January 31, 2003--

Yo. So it's been a week, Winter break is over, I'm back at school and all that good stuff. Break was tight, mad relaxing to just be home and chillin'. Non-stop partying, but no hip hop shows or anything of that sort really. I dunno, they had a Def Jux show I wanted to hit up back in December but couldn't find anyone to go with. Also I was mad poor after fucking Christmas and then fixing up my car, so I'm still in the hole for cake. Which is ass too. But anyway, let's not dwell on that right now, cuz it's time for Sum Shit I Wrote. In case you've never ventured into this part of the site this is where I talk about whatever the fuck I want to and where I solidify my position as "The Boy." Don't believe me? Alright, anyway, I'm just gonna be talking shit, I got no type of plan, so expect some spur of the moment angry thoughts that relate to hip hop's current sad, sad state. Oh yeah, shout out to the Raiders for making the Superbowl not even excited to watch. If you put your money on those pussies all of y'all are probably pissed off now!!!

 

What's Beef?

So Ja Rule just started his national tour with Eve. You know that's a show that people will remember for years to come! I read they even got Benzino to open for the show. Wow, I'm mad I missed that one. I just get angry when I think of Ja Rule selling out arenas for that half-assed music he does, just pisses me off to think about it. Nigga only did a 45 minute set too, or so I heard. But anyway, when I read that Benzino opened for fucking Ja Rule it was interesting because it straight up shows how hip hop taking sides with all these beefs. The main beef being Murder Inc (Ja Rule, Irv Gotti, Wack Child, and the other shitty-ass Murderers) versus Shady Records (Eminem, 50 Cent, to some extent Dr. Dre). I find it funny that everyone seems to be taking sides like this is some big-ass civil war within hip hop. I mean, you got like Daz calling out Murder Inc and allowing 50 to make a song with Tupac vocalsm (50's already got that shit on the streets with Biggie vocals -- the more songs with dead people you record the closer you are to being the king of NY). You got The Source putting Ja on the cover with XXL putting on Dre, Em, and 50. The rough part about all this shit is because this isn't even good for hip hop. None of this shit has to do with skills! I think battling and beef within hip hop is good for the culture, but these days shit is getting ridiculous. Benzino is trying to start a race-war with Eminem, when he knows the only people who would be buying his CD if that wack shit was even selling are white people. Plus with this Murder Inc diss tracks talking about stabbing 50 and shit, it shows that this shit is obviously gonna lead to violence. But this is only the beginning, I feel at least. Because I'm pretty sure once 50 Cent starts blowing the fuck up while the new albums from Nas and Jigga kinda just chill on the shelves there's gonna be some animosity between 50 and the two current nominees for "King of NY". This whole shit is just gonna blow up and someone's gonna get shot or something. I don't even know why I'm paying so much attention to this shit, because all this beef is just publicity stunts, for attention and shit. Now days we got like Lil' Kim beefing with Foxy and Eve. They're all fucking wack! Eve, even though you look kinda crack whored out, you prolly were better off as a stripper than making this wack ass "Gangsta Love" shit. And Foxy, she's always been a wack-ass rapper, but I wouldn't mind seeing her and Lil' Kim dyke it out or something. Anyway, enough attention to all this beef shit, I've been giving them too much press on the website anyway.

 

Damn....It

Something else that's been on my mind, apparently Lil' Kim is shouting out John Gotti and features John Gotti's wife in her new video. Damn it, first of all John Gotti wasn't a good person! Second of all, the Gotti family has never done anything good for Lil' Kim in particular and black people in general! When will rappers finally forget that crime bosses and evil world leaders aren't good role models or worth giving shout outs?! Gets me so fucking pissed off!

