I was just reading an interview of L.A. rapper Nipsey Hu$$le where he said that 30yr old rappers who also perpetrate as gangbangers should one they selves.
FYI: I was writing like a retahd way before Kat Stacks made it all trendy.
He had to be talking about Lil’ Wayne since he is 30yrs old. I don’t think he was talking about Drake, who just has the mutton chop 5am shadow of a 30yr old.
Then I came across a pic of Drake doing something silly with his fingers. What the fux is that?!?
I always used to come across images of Juelz Santana making that same sign with his fingers.
He was obviously taught the technique from Cam.
And Jimmy.
I thought it was something that you had to do if your records were being distributed by Island Def Jam.
Ja Rule uses his ring finger instead of his middle one [ll].
Even T.I.’s label Atlantic Records has their own gang sign.
What has me confused is that Cam’Ron is still repping Island Records even tho’ he was under Koch. Maybe the paperwork still hasn’t cleared?
Bang. You’re dead. This is why Jay-Z is the boss of all bosses.
Just a pointer finger for Jigga. No more, no less.
identity crisis in new york………..
thought I’d see pigs with wings on broadway before I saw nyc area gangbangers
jus lyke compton
“fighting over colors?/
all that bullshit’s for dumb MFers/”
Tim Dog
*just about the only lines of TD’s that are quotable
^^^What about “Step to meeeee!!!”
I’ll tell you what’s arguably worse than 30 year old rappers pretending to be gangbangers…30 year old actual gangbangers.
Can you count, suckers?
I say the future is ours… if you can count.
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Co-sign get 1000%, unless and until the NYC gangbang bullshit comes to an end, the “culture” is fucking over, because they’ll never do it as “well” (I use the term v. loosely) as all the other signing asshats who were there first.
What’s up with all the gang graf that looks like kids used their feet to get up with also?
Where the fuck is NYC pride? I can understand the foreign gangs– you come from Ecuador, Mexico, Haiti, Panama, Ukraine, whatever but when you’re from goddamn New Lots, or Coney, or Red Hook etc? What’s even sadder is it’s hardly a rational economic move either.
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There used to be more up but there’s still snippets of an interesting German documentary from 1977, “Erinnerung an einen Toten in Brooklyn”–
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK1JbddX7qs&feature=related
TG, your hip hop knowledge is up…..
didn’t think left coast dudes would F with tim dog’s music like that.
I gave tim dog a pass early because is style was hard….but he did a song with KRS-one and said some “fo-fanna” nursery rhyme shit…I mean . come on…you’re gonna lose being on the same record as kris, but “nanna fo fanna?”……negro please.
CC….I’ m fortunate that my generation was between the gang eras in new york/nj…….
we avoided the savage skulls. black spades and Avenues(in jersey) time….. and the next generation’s west coast gangster garbage….
there were crews and conflict….but none of that “on sight, I’m shooting the other side” shit
Jay’s suit is murder. Damn.
West Coast gangs in ANY east coast city is just sad. When I was still wearing the John Stockton shorts they ran crips and bloods out of town in Bmore. We had our own ignorant reason to fight and nobody wanted to adopt reasons from 3000 miles away.
*utilizes pointer finger [ll]*
LOL jay-z boss of bosses, he´s usin the whiteman suit wearin sharks..
here is the king;
http://respecta.net/uploads/posts/2009-03/1236280619_all-eyez-on-me-pred.jpg
LOL at this whole post.
Tim Dog, lol
y’all made me go watch the video.
Tim Dog’s song is either the original “how to rob” or the first “D.O.A.” if you think about it.
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“This is the way we walk in new york”
yo we don’t throw gang sings in New York/
we just be on some shit in new york/
onyx
get-
I can’t speak for a lot of cats out here, but I grew up listening to rap, period. Didn’t care where it came from.
& I had Tim Dog’s CD…that cover was possibly the ugliest face every made by a rapper on purpose.
He couldn’t rap, but he was hardbody NY back then. Gotta give a man credit to go @ Compton, back then…NWA, CMW, King Tee, them dudes WERE the west coast @ the time. & none of them were “real” gangbangers. Quik was the OG from TreeTop Piru, though. That opened the floodgates. Well, ‘Bangin’ On Wax’ did really, but those cats were legitimate criminals, still shooting @ each other & shit, trying to eat off rap @ the same time. Quite a few of those dudes are dead now, all over colors. SMH.
