“Dude your praise is weak; seven days a week
Same joint on the radio, of course they gon' say it's heat
Y'all use hypnotism, play the same beat
Same rhymes all the time got they brain on repeat” ~Joell Ortiz “125 Part 2 (Fresh Air)”
A lot of fans & so-called Hip-Hop Heads got confused & hypnotized over the many years at a time when Hip-Hop should have been transcending into something that naturally should be greater than what it is now! When you fall victim of the machine (CORPORATE AMERICA), you take the easy way out. When you listen to the same shit over & over again, then try and convince someone unbiased that this is heat; C’MON SON! We all have our biases, Allah (SWT) knows I have mine (Black Thought, Jean Grae, Beanie Sigel to name a few) and I could easily put them three into my Top 5 but if you can’t get past the radio & your uninformed bias then get the fuck away from me with your lame Top 10! Do you really believe that the machine has any interest in providing quality artist with quality music? Seriously! Corporate America had no interest in OUR culture until they figured out the money potential. It was Busta that said, “Hip-Hop provides jobs to motherfuckers who don’t even LOVE this shit!” Then Corporate America and sellouts pretty much bamboozled, hoodwinked, & convinced a mainstream, corny, & phony artist, who by the way wasn't making a mark on the Hip-Hop underground scene first of all, that they can make millions if you sell out to our brand of rap. From there anybody thought they could do this...this grew into singles & ringtones. Everybody does one hot single & blow commercially. What happened to the classic albums with 12-14 tracks, all hot except maybe 2 & those were skits...get the picture!!
Don't fool yourself in thinking that no matter how thorough the rhymes maybe, if an artist 'raps' over a beat that this is automatically Hip-Hop. It takes a lot more than rapping. Many people don't know that it was the DJ that MC'd; that got the party moving. The MC as you know it now started out as a hype-man. The MC grew into the likes of Busy B, Kool Moe Dee, KRS-One, Big Daddy Kane, B.I.G., Mos-Def, Jean Grae, Jay Electronica, so forth...(before anybody starts shit, I left off a gachillion MCs but the point wasn't to see how many I could name!). Hip-Hop is bigger than one person & two songs. FANS & so-called fans, Stop taking the easy way out! Stop settling for market friendly, commercial friendly artist that lost their way paper chasing! THAT AIN'T HIP-HOP!!!
And let's be clear, I WANT ALL MY UNDERGROUND ARTIST TO MAKE YOUR AND THAT MONEY! YOU CAN DO IT FOR THE LOVE & STILL GET PAID. WE ALL ARE ROOTING FOR YOU! This is for the sellouts, the ones who think we'll let them ride this train all the way to the stars while they destroy our culture. NOPE! Not going to let it happen! Me & what army you ask; my Hip-Hop Army & we mad deep! Don't get it fuckin confused we are here & Hip-Hop Never Stops!
So while you digest this blog entry, LET IT MARINATE while listening to 4 albums: Jean Grae's Cookies or Comas, Reks's Rythmatic Eternal King Supreme, Money Making Jam Boys's (Black Thought & crew) 10 Deep Presents THE PRESTIGE & Jam Boy Magic, & Wu-Tang Clan's Legendary Weapons...there are oodles & oodles more but I think you get the point! You can be a quality MC without succumbing to that BULLSHIT! Wake up because Hip-Hop Never Stops!
...from the immortal words of Jean Grae, “SCRABBLEBEOTCH”
Salute
Philly aka Philly2AZ aka Mr. Who is That aka Mr. Get the ENTIRE FUCK OUTTA HERE with that lame Top 10
UNO
“Salute 2 Real Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Never Stops”
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