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Queens Lost

“For people to say, ‘He snuffed P,’ first of all, that’s what happens in a fight... People get hit. I been hit plenty of times in my face in a fight.” – Mobb Deep’s own Charleston P on the eye jammie he caught from Saigon last week

You don’t say.

In the heyday of East Coast hip-hop, no other town had more talent coming from its gum-infested streets than Queens. From mash-out posses like Onyx, to the thugged-out theatrics of Kool G Rap to its perennial All-Pro representative Nas, Queens, alongside Brooklyn, were a force not to be fucked with.

Even though the shitty radio stations played the aural violations of The Dove Shack, Kausion and Twinz, I found myself instantly attracted to the rhythmic lyricism of the East (North?). To this day, no other borough [1] could touch that city in its prime.

But leave it to the East to go and fuck shit up for everyone.

I guess I should have seen it when KRS-One was tossing Prince Be’s fat ass off his own stage [2], but I refused to believe it. But even after Daz of all people started punting their skyscrapers in that one video, New York began a subtle, yet steady, descent into the downward spiral it’s in now. Bad Boy crashed and burned worse than Dale Earnhardt’s whip in the Daytona 500, Cam’Ron is either losing his running mates to God, transsexuals or Curtsy and although he recently bailed him out of the claws of the IRS, Jay-Z yoked Damon Dash for damn near everything, leaving him to make fake-ass Air Force Ones to keep his bench warm in Marcus Garvey Park.

The worst thing about this is that I was more or less expecting this chaos to happen to Queens rappers, what with Sticky Fingaz getting punched out by some corn-fed YT rocker on MTV a few years ago, and Nas essentially reaching his peak with his first album. But it kinda pains me to see a city that produced Illmatic fail so miserably. Now everybody is (literally) taking shots at Prodigy, which in a sense ain’t saying too much nowadays. Shit, if I slapped out Prodigy that shit might ruin my bottom line here at DX. And I sure as shit don’t want that to happen.

Oh, and Nas? You’re about 3 years late on the “rappers peddling ugly-ass shoes” craze.

[1] Yeah, I know. Brooklyn’s the only one that comes closest, though.

[2] Why is there no YouTube of this one?

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