Anyone know of cool comedy club in NYC?
Thanks TG,
just thought that his anti west stance would have tuned out hip hop fans from out there…
Quik always has great music on his albums…he’s a much better producer than rapper
though he delivered one of the ALLTIME great diss records ever..
EI HT..now should I continue?/.
u left out the G because the G ain’t in you/
he was winning with that shit…
dudes were tripping off of nwa and their jheri curls..so here comes Quik with some farrah fawcett shit on his head…and it just wasn’t flying.
from my limited perspective back then….he looked and sounded and carried himself in the most non gangster way that I didn’t respect his gangster.
based on rhyme style and demeanor..I thought Donald D was the hardest west coast rapper
we used to bump “free base institute/fbi” hard
Ha! Donald D, the Syndicate Sniper! That was the first West Coast tape I ever bought!
Donald D was hard. Believe it or not, cats wasn’t fucking with D, WC, Hen G, DJ Alladin, none of the Rhyme Syndicate, unless it was Ice T. He has a cool history of all them cats on Youtube. Cali rap cats shit on cali rap cats, that’s why our moments of “greatness” in hip hop are sporadic.
Thing about Quik, if you didn’t leave out here, he just looked like a little fruitcake, but the feathers, finger waves, flips, curls, rollers, all that shit was GANGSTA. That’s how cats was, down to their house shoes. Dudes still get down like that, but mostly the one’s just coming home from a 25 year trip in the time machine.
Jerz & get-
5 ‘net brownie points if you can tell me the name of Donald D’s album with google…
“That’s where they go to get high….”
Notorious?
FBI! Thats where they go to get high!
Free Base Institute! LOLz
TG
with(out) google I couldn’t do it…I don’t like to cheat and use google
i remember Donald d. divine styler(weirdo)… and everlast…
pre internet I used to argue with people that house of pain rapper used to be down with ice t…
there was a rhyme syndicate posse record that they used to air the video for…
mega hard….
I will check for the youtube clip you mentioned though,TG
There’s always been regional biases but if you had lyrics and/or flow…you got respect out here….
even with the drip drippy curl….first time you heard NWA…you realized that the ice cube dude was KILLING shit…
Word, Jerz. That album went in extra. I always thought that title was a funny coincidence, like South Central Cartel’s 2 rappers were named Havikk & Prodege. Or, Mystikal’s “crew” was called Boot Camp Clique, after Louisiana aka The Boot. Nothing new under the sun.
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Cube was on his way to college when Eazy convinced him that this rap thing was going to take off. Cats talk this street cred, “keep it real” nonsense these days, but with all due respect to a legend, Ice Cube is arguably the greatest studio gangster in rap music.
I match my gang signs with my outfits like the Digger Phelps tie/highlighter kit. The thing that one ups this is hit You Tube and look up “White Girls & Gang Signs”. Takes even more mustard off these cRap neegas.
TG,
I hear you…..real gangsters are normally not gonna be talented …truly talented at painting pictures and telling stories….
they’re out there making it happen..
it’s like how great ball players are usually not gonna be good coaches….
those who can, do
those who can’t , teach
lot of real gangsters who rap have charisma and presence…and most leaders do have those qualities….but actual rap skills are a gift…a knack..a talent..
I think dudes in the cut, watching different sides of life…are gonna make the best story tellers….they have wider life experience than the the front line gangsters/killers do..
The hand sign Cam, Capo & Santana are throwing up represents the 9 Tre Bloods Set. I don’t know what the fuck this clown Drake thinks he’s doing with his fingers….fucking psuedo Gangstas yo, niggas wait till they in they 30’s to start claiming Sets & shit, grown ass men playing kid games. Like my man Stu Gorilla said after mad years of really putting in work “….why the fuck would I join a gang now?”
Jay looks like a grown azz multi-millionaire standing next to a fan wanting an autograph in that last picture. LMAO!
Cats stay repping hand signs, gang-signs or whatever in the club.
For some reason or another, I feel compelled to draw them.
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