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The Reality From out West

All this bullshit during my absence

            I’ve found myself either extremely sick or extremely busy during the past two weeks. Not like it takes much to throw a blog up, it’s just when your extremely sick, working overtime, trying to catch the Laker game, trying to get in quality time with your girl, your family, get some decent gaming time in, and put a blog up, sometimes shit gets a little hectic. Shit, blogging isn’t the only thing that’s missed out, I’ve even pretty much been a non-gamer as of late. (Cuz I’m not skipping out on anything else). I mean, I should have been the first person to beat GTA 4, considering I had the shit early, (YES!! © Marv Albert) yet I haven’t (Probably because I’ve been playing more Fifa 08). Last week my big brother came home off a 6 year bid. I had to drive him around the city and show him how much the city has changed, catch up on old shit, eat on Sundays at my sister’s house, and laugh at stories from behind the walls. It’s so easy to laugh at that shit once someone comes home…it’s not too funny while their still there. My brother was shocked at how these youngin’s dress nowadays. Shit I STILL am. During my absence though, a lot of bullshit has been going on in the hip hop world….so let’s rewind shall we… 

1. Suge Knight got knocked the fuck out


No real surprise hear. I knew this would happen eventually. Of course dude has been paraded around as some type of hero who has slain the town giant. I don’t know if anybody has noticed this, but when the story was first reported, they said dude hit Suge with a big piece of wood or some shit. So basically, he knocked him out with some big hard object…that’s not that amazing. Shit, if I hit somebody with a bat, I better knock them out. Dude acted like he really did something. Tsk, Tsk. I’m not the biggest fan, but if you're gonna celebrate knocking somebody out, you should do it with your fist, and do it face to face, don’t sneak attack with a Sammy Sosa corked bat.

2. Some Dip Set Bum is one of America’s most wanted

Here you go Bmore, ya boy Jim Jones is at an all time high as far as his street cred will ever go. Allegedly, this bum whose name I can’t remember and refuse to look up, shot some little kid for selling bootleg Dip Set CDs. He didn’t shoot him JUST for selling the CDs, he shot him because they jumped dude and he buck 50’d the dip set bum. If the Dip Set shot someone every time they got fucked up, New York would have a lot smaller population. Why dude shoot some kid for cutting his face when they jumped him, but nobody got shot for all the times Jenny Jones got his chain snatched? Why hasn’t little Cee’s been popped  at. (other than when Capone and them did). Some Mixtape DJ (Fuck mixtape Djs)  should come out with a “Child Abuser’s” mixtape featuring Dip Set and G-Unit.

3. The top 10 hottest emcees…yeah right

Hmmmm. Ok, let me start by saying, I knew this wasn’t about talent, however I figured it was never about talent, not that it was not about talent when they found it convenient. I have to admit, before I got sick, I was considering doing a blog about how I was wrong for trash talking Soldier Boy all last year, considering dude was only 16. At that age, if he’s acting like a coon, it’s his parents fault, and at the same time, he did hustle himself to a spot a lot of vets and other grown men can’t get to nowadays…platinum. I still won’t fuck with his music. However,   after my revelation, I seen this bullshit list. How you gonna not put dude on the list of 10 hottest emcees (especially since he was one of like 3 or 4 rappers to go platinum), then put Rick Ross at  4? Buddaman  (what kind of fucking name is that, and why does he look like the singing chick from Floetry?) accused the team of being “elitist” for not including Soldier boy, yet the turn right around and include Rick Ross on the list? Ok, ok, Rick Ross did have an album out, but Jeezy made the list and he didn’t have shit out but a verse with Ursher…WTF. Did anybody else catch that one dude said Lupe first album was all butterflies and rainbows? Look, you don’t have to like what I like. I understand some people don’t like Lupe, and want more street shit, but if you claiming to be something hip hop affiliated/related some shit, how the you gonna say Lupe first album was all butterflies and rainbows?  Did he even listen to Lupe’s first album? I doubt it. Did anybody else notice the titles of the people on the show? With the exception of Sway (who was just a host and for most of the time looked like he felt out of place) only one other person on the show was from somewhere other than MTV, and the people from MTV had bullshit titles. They had their news specialist on there, and this muthafucka had the nerve to say Lil Wayne was better lyrically and more creative than Jay Z….WTF. (More on Weezy later)  


4. Mazzi vs Mic Terror…who the fuck are you guys?

This shit was hilarious…well, at least the part of it I saw. So, based off what I saw, some hipster rapper dissed some cat for wearing one of those middle eastern scarf things. OK, first of all, rocking religious garments with no affiliation to the religion because of fashion=whack. You outta at least have SOME kind of connect to the religion or some shit.  What if I just started rocking one of those jewish hats on my head and called it style? Well first of all, people would probably try to call for my job  spot to speak my shit, saying I dissed their religion, besides that it would seem sort of whack,mainly because it hasn’t been declared a fashion trend, but then again if next year the new fad was hip hop fags, you’d see a lot of these thug niggas in drag © Ras Kass. So, apparently Mazzi or whatever his name is, actually is of Middle eastern descent (I don’t want to label dude one thing when he’s something else and a lot of those factions don’t get along, so I’ll just say Middle eastern descent), he gets heated and he starts beefing with the hipster Mic Terror. He end up calling dude up (allegedly) and dude (Mic Terror) backs down and said he did it all for publicity. Word? I thought if you wanted publicity you diss someone with fame? (ala, Shorty Lo…more on that later) Then, Mazzi comes with a video with a bunch of people in it, dissing dude and pretending to squeeze triggers on guns that aren’t there. They even had the camera beat down scene the Roots made fun of in the “What they Do” video. Lames! To end it all, they had a dude at the end of the video basically explaining that the garment has meaning to it, and it’s not right to talk about somebody and something you know nothing about. Why didn’t they just do this in the first place, instead of emptying all their imaginary bullets into the camera? This is probably the last time you’ll hear either of these cats mentioned, and definitely the last you’ll hear of them from me.


