The Hip-Hop Pride episode of the Combat Jack Show features Terrance Dean, the author of the salacious [ll] novel ‘Hiding In Hip-Hop’. Unfortunately tho’, no one on the Combat Jack Show staff comes out of the closet except for Just Blaze and myself, but that was to show off our Polo gear [ll].
Frank Ocean is discussed, but the larger question is still why ghey men in Hip-Hop culture can’t just be? With Hip-Hop in 2012 occupying every single cultural subgroup lane there should have been a ghey rapper on the scene. Someone is holding back the gheys.
I’m in the streets crazy for these Air Jordan retro 6 ‘Olympic’ joints. The video will have me in official hypebeast mode. You’ve never seen me this hungry for a shoe.
Sometimes it feels funny to me when I see rap music’s future is to be controlled by non-Blacks, but then I understand that in order to unlock the future the keys must be passed onward.
That is how I felt from the first time I watched a Das Racist music video. This wasn’t about being ‘joke’ rap to me. Das Racist was free to be D.R. at least in their own minds and I dig that.
Das Racist Chicken and Meat video along with an Oprah Winfrey promotion for FREE chicken had me ranting in the streets.
Chicken done did the white folks wrong.
Rafi Kam plugged me to a D.R. show in L.E.S. the same week my young homey RobACK from the midwest made his way to the big city.
We caught the D.R. show and blew trees right on the Orchard Street sidewalk
After the D.R. show I just used to vibe off their earlier shit. I told Rafi Kam, word to Blu Cheez that I wanted to make a fanboy video to the joint ‘Fake Patois’.
It came to me one night in a blinding fury. I worked all night just to make sure I rolled it out immediately.
I got two more D.R. jernts just for how they shit makes me feel.
It was all a dream just a few months ago when Meyhem Lauren told me that the studio sessions he had while at the South by South West festival were going to end up being an album. The result of all that hard work is the ‘Respect The Fly Shit’ project. Meyhem joins up with beatmakers Tommy Mas and Harry Fraud along with the usual suspects like Kaiser Soze aka Action Bronson, AG the Coroner, Himanshu from Das Racist, Roc Marciano, Sean Price, Despot, and Riff Raff.
The album sin’t a stab at boom-bap sounds from the mid 1990s as you may have expected. Harry Fraud and Tommy Mas are two of the more eclectic young producers who still fux with the soul samples and scratchy drum kicks but they don’t beat you over the head with NYC’s previous sound. I appreciate Tommy Mas from the Dr. Lechter album. Harry Fraud is well known in rap ciphers because of his Rick Ross and French Montana placements. Neither producer gets caught reaching for a beat meme thread on this project
Forget about all that high-concept rap bullshit and just put your headphones on and rock out. That was the theme for RTFS so I just let the music play out and pleasured myself [ll]. Don’t look surprised if I make a fanboy video for every track on this album. I’ve got a whole lot of action figures.
