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The American Molding Machine
Today as I watched the full video of the Q&A session with Rev. Wright (he ethered the shit out of that troll lookin ass chick asking the questions) and then minutes later hearing that Obama had denounced what he was saying I came to the realization that America has and is a molding machine. In order to be apart of what is considered mainstream America, this dillusional-always thinking its right and never in the wrong-America, you have to be groomed and must maintain that look.
Maybe its possible Obama seperated himself in order to help win the next primary and get the nomination but the more and more he campaigns the more its like he has to fit in this mold. Its kinda like when your homeboy get a nice ass job. You know he cant come in as is, he has to talk a certain way, dress a certain way and he knows if he slips up in any sort of way his ass will be out before he can get a chance to defend himself.
He's been under more criticism than anyone else and under circumstances which pale in comparison to the other candidates. Whites were scared to vote for him because his name was muslim, then they were wondering if they should trust him cause his middle name is Hussein (how f*cking absurd is it to judge someone based off their middle name), then they were upset cause they thought he was linked to Louis Farrakahn, then they crucified him based off stuff his pastor said. Aside from his comment about being 'Biter' everything else was some bullshit they attached to him as opposed to what he's done.
No one made a huge deal about Hillary lying, she turned and said 'i lied...shit happens' and people brushed it off. No one brought up her scandal with Peter Paul contributions. No one gave two shits about Mccain banging some other chick or his temper tantrums.
Obama couldnt even say anything definite about the Sean Bell trial cause if he would have sided with it being an injustice he would have been saying something that would be viewed as 'too black'. Honestly even though I voted for Obama and I would hope that someone else wins cause Bush fucked shit up so much that the next candidate is gonna have too much to deal with and unless they have a unbelievably good term, it would be looked at as failure on their part and not on what Bush set them up with.
Hopefully Obama and any other African Americans attempting to conquer the corporate world see that in order to get there you have to be more less a chameleon. Mad respect to Rev. Wright for defending the Black Church and people like Michael Eric Dyson, Tavis Smiley, Cornel West and even Al Sharpton for speaking out on the issues that effect us everyday and being straight forward.
Thanx alot Flav...
As i was prepping this set list for this show for 2morrow in Milwaukee (if u in the area swing thru for a dope ass show), i had some time to watch tv. Lately its been between sports or watching Obama treat the shit out of Hillary and on occasion some videos if they ever play them. Today I managed to catch the worst show i seen since House of Payne and it was of course Under One Roof with Flava Fuckin Flav and if these are our standards for Black sitcoms then the bar aint really that high at all. At first I was just feeling stupid for wasting 20 minutes thinking this shit was gonna get better or at least entertaining, it was like watching an extremely bad impression of the early episodes of Fresh Prince. And from what i gather thats pretty much thats what they were shooting for:
Flav = Will - A dude from the hood, moving into a rich neighborhood with his family
Rich Brother = Uncle Phil - Rich black guy, doesnt want anything to do with anything ghetto (only difference is dude married a white women)
A geeky son = Carlton - I dont need to explain it
Dumb Ditzy Daughter = Hillary
Smart mouth Chinese Maid = Jeffrey the Butler - Apparently the cipher aint complete without a smart mouthed foreigner
Straight up, there will never ever be another Fresh Prince period, but to come straight out and copy is dumb. Then to make it worst, they had enough money to get Debo on it and this nigga was playing a gay nigga fresh out the pen trying have sex with Flav. I use to have some respect for dude regardless if he aint have any good roles since Friday but this was damn near up with Ving Rames and Holiday Heart, not really as bad but its almost up there. Flav gave us the GoldDigger Extravaganza that is Flavor Of Love and now this... All I wanna know is...what is Chuck D thinking?
New music on its way, I promise. www.myspace.com/add2
The Anti-Bullshit Coalition
Lately, I've come to terms with the fact I have 'Back in my days' syndrome, just how my father would tell me 'Boy that shit them niggas is making aint music, thats just noise...Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie, Marvin...thats real music' I have become as well. I almost had a heart attack when someone told me Shawty Lo album is killing the streets right now (a statement i will never take serious, ever in life). Every day i been arguing with my manager and other artists about whats wack and why its wack but apparently there's not a consensus. At first I thought maybe its just me, maybe i'm not giving them the proper chance and i'm expecting too much out of new artist...but then i thought again cause this shit is bullshit but niggas is making a million and one excuses for why they won't call it what it is.
