28-Jun-08

mad cow beef

seriously, ICE T is the only one with something to say about soulja boy?! i mean, we've all poo-poo'd this kid for months now, but now this nonsense comes up?

and i thought the kanye/50 thing was contrived. jay-z and nas? this stuff gets progressively worse and worse, watered down to the point that you have to wonder if there's a reality show audience for everything.

how irrelevant can we get, folks? "beef" between ICE-T and SOULJA BOY?!

the one who teaches youth to "superman hos" and the headmaster of the school of rap? having 8 year old jewish kids battle for the golden mic? pshaaaaw.

i wonder what Aaron McGruder has to say about this.
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we're too hard on rappers

or emcees or lyricists or whatever the hip-hopolitically correct term of the moment is.

"9th Wonder is so my boyfriend" 

i said this in the car with my girls the other day.

"that's such a hip hop girl thing to say. Common is my MAN"

was the response from the backseat.

"hmm...let's not get started on Common. you know i have issues with him."

"uh-UH. Common is FINE. and he can dress too!"

chimes in the driver, who, to her credit, was bumpin' the Strange Fruit project (yes, i roll with amazing women all the damn time)

"SHE has issues with him. I have no issue."

about me.

but both of us chime in to say:

"and he can't really dress. he can dress NOW that he's in Kanye's camp and hired a stylist, but he was looking jacked before."

me alone: "too bad he dresses better than he writes these days."

driver: "MOS DEF is my boyfriend."

Common lover: "sometimes you have to let stuff go. we're too hard on them."

me: "that's because we expect our HEROES to adhere to a certain standard"

CL: "but they're not heroes. single moms, community workers, THOSE are heroes, they are just entertainers at the end of the day."

final thought: SEEN. 

hip hop ain't dead, it's just human. so go on and rock your designer handkerchief hijabs, fellas, i ain't mad at 'cha.
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12-Jun-08

here i stand

star track: this ain't sex 

five points:
-all the cameos in the world can't save this album, though i kind of see how you would sell out the Apollo
-nice photo shoot for the cover art, shoulda hired an editor instead, this shit is too long and not in a good way
-you're somebody's husband and daddy now, shouldn't you act like it?
-i can't think of anything else, so the beauty of this being my format is that i'm not finishing it if i can't.

final thought: chris brown did this album better
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all i feel

is sorry for this man. i mean, it's not like he doesn't try hard for attention, cavorting with Superhead, sex tape with Kardashian (who isn't as offensive as Paris Hilton only because she's more attractive), even getting with Whitney for a minute, but i guess this one isn't going to live down Brandy's shadow, though he might be trying to outdo her with the "edgy" angle. whatever.

star tracks: meh. they're all pretty disposable

five points:
-lyrical highlights so bad they jump off the track: "guess i'm polkaroo", "yes, i put it in her mouth", "one is my jump off, the other is my wife", every word in "girl from the bronx"
-he rhymes "bitches" with "bitches", even Mr T (from the Block Party) did better than that- "late" with "great", besides, he's not from Chicago (R. Kelly and Kanye do this shit all the time)
-complete waste of a Styles P cameo-BOO
-can we stop with the voice altering technologies already? sheesh. and the terrible background sounds, the crying, the dialogues
-if you reference the sex tape, and have a sex tape release party, hmmm....

final thought: usher did the infidelity record better
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the declaration

yes, a doubly use-full title. in the interests of brevity and ADD (no, i will not default to the mash-up equivalent to writing, but blogs are kind of that anyways). also, now that i have a full time job and stuffs, i am introducing the 5 point review:

album: the declaration 
artist: ashanti

star track: you're gonna miss (how to be dumped gracefully)

5 points:

-she sure one-upped Mimi on this effort
-good look "emancipating" herself from JaRule
-no track on here that is built on one word, YIPPEE!
-took the rihanna concept ("murderwa") to the next level and actually killed the fool in the video, drama!
-when your mama's your manager, of course you have to do a song about her with diane warren...

 final thought: mediocrity matures to a point where there might be a promising career yet


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