Archive for the ‘Talking Shit’ Category

Can You Hear Me Now?!?

Monday, May 4th, 2009

killa

Cam’Ron album release party 2nite!

Hot 97 presents Cam’ron

Exclusive Crime Pays CD Release Performance

hosted by Funkmaster Flex

May 4,2009

Doors open @ 8 PM

Concert starts @ 9PM

Highline Ballroom

Located at 431 W 16th St

Between 9th and 10th Ave

NaS Won…

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

illmatic

Editor’s note: This excellent counterpoint submitted from FRANK D. is in response to Friday’s drop titled ‘Jay-Z Won…’

Yo Dallas,

I have been reading your blog for a while now.

I like it a lot.

Sometimes when I am walking on the street, I see a big black dude, and I say “That’s Dallas!”

But it hasn’t been yet. Someday, I guess.

Anyway, I am finally writing because of this: I saw Nasir in concert for the first time last night.

At Hunter college. In what was basically a high school auditorium.

It was, quite simply, like church.

You see, I am a 31 year old dude. I grew up in Queens. In Douglaston. I have been listening to Illmatic for 15 years now… 15 years!?!

I never wanted to see the dude perform, because I thought he could never live up to what i had built up in my mind. That album is really one of the most important pieces of art that I have ever come across. So when I finally went to see him last night, I was almost nervous that my impression would be ruined. I have read tons of stuff saying that he was lazy in concert, et cetera.

Anyway.

It was amazing. Maybe 1500 or 2000 people rapping along, verbatim, to New York State of Mind. I just stood there and watched. There were some goosebump moments, but mostly I just thought about how important this album was. It is really on the level of some Picasso or Shakespeare stuff. I mean, if the true measure of ART is how it affects people, emotionally, then Illmatic is art of the highest caliber. The people in this crowd were moved. There were moments where he just stood there and listened to the crowd as they rapped to him.

I couldn’t help but to think about gospel music and preachers…

Then I started to think about the man himself. He has really aligned himself with the underdog, and this is important. Isn’t this what hip hop is about? Likkle ghetto youf? He went through the whole catalog, and it was hit after hit, and the hits were mostly 1) sort of smart and, 2) sort of important. I have seen what you wrote about ‘I Can‘ and I agree… This is what rap music was supposed to be.

I think it is important for us to remember that this is what the music is about; that someone like Nas is really what an MC is supposed to be.

And the other thing that really came home to me last night that is that comparing him to Shawn Carter isn’t really of any use. Nas is of the people for the people (as much as a “rapper” can be), and Shawn is a product, no?

I don’t know, I wanted to talk to you about this, because I thought you would get it.

Hope this message finds you well. Please write some more stories about you are your boys when you were young and stealing cars, those posts are really beautiful.

All the best.

Frank

Hungkheys Been Pwn’t This Rap Shit…

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

eminem

You rapfagns need to act like you know who owns this rap shit. Black rappers have borrowed rap for the better part of three decades and now it is time to give that shit back to the people who have owned it from fucking day one.

Think of rap as a leased car that you can drive fast or slow. You can put bitches in the whip or coke by the bricks. No matter what you decide to fill the car up with you still gotta return that shit to the leaseholder and you still gonna owe some money for the wear and tear no matter how clean you kept your shit.

The only thing that Black rappers ever owned was the pots and pans that they would beat up on the sidewalk. As soon as they went to have their voices recorded they no longer had any ownership and Hip-Hop then became known as rap music. Mainly because that was the most expeditious way for the owners to monetize their shit.

When I was old and stupid and I first came to this website I thought that people of color and poor white folks that resided in the center city were the owners of rap, and the cultural movement of Hip-Hop in general. I was old and delusional then. My mind was geared to thinking in a linear direction without the perspective of three dimensions.

People of color don’t own shit in America. They don’t even own the epithets that people use to describe them. It’s time for Eminem and Asher Roth to make a collabo track called ‘Fuck These Niggers!’ Some of y’all will be mad at first, but that song will be epic as hell. When I heard the lyrics the first thing I thought was, “at least these dudes ain’t talking about me.” Ha. They was talking about them OTHER niggers. Over there.

The song talked about the fact that niggers be bragging about their Glocks and their Heckler & Kochs when none of these niggers last names is that (word to Danny Hoch). From Maybachs to Maseratis to exalting everything that exists outside of the ‘hood and merc’king everything that exists IN the ‘hood these rapping niggers that Em and Asher are shitting on are the very dudes that we have been lionizing for the last few decades.

On the track Eminem and Asher remind their fans that from day one the engineers, label owners, distributors were all “hungkheys” that let the “mungkheys” play around in the jungle just to get their kicks (literally and figuratively). It’s hard to argue with these dudes too since we all know that Rick Rubin was the mastermind behind Def Jam and Russell Simmons was simply his liasion to singing and rapping Blacks. Like a consigliere or to keep up with the car metaphor, his chauffeur.

I can hear that song in my mind now. Black folks get ethered once and for all for having the perception that they ever owned anything to do with rap music. When the strings were pulled they bounced around like marionettes to the rhythm. The Blacks slapped at each other on cue. We all laughed at the spectacle. It was far more entertaining than dogfighting. Plus dogfighting is illegal.

Whites been done pwned this rap shit. This is why you need not feel some kind of way about white rappers. The chickens are coming home to roost. And the mungkheys will have to play somewhere else.

FUCK YO’ CHICKEN!

Monday, April 27th, 2009

chickenheads

One of my favorite debates that I like to have on Twitter is the one where I say that KFC >>> Popeye’s.

That shit brings all the chickenheads out of the woodwork.

My boy DJ Rayz, who has been known to do some pro bono graphic design for DP dot com, sends me this newsreel video from Rochester, New York where a Popeye’s restaurant has run out of chicken.

LMFAO!

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

yeezy

Fishsticks FTW!

I snatched this pic from the big homey Little Giant over at 215 Magazine.

By the by, did you catch the DP interview @ 215’s online site?

I know y’all seen the kid quoted in the NYTimes?

True, true… Fuck Yo’ New York Times!