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Industry Rule Number 4080...

Week 6 with the blogs! About last week I knew I would draw some critics and I'm glad some of you expressed what you thought. If you listen to my new freestyle (hiphopdx.com/index/audio/id.3824) there's a part where I say:

most can't relate none, it ain't impossible...... try!
they say rappers need to be responsible.... why?
this is our life we ain't doing your chores
we got our own kids why dont you raise yours
all along, I thought we had freedom of speech
I was wrong now all they want is us to start preaching and teach
and reach the youth but truth is some do it to eat
if u bought what u was askin for that'd be their newest release
either way all we do is speak the view of the streets
but all you wanna disect is when we shootin police

I hope cats understand I wasn't trying to say that we are innocent but too much is expected from us rappers and it’s like we're given this responsibility we didn't ask for A. and B. it’s not our job to handle these issues. I'm a firm believer that people are responsible for their own actions and if all you want to do is sit here and dissect the negative aspects of what Hip Hop represents, I don't even want to hear you. You can voice your opinion elsewhere. I'm going to respect it but I'm not going to sit and vibe with you on the subject.

I'm going to keep it funky with ya'll cats. The more you in this game the more you realize there are zero friends in this game. Everybody is out for self. I don't know if it should be like that or if that’s just how it is but there are many cats who are asshats all spread out through this bullshit. I wrote for a few of them and I've worked with others. This is a bit different but I was involved with a situation one time that was abstruse. I had a producer who I placed a beat for on Chamillionaire's album. His name is Twinz check my dude out he produced a track for Chamillionaire called "Void of my life." The kid Termanology one time got at Twinz about using that beat and Twinz told him the beat was taken by an artist that he can't use it. Some how it still wound up on a Termanology mixtape as well as a major website. Which is crazy cause if Cham or his peoples found out they could have been like "dog what are ya'll doing." Reason being I helped pitch Termanology's mixtape to Universal before so they know I had a relationship with this artist somehow.

We called up the kid and his manager on 2 separate phone calls and both of them sounded prepared for it. They both replied with the response "that’s Hip Hop, it happens all the time." I can't front maybe it’s just ironic or maybe not who knows. I was thrown off though and the funny shit is the beat they rocked to wasn't by my dude Twinz at all nah they had a producer who ironically made a beat with the same sample. That’s very possible I can't front. What threw us off was how they never reached out to Twinz at all about that knowing Twinz gave dudes free beats in the past to work with and all that and he already placed a beat with the same sample they wanted. The shit is, with this situation nothing happened. We got at the site and told them to take the song down and they did. Actually the manager got at the site as well and he's cool for that. He could have been a dick about it but he wasn't. This entire situation could have gone sour had Chamillionaire's peoples thought we shopped the same beat to dude and didn't respect the fact he purchased the beat and was putting it on his debut album which wasn't released yet. If it was released then shit ain't no issue man, now "THATS HIP HOP" and then it’s all fair game. The situation went down funny style and there's no beef towards those cats at all. Certain situations get blown up bigger than what they should. If anything I feel like it was miscommunication. This is no knock on those dudes cause I know they’re about their business and handle it well cause I know those cats and they are very professional. Let’s say they didn't mean to do that shit at all and had no foul intentions at all look how it could have been interpreted? I know initially I was pissed and so was the producer but sometimes shit can be perceived differently.

These cats weren't blatantly doing some foul shit though looking back. They went about it as best they could and since then have been doing what they doing and I give em props for all that hustle. Shout outs to Termanology and his entire camp. There are other cats though who blatantly come out and disrespect, not give a fuck, and are very unprofessional. If you’re coming up in this game watch yourself seriously and tuck in ya chin. Dudes don't play here at all. I want to big up my dude Sha Stimuli who's writing a blog here too. He's been grinding for the longest and he and I know each other very well as we're from the same hood in Flatbush Brooklyn. I TOLD YOU FUCK THESE MAJORS DOG!! I wish my nigga just dropped an independent album and didn't go major. He could have shut a lot of shit down. Its all good my nigga just keep grinding you'll get ya shine. A kid that nice and well rounded shouldn't try and fit with a major's formula they should adjust to him. We went over this already though in blog 4 lol. So yeah vibe with the new freestyle I did which is like a lil soundtrack for blog # 5. Shake good looking on waiting for that I'm sorry but I shouted you out my dude! Shout out to my dog "I See On" who's from my hood in BK and I just got back in contact with through the world of myspace. Shout outs to RNS, most OG cats in NYC know about RNS and Charlie Hustle. Its dope to see cats I knew coming up from the hood doing their thing in this music shit. Its good to see cats grinding and trying to do something positive rather than just still posted up on the corner or fucking with the wrong niggaz and not doing nothing productive with themselves.

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til next week... Yurp!

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