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The Best Kept Secret
"And Im Sick Of Blowjobs....
so i couldnt help but to listen to THIS song after watching THIS video, and hear The Game spit some shit. Peep around the 00:48 mark.
"...and im sick of blowjobs, bitch leave me alone!"
now ladies, excuse my male shovenistic pig side thats about to come out with this next statement, but....what type of fucking guy gets "sick of blowjobs"? You must have mollywhopped your hormones and transexualized your manhood with lyrics like that. We know you and Buck are new found besties seeing as how you guys both share something in common (see: getting kicked out of G-Unit), but what on earth possesed you to make such a remark? I had to spin it back a few times to make sure i wasnt just high hearing some shit.
but no, he really did say that...
wow
-Legend
myspace.com/thekidlegend
so, i listened to Eminem - Encore
i know EVERYONE thinks that album is garbage....but im gonna keep it short.
he made the album like that on purpose.
and its not even really garbage. just peep the interview...
"...im taking a bow, shooting the crowd and then shooting myself"
Eminem just wanted peace and quiet and time with his fam, and the only way to reach that was to make a dissapointing album to his fans so they could all just leave him alone and he could go out peacefully.
imagine making music for the love and having people protest against you, lawsuits filed because of it...everyone asking for a handout....he got tired of it all. he had more fame than he ever imagined. and he really couldnt reach a higher level. he was too busy being famous to watch his daughter grow up. he probably hated putting out that album and doing all those corny videos....and he went extra over the top with it on purpose. i really dont even know why i went on this rant, but i just refuse to believe the same person that penned "Stan" and "Kim" could fall off THAT bad, without doing it on purpose.
he'll be back though. and hes gonna drop a classic. and then never make another album again
-Legend
http://myspace.com/thekidlegend
kill/blast/shoot (a cop)
as much as i hate pigs, and cant stand the shit that happened to Sean Bell....i got a problem with people coming out and saying they gon kill someone (preferrably the boys and blue). not because im here to defend their pig asses....but because i know its NOT GONNA HAPPEN. let me watch you go out like a martyr lol. we just saw what happened to an innocent victim that had no guns or nothing and the police got away with it. what you think theyre gonna do to you? if they put 50 rounds in someone innocent, how many rounds do you think youll get? 100? 200? i can venture to say your family will get it too. unborn child and all...
so what are you REALLY accomplishing? another person dead? you think thats really gonna change the system? you think thats gonna make cops be less crooked? you think magically, police brutality will end?
i also got a problem with The Game making a song about the situation. the song bangs i guess, but listen to the substance....he STAYS name dropping right and left in EVERY song, but in his response to the verdict he cant even say Sean Bells name? i swear dude has said Eazy's name more than his previous girlfriend and/or groupies he used to mess with. and a response to a verdict deserves only ONE line talking about the situation?
"i should kill 51 cops, for the 51 shots that they gave the kid in new york"
UM....that 'kids' name was Sean Bell. it woulda took 2 seconds to research and find that out. but i guess that line makes up for the 3 verses that didnt talk about shit. i mean, it WAS a response to the verdict though right? it makes sense i guess...
and am i going against the revolution? no. im all FOR revolution, but truthfully....if even people in power cant stand up and talk about this...how will it ever change? jay z is so quick to make a song and diss the wizards but he cant take the time to make a Sean Bell tribute? or get people to collaborate and all do a song together?
or maybe thats in the works. i dont know...
but if you talking about killing cops and doing this and that.....dont take 3 hrs to record and mix and write 3 verses.....GO DO IT. NYPD has everyone in New York shook right now, because it looks like they really CAN get away with murder. but until then.....
"we dont believe you, you need more people....."
-Legend
http://www.myspace.com/thekidlegend
NY, NY
what an incredible journey.
i didnt know what to expect getting out there at all. once i touched down, i realized it was a whole nother world. the thing that struck me the most were the people. being from California, i figured....it cant get any worse than Hollywood bitches.