1. Just cause you live what you're rapping about doesn't mean you can rap. Point Blank Period. Birdman can pop bottles all day and night but should he be the one rapping...HELL NO. Take that bullshit somewhere else
2. Not everyone is a rapper or should be on a track...or on stage. Everybody rap, everybody got a mixtape, everybody got a myspace and they all think they hot. BULLSHIT. Some people need to invest in other talents they might have like bagging groceries or fixing engines in that driveway you call a shop. If you're the ceo of the label be the ceo of the label, the only one who needs to be seen is Diddy and thats cause Bad Boy is pretty much just Diddy anyway so if he out there them niggas dont exist. Dj Kahled has no reason to be on the track, from what i gather he doesnt produce the beats, he just gets the same people together for a song, we dont need his annoying ass screaming 'WE THE BESSST WHO? WEEEEE'. Another thing bringing every member of your crew on stage and all of em just stand there is a waste.
3. Freestyles - First off i would like to thank Crooked I for reviving freestyles because for a loooong time it had just been gradually getting worse. At one point back in the day when you heard a freestyle it was a good chance that the artist was about to kill it or flip it in a way you would wanna hear it over and over (i.e Eminem over the Mobb Deep joint). But now its just the same ol same ol bullshit about guns and drugs in the same flow. Someone sent this to me cause they knew it would piss me off, apparently Soulja Boy is also doing his own version of Hiphop weekly except he puts up a new freestyle when enough people play his shit (so im conflicted in spreading it, cause if you play it he'll make another and thus continuing the Bullshit). This shit is embarassing "In the club the hoes screaming Soulja Boy/ we dont give a fuck i'm riding in a toyota"...wtf?
4. Hating and being real - Everybody aint hating and even in hating there's some sense of truth in it. To me hating is when a nigga shit on you just cause. But if someone is rapping off beat and you say 'Yo fam...u rapping off beat' then that just means yo sloppy ass was all over the track.
5. Real Hip Hop - This is something i feel is necessary to say real hip hop music has to step it up if we want to erase some of the garbage thats going on. Lupe, Wale and Blu cant do it by themselves. We can't be rapping like 'methphorical cataclismic rhythmic sonic bubonic plague rages inside of my body like Aids' and expect the masses to embrace it.
Great Moment in Anti-Bullshit History: "your life is played out like Kwame and them fuckin Polka Dots" Biggie
So i encourage all of yall to join the Anti-Bullshit Coalition, if its BULLSHIT start being unapologetic about it. If you're a stan, have enough sense to believe that the person you worshipping is not perfect. Talented emcee's time to step the game up. And if your a grown man playing Dance Dance Revolution....stop it immediately
They set you up Chris!!!
In this industry its a known fact that once you get famous YOU CAN'T TRUST THESE HOES!!!! They got Paul McCartney, Mike Tyson, Kobe Bryant, Eddie Murphy even Spitzer and a long list of entertainers and athletes and now they got Chris Rock. But to make matters worse now the entertainment is so schisty they even leaked the private calls between him and the PI from years ago.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=152_1205484144To save yall some time of going thru the 30mins of the PI calling Chris 'honey' and other random ass pet names Imma sum the convo up for yall.
Chris went out with a hoe on the side while he was still married. He tried to get some head from the chick the same day he met her, but she "resisted" and said she was "not that type of girl" but later came back to kick it afterwards (strike one, if she aint giving it up and she's suppose to be just a groupie, DEAD THAT SHIT IMMEDIATELY. If you hired someone who refuses to work you dont wait for them to want to work, you fire they ass. And more importantly U cant wife up a hoe, period)
She came to kick it again and this time he smashed. He skeeted on her thigh (or ass cheek cause Chris doesnt seem to remember) and then he allowed her to.....(the dumbest move in niggadom).... WIPE IT OFF WITH KLEENEX AND PUT IT IN HER POCKET!!!!! (strike 2, 3 ,4 and any other number). You can not, I repeat CON NOT trust her to throw it away (I.e Bill Clinton) because these girls is smart as 3 stacks so eloquently put it. Some know they don't have the drive or determination to establish their own career and know that the one thing they are good at is luring these guys in and giving them the okeydoke like they've been doing since they were young. All she gotta do is lay on her back or bend over and if she play it right she can get financial security that she wasnt able to obtain otherwise. Either child support, rape charges and at the minimum paid to shut up and never say it but then if she does decide to leak the story thats more money for interviews and exclusives.
So after each concert i will continue my no-boning groupies/skeezer/bust downs/runners/hoes/bitches/skanks/sluts campaign and i encourage all you rappers, entertainers and even Eliot Spitzer to LEAVE THESE HOES ALONE. Good Luck Chris!!!!
