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Nino is Name Dropping, Oh no!

May 29, 2008 | Tags: Hip Hop, crooked i, mixtape, nino bless, untold scriptures, name dropping

For those of you who haven't peeped the Mixtape its hosted by Big Mike, Mick Boogie, & J Love and its titled "Untold Scriptures." You can download it off www.Ninobless.com for free or if you want a hardcopy its only $5.99 right off my site.

This Mixtape was way overdue and honestly this past year was a tough year for me personally so to get this out there under all the personal matters in my life was a big accomplishment to ME in itself. So I finally got the Mixtape done and so far the feedback is everything I hoped it would be and more. Some of ya'll here know how I started and the direction I was taking. I was basically just hungry and ready to set things up to hopefully get it where I pretty much have it now. You can have an idea and expectations of what you think some of the shit you'll be getting is like but when it finally comes its a bit different. Especially the love from the fans, etc. I thought I knew how it would feel but you never know unless you are actually there. These cats that run this magazine called Foundation Magazine hit me up. 50 and G Unit are on the cover of the next issue they are a Mixtape magazine. These cats threw the word "classic" around and they were blown away by my Mixtape. That shit felt good cause you don't normally get industry cats hitting you up and showing you that type of love. They have too much ego for that. Anyways I will be in the next issue of Foundation Magazine and many other things to come. I got a few industry cats calling me and hitting me up like crazy but these cats stood out cause they slipped me in the issue last minute just cause they thought my project was ill so I want to big them up and thank them. Good Looks to everybody else who reached out off the strength of just digging my music.

So I leaked "Name Dropping" the day of the Mixtape which was May 20th. That got a ridiculous response as well all around. That’s a joint that took about 2 days to write maybe 3. I had the idea for a long time (6 years) especially of how I wanted to use everything like a double meaning. It takes mental stamina to something conceptual. Its not like just thinking of words to rhyme or sticking to a subject. You have to figure a way of how to throw each name in there and make it stick. I tried to do "Name Dropping" like if you didn't know any of the MC's names it would just be a regular story. Not easy to pull off but I mean if you sit and dig deep in ya mental.. it'll eventually come together. Now that song for those who knows me I wrote and recorded it about a year and a half ago and some heard it when it had no hook in the beg or end. Anyways a year later I'm like "let me re-record this" and B. "let me finally get a hook on this." The homie Scram Jones came through for me. He's a great producer and a dope ass MC. What most cats don't know unless you seen him spin live is that he's an incredible DJ. He been backing away from it cause his success right now is driven from the beats but I needed Scram Jones the DJ to come out of retirement. He blessed the kid and the night before the day of my release! This dude literally mixed and put the scratches on the record like hours before my deadline. I don't know whether to thank him again or say "fuck you bastard don't do that shit again." The result was great so I have to thank him again. Message to Scram though "fuck you fam don't ever do that shit again."

Let me get up out of here but first stay tuned next week as DX will world premiere a record with Crooked I and myself called "Lift Em Up." Crooked asked me to be on his Block Obama Mixtape and how could I say no or slack? I know he had a strict deadline but I did what I had to do for Crooked cause I'm fully supporting what he's doing. Be on the look out for that and the homie and myself are doing a Mixtape at the end of the year as some of you already know. Shit is going to be crazy as Crooked and myself are hard at work to make the shit a banger for the fans who are checking for us. Its crazy cause I know I still don't have fans yet. I have dudes that are checking for me or respect me. A lot of rappers get what I have and say "my fans are this and that." In reality they don't have FANS rather dudes who like their shit a lot. A FAN is somebody who will camp out all night or drive 5 hours to see you perform. They buy the tickets months before you arrive and shit. I know I have a LONG way to go. I'm building my name right now and getting some notoriety. So trust me when I tell you, there's no room for slacking on my part I will continue to bring the heat. If your diggin what I'm doing now keep fucking with ya boy cause I'm gonna stay relevant for a while. Stay up 1

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Why does Hip Hop suck? Politics as Usual

May 12, 2008 | Tags: none

This is the time where every four years the average citizen suddenly gets involved with politics. Healthcare, foreign interest, the economy, etc. have become a topic of discussion anywhere from your average Joe's lunch break to the locker room of your little cousin's gym class. (believe it or not) I'm not going to bore my Hip Hop fans with too much political talk 'cause I know you're getting that from everybody else's blog. However, I will say this: I think the voting process in this country is a fraud. I think Obama is the best candidate left but it isn't the best candidate for the job. I think he's great but Ron Paul would have fit better in the White House and he's a Republican. I know my Democratic pals will say, "Nino ,cut it out." Well, I don't care for that shit either, it's about the right man for the job.

Before I get into how this relates to Hip Hop, let me just continue for one more paragraph please, follow me. Ron Paul was the only man who made sense in the debates. He's the only dude who said we need to get the fuck out of Iraq, immediately. Not in those words but he might as well have. You see forget the gas prices. We're in Iraq for what reason? 'Cause of contracts we have with certain folks over there? We haven't even found oil! We're in Iraq patrolling the perimeters for national security? What the fuck does Iraq have to do with our national security? People are fucked financially over here, losing jobs, and are stitching themselves up in their house with Home Depot products rather than going to the doctor. For stitches, man! Dudes is scared to go to the doctor to get a cut fixed 'cause it might cost them an actual limb. So fuck Iraq! The war costs us four billion dollars a week. Who is that shit hurting the most? Canada's dollar is higher than ours and so is Cuba's. In a few months I wouldn't doubt if the Mexican dollar will be equal to ours. That's not to offend any of my Mexican folks but this is just a sign of how bad shit is here. We went to Korea 50 years ago and we're still dealing with a mess over there. Obama is a smart dude, but if he applied his intellect and stood up for what needs to be said, rather than not be afraid to offend some of his financial backers he'd say, "Lets get out of Iraq now." It's not doing us any good right now and its only going to get worse. We just borrowed money from China that we're in no position to pay back any time soon.

I just spoke to a friend of mine who happens to be a Hip Hop editor and her response was this: "You can't just say get out of Iraq; that's not how the US works and they have to work it out." Why does it seem like in life the most logical shit to do is always the thing that just can't be done. Labels for instance aren't selling ANY fucking records. Why? 'Cause as I mentioned a while ago, their formula which they are so comfortable with isn't working. Does it matter to them? The singles are getting mass exposure, ringtone deals are off the hook and all, but you aren't selling any fucking records. They all went bankrupt and starting partnering up with each other cause they were making no MONEY! You'd think they get the point and try something different. Great artists will sell records because people will buy their product for more than just a single. Nas, The Nortorious B.I.G., Tupac, Big Pun, Snoop and etc didn't get deals because they were popping on Myspace. They didn't get deals because they had BDS spins or a killer street team. They got situations because companies believed that they can build a fanbase if they had the right machine behind them. Well somewhere that all changed when Hip Hop was all about its business. Funny when you focus too much on the business the things you sacrifice right? Good Music! Who cares about how good your music is. Now its all politics. DJ's have artist now and they are scared to put on a new artist who's hot because that artist might get hotter than their artist. They have a production team or produce themselves so they have to play the records they make on their show rather than expose new talent. This is how this works. What is this doing to Hip Hop? The same thing US political interest is doing... It's affecting the PEOPLE.

Now the people have to listen to this mess. The true talented artist who don't have any money behind them to afford features, radio promo, a publicist and etc, can't be heard. So like Joe Budden said on "Dumb Out"; "Let me find out Hip Hop's turning Republican." Yes Joe, let you find out. People care more about when Jay-Z is getting married than listening to a great song. Does anybody care about the quality of music anymore? Shit whats the point? Sure this dudes music is good, but his bio isn't professional. He doesn't have quality press pics or a DJ Premier track on his resume. Why give him any light? Fans expect all rappers to rap the same. They think the popular one's are the best one's when that's far from the case and I ain't just talking on a commercial level either. Some of these "real Hip Hop artists" are wack lyrically themselves. They don't spit from gut, have no presence, and if this was 99 they would be an afterthought. So you can be the dopest dude out right now but good luck getting somebody to push you on any level if it doesn't benefit them. Hip Hop has turned into George W. Bush. Incompetent, senseless, and having zero consideration for the interest of the people. Politics always manages to fuck shit up. With Hip Hop its no different. The economic interest fucked this culture up and has pushed the quality so far back that not even its most loyal purist whether (writers, artist, DJ's,) consider the quality first. Its not quality first its about branding, business, identity, marketing, name value, dick-riding, rims, facials, muscles, fashion, nice video, who did the beat, how much do you make, how fly your girl looks, and "did you hear what happened with such and such."

To the industry in a whole:

We as the people demand quality music. We as the people demand results immediately. We as Hip Hop followers demand that you separate the good from the useless one's. Put the waste in a different section. We love the news and all but we demand that quality music be pushed heavily in this overly saturated industry. There's more horrible shit than good shit, oh we understand. Create a different section for them. The people have spoken. Look at their comments. They let you know who they like and who they think is a waste of time. Don't you get it when nobody is even listening to this person's shit or supporting it. This artist can't sell out a show, get any listens on HipHopDX, sell a CD, or build a loyal fanbase. STOP PUSHING HIM! You are wasting our time and yours. More yours cause you are actually putting money behind this buffoon. Damn similar to how the US is puttin' money into shit that doesn't benefit the people. We as the people demand that rappers step up their presence, rhyme schemes, word play, punchlines, creativity, beat selection, work ethic, mental stamina, and stop saying predictable shit. Stop talking about how gangster you are. Go be a full time gangster then cause that shit is old in Hip Hop. Stop talking about how much money you make, we get it baller you got cake. Stop talking about how real your music is none of you are fake we understand that. Its getting old and tired. Dudes who can't rap for shit are rapping and we are tired of them being heavily exposed to us. We as the people demand a change, immediately.

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"Untold Scriptures" May 20th.