WRONG
New Yorkers are funny people. i tried to be as nice as i could but these people looked like they wanted to stab me in the throat for saying hi, and thank you. i walked through Manhattan and everyone looked pissed as fuck. i would ask somebody something and they would ignore me when i was looking straight at them. Like if they didnt want to be bothered. if felt like the whole city was on PMS. i felt like buying some Midol and standing on Broadway and 23rd, handing it out to everyone that passed by. Muthafuckas just need to smoke weed and calm the fuck down a second and be happy out there. I thought i was gonna get 50 rounds in me for being polite. Not to mention the 2828733 blocks, 74767 ways to get to where you need to be and 928383 bridges. Yall dont know how to drive out there neither, there were so many near death experiences.....the fucking BUS almost hit my ass while i crossed the street and the "walking" sign was on. hahaha...and its funny to see people walking and cut in front of cars...then get mad and curse you out when its clearly THEIR fault...LOL
Dont get it twisted though NY, yall really are the city that never sleeps. i loved the fact it could be 3am and you could stop by your neighborhood food spot and get a greasy ass Turkey sandwidch that will clog my arteries tomorrow and give me a heart attack by 26. that was great. I aint mad at Junior's cheescake either, OR the pizza, OR the soul food OR dallas bbq, OR the food on the side of the street (even if the prices are inflated as fuck). i love the fact yall got a subway system too. walking the street drunk and hoppin on the express is always a good look when its 2am (no driving). and to think, i come home to 3.93 a gallon for gas. word is, its supposed to go up to 4.00 dollars next week, and in some parts its at 4 already (4.35 to be exact). SMHHH
ill also never be mad at paying for drinks in California AGAIN. yall got double the price than it is here. shit is ridiculous out there.
all in all, it was a crazy experience. i suggest everyone in the US take their DMV parallel parking test out there because its amazing how they get it in with the parking situation. ill also provide the weed for everyone in New York to calm their ass down and be chill. it felt so good to be back and have people make random conversations. i ALMOST thought they were crazy for doing that. i guess NY rubbed off on me a little. one thing tho, being out there while the Sean Bell verdict was announced, you could feel the atmosphere change and smell it everywhere you walked. Friday was truly a sad day for NY.
ill be back though. its gon be a hot summer.
shouts to everyone who i met up with.
-Legend
http://myspace.com/thekidlegend
cuatro-20
so today seems to be some sort of unofficial holiday (if you know what im talking about). some c-boy said to NOT post anything about old times, so this is the one. im celebrating the present [4-20]
heres some songs to get you through the day...
Luniz - I Got 5 On It
Redman - How To Roll A Blunt
Styles P - Good Times
Three-6-Mafia - Wheres The Bud
Devin The Dude - Doobie Ashtray
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Budda Lovas
Cypress Hill - Where Is The Bud
Z-Ro - Smokers Anthem
Scarface - Mary Jane
Rick James - Mary Jane
Sublime - Smoke 2 Joints
its a celebration bitchess..........feel free to add to the list with some of your favorites and enjoy the day. i know yall can relate, especially if youre in California. theres just something about it that just brings people together. east to west, north-south, countries and continents.
PS. Lakers are winning today. another championship is on the way.
-Legend
http://www.myspace.com/thekidlegend
the box
now when i say the box, what do yall think of? and by that i DO NOT MEAN...
- a jail cell- a cardboard box
- (a dick in a) box
- a cube looking thing to put stuff in
- a coffin
i mean THE BOX (Video Jukebox Network which coincidentally = MTV2 now, and the 2008 version of The Box [that actually has the name still] only broadcasts in the UK)
you remember all the videos that would scroll at the bottom, and when you would request a video the line would ALWAYS be busy? Bone Thugs - Crossroads would play non stop for hours at a time. Fugees - Killing Me Softly was on heavy rotation. Remember it even had a spot where you could give shoutouts? haha. Do you remember the channel looking staticky as hell sometimes, and you had to do some crazy shit to the antenna on your TV just to watch the shit? Towards the end, the channel promoted that dumbass THE BOX antenna that didnt even work. It increased the quality a little, and def saved the ghetto tactics of getting the channel to work where somehow you had to be touching one side of the regular antenna, standing on one foot and pointing the other side of the antenna south, towards Miami.
THE BOX > youtube
a show of hands to those who remember THE BOX? i see like 2 hands up.