Add-2's Moral Of The Story: Watch Where You Skeet
I'm A Beast!!!!...nah, just stop Kels
Its a crazy time in hip hop right now with everybody buzzing about Papoose/Fat Joe and 50 Cent (apparently no one gives a damn about the fake ass reunion Dru Hill had staged and failed) but what managed to catch my attention during this season of drama was R. Kelly's silly ass diss to Ne-yo and some other people anonymous people
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/audio/id.4382/title.r-kelly-im-a-beast-ne-yo-diss
Being from chicago, we stood by Kels through alot of shit...I mean ALOT of shit from when he married Aaliyah knowing she was underaged, to pissing on the underaged chick, to plotting and fucking his long time friend George Daniels daughter (that shit was just foul), from saying that osama was the only person who could relate to him, dropping gangsta ass r&b songs and then turning around and doing a gospel album. But after listening to this shit i really had to face reality that this nigga is "crazier than a fish with titties" and is going through an identity crisis and has lost whatever mind he had.
First off this song is awful, aint no punchline to that. Sometimes you just gotta be real with yourself. I should of know what i was in for when this nigga came on screaming like this was Braveheart. Of course i was scratching my head thinking what the hell does a r&b diss sound like? in all cases...not good and this was no different. The song is 3 verses of garbage and comedy. What makes it worse is the fact that he's rapping with so much passion and the words is wack as fuck.
"...You need a steering wheel the way you riding my dick BOY!!!!!
Saying you's a go getter, go get your own SHIT BOY!!!!!!!!!!
(then he goes on this off beat ass rant)
"what is it gonna take for you muthafuckas to understand i'm a r&b boss
kels think he a rap...NAH im just tryna get my point across"
"keep rising to the top, keep getting that money
keep laughing at you clowns cause you clowns is funny"
the ending line is just infamous as hell
"so dont think this is a song, its a taste of my wrath
Back to ya, nervous nigga, I got a dick and a half I'M A BEAST!!!"
So to whoever let him record and leak this shitty ass song...thank you cause that shit is hilarious. Now imma go back and listen to some classic R.Kelly and maybe figure where this nigga went wrong cause this aint the same genius who cd's was/still is being used as the 'i-know-im-getting-laid -tonight' soundtrack
On behalf of my chicago brethren I would like to apologize for the entire Trapped In The Closet series, the Make It Rain Verse, I'm In Love With A Stripper Verse, Same Girl Remix, Real Talk (plus the video), That Goddamn Zoo song and any other infamous ass kels appearance since the pissing video
Tale Of Two's City Vol.2: The Return Of The Menance Coming Soon
Daaaaamn Homey: 2008 Fall Off List
The other day me and my homey was arguing about emcee's, rappers and singers and as the conversation turned into a debate...and later an argument. First off, i'm a true school hip hop head born in the mid 80's but raised in the 90's (sidenote: just cause you were born in the 80's does not make you a 80's baby, especially if you cant remember any of it lol) and he's a fanatic for the newer stuff which off the top is a set up for a bad debate. For a minute i thought that maybe i had caught the dreaded old man 'back in my day' syndrome....but then i rethought that shit and realized that alot of shit now still couldnt hold a torch to freestyle from Big L. And to be fair, no one stays consistent forever, eventually we all reach our primes and then fall the fuck off so i'll try to be as honest as possible cause i know we wont agree on all of this but fuck it who cares. It aint about hits i'm talking about the distance between them and their prime lyrically. IF ANYONE HAS ANY SONGS/EVIDENCE THAT THEY ARE STILL IN THEIR PRIME PLEASE BY ALL MEANS SHARE AND I WILL GLADLY CHECK IT OUT AND EVEN TAKE BACK MY STATEMENT IF IM WRONG. ALSO WHATS YOUR 2008 FALL OFF LIST????
Fat Joe - Seems like an easy target cause he's been taking alot shit since he flipped sides and became the fat bald ass albino version of wayne without the punchlines. Some people may say 'when was he ever tight lyrically?' well it had to be around the time when Pun was still alive (if he was writing it or not is up for you to decide). Its hard to even believe that this is the same guy who did 'This Shit Is Real' produced by the legendary Preemo. I will say this his ear for beats is still pretty good, but the lyrics is ri-goddamn-diculous, the subject matter is simply...crack (not in the good way). A few weeks ago i seen a video with him demanding respect as one of the top rappers alive but its hard to get that title when you dont write your own lyrics. To sum it up Joey needs some better ghostwriters.
Lloyd Banks - Banks use to be the best cat on the mixtape scene and when 50 just got on aftermath he was the biggest problems out there following him. He had his own style and voice plus he had skills and with 50 there to help he was able to make good songs as well. After the Rotten Apple dropped to deaf ears and G-Unit now up against the ropes and Buck being the favorite its hard to really see where this leaves Banks. Plus after he let Game just abuse him without really saying much back makes me further wonder what the hell happened?
