So I just read that today is Pharrell’s 35th birthday. This dude is 35 years old? Damn. This got me thinking most of these rappers that the kids look up to are old as funk. Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, Wu-Tang, are damn near 50 years old. Dip Set, Kanye, 50 Cent, Rick Ross, and Common are all damn near hitting 40. LL Cool J’s got to be 80 years old right now. This is just pretty funny to me considering the average rap album buyer is probably 15. But I know, I know the 20 somethings are probably the ones buying all the Common and Rick Ross albums what with all their Call Center money to blow. Read more »

**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 »

Since I am not really around white people and have an unintentional streak of not speaking to a white person in 7 months, it is pretty safe to say I’m pretty clueless when it comes to the melanin challenged. This had lead me to learn an interesting issue among whites, which came out of Barack Obama’s speech on race in America, and that is known as “White Resentment”.

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I hate it so much when rappers brag about taking 5 minutes to write their lyrics, especially when the end result is the worst song ever. Who do they think they are impressing? I don’t want to point anyone out, because a lot of rappers are guilty of writing down the first thing that comes to mind and having the nerve to record it, but Juelz Santana needs to be called out. I heard little Juelz say he took 2 minutes to write his verse for one of these mixtape songs. I almost died. Dude, hi dude, no one would believe you took an hour to write most of the garbage you spit. And you do an incredible diservice to yourself as an artist and to the fans and hip hop as a whole by releasing this sub-par material.

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You have to admit Fifty with the tear drop is the funniest thing that’s ever happened in hip hop. Point blank period. I think it’s right up there with Jigga plastering ballerina P all over the summer jam screen years back. See what people are afraid to admit is Fifty knows how to market. He is the greatest promoter rap has ever seen. How else can you explain how he got everyone in G-Unit platinum plaques (except Yayo, who for the record isn’t that bad)?

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Last night, while waiting for the primary election results, I wanted a quick laugh so I decided to look up some “KKK-white power-neo nazi” kind of websites. After some google’ing I came across a “white pride” message board run by the group known as “Stormfront”. This message board was filled with all kinds of hate and ignorance as to be expected and I did get a good laugh out of it, I did, however, find some interesting things about these “folks” that I think you will all find kind of interesting.
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Elliot’s Jump Off “Kristen”

This whole Elliot Spitzer paying for hoes has brought prostitution to the mainstream, wait didn’t Pretty Woman do that? Anyway, this whole “scandal” got me thinking, would I pay for sex if I had a family and was the governor of New York. Right away, my first reaction is hell no. I have a strict policy of not paying for sex, lap dancing or just spending any money on a chick for sexual favors (MOB). And it’s not because I have some high morality, but mostly because I’m a cheap bastard and would rather game a chick to do all that good stuff to me (I have such an ego). But let’s put ourselves in Elliot’s size 9 pair of Hermès loafers.

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I really think Fat Joe messed up with this latest album, Elephant in the Room. Not because it was a bad album, at best it was average, but because this was a key moment in his career to prove he could make a classic album in the post-classic era (and ironically would no longer be the elephant in the room). This really could have been his Blueprint. Why?

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The recent photoshop beef between Fat Joe and 50 Cent have got me thinking…what’s up with rappers and photoshop? I mean since Master P and the old Cash Money were putting together the most photoshop’d album covers ever, niggas have been fascinated with the idea of taking a picture of you in your mamma’s kitchen and making it seem like your in front of a mansion, surrounded by half naked women in fur coats, sitting on a Bentley, and have, for no reason, two huge Facob diamond watches coming down from the sky (and let’s not forget the addition of stacks of cash, machine guns, tanks, and other army paraphernalia). Remember that song by The Roots? Pretty much.

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