-Legend
myspace.com/thekidlegend
your intro to hip-hop
so before ipods there were these round objects called cd's (anyone seen those around anywhere?). before those, there were these manufactured, ancient, rectangle looking things called "tapes"
there was also this song called Rock The Bells by LL Cool J and this certain album by Nas (It Was Written) that completely changed my views on music (this was when all we heard on the radio was the Soul For Real - Candy Rain's Montell Jordans - This Is How We Do it, & SWV). If I Ruled The World with Lauryn Hill was def a change of pace from the Keith Sweat - Nobody days and New Edition Home Again album.
YES i used to scream 'fuck Mobb Deep' cuz 2pac said so. See, out here in the west coast during this time...Death Row was officially poppin. Even after hearing Nas and LL, i had to rep the coast. That beef shit was real. Then i heard this red tape a friend from high school made me.
i ferociously looked for it today, but no luck. the only OFFICIAL track i remember was on there was Ghostface - Mighty Healthy. But this was the tape that had me in a NY state of mind living out West. This is where i first heard of Rawkus, Gangstarr, Big L, Cormega, Wu Tang Killa Bees and Group Home - Supastar. This was EPIC considering Snoop Dogg - Doggfather, Westside Connection, Bone Thugs and Nate Dogg were on constant rotation at that period in my infant hip-hop life.
who remembers bumping All Eyes on Me, but you were always missing disc 1? Then you would hit your boy up to dub their disc 1 on a tape, but everyone and their mama had the same problem? Or what about Biggie's Life After Death where you would bump the shit out of Disc 1, but CD2 was nowhere to be found?? Yall remember that ugly orange, shiny ass Master P Ghetto D CD case? Remember when soundtracks were hotter than peoples albums? You couldnt WAIT for the movie to come out, just so you could cop the soundtrack (Above The Rim, Rhyme & Reason, Belly, Tales From The Hood, Whos The Man? etc).
or your boy you would let borrow your cd's and you never saw them shits again? dude made you cop your own shit 3-4 times?
or hi-jacking your parents wack ass tapes to stay up and dub all the late night hip-hop shows?
STRETCH ARMSTRONG IS NOWWWW IN YOURRR RADIOOOOO...
everyone has a story tho. what got you into hip-hop? and PLEASE noone say "i heard Lil Wayne - Lollipop on the radio" LOL
Gone but not forgotten
so i had this friend that moved to my city, he was from Detroit. He was the epitome of what DETROIT stood for (besides the sports). I remember he knew every word in Eminems catalogue (dude even looked like him a bit). Anything that came out of the D, he always repped. Somehow, everything reverted to an old Eminem record. We always argued about which Eminem song was the best. He always asked if i heard the new Proof record, or the new Obie Trice freestyle, Trick Trick, D12 etc. Then the radio station we were working for sold, he moved back to his hometown, hooked his best friend up with my ex gf.....and its been a wrap ever since. Reason i tell this story is because one day, we stayed editing Proof songs to play on the radio (even though we werent supposed to), and played them shits anyway because he wanted to rep the D so hard.
2 years ago, D12 member Proof was murdered. Even though his passing was tragic and unfortunate, he will never be forgotten. "Just Rhyming With Proof" will forever go down as a classic and as a kid, that was my introduction to Big Proof. He def played an intricate role in Eminems career.
R.I.P. Proof (October 2, 1973 – April 11, 2006)
Live instruments is overrated
or are they?
i always thought what made a good MUSICIAN was the fact that they ACTUALLY PLAYED INSTRUMENTS. now you got people making beats off of FL (Demo version) thinking they the next shit to blow since Vanilla Ice. Soulja Made 'Crank Dat' off FL didnt he? Not to knock on anyone using that shit, but hey....at least 9th Wonder makes some bangers out of it. Everyone clowns on the man for his shit "sounding the same" but if it was THAT easy to make joints like those, how come noone doing it like him? I know a couple other folks that get down on that shit. its really not WHAT you use, its the EAR and HOW you use it. i just dont get how cats really think theyre gonna make it off a Demo version of a program. i really hope the game is not THAT fucked up.
