Archive for the ‘Ninjas’ Category

From T.I. To C.I.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

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Guess who’s bringing that hardbody real talk bacl to XXL Mag dot com?

Just to piggyback off Bol’s drop on the subject… Snitching is the new Hip-Hop. And yes, T.I. had to become a confidential informant. He had no other choice. Do the knowledge on this case without the fanboy sunglasses on to distort your vision. Sonn was busted with military issued machine guns. Not them shits you get from the fifty million title pawn shops located in Atlanta. He had the shits that BlackWater USA has access to. The Feds were not gonna let dude walk without finding out where the hole had been sprung in their pipeline. Believe that.

The south runs radio-ready rap music thats for sure, and southern rap artists have no problem singing either. Do you remember when Lil’ Wayne gloated after Drama got pinched saying that, “Now Drama has to play the game fair.” SMH to Lil’ Wayne talking like Drama was on HGH or something. It’s a damn shame that a former Hot Boy felt some kind a way that Drama was getting his paper how he lived. Hating someone for getting their hustle on isn’t gangster in my book. The fact that Drama had found a way to sell product in a downturning market should have been inspiration for rappers to emulate that man’s grind, instead of turning him over to the authorities to slow up his chips.

For even more proof that the south loves snitching I point you in the direction of Rick Ross. He choose the moniker of a former drug kingpin turned informant. The real “Freeway” Ricky Ross had been sentenced to life imprisonment which was reduced to twenty years which was reduced even further because Ross spilled his guts about his operation. The south used to be about rappers like Scarface who represented that real hardbody go out like a man shit into this new get caught snitch do an eight month bid shit.

But that is how fucked the fuck up the game is now. Wack is the new fresh and dumb is the new smart. Several months ago we saw the rapper Plies manager get pinched for trying to bring back Tony Montana. I’m sure someone snitched on him too. Suge Knight was allowed to run roughshod over rap music until Vanilla Ice snitched on him for dangling him over a building parapet. That was the beginning of the end for Suge, and another case of a southern based rapper using the authorities to help them recoup. Shouts to Jeezy for not snitching yet.

I was just reading an article here where Wayne was interviewed and claimed to have been in the rap game for FIFTEEN years. Damn, that’s old head status. So if he were really 25yrs old now that would mean he got put on at 10yrs old. That’s pretty ridiculous considering there hasn’t been another 10y.o. rapper discovered. Don’t even try to mention Bow Wow either. That fruitbag is in his thirties. He has that shit what Webster Emmanuel Lewis had that keeps his ass so small.

The prevailing logic is that who would want to listen to a 10y.o. rhyme? For that matter, what the hell would a 10y.o. rap about anyhoo? Stealing candy? Lollipops I suppose. What’s really scary is that BirdBrain must have coerced this dude into that whole mafia man-kissing thing way back when Wayne hadn’t even passed puberty. At least R. Kelly fucks with bitches that have reached adolescence. Allegedly.

The midwest remains the most hardbody region in the country. Everywhere else is mired in a drought and these folks are steady getting kicked out of their homes from floods. Shout to Cedar Rapids. Too bad that your city has to wear that name literally right now. The chick in the R. Kelly video trial didn’t snitch either because she isn’t from the south. Shorty got peed on and still played it off. That is hardbody. She knew damn well that she loved the warmth of Kellz pee on her face and she wasn’t about to let his indictment ruin her chance to get that again. She might be too old for Kellz now though.

On the real though, I’ma let y’all return to your gangster music.

What is that track called again?

Lollipop.

*LMFAO*

POLITRICKS 2008: The Politics Of The Pulpit…

Monday, June 16th, 2008

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BAKSHI image repurposed by VEe

Over the past forty years the churches that African Americans frequent have traditionally been the stalwart locations that the Democratic party has sough to curry the support of their candidates. This has given some reverends and pastors a tremendous amount of political power in the party. Some of these Democratic elders feel a certain kind of way now that the party no longer consults them for their outreach. They should be scared too since OBAAMA has made his strides without recognizing them.

During his Father’s Day speech that he delivered at a different Black church than the one he had been fucking with previously OBAAMA let the congregation know that he wasn’t going to co-sign any of that old Black bullshit. Black men were going to have to assume their mantle of responsibility despite what other shit was popping off around them. I agree that racism and supremacy shouldn’t ever stop anyone from being a father to their child. OBAAMA even quoted TuPac, which drew a standing ovation from the gathered worshippers. Its time for Black folks to do for self since racism is now officially over and there is a somewhat Black(not 100% white) candidate for president.

