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The Reality From out West

Now let's start the show.....


October 31, 2007 | Tags: rakim, Ghostface, Somobe, Brother Ali, HHDX

                It’s definitely going down tonight. I’m always catching all the shows out here, whether it be House of Blues in Anaheim, some huge event out at the Blockbuster Pavilion, or some grimy spot in L.A. showing my favorite artists, I’m there. Today is special though, cuz for the first time I don’t have to go anywhere.  Tonight in Long Beach at the Vault 350 we got Ghostface, Rakim, and Brother Ali. If you’re in the L.A. area come check it out, tickets are gonna be $35 at the door. You can’t miss the opportunity to see two of the greatest of all time, and another dude working his way to try and get to one of the top spots.

               

                    Staying with the whole “live show” theme, this one is for my Vegas peoples…listen up. November 10th Somobe is doing a show at a spot called “The Icehouse Lounge”…be there. I’m gonna be there (probably drunk or off something else…hey, it’s Vegas), it’s gonna be dope, and it’s only $10…you can’t beat $10 bucks for real hip hop.  That’s less than some of you wasted on “Curtis”. That’s $5 bucks more than some of you paid for the bootleg copy of American Gangster (cuz the rest of you just dled it yourself) It’s definitely worth it (the Somobe Concert…and American Gangster). If you haven’t already got “The Great Communication” stop sleeping, it’s one of the best CDs of the year (seriously, I’m not just saying that) Shake if you don’t respond in the comment section saying your gonna be there I’m gonna spam your email with e-fliers for the show.

               

                           Keeping with the topic of “shows”, there’s been quite a little show going on here. This whole “censorship, message board VS Blog Section, Meka’s a racists” thing is getting pretty wild. If I picked a side you guys already know what side I’d pick, but I’m not gonna do that…truthfully I don’t have, dude does a pretty good job of defending his self anywayz. However I do want to say a few things on the whole matter

1.       Being from southern Cali, we do things a little different than everyone else. You see, out here being as diverse and as liberal as it is, (even though, sometimes, it tends to try and go old school) were exposed to a lot of shit other’s aren’t. For instance, when you work a job where you have different ethnicities, cultures, and such, yet everyone works somewhat together, (office’s all working towards the same goal, security guards all working in the same area and together, etc. etc.) people tend to say things that don’t fly other places. Sort of like on a football team in the locker room. People say things others might view highly offensive…but nobody cares because you know who these words are coming from. White people make jokes about blacks, black people make jokes about whites, we all make jokes about Mexicans…everybody laughs. We know nobody is really a racist because we know these people. So john makes a joke about black people and sends the e-mail to everybody…so what. I know when I need him to get me some information on a certain client, he’s gonna have it and he won’t leave me stranded. He’s not racist. We talk shit a lot amongst each other. When I first seen some of the shit Meka was saying I was a little thrown off. Not because he was saying it, but because WHERE he was saying it. I was like “Damn, they ain’t gonna be ready for no shit like that,” I lived in Florida before, shit is different out there. Muthafucka’s get tarred and feathered still, so you can’t really joke about race with EVERYBODY, cuz some people are REALLY racist, and are liable to do some shit when you make certain jokes. Little did I know at the time, this is common amongst hip hop bloggers. This is what most of them do, so of course people would be able to deal with it…because they have. However, I guess some people are still surprised when they walk into a Snoop  concert smell weed and hear the word “Bitch” often.

2.       It’s funny the commotion caused over one derogatory comment in a sea of millions. Everybody is perfectly fine when the word “faggot” get’s thrown around as a negative term. Some white rapper had a song entitled “white nigger” I don’t remember it get taken off the site. Nobody complains when Arabs are being called terrorist on this site daily, but when your race gets mentioned you wanna bitch? Dude, if you don’t like hateful/harmful words, speak out against all of them, don’t get all emotional when something that hits close to home comes up. I said “nigga” a million times in a blog the other day and like one person complained over the use of the word, and he only did it because he’s a Brillyance hater. (join the club kiddo) It doesn’t matter that I’m black, if you’re against offensive words, the person saying it means nada. I’m one of the few dudes on this site that said homophobia is whack, if you won’t stick up for something that doesn’t relate to you like I do, hold your chin up and take it like a man when your people get brought up.

3.       How are the message board people gonna go against the blog site people? Have you ever seen that Dr. Pepper commercial where they try to sue to other Dr. Pepper flavor for tasting like normal Dr. Pepper? That’s how stupid this sounds. I fucks with the message boards, and yea, I do believe there are some idiots over there...but it’s still hiphopdx. If you compare the message boards over there, to any message board on any other site, I’m pretty sure the one here is better. Why? Because a lot of the people who make this site overall better, are involved over there too, so they do their part to make that better also. If you compare the blogs here to those on any other site, I KNOW the ones here are better. Why? Cuz of me damn it, that’s why…nah, because of all the people here.  I’ve seen the comments over there though, I know people have BEEN talking shit over there, throwing little subliminals and shit…so what. At the end of the day it’s all HipHopDX and We the Best…WHO? WE THE BEST ©Dj Khalid.

It may seem like I’m taking sides, but please believe if I did I would have had a lot more to say. On another note, I got a lot of shit I want to speak on and questions I want to ask as far as hip hop goes, I’ve just been distracted trying to get some shit together. Like I said in Meka’s blog I’m pushing electronics and stuff of that nature now, so if you’re in southern Cal and you need to get your game on, or you got a PS3 and you hate how it looks like crap on SDTV, holler at the e-mail.  Back to work I go, and if you’re at the show, I’ll see you there. Love, peace, and nappiness.


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