These kids need to respect the craft. Shouts to The Roots once again for using live instruments. shit...even Jay Z was performing with live instruments back in his unplugged days. Yall caught that performance on Letterman right? Where he performed with Mary J? Cant Knock The Hustle was sounding smooth as shit with the live band. Even upcoming cats like U-N-I and Fashawn are using live instrumentation. Cats need to pay attention.
i dont know. maybe im wrong. I guess ill keep working on that Cheetos with Lemon anthem and make my beat off Acid 5.0 (Trial Version) and sell a million ringtones to all the Spanish kids.
-Legend
lanes kanye has created.
So im sitting here listening to this Finer Things track off the Felli Fell album ft. Kanye West, JD, Fabolous & Ne-Yo and one word that comes to mind is 'radio' banger.
not sure how much play its getting (i turn on the radio only when theres a full moon), but i concur the average radio friendly listener will like this. shit, IM even feeling it. but this just proves the genius of Kanye in such a commercial, watered down, ADD era of music. who sang laffy taffy again? i forgot.
i dont know if anyones noticed, but Kanye has created so many lanes, its not even funny. Lets take it back to 01 when Jay-Z was gearing up for The Blueprint...The Takeover, Izzo, Never Change, Heart Of The City....come on. tell me that didnt change the whole producer game. Get Well Soon & Im Good are CLASSIC mixtapes (for the young'ns that dont know). then he drops College Dropout. Slow Jamz with Twista & Jamie Foxx was the summer anthem back in 04. then he went to performing with orchestras....singles about Sierra Leon and Touch(ing) the Sky.
"i told Jay i did a song with Coldplay, next thing i know he got a song with Coldplay..." Kanye West - Big Brother
even Jay and Lupe took a page out of the Yeezy book. now he hit us with Stronger and Graduation. completely flipped it on some other shit. Flashing Lights still gets love in the club (no dance necessary). what other trend is he gonna start? 'Ye definitely created his lanes, and others followed. and thats why Finer Things works. thats how it was back in the day. for all of us that say that hip hop aint like its used to. us 'old' folks that dream of the golden era (94-97) every night when we lay down to sleep. the new generation needs to realize that we saw alot more 'Kanyes' and less 'Shop Boyz' in our day.....Biggie, 2pac, Big L, Wu Tang, Nas, Jay, Mobb Deep, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Gangstarr...etc. how are you gonna compare that to Hurricaine Chris, Mims, Sean Kingston, Shop Boyz, D4L, Soulja Boy? now everyone has a dance. keep it real and you will succeed (word to Common). no need to lean, to rock wit it.
who doesnt know about the bear? how fly are those cartoons he comes out with now? just book your plans with KanyeTravel. and heres another hitttt barry bondssssssssssss.......
gotta skip the Frosted Flakes tonite Meka.....you know on a late night that Jack In The Box hits the spot. or maybe its the fact its the only thing open past 10. what you know about taco truck tho?
-Legend
peek-a-boo
first of all i wanna give a shoutout to everyone who took the time out to read my 'psychobabble'. i truly appreciate the exchange of ideas. the comments always have me rolling......LOL (yea thats a shoutout to you my dude)
im gonna keep it short today. on April fools 2008...i woke up, turned on the radio and thought the music playing was a joke....but then i realized it wasnt alll a dreeeammmm. im never gonna read word up! magazine, or see Salt N Pepa & Heavy D up in no limousine.....too old to hang pictures on my wall. every Saturday HOUSE/DANCE attack, no more Mr Magic, Marley Marl.
but in defense of ringtone rap....i was bangin my head to Lil Wayne ft. Corey Gunz - A Millie (not the snippet) [click to listen here] because that beat is quite hiptnotic and i started paying attention to what Mr. Wayne was saying...and Weezy said...
"....im gone take a nap mayne, its nap time/ill holla back at you at snack time"
its nap time folks. and for snacks...hot cheetos and oj from my sippy cup.
and is it just April fools or did Corey Gunz black out and renegade the greatest rapper alive on his own shit?...must be April 1st.
