Hola Africans,
This is an open letter to you muthafuckas that have taken it upon yourselves to diss Kevin Federline on his little rap performance the other day. I've heard people from XXL Magazine and other "hip hop publications" come out to deride Mr. Britney Spears on his skills or lack thereof. You muthafuckas need to quit.
First off, aren't you the Africans that have embraced the word "hater", the word which instantly nullifies all criticism of any self expression. If some shit is wack and I say so, I'm a hater.
Confession: I've never liked Tupac. Never a fan. Not even a little. I thought his flow was pedestrian. I thought that cat spent a lot of time wallowing in self pity and packaging that shit to the disillusioned masses, making my peers half assed introspectionists. Made records glorifying dying a violent death as "goin' out like a soldier". How many times have I been called a hater for having a dissenting opinion on that dude?
That "hater" shit helped create a mid 90's full of CD covers with "iced out" photoshopped titles. If you dissed it, you were against a Black man making money. So I got illiterate MCs, Africans dancing in shiny suits, and tone deaf muthafuckas makin' Casio beats. Where the fuck was the hip hop cavalry during the 90's? The foundation for K-Fed to THINK he could grab the mic was laid from 1994 to the Present.
Second, this muthafucka will have you bumpin' his shit tonight if he pays T.I., Chamillionaire, Bun B., and Dem (Gotdamn) Franchise Boyz to be on the remix produced by Jazze Pha. And he can make up a new dance. I mean, shit, he's a dancer. 'Cuz it ain't gotta be good, it's just gotta be popular. The hip hop intellectual community is bankrupt. You have embraced bullshit for too long. And now you wanna be elitist? Once again I ask you, where the fuck were you in the 90's?
Third, and certainly not least, you muthafuckas can't begrudge him making a little loot off his fame, right? Where was the public outcry when Roy Jones, Jr. dropped? Oh, you were scared to get punched in the mouth? OK. Gotdamn Puffy makes records all the fuckin' time. He can't rap either. Neither can Tony Yayo. Fuck, neither can Trina. Once again, where is the fuckin' outcry? Don't try to make this shit about integrity, because there is none. You like what you hear repetitively, period.
This is an open letter to you muthafuckas that have taken it upon yourselves to diss Kevin Federline on his little rap performance the other day. I've heard people from XXL Magazine and other "hip hop publications" come out to deride Mr. Britney Spears on his skills or lack thereof. You muthafuckas need to quit.
First off, aren't you the Africans that have embraced the word "hater", the word which instantly nullifies all criticism of any self expression. If some shit is wack and I say so, I'm a hater.
Confession: I've never liked Tupac. Never a fan. Not even a little. I thought his flow was pedestrian. I thought that cat spent a lot of time wallowing in self pity and packaging that shit to the disillusioned masses, making my peers half assed introspectionists. Made records glorifying dying a violent death as "goin' out like a soldier". How many times have I been called a hater for having a dissenting opinion on that dude?
That "hater" shit helped create a mid 90's full of CD covers with "iced out" photoshopped titles. If you dissed it, you were against a Black man making money. So I got illiterate MCs, Africans dancing in shiny suits, and tone deaf muthafuckas makin' Casio beats. Where the fuck was the hip hop cavalry during the 90's? The foundation for K-Fed to THINK he could grab the mic was laid from 1994 to the Present.
Second, this muthafucka will have you bumpin' his shit tonight if he pays T.I., Chamillionaire, Bun B., and Dem (Gotdamn) Franchise Boyz to be on the remix produced by Jazze Pha. And he can make up a new dance. I mean, shit, he's a dancer. 'Cuz it ain't gotta be good, it's just gotta be popular. The hip hop intellectual community is bankrupt. You have embraced bullshit for too long. And now you wanna be elitist? Once again I ask you, where the fuck were you in the 90's?
Third, and certainly not least, you muthafuckas can't begrudge him making a little loot off his fame, right? Where was the public outcry when Roy Jones, Jr. dropped? Oh, you were scared to get punched in the mouth? OK. Gotdamn Puffy makes records all the fuckin' time. He can't rap either. Neither can Tony Yayo. Fuck, neither can Trina. Once again, where is the fuckin' outcry? Don't try to make this shit about integrity, because there is none. You like what you hear repetitively, period.
