**Disclaimer: If your Jamaican and you have a plaque over your bed that reads “batty man fi dead” don’t read this.
Gays are such a conundrum to the modern thinking hip hop heads like me. Even though, artists like Kanye West, Common and the Beastie Boys have denounced the use of “fag” and the anti-gay slang we use, while other artists like Fat Joe are still prone to call their enemies “homo” and put out photoshop’d dvd covers of them doing gay pr0n shots (which was suspect in itself). But even I, when I get into “beef” with someone am liable to call them such names to degrade them. I remember one time I told someone, “you make gay people look straight”. And I only say that to show I have respect for the gheys. Read more
I never thought rappers I looked up to would ever become disgruntled like the broke ass old school rappers of yesteryear. I guess when your album’s trash, your street cred annihilated by Jay-Z, and you happen to be 4 feet tall, life sucks. Rapper Prodigy from the oh so infamous Mobb Deep, decides to post another blog today in the hopes of stirring up more controversy on the internetz and sucking every last drop of fame he once had from the masses. Here’s an excerpt from Webster’s diary (note the caps lock held down),
Acting as a guest host on New York’s Power 105 fm, 50 Cent had this to say about established artists, “A lot of artists actually ain’t rapping like they were when they first started.” Yeah we know Fifty, we know. I guess it’s the power of a dollar that has got to them.
The Jay-Z and Mary J Blige “Heart of the City” tour has sold out all four of its New York area dates. Sources confirm tickets for the shows at Uniondale’s Nassau Coliseum, East Rutherford’s Izod Center and two in Madison Square Garden were sold out in less than an hour. This has resulted in the […]
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6qRp4XC1zE] Shouts to the Parker Report for this one. He asks Dip Set what rules are there for New York hip hop? The discussion turns into nothing but Dip Set self-aggrandizement. Anywayz, the whole New York Rap is dead has been done to death lol.
**Disclaimer: This article was inspired by the fact that its 2008 and NY rap hasn’t had any prominence since ’98. **
It’s no secret New York’s hip hop scene has taken a backseat to them country boys in the South. The sad thing is it has been almost 10 long years that them boys south of the mason dixon have had a grip on the game. 10 long painful years, I might add. How did we get to this point? Isn’t New York the hip hop mecca? Didn’t we invent hip hop? Sure we had Fifty and those G-Unit guys for a minute, but Fifty was pretty much rappen with a twang when he was hot back in ’03. And as for Jigga, he’s loved so much, because he’s all we got. The purpose of this discussion is to figure out why New York ain’t on top. Check out the 5 reasons NY Rap is dead. Read more
My have we come a far way. I remember only yesterday I was posting about how YoRapper is going to takeover the online hip hop world [sidebar: wait was that yesterday?]. Speaking of people taking over, ya boy got to sit down and kick it with up and coming producer WMS The Sultan who is […]
Jay-Z has made it official, Jada has been signed to Rocafella/Def Jam. His third album, tentatively titled Kiss My Ass should be released sometime in 2008. I don’t think anyone really cares as Jada was hot in the early part of 2000, but now he’s cooled off a lot since then. He did reinvent himself […]