-Legend
the definition of REAL hip-hop
Back in the hey day, we had 'rappers' rappin for fun. On the corner as a past time. DJ'ing, b-boy'ing, graffitti...all that. they had fun. they weren't lookin for get rich quick schemes. they didn't care about ringtone sales or billboard charts. they were just putting out music that spoke the message of the streets (ie. Public Enemy, NWA etc.). Their main purpose was to teach and educate.
you wanna know what "REAL hip-hop" is? REAL hip-hop is Eric B. And Rakim - Paid In Full. Real hip-hop is Run DMC, A Tribe Called Quest and Big Daddy Kane. Real hip-hop is Big L, 2pac and Biggie. Nas, Immortal Technique...etc.
So what is "Real Hip-Hop" now? Now its beef. Its going back to jail for the 3rd time. Its getting shot the fuck up and using it as a means to market your next album. In 2008, hip-hop is rappers going to jail and getting married. Its instigating conflict between rappers and releasing full mixtapes dissing certain rappers or groups. Its getting signed off SINGLE deals (not album deals). Hip-hop nowadays requires a story behind the story they decide to tell in their music before the lead single drops. Its using the same hook guy in every single on the radio. Its gimmicks and sherades. Its controversy and catching bitch feelings. Its making the most money as possible, investing the least you can. Who the fuck is checking for real talent anyway?? Who wants to hear REAL topics?
Oh that's right......yall kids just want 'feel good' music. You want to dance all the time because your so ADD. You want to forget about real problems, just relax and bump something that feels good. You want to make up the next dance, have your 15 seconds of fame then go out like Mims did. You want to sing like Sean Kingston.....fuck talking about some measly genocide in Sudan. Fuck tryna have good wordplay or substance. Fuck speaking about real shit we all go thru. Were all too busy running away from it to care about it anyway, but that's def gonna make things better. Matter of fact, why dont we all shoot heroin thru our veins to 'escape reality and feel good'.
How long did it take to write all these radio hits anyways? All it takes is a demo version of Fruity Loops, a decent mic....and your a rapper nowadays. Make up a story about how you live on the block, and got shot 80 times while trying to save a baby crossing the street and a bus is coming at the baby all while you're a fugitive and just escaped from jail......and you'll gain instant success. I guess talent counts for nothing anymore (shouts to The Roots for using real instruments). Even Changes by 2pac was a classic track that got mad radio play and had more than enough substance in 1 verse than every billboard single out now. Let me make a song about hot cheetos with lemon and go platinum. I got the hook down already.
Yahhhh bitcchhh yahhhhhhhhh.
ps. check out Stimuli's "March On Washington" mixtape. you want some substance. he spits it.
pss. maybe its just April Fools, and ill wake up in the morning to hear good music on the radio.
syke
REAL Hip-Hop has ceased to exist
In this ringtone day and age, where candy shops crank dat music and the machine tell us why its hot, we find more and more people searching for a different outlet and almost gearing towards REAL music. Of course, your average music fan doesn't care to search for anything less than what's on the radio. Or maybe its the fact that they don't know any better. Perhaps its the fact they don't know WHERE to look besides the usual media outlets.
someone told me today that Lollipop was a great song. lol...nothing against Weezy F. (because he has a hit on his hands), but is that really GOOD music? it probably took him all but 15 minutes to write the whole thing. [R.I.P. to Static Major]. Why not talk about something uplifting that strengthens our society, instead of subliminally teaching kids about how to suck dick? (Word to getting low-low-low). Dont get me wrong, when im in the club feeling good and i see a broad drunk, thats defintely a song that would probably set it off (in about a month, let the song catch on some). Maybe its diff types of tracks for differents type of people. Sort of like a Kia as opposed to a Bentley. i guess for the superficial folks who dont follow substance, thats definitely the track to make them feel good. Someone even said NY doesnt know how to make hits anymore, and that the South took their whole lane while they got stuck in the 90's.
i refuse to believe that.
so what do you get when you pair artists like, The Roots, Mos Def, Styles P, Skyzoo, Torae, Esso, AC, Stimuli, Pacific Division, Kidz In The Hall, Wale, Naledge, Talib Kweli, The Game, Rakim, Outkast, 2ew Gunn Ciz, AZ, and Termanology? Would that be considered REAL hip-hop? Some people would call it backpack rap. some would say thats NY underground with artists that will never make it commercially.
i call it good music.
