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July 20, 2007 | Tags: none

In the rare case that some of you didn’t know, your favorite driving shoes-rocker Tooda has (not so) coincidentally pushed back his upcoming album to coincide with not only the sixth anniversary of when the Jawas ran up in New York City, but on the same day Fiddy’s future multi-million-selling turd burger hits stores. Although I’m not on that level of enthrallment as, say, cheezyhobo was when duke saw the YouTube of Cam’Ron running around that rented duplex in The Jungles with his dickhole exposed (ayoooo...), I will say that this is shaping up to be perhaps the most interesting event to happen to hip-hop since killing weed carriers became trite.

Interestingly enough, the underlying theme surrounding this scenario is the supposed “good” music by Silk Shirts West taking on the über-violent brassiere top raps of Curtsy, which I call bullshit on, because neither of these two have made a semi-decent song in years. Perhaps if they would stop for two seconds to ignore the jabs they receive from humps like the Pink Ranger and bloggers respectively and deliver quality music [1], they’d get the rest of us to stop throwing barbs at them about their suspect behavior.

On the flip side, a lot seems to be riding on these two offerings. Rap music has taken the worst hit in this era of declining record sales, making losers like MC Bird Chest come off as gods on the Billboard charts despite the that their albums are flagrantly awful. And what better way to attempt to get hip-hop out of its doldrums than having basically the only rappers who can sell records have the same release date?

Honestly, I wouldn’t know who to choose as the top first-week seller. On one end, Curtsy and his crew has been on a losing streak ever since some background TI thought it was a great idea to release a Tony Yayo album. Not to mention, the last time he tried to go up against a Roc-A-Fella release, he lost (Beg For Mercy and The Black Album both dropped on the same day four years ago, with Jay-Z taking the number one spot). On the other, Tooda’s two singles haven’t really caught on as much as his previous singles did. Personally, the only video I’ve caught for either artist was Silk Shirts’ “Stronger” at some funny-style Nick Cannon clothing store on Melrose Avenue last weekend (don’t ask), and I couldn’t really remember anything about it other than the fact that Cassie’s fine ass makes me want to slap the ever-loving shit out of my boss. All she needs are a couple steak sandwiches though; that Ms. Somalia look, though? Not so much...

But hell, what do I have to offer? Ever since I was introduced to the digital media age by my cousin (who in turn was introduced to the art of yoking music without the use of P2P networks by me), I rarely listen to the radio nowadays, save for the times I want to fantasize about Power 106’s Luscious Liz. So obviously I’m not in their overlords’ “target demographic,” because I prefer (and enjoy) looting them for their royalties. And if my willingness to jerk the RIAA out of their terrorism funding [slightly] doesn’t allow any of them to purchase half-tarded outfits, that makes my nights sleeping in Raccoon City a little more easier.

[1] “Spaceship” and “Heat” > everything else after. Tell me I’m wrong.




*** UPDATE: This had me dying...

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