5.Shawty Lo Vs TI….how?

Ok, so Shawty Lo tells a man who’s on house arrest to come meet him in the hood and they’ll go at it. WOW, HARDCORE ALERT. This is like the dude who beefs with someone, and then, after that someone catches a charge and goes to jail, he rolls around the hood telling people he WOULD’VE fucked that nigga up, had he not been in jail. Not that I’m gonna debate whether or not TI I is more street than Shawty Lo…wait. Ignorance is the language of the street, and although he’s in a pretty high position in the hip hop game (as far as non-tall Isrealis go) TI has done a lot of ignorant shit. Shawty Lo was a member of the group that dropped “Laffy Taffy”…..I’m not gonna go there. At the end of the day, I don’t know either one of these people personally, so I’ll leave it alone, however, this was an extremely bitch move. It has a strong scent of uber bitchassness to it.


6.Nas changes Nigger…

Nas changed the album title. At first I was a little upset. Yea, I know, I called naming the album “Nigger” bullshit cuz I viewed it as a ploy to get attention. However, as the album got closer to dropping and more details leaked, I started to see that he ACTUALLY intended on making an album revolving around the title. When he changed the title I could hear the instrumental to 50 Cent’s “Back Down” playing in the background. Then after I really thought about it, I guess he had to considering Best Buy and other retail outlets would probably refuse to carry it. As long as he doesn’t change the content of the album, I’m cool with it. That album cover is SOMEWHAT of an attempt to make a statement, I mean, it’s not like the original cover to Dead Prez’s “Let’s get Free”, but, I guess it will do.

9.Fuck Mixtape DJ’s

I have to roll with Weezy and Meka on this one….FUCK MIXTAPE DJs. Half of these dudes aren’t fucking DJ’s, and 95% of mixtapes are bullshit (unless of course it’s a mixtape about nothing…more on that later). I couldn’t less of a fuck about some mixtape entitled Blood, Sweat and Tears featuring Lil Wayne, Game and Jim Jones, by DJ suck balls. Those damn artists weren’t a part of that shit, so why should  I care. If you're gonna do a mixtape without the artists consent, do some shit. Mix the artists vocals with backgrounds from Van Halen or some shit, don’t give me a bunch of songs I could have gotten myself and then throw your annoying ass voice over the mixtape. Oh yea, and half of you muthafuckas can’t scratch either, this is Hip Hop, learn how to fucking scratch before you throw the DJ in front of your bullshit ass name…you rat bastards. Half of these DJ’s talk too tough also. I don’t know what’s worse, R&B thugs, or DJ bust a clip. Much respect to Doo Wop, and Tony Touch, and a few others, but the rest of ya’ll should’ve retired before you started.

8. The Carter leaks like a Styrofoam cup with a hole in it

I really hope Meka Soul comes and bashes this shit tomorrow, but then again, he probably didn’t take the time to attempt to listen to it. Let me start off by saying I really liked the Carter 2. I stuck up for dude a lot when people had all sorts of shit to say. I ignored the bullshit he dropped on the mixtapes because I knew they were just mixtapes…and you seen my opinion of mixtapes on #9…but this shit right here nigga…this shit right here nigga…basically let me break it down


Anything from Shawn Carter>>>>>>>>>>>Carter 2>>>>>>Vince Carter>>>>>>Chris Tucker’s character in Rush Hour, officer Carter>>>>>>>>>>That movie “Get Carter” (which I never saw but I just figured it’d be interesting to include)>>>>>>>Being a resident of the Carter from New Jack City>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Carter 3>>>>>>The Carter

This albums moments are few and far between. “Shoot Me Down” or whatever is dope, “Dr. Carter” is cool, “Mr. Carter” is cool….but the rest ehhhhhhh. I was seriously let down. I know everybody is on that. Why was he the 2nd Carter to speak about Katrina (don’t bring up that garbage ass Georgia Bush song) when he’s the one from New Orleans? This is hella late fam. Misunderstood….that sample was just used recently and the song that accompanied it was a whole lot better. I hope he omits that long rant he had at the end…cuz the drugs have definitely got the best  rest of his mind. Can somebody explain to me how dude is a Martian from planet Weezy? I thought Martians were from Mars. Either I need more Kush in my life, my chronic needs to be puffed before sipping syrup, or this album is pretty much a waste. He should have just dropped a five song EP with “I’m Me”, “Gossip” and the 3 songs listed above. That would’ve shown Wayne at his best, which is extremely good, him on average…ehhhhhh.

I had to hold off on 7 for something that was actually good

7. All of a sudden I might want to watch Seinfield….

Is that how it’s spelled? Who cares, “The Mixtape About Nothing” is a glimpse at what hip hop still has to offer. Amanda has tried forcing dude on us, but truthfully, if an artist isn’t from out west (ala Blu, Somobe, etc. etc.) it normally takes me a hot second to give them a chance. Shit I just started listening to Jay Electronica like last week. Wale>>>Jay Electronica  (and for the record, they’re both dope). I have very few mixtapes on my Zune , and “The Mixtape About Nothing” by Wale is definitely one of them. Don’t believe it’s dope? Shit, download it. It’s free and damn near everywhere. You can always hit up 2 dope boyz in a blog for it. Ms Bassa listed a download link for it in her last blog. Don’t sleep on it cuz sleep is the cousin of death.

The mixtape about nothing>>>>>>>The Carter 3

Catch dude at Rock the Bells (Wale that is)


On that note, I'm out. I am now caught up with all the bullshit from the hip hop world (or at least enough of it).

 

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