REAL Hip-Hop: No Gimmicks (The Mixtape)
if you like good music, this is def the tape to check out (shameless plug, i know, click the link anyway). shouts to DJ Blazita for holding it down on the tape as well. Its not everyday you find a female rocking with some real hip-hop shit.
until the next time i decide to ramble about how ringtone rap sucks. lol, Weezy lovers, please feel free to bash.
ps. Corey Gunz RENEGADED him on his own shit. i put a millie on it. (why do you think hes off the track now?)
-Legend
http://www.myspace.com/thekidlegend
oh yea.....shout out to Pete Rock for BLAZING club LAX last night. Blu & Exile were also in attendance, word to Jon and Hek. Keep an eye out for anything Blu.....
Remember that feeling you would get when you heard a CLASSIC album for the first time?
remember when albums used to mean something? when you threw on The Chronic for the first time and youre whole world changed? as if your eyes had been opened and you knew from that moment on, you would never be the same. or when you popped in Common's Be and you were grateful because such an album had been made in a time where 'classics' are almost non-existant. Same goes for Reasonable Doubt, Slim Shady LP, Life After Death, The Blueprint, All Eyes On Me, etc.
how come we dont get that feeling anymore? have we been decensitized to music like that? or is it that music will never be like that again? in our Crank That & Ay Bay Bay days, im starting to lose hope. what was the last hip-hop album to give you that feeling again? not to say there havent been some good albums and mixtapes put out lately because there HAVE, but do you still get that feeling you once did? in a day and age where that is no more, i seem to have found it...
in the form of another genre. surprisingly, of the 'Rock' persuasion. theres this new band out of Canada called Black Mountain and their album is dope, to say the least. these dudes take it back to the Pink Floyd days.
but why is THIS music giving me that feeling and not hip-hop in which ive known all of my life? is this like the new shorty giving you game but your still stuck on the old one? shiit, i even started a ROCK BLOG (http://allthingsrock.wordpress.com) (*shameless plug, ha) but im a hip-hop mixtape DJ (see: I Am Legend). Theres times where i hear the music come back in spurts. A single here, a pretty good album there, but it never FULLY gives you that experience as a whole that you used to experience. shouts out to the homie Torae for giving us Daily Conversation though. now THATS an album you need to go out in cop (for all the REAL hip-hop heads of course).
am i just crazy though? i dont know. prove me different.
i hope hip-hop comes back with a vengeance.
I Am Legend (The Mixtape) [LINK]
Tracklist
01. Joel Ortiz - Ups And Downs (Prod by Statik Selektah)
02. Bishop Lamont feat Ras Kass & Royce 5'9 - Go Hard (Prod by Black Milk)
03. Styles P feat Ghostface - Star Of The State
04. Joe Budden feat Joel Ortiz - Warfare
05. Skyzoo - The Wire
06. AC - Writers Strike Freestyle
07. Torae - Calling Me
08. Consequence - Que Another Ens
09. Godchild - G.O.D.D.Y. (Prod by Statik Selektah)
10. Hi-Tek feat Talib Kweli & Dion - Time
11. Emilio Rojas feat Skyzoo & Torae - New Blood (Prod by Illmind)
12. Saigon feat Memphis Bleek - Ryders (Prod by J Cardim)
13. Esso - BpZy Freestyle (Prod by Baby Paul)
14. Guilty Simpson - Get Riches
15. Termanology - The Music Industry
16. Donny Goines - Do It For Hip Hop (Remix)
17. 2ew Gunn Ciz - Let It Play
18. Phene - The Spokesman (Prod by DJay Cas)
19. Mike The Martyr - What Would You Do (Prod by Statik Selektah)
20. Mike The Martyr feat AC & Godchild - Act Like You Been There (Remix) (Prod by J-Dilla)
21. 88-Keys feat Tanya Morgan - Cuddle Bums
22. Nino Bless feat Joe Budden - Times Are Hard (Prod by Focus & Dr Dre)
23. Royce 5'9 - Success Freestyle
24. M-Ca$h - You Know What It Is
Bonus Tracks
25. Sic Osyrus - I Still Love Her (Remix) feat Skyzoo & Geolani
26. Jean Grae - Love Thirst (Prod by 9th Wonder)
FREE MUSIC. Isnt that how yall like it anyway?