Snoop Dogg - He was once one of my childhood heroes and what sold Snoop honestly has always been his charisma and how he said stuff i.e '80 degrees when i tell that bitch please, raise up off these N-U-T's cause you gets none of these, at ease, as i mob with the dogg pound feel the breeze'. I guess i really should have stop expecting classic work especially after the No limit Snoop or the infamous '2+2 = 4, this the type shit that last forever more' snoop. In his defense, Sexual Eruption was dope and one of the most creative videos and at this point Snoop is so recognizable that he doesnt need to say anything on records for it to be a hit. Gon head and make that money snoop!!!
Papoose - Maaaaaaaaaan this nigga disappointed me, i could of sworn after Alphabet Slaughter and Charades (2 was dope too) and even the mainstream exposure on Touch It remix that he was on his way to being one of the most thought provoking emcees but then somewhere between getting signed and dropped i started hearing a new papoose, one that i aint really care to listen to. When i first heard 'Fitted Hat Low' i aint believe it. I still think he has enough time to rebound if he got another 'Black Democrat' freestyle in em and that maybe this is just a 'Oochie Wally' phase.
Lil Wayne - Before all the stans take a minute to jump off his dick to throw stones at a nigga i'd say to be honest for a second. There was once a time when wanye damn near killed everything he was on, hell after the 'Show Me What You Got' and 'Taking Ova' freestyle and the dedication mixtapes it made me think that maybe wayne his claim as best rapper wasnt too far off. But then came oversaturation (which can work but at the same time it can hurt you), then came the recycled and basic lines (im on like the television) and then came the singing (i heard he's coming out with an r&b cd too, no joke). His cameos are still enough to give anybody a hit record but i havent heard a wayne verse that made me say run that shit back since the freestyle over the Jay-z joint. If you have any verses that he kilt as of recently (and he's not singing) please comment cause i will gladly check it out.
Nelly - Its not that i'm really waiting on a Nelly record i'm just wondering where the hell did that nigga go? He wifed up Ashanti and hasn't really made any good music since (it dates further back before this but for argument sake we'll settle on once ashanti came). This isnt a lyrical fall off like the other ones cause Nelly was more of a party song rapper but his presence is completely missing especially considering how much of a mainstream artist he was.
Consistency awards - Some of the few who have been killin every verse for years
Common
Black Thought
Elzhi
And the THAT SHIT SHOULDNT HAVE BEEN DONE AWARD goes to.............NAACP for giving that wack ass Tyler Perry show House of Payne any award, the show is awful and if thats the standard of entertaining Black television then we all going to hell
Again this isnt a list of who's still selling records, who's still in the public eye. This is a emcee's list of ppl who i felt fell off lyrically. Whats your list cause i know i missed out on a bunch
The 1st Random Adventure Of Add-2 will be...
What up yall, its Add-2, i'm here to let yall know a little bit about the new blog we're about to start with HiphopDX. For those who aren't familiar with the old blog please take a minute to go to (myspace.com/add2) i usually comment on Hip Hop culture and everything else in between from the things we celebrate down to the things that annoy us (i.e every rapper sounding like wayne or DJ Khaled voice over any track...that shit annoys the hell out of me for real). Each blog will have a video with it of me going out and spitting a verse to unsuspecting people in theeeee most craziest situations you could think of and leaving without explaining myself. Why? Well I really dont have a real legitimate reason and i really dont feel like pretending as if this shit is a social experiment or something cause its not, its just fun. A real emcee taking it back to the basics.
Since we're still editing the first one, i felt like its only right to let the readers out there decide what you'd rather see as opposed to seeing some shit you dont wanna (you can watch BET if you wanna do that). So we will count all the comments and whichever one has the highest we will roll with OR if you have a real dope suggestion by all means suggest it and we will try to have it done by next week or the following (God willing we dont get arrested, sued or peppersprayed in the process). So comment and i'll see yall next week with some random shit. Peace
oh yea check out the new track "Add-2 - Lights Out" on HipHopDX
PORNO SHOP - Every town has them, every person has seen them and we've all seen the people walking in and out the stores trying to be as lowkey as possible. We plan on running up on whoevers in the store and rap to them for no good reason
PSYCHIC FRIENDS - Go to an old fashion pyschic and see if she knows what type of verse i'm gonna spit before i spit it.
CAN I GET A RIDE - Its a known fact that most white folks in the suburbs and towns leave their cars open. Well what if they came back from groccery shopping and found a nigga in the back of their minivan? Hopefully they dont call the cops lol
See yall in a week or so
and just to give yall something extra, figure i'd lace yall with some random ass shit i found not too long ago. MR.T KILLIN IT!!!!! LOL
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