was REALLY worried about what people said, I wouldn’t put that shit up, through videos on here of myself, none of that. If you got banned/blocked, you must have done something that upset somebody with some REAL authority around here. Don’t get mad at me because they won’t let you say *&%# $%#@&*$%! (I did ß myself).

 

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