Editor’s note: 40 DAWG describes a real-life moment with a live-action Riley Freeman
I hate Hip-Hop sometimes…
While walking thru this city of ours on my lunch break today I was gonna run up in Dr. Jay’s on 34th to see if I could come up on some “hood staples” on sale in their sneaker dept (I did – some Barkleys and some AF1’s for a buck). I’m about 100 feet from the store listening to my iPhone and all of a sudden something is thrust in front of my face. I proceed to slap the item and the hand and arm holding it down in a natural instinctive fashion. Dude proceeds to have a mild attitude and then reassesses when I glare back at his monkey ass. His “Street Team” comes over to his aid and now that he has numbers I’m asked the requisite
“What the fuck yo? We just out here tryna grind yo!”
To which I respond,
“And your man fucked up by jamming something in my face.”
So this little dibby-dibby army of four packs in closer together forming what they thought was a “wall” and I’m like,
“So you mad now? If you gonna move, then move if not step the fuck off…”
They didn’t wanna move, but wasn’t gonna do nothing so I proceeded to part their little crowd like Moses. One finally chirps up,
“Thats fucked up yo, that ain’t hip-hop yo! Support real hip-hop!!!”
I chucked them the bird, turned around and proceeded on my way…
I hate Hip-Hop sometimes…
From the age interpretation, shouldn’t they have been in school somewhere?
I never get why people expect you to buy their music without even hearing it. “Oh, this is the real hip-hop, that makes sense I think I will buy some.”
I’m about to start quizzing these cats like people with locks did each other in ’96 and before.
Were they wearing the “Gangstalicious Shorts For Thugs with an extra flap and pocket to hide what you want to hide from the police?”
You should have said “Homies Over Hoes” and kept moving.
*laughing at “homies over hoes”*
…”like people with locks did each other in ‘96 and before.”
Haha, as a half Jamaican gal, I remember that being a very serious discussion.
LMAO @ Encyclopedia Black… Great reference. (DO THE HOMIE!!!)
Actually they all appeared to be in their early 20’s. The young kids are still on their Double-A hustle of selling candy on the trains for their “basketball team”. Then they pool those funds into making their demos and mixtapes. Plus if I got Jordans older than you I’m not trying to hear your take on Hip-Hop on a whim.
All though I hate this D’Angelo Barksdale corner approach to rap sales, for the most part I ignore it. However when you intrusively cloud my peripherials by jamming some poppycock CD or what ever in my face, you’re in violation of my personal space and we’re gonna have to deal with that accordingly.
Whenever I run into MC Joe Blow and his street team, The Blowhards, and they ask if I like hip-hop and try to push their product on me, I say “No, I only listen to Ready For The World.” Then, I proceed to sing “Oh Sheila, accompanied by air bass playing.” Try that next time.
Since I’m a semi famous Hip Hop know it all in my neck of the woods I can’t get away with that. Street team/sales reps for indie produced albums make my eyes roll to the back of my head. I was that dude at one point and I never ran up on folks begging them to buy my self made CD of 40 bar rappin’ with no hook to niggas that never heard of Pharoahe Monch.
Makes me wanna holler © Marvin Gaye
One.
See, we never really run into this down here in FLA, but when I was in the city in Jan and hanging with DP it happened.
“$5 dude come on, you gotta listen to my cd.” DP and this dude went back for 5 good minutes when everyone knew that nothing was going to come of this.
@Dart : That’s a really good look, but none of these kids would know that song, anyway. Do you sing it with your voice up a few octaves for a realistic effect? I might start up with the Ghostbusters Rap from Bobby Brown.
Too hot to handle, too cold to hold. They are the Ghostbusters and they’re in control.
if my brethren knew that word of mouth from a respected source and more practice with the craft rather than the business aspect would get them more money rather than $5 for some half assed shit i can drunken freestyle on better. casio 2 chord loops while screaming “we the movement” does not make for good product.
but i assume all who visit dallaspenn.com already know the deal
the worst is entering or leaving a place that is clearly a hip hop establishment like Fat Beats or Central Booking. Then they KNOW you like rap music.
Whenever youre caught leaving Beat Street or Fat Beats or something, just say “Naw, money, i just had to serve somebody a subpoena in there. I only listen to the sound of babies crying in my ipod” and be out.
@Evan: and they’re throwin’ a party for a bunch of children, while all the while slime was under the building.
And the term “movement” should be banned from English unless it’s being used properly. Shitty mix CDs are not a movement. Tired gun talk =not a movement. The only movement they have is after too much Taco Bell.
The street team people are always out of line. I never seen them disrespect a dude but man are they quick to grab up on a chick in the street for a mixtape. This one time this fool followed me down a whole city block then resulted to profanities when I K.I.M.
I result to 2 things when I see them in my walking path
1. Avoid eye contact
2. Move swiftly; swerve in between other pedestrians
Damn 40…
thats some funny shit… i do like Mo does, avaoid eye contact and keep it moving. hasnt failed me yet.
“Whenever youre caught leaving Beat Street or Fat Beats or something, just say “Naw, money, i just had to serve somebody a subpoena in there. I only listen to the sound of babies crying in my ipod” and be out.”
LMAO… I tell those dudes “Fuck that jungle noise!”…
I think the most disappointing thing was how soft they were the minute someone called them on it. By that point I was ready to knuckle one of these kids down for just being there. They folded worse than Cordell Broadus on “Fatherhood”. I guess with current pending charges it was all for the best.
^” this little dibby-dibby”
Thanx for the old school urban Jamaican slang there brah.
^^”Whenever I run into MC Joe Blow and his street team, The Blowhards, and they ask if I like hip-hop and try to push their product on me, I say “No, I only listen to Ready For The World.” Then, I proceed to sing “Oh Sheila, accompanied by air bass playing.” Try that next time.”
Whenever I’m approached by today’s street team movement, I tell ’em I only listen to Gospel music. Once, I said that and dude was like “we got some gospel rap in there too.” Having to think fast, I came by by clarifying “country gospel” and kept it moving.
“Country gospel” — yeehaw! LMAO
Gravy portarying BIGGIE aint hip hop
C’mon people… some of the music is nice.
I copped a joint called “Man of Tomorrow” from a cat named “Unknown The Universal Element” on 6th Ave a while ago. I’ve been bumpin it in the iPod for a year.
Y’all old folks are just mad cause Das EFX ain’t touring no more.
Classic.
some uv the “home grown shit” iz better than the big boyz,99.9% uv the big boyz shit aint hiphop.no fuckin way!!!!!!!!!! yea but them run up on you catz can get knok the fuck out,it’s how you come at heads
“So you mad now? If you gonna move, then move if not step the fuck off…”
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That’s why I so HEART New York, big time!
DAS EFX stopped touring? I never got that memo…..
ya’ll young folks just mad cuz BOW-MARION is STILL on tour…….