There’s been a dramatic shift inside of the Democratic party which recognizes that inserting a civil rights agenda into a candidates platform is equal or worse than declaring yourself pro-choice. Affirmative action is being taken off the table similarly to the gains made by labor unions. The African American voting bloc which was once a respected jewel in the holy grail of Democratic electability is now questioned for its validity and existence. The American political landscape is facing the horizon of a brand new day where the “Black church” is no longer the moral compass and Blak people are no longer politicized s perpetual victims. I just haven’t quite figured out who the winners are for this shit.

So here’s a list of the losers…

sharpton AL SHARPTON a/k/a Reverend Simple Savior who was a staunch CLINTON ally, has now been reduced to being a sideline OBAAMA cheerleader. SHARPTON blew the whistle early on BARACK OBAAMA’s infrastructure claiming that he was simply a blackfaced operative for a white power base. SHARPTON might be correct in his assessment, but the question that pops up is this… Was HILLARY CLINTON a whiteface operative for a Black rights agenda?

jesse jackson JESSE JACKSON lost too, just not as much as SHARPTON. The political career for JESSE JACKSON has long since been over, but his prestige in the Democratic party still remained until OBAAMA emerged. JACKSON, in a possible fit of jealousy, called out OBAAMA on one of the things that would make most regular Black people upset. JACKSON said OBAAMA was “acting as if he were white“. That’s right up there with talking about someone’s mama, but since OBAAMA’s mama IS white it didn’t faze BARACK in the least.

clinton BILL CLINTON lost the sheen on his legacy. If you know Black people like I do then you know that sheen is very important to us. CLINTON’s condescension for OBAAMA struck people as hateful and dismissive. We also got to see firsthand the underhanded voter manipulation that he employed as a president. BILL CLINTON went from being the first Black president to one of the people in the long line of plantation owners that lost his shit when one of the slaves talked back.

johnson ROBERT JOHNSON was on my worthless negro list from way back. Most Blacks tolerated him because he was wealthy. Blacks are always impressed with wealthy Blacks, no matter how these rich people secured their money. JOHNSON is a bloodsucker on the African American community worse than any leech because his skin color allows him to blend in.

chocolate snowflake Reverend JEREMIAH WRIGHT has been nullified and silenced to the point that we can no longer debate the merits of the statements he has made over the years. OBAAMA’s candidacy is actually part of supremacy’s machinations. Black people are the new native Americans. I just wonder how long it will take for casinos to be installed in the community rooms of the housing projects?

NaS And The ‘N’ Word…

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

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When it was announced last year that NaS was tentaively naming his ninth studio album ‘Nigger’ a minor shitstorm started brewing. Would studio executives dare tempt the wrath of AL SHARPTON (read: major corporate sponsors) and allow NaS the artistic freedom to title his album in such a controversial manner?

There has been no shortage of debate on the use of the word. I just wish that someone would ask me about the origins of the term for a plowman. People still miss the mark on why this term was offensive in the first place. The fact that it descibes someone’s caste or station in society is why it is derogatory. It was used to tell people that no matter how much education they acquired, or how much property and wealth they secured they would still be viewed as a dispensable commodity. That was certainly an insult to anyone who held a degree or owned a business. And even more insulting to someone with dignity, even if they were sharecropping.

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Right before the release of his latest album, which coincidentally no longer bears any name, NaS has released the ‘Nigger’ mixtape. Along with DJ Green Lantern, NaS takes us on a journey which expresses the ‘N’ word throughout pop culture. From comedians who have used the word to describe their freedom to comedians who use it to limit your freedom. Not since N.W.A. have I heard the ‘N’ word used in almost every possible connotation.

Green Lantern deserves some of the credit for the success of this mixtape album. Where NaS has faltered throughout his career has been in his selection of the music that has backgrounded his vocals. This mixtape holds some of the grittiest rap production that I have heard in a long time. Its filled with triumphant boom bap head nod rap beats. I almost wish this mixtape was recorded to a Maxell metal casette. I would listen to it on my Walkman with my broken headphones that were repaired with scotch tape.

There’s been some great Hip-Hop already released this summer. Whether NaS new album matches the momentum he has already established I will definitely bump the ‘Nigger’ mixtape all summer. You should too.

Get your free copy here – NaS ‘Nigger’ mixtape

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Bringing Ninjas Back With Old School Rap…

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

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My homeys in the Pardon Me Duke family are at the forefront of the movement to bring ninjas back to prominence.

That and the high top fade.