Step 1) affix image to milk container
Step 2) mail to Island/Def Jam records attn: Shawn Carter
REDMAN is on the short list of rappers that I would pay money to see live in concert and the even shorter list of rappers whose album I would actually pay ten bucks for. It gets frustrating that between me and all the Puerto Ricans that live in Cypress Hills, N.Y., and all the Philipinos from Elmhurst we can’t convince el jefe LA HOVA to put out some new material from our boy.
This is also a little surprising to me because I thought that dude would show the FUNK DOC some respect since they toured together. The people get amped for RED’s antics and his lyrical gymnastics. In my opinion, if RED were a little more lightskin he would have been bigger than EMINEM. I can just see RED on Sesame Street, together with ELMO, singing the lyrics to ‘How to Roll a Blunt’. O.K. maybe not ELMO, but COOKIE MONSTER would definitely do it. COOKIE MONSTER was obviously high anyhoo because that dude stay with the munchies.
So what does the FABOLOUS president of DefJam do while he could be pushing hard for the local talent that is under his label’s umbrella?
He is busy chasing down acts from Houston and Miami instead of protecting the legacy that is right here in NYC. GHOSTFACE shouldn’t have to beg for his chips. No one that has put work in should have to. Rap fans should give LEX DIAMONDS the respect that rock fans give to NEIL DIAMOND. The crap music business has never truly respected the veterans of the game. As soon as you turn 30years old the industry machine is kicking you out the door unless you have a gimmick. 50 CENT is 35years old, but his p.r. people are steady calling him 28 and constantly reminding us that he was shot 9x. NAS is the same age as DIDDY and JAY-Z. A rapper’s age shouldn’t make a difference as long as he has vocal dexterity and an imagination.
That’s why I am so bored with the crap game right now. There are too many copycat artists afraid to express their own style. They just copy the swagger of whoever is getting the most radio airplay. Clear Channel Corp. is responsible for creating the background noise in crap music now. That’s why I won’t listen to any of their stations. My name might be DALLAS, but I am not taking orders from anyone living in Texas. If you work for Clear Channel you are working for the same people that are raising my gas prices. The same people that gave me ex-FEMA Director MIKE BROWN. The same people that shoot their friends in the face. If you work for Clear Channel your pathology is fucking up this planet.
I could care less about the radio now since there are only 4 songs playing on every station. What I do care about are artists like REDMAN and METHOD MAN, and TONY STARKS and even JUELZ SANTANA. All of these dudes have a proven track record. That is something to consider instead of just kicking them to the curb at the snap of a finger.
201 stand UP!…red and his boyz looking crazy 4 real on those smack dvd’s
NJHC
buddens is the truth too lyrically…no one messing w/ him in the game rite now (INCLUDING NAS) but he gets no burn
We should start a Where’s Red petition
Rap is treated like more of a business than an artform…who will be around with people following them like the Grateful Dead when I’m 50? It’s sad cause Red (along with Meth) were two cats that took it from hardcore to silly and back at will when you can’t even get signed without being or having shot people.
Rap is a business. And the reason why rap is in the state that it is in is because the business people realized this BEFORE the artist did.
Damn y’all M.M. just shut the thread down with that comment.
i like his energy…even though i dont have any of his albums…he never released a song that i didnt like.
You know whats funny rap doesn’t really have an adult contemporary genre its honest just music for the youth/juvies. Argue all you want about the Blackalicious’, Mike Ladds’, PUTS of the game but do you know who they are and support them?
Reggie Noble’s pissed.
Juelz who?
Ahem.
I dont think I read that right.
I mentioned Juelz in the sense that here is some talent on the Def Jam label that is pushed aside for snap music.
True story is that when your boy was trying to be a hip-hop journalist I interviewed the Dips. I didnt ask Juelz a question for the first half of the interview because that dude looked mad old in person. I thought that the nigga was Juelz’ father or his old pothead uncle or something.
“I’ll be that” – Funniest Rap video ever made. Agreed Red Man deserves more work.
WE DEFINITLY NEED RED RIGHT NOW. BUT 50 IS NOT 35 EITHER, I GREW UP WITH HIM. HE’S 29, 30 AS OF 2006