FREE FREE FREE
You kno people flock when they see that word. Whether its a sample of a sandwidch at the mall, beer, a magazine or music. Mufuckas dont wanna pay for CD's anymore. Most dont even feel like its worth it. But why? Im gonna tell you why...cuz we've all become LAZY.
Its so much easier to hop on the computer on your DSL/Cable modem and get on limewire....download your favorite song, then burn it on YOUR OWN PLAYLIST with songs you like.
That definetly takes less effort than:
1. getting your ass up
2. driving to the your local retail store
3. scrappin the 15 dollars you should have pitched in for gas
4. buying the cd
5. coming home and ripping it to the computer
6. making your mix with the songs you like
thats why labels focus their efforts on HIT singles for the dumb down listeners and clubs....so you can buy the ringtone. they dont give a fuck about the album, as long as the single pushes the sales of the album......What happened to Mims? This is why you flopped. CD's are about to be extinct. So start getting used to iTunes and Universals counter attack to iTunes.
GO BUY MY MIXTAPE!!!! ha....you cant be serious. Ever since DJ Drama got popped, aint nobody really making tapes like that anymore (unless its a Weezy DROUGHT VOL. 2827373), but it shouldnt be about sales anyways...i always thought mixtapes were a way to market and promote artists before their album dropped? I thought it was about the music? So when did it become about the sales and gimmicks? Ohhhh thats right.....when mufuckas realized they can get theirs. At least DJ Drama, Mick Boogie, Statik Selektah, Tapemasters, Dub Floyd are crafting albums out of mixtapes. If you dont believe me, go cop the new Gangsta Grillz. that shit plays like an album. He didnt use email blasts and forum bootlegs to put it together. (at least the first half)...You can tell he took time making it tho. Same goes for Mick Boogie's new one...any Tapemasters concept tape, Dub Floyd's 5th Element tape....Statik's tapes....etc. (And theres probably others i forgot, but those are who i thought of off the top)
Now fuck my rambling, let me get to my point. SUPPORT REAL MUSIC. Cop my mixtape...download it...bootleg it...make paper off of it. I dont care, shit, its about the music anyway. And if you dont like it...fuck it, what did you pay? not a damn thing....
Stimuli & Legend - The Present & The Future
http://www.sendspace.com/file/y21kg5
and heres my Skyzoo tape. I finally got the cover. Who said mixtapes were about having the dopest cover anyway?? i thought it was about the music....
http://www.sendspace.com/file/dq81zk
until next time i decide to go off on a tangent.
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Hip Hop is Changing Lanes
This is my first time ever doing a blog here on Dx, but if you haven’t heard of me, its Legend, the mixtape DJ you might catch in the mixtapes section. Or ... MySpace. I represent the Golden Era in hip-hop. The Era everyone’s been trying to chase ever since we left it. You don’t catch me saying much, but when I do speak … it’s for definite reason.
So as I sat and listened to Graduation, I realized we're experiencing another turning point in hip hop (love it or hate it, I might just have a point).
Let me explain ...
As the South has dominated hip-hop the past couple years, it seems that as for the past couple months we’ve seen a decline in their presence and a rise in the bubbling East Coast and Midwest. The truth is, that people are changing gears on hip-hop. They don’t want to hear that ‘Ay Bay Bay’ shit anymore. They don’t want albums with 4 nice tracks and garbage for the rest. They want complete albums. Not to discredit any artist, but were seeing this shift in hip-hop happen before our own very eyes. Just last week Talib outsold Swizz Beats in sales. (And we all know the difference in their music). Common just dropped another solid album which charted number 1 in its respected week. And Kanye, has definitely solidified himself with Graduation as his best album yet. (I might even venture to say I like it better than Commons album). 5 Mics? No, but it certainly deserves a 4.75. And as we watch sales stay on the decline, people are going out and supporting these artists. (Yeah I know, not in record numbers like before, but people are definitely showing support).
As far as hip-hop battles, Kanye West transcends and reaches out to more people than 50 Cent can. His range of artistic spectrum is a lot bigger than 50’s. Stronger not only appeals to your hip-hop fan, but it applies to that mom going through cancer as an uplifting song that keeps her motivated she’ll make it through the day. You al