Now go back to reviewing that next hot Lil' Wayne record.
Bitches.
KZ
39 comments:
LMAO. And I have never really liked Tupac either. I don't own a single album. But since he's dead and his fans can get a bit emotional, I usually keep it to myself. Especially around a cousin of mine who had his body tatooed exactly like Tupac's.
AMEN! AMEN! Thank you, Zed, for putting it out there. In 100% agreement. Hip-Hop, oh Hip-Hop, where art thou?
well i really liked tupac but that may have been cuz he lived near my sister and his parents were friends with my parents long before he was a rapper..
so i'll let that slide.
and i like lil wayne. i feel like i shouldn't, but i actually do.
then again i'm not hip hop head!
Preach Zed. But K-Fed rapping was still wack as hell. It was like a cross between Vanilla Ice and ...well, Vanilla Ice. LOL
I am not a Tupac fan either.
Where was I in the 90's? Discovering hip hop like Tribe, pharcyde and the roots 'em. Now I don't even listen to hip hop unless it's playing in the club cause unfortunately that's all today's supposed hip hop is good for, shaking that ass.
If you can check out Sain Supa Crew.
K-fed should stick to being Mrs. Spears. He has no skills. I don't care if that makes me hater then so be it.
You seem a little angry. I agree that the quality of good artist now is slim. Oh I wish for the good ol' days of hip hop.
OK OK OK you are right! There I said it...but hell I gotta admit, that Lil Wayne feat. Robin Thicke joint (Shooter) is HOT!!! and I don't give a dayum what nobody says LMAO!!!
Put you hands up...your hands up...you got to put your hands up *wink*
Where was the calvary when the south invaded rap - most of that shhht was/is horrible! and this Chicken Noodle Soup shhht that's getting played now with the dumb ass sambo dance - uuurrrggg!
The "haters" got at K-Fool cuz he's white and married to Trashy Spears. You're right they will be blasty his shht as soon as the remix comes out.
Well someboedy out there likes his lily ass.......
white kids buy rap albums, black kids bootleg 'em:-)
that alone can make anyone a star!
I expect your ass to be first in line...matter of fact, camping out in front of the record store the night before his release in October.
...and blast that shit loud as possible when your driving down the streets of Detroit...with a "Betty"... :-)
Riveting.
Damn Zed, TELL US WHY YOU MAD SON?? LOL
The music industry is just that: an Industry. It is meant to make money. Talent ain't got much to do with it! I mean we all know of some very talented people out here who will never get published or played. I think this industry devours talent. It's just the nature of the beast...
Thats right nucca..A true hip head..Tupac was waaay overrated. The only single I liked was I get around and thats because Shock G was ryhming on it...
As for the 90's. Zed you must mean the late 90's because Hip Hop was at its best from 91-95 Blackmoon, Lords of the underground, Kmd, Lord finesse,Gangstarr, Diamond D, Showbiz and Ag, Tribe called Quest, Black Sheep, Brand Nubians, Pete Rock and Cl Smooth...All came up in the early 90's...
I agree with you 100 percent about these non rappin Africans making all that money...If they can why can't K-Fed..
K FED? I aint coming to his defense. But I don't think its the end of the world. I mean we listening to D4L down here in ATL, and they don't necessarily have any skills either...
I don't like Tupac either. I even put that on my list of 101 things about me.I am always called a hater as well, but its not that. I just think he is redundant and overrated.
okay i don't want people to get comfortable talking shit about tupac okay?!
easy on the Tupac ya'll i don't think we should just be disrespecting the dead like this..but if we wanna talk about keeping it gangsta, i would say that someone with a crack head for a mamma and a daddy in jail who might get a point or two...
yeah, fools like the fag over @XXL didn't even see the performance and he dissed it. The nerve of THIS fool. As much bufoonery as he promotes.