 

Winter Break Beats

I hate January, it's such a boring fucking month for hip hop. Nothing good ever comes out in January, as this is the time that the recording industry just chills and waits for people to regain the money they lost during Christmas. Luckily for us hip hop fans, the best music came out around 10 years ago anyway, so I got a chance to try and pick up some definitive crucial albums that I should have had in the first place. I copped a lot of shit over the last month, but I'm just gonna say the ones that I remember because I'm bad at thinking these days. I copped Gang Starr's Daily Operation. Very good choice, plus I have to get all the Gang Starr albums since I'm quick to call them one of the top three groups in hip hop ever (if you count emcee/DJ combos as groups, some people might not) but don't own all the albums. Saying that is wack, but I've heard enough Gang Starr shit, both old and new, to know that they are one of the most consistent crews out there. My shit on there? "The Place Where We Dwell" (straight up blunt smoking music) and the beat that Guru rocks over on "I'm The Man." They shoulda made that shit a whole song, yo! I got me a copy of the Cee-Lo solo album that dropped last year, a slept on gem that someone e-mailed telling me I was wrong to omit from the years finest shit. While I did enjoy the album, I got much less out of it because it was an edited copy and edited joints suck. Still, Cee-Lo is on some soulful shit and managed to mesh musical styles outside of hip hop better than some of my other former fav emcees (okay, let's just name names: Common). I copped the Beastie Boys' Check Your Head, which is a tight album, but definitely was the first album when the Beasties really started doing things outside of the hip hop norm and started experimenting with live instrumentation. I'm a big Beasties fan, so I liked the album, but for the casual hip hop listener the only essential Beastie Boys project you need is Paul's Boutique. Still, Check Your Head was a worthy purchase. I copped De La Soul's 3 Feet High & Rising, an album that for a long time I felt like a shitty-ass hip hop fan for not owning. De La is the shit, as I'm sure you guys already knew, and the album is a pretty wacky album. I like how it's put together, very hectic with a lot of shit going on with interludes and over-sampled beats. You guys know those are my kind of beats. I stole my brother's Public Enemy Fear Of The Black Planet album, so now I can listen to it whenever I want, which is pretty tight. My joints on that one is "Welcome To The Terrordome" and "Fear Of The Black Planet", but the Bomb Squad production is a little too hectic on that album to make it compare to It Takes A Nation of Millions, argubly the best overall rap album ever made. Another goodie I picked up was KRS-One's Return of the Boom-Bap, which as far as I'm concerned was KRS' best project ever (which is a pretty educated statement, but the sole BDP album I am missing is the critically acclaimed By All Means Neccessary -- mainly because it rarely goes on sale at the CD store). KRS' shit was tight on the album because he was trying to reclaim his props, plus production from DJ Premier back when he probably cost a lot cheaper to do a track helped out too. People ask why Kris doesn't do more shit with Preem these days, but the reason is the KRS-One albums don't have the budget they used to. Those wasn't the only new shit I got over break, but that was the most memorable of all of them.

SHIT I'M SWOLL I LEFT IN JERSEY:

• Disc 2 of Wu-Tang Forever. I never understood why people hated on this double CD like it had mad filler! The second disc was so fucking tight! Need proof, peep tracks 7 through 13. "Bells of War", "Duck Seazon", and "Hellz Wind Staff" are as good as the '93-'96 glory days.

• Ghostface Killah, Supreme Clientele. I dunno where the fuck it is, but I went to play it yesterday and the case is here but the CD isn't.

• Del, I Wish My Brother George Was Here. Lil' Head stoles this from me when he visited my school and still hasn't given it fucking back! I want that album, it was tight. And more importantly, I paid for it!

• Xzibit, 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz. This is why you should never lend out CD's. Fuckin' lent this shit to this kid like 3 years ago and he recently was like "yo, I got that shit still, I'll give it back." I forgot to get it, but if he thinks I'm gonna forget about "Three Card Molly" all fucking summer than he's "wylin' hard."

• Smooth The Hustler, Once Upon A Time In America. Cuz I wanna hear fuckin' "Broken Language" right now!

   

  Don't Sleep On Mega

  Yo, you know who is under rated as shit? Fuckin' Cormega! Cormega's mad nice! He's nicer than mad Queensbridge emcees and never gets the love, never gets the press. Cormega's fuckin' sick. I was listening to my brother's The True Meaningtoday and that nigga's got some sick-ass rhymes! Man, he's mad nice! Check "What's The Meaning" for proof, that shit is straight up raw street music you know! Mad under rated shit....I don't got much more to say about that, but I was feeling that shit a lot right now!