to me, a hip-hop head since i was a tike (who is now 25 years old), it is something of a crime to mention Gangstarr and Lil' Wayne in the same post.

did anyone read any of his interviews? he said, and this is nearly verbatim:
"Martin Luther King Jr. said I could do anything. Kill falls under that."

he actually said that, and i wouldn't be surprised if he actually believed it!

that guy is a disgrace and a joke to the world of hip-hop. people like him are the ones making it so hard on all the rest of us to get this thing progressed.

might i ask why such a great blog doesn't have a rssfeed?!
thanks and an answer would be appreciated!

i really like that gangstarr tune.. "360 dunk in your face.. you can't compete, yur just a basket case" is a great line.. i honestly don't give weezy the time of day man, and i say that from the comfort of my bedroom with a wireless keyboard in my hand complete with touchpad, i will never see that fool in real life, and hope i never do.. that guy will not get 1 cent from me, for his music anyways... something about the value of his lyrics don't do nothing for me, don't move me.. i'm very picky with my hip hop selection... i actually gave up on hip hop till i discovered cats like you yak, MURS is a top gunner on my list, cage frickin WM doom, the wu meets indie culture was a turning point for me.. basically all the people you do work with.. i honestly threw in the towel!!!! but my opinion is what it is.. my opinion.. i'm making more of an effort to buy music from rappers i support.. take care thanks for reading this far...

ie: "You know models? I know models. You like fresh fruit? I like fresh fruit. I live in a skyscraper... Hi helicopter." -Lil' Wayne

cant even believe your throwin up MIA even after your boy ewok put that Paper Planes Diss by Delon up like he knew what was up. you aint know? even associating with a presidency that has an esoteric agenda that is unknown to us, even if the exoteric scene is hoping for change is it really? you should probably get at lif next time hes around.

Being a Hip-Hop Junkie myself, I can relate to these views Yak Ballz has. Haha, although only 17, I've been into Indie Hip-hop since 7 years old. And I can honestly say I'm one of the few that appreciates good shit like this.

It's because everything is turned into a business, specifically into the corporation model. If something doesn't turn a monumental profit, it's not worth the venture, evidently.

Fuck that. Also, I think there are much better rappers out there than Weezy who do it much more for the love of it than he does. He works hard as hell, and he knows how to sell himself and his music. I'll give him that. But I will give him nothing else. Massive record sales does not a quality artist make.

In this age, the age of the Blog, text messaging, and instant messaging, laziness has reached a certain mass appeal. People converse in code and acronyms, choosing to abbreviate language in order to condense it as a time-saving measure, as if typing IMHO is such an immense time-saver over "in my honest opinion." Will this be the next phase in the evolution of language? I hope not. I'd hate to think that Wall-E was a prophetic movie.

As for Gangstarr, I personally prefer Daily Operations. In my skating says, No Shame in my Game was the perfect joint to have running through my head. I also think that the heavily sampled No More Mr. Nice Guy was, for all its immaturity, an underrated GangStarr album.

Sushi sucks. Why would you want all of that raw fish flavor masked by rice. Sashimi all the way... California rolls are for panty-waists.

i grew up on 80's 90's and hip hop of today (along with jazz, classical, classic rock and todays rock, DnB, jungle, blues, and the up n coming DUBSTEP- the new HIP HOP for me and many, many more. bein an emcee and musician myself and nearin my 30's! yes i said it 30's i realize that imagination and invention is of no concern for the youth as well as for self reflection and awareness. the "HIPHOP" of today is the watered-down and refurbished joints of yester-year. as for the "culture" well... what culture? 16 yr olds now dont know shit of where there music came from. all they know is whats been fed thru "MTV" and "BET" and so on and so forth. reason i say this is because i deal with younger kids on a regular basis though some even wish they grew up in our time they dont have the guidance to reveal to them what has been there from the begining and still stands. "underground" HIP HOP, which to me was defined by the time that these billion-dollar "fatties!" once they got a hold of our culture and learned how to capitalize on it made the margin between what is and what they think "it" is. unfortunatley for me all the "lil's" and "weezy's" and so on are just jokes. i find no talent, no expression of soul, or entertainment in them, however most will TRY to argument their "fame" by money stature by giving me some un-intelligent comment like, "well, they're makin more money than you!" debacle thinking that would end our discussion until i let them in on a lil secret they should know more than a "stone-age" cat like me would know. thanks to internet and international business progression. it doesnt matter if i was to get a video shown on mtv i will make money on an international scale, regardless if im on the "Billboards top 20". but like you mentioned here in the U.S. its not about money but fame, right? on top of that argument "back in the day" it was about expression. back when the youth had no voice, now old rich assholes saw hungry self eXpressionist and thought to put a lil "green" in front of them and they WILLINGLY BECAME PUPPETS FOR THE DOUGH!" forcing onto the youth what they think we should hear and see and wear and even up to the way we speak, "fo sheezy, my neezy!" c'mon back when i was a skateboardin-punk up to no good we would beat up a cat with a flat brimmed hat. now i dunno about other places in the U.S. but here in miami we wore our BRAND NEW caps with a curved brimm or a straight fold down the middle type bend and WITHOUT OUR EARS STICKING OUT LIKE ELEPHANTS FANNING THEMSELVES TO KEEP "COOL"! WTF!!!!??? HIP HOP CULTURE THESE DAYS IS RETARDED NOT TO MENTION OUR ROCK AFFILIATES AND THEIR OH SOO "EMO" IM A HALF-WAY OUT THE CLOSET FAG, AND I DONT MEAN HOMOSEXUAL, I MEAN A STRAIGHT PUSSY CRYING IN THE DARK ABOUT HOW ALONE THEY FEEL CUZ THEIR GRLFRIEND LEFT THEM BULLSHIT!. and so i end this dumbass comment which probably no one will mind with this QUOTE,
"They were about unleashing youth style as an expression of the soul, unmediated by corporate money, unauthorized by the powerful and protected and enclosed by almost monastic rites, codes, and orders. They sprung from kids who had been born into the shadows of the baby boom generation, who never grew up expecting the whole world to be watching. What TV camera would ever capture their struggles and dreams? They were invisible.-------------------------------------------------- But invisibility was its own kind of reward; it meant you had to answer to no one except the others who shared your condition. It meant you became obsessed with showing and proving, DISTINGUISHING YOURSELF, and YOUR ORIGINALITY ABOVE THE CRWOD."--------------------------------------------- -Jaff Chang, "Can't Stop, Won't Stop" a history of HIP HOP!

JUST REMEMBER.... "IGNORANCE IS BLISS TO THOSE WHO LIVE IN IT"

take some time to think on that.

i hear it yak... and yes i am tired of weezy and everybody being into sneakers all of the sudden... "mass appeal" was and still is the joint... you killed it in pomona last weekend by the way...ups

-bottom-

greatest scratch hook ever!

Mass appeal is proly one of the best hip hop tracks EVER IMHO (shout outs to Nasa, he can school you on the perfection of the beat), but it's def on Hard To Earn, solidifying HTE as the best GS album ver, again, IMHO