Elliot Wilson, editor in chief of XXL magazine, hadn’t seen Federline’s TV debut. Still, he called it a “YouTube disaster” — something to be laughed off in hip-hop circles. “I just think we ignore him,” Wilson told The Associated Press on Monday. “He’s a joke, basically. ... I just don’t think he gets it. He doesn’t get that he’s Britney’s man and it’s hard to take him seriously.”
@All y'all
Meetings are killing my response time!!!!
@Afrochelle
I got a friend who's a tremendous 'Pac fan. When I diss him, that is seriously almost a fistfight. I gotta admit, 'Pac fans are loyal.
@BZ
We have a lot of defenders coming out on an unpopular target. I just want these cowards, these hip hop journalists to call it like they see it, everytime.
@Miss Ahmad
Heyyyyyy baby! Whatchu wearin'?
Lil' Wayne is not a bad MC. His ghostwriter is a muthafucka.
@69
I actually didn't watch the video of K-Fed's performance. But I doubt it was more wack than "Southern Chanted Chorus Dancing Hat Wearing MC Group #58" or whoever else they play on the radio.
@Honest
Sain Supa Crew? I'll check them out as soon as I can. You gotta check out Little Brother, OK?
@Miz JJ
I'm pretty sure you're missing my point on this one. I'm saying the "hip hop community" has lost the moral authority to call ANYTHING wack. They have embraced so much bullshit, why start dissin' now? 'Cuz his wife is rich? This is the same hip hop community that is producing tracks for and hanging out with Paris Hilton. They need to get the fuck outta here.
@Phoenix
I don't think it's anger, so much as it's misplaced horniness.
@RD
Like I said, Lil' Wayne is that muthafucka! His ghostwriter is a maniac! He came from the Kasio Keyboard Krew aka Cash Money, one of the worst fuckin' collectives of hip hop garbage ever thrust upon the public.
@OSB
Thank you OS, thank you. Wait for the remix. You know he can afford to get anybody to rhyme on his record with him. These muthafuckas have no integrity. A check is a check. He'll manufacture a hit record.
@IllNana
Yep. Shar Jackson's black ass.
@Miss Ahmad
How come there aren't more white rap superstars?
@Mack
Fuck hiatus!!! Thanks for coming by. You listed a gang of real emcees. Everytime I see 'Pac listed as one of the Top Ten MCs of all time, the list loses all credibility.
@Blah
If I buy K-Fed's album, should I be more ashamed than an African that buys Dem Franchise Boyz? Just wondering.
@OneFrom
I got mad two days ago. I just decided to post this shit after thinking about it again. Go to your average editor of a hip hop magazine. Ask him what he thinks about WHOEVER. He'll hem and haw all day, 'cuz if he disses him, he'll lose ad revenue from that muthafuckas label. He has to sell ads, so he'll shut the fuck up. Hip hop intellectuals, beholden to this rotten system have no credibility. Period.
@Slish
The shit was coming throughout the 90's. It got bad in 1995 and worst throughout the rest of the decade.
Take the beat away from "Disco Inferno" by 50. That song is lyrically bankrupt. Muthafuckas be coastin' and don't get called on it. I hate that shit!
I wanna be a writer because I love writing. I write the same whether 1 muthafucka or 5000 muthafuckas read it. That's love.
Hip hop is these African's mother. They got their mother on the street turnin' tricks!
@Cas
K-Fed is definitely not the worst thing that happened to rap. I just wanna know why all the frank and forthright commentary from hip hop journalists? K-Fed is just some bad rapper with a CD. It's horrible cats with muthafuckin' careers and shit!
Thanks for that Tupac assessment. I get dragged over the coals for my opinion constantly. If you agree, knowing we have similar taste in hip hop, I know I'm not just on some bullshit.
@Miss Ahmad
We love Pac. And the fact that the vault is nearly empty.
@Khalil
I think Big is overrated to an extent myself. I do think he was soooo much better than Pac it's not even funny.
I know K-Fed sucked, but we gotta call 'em all out, not just this guy. I mean, Chingy is on his THIRD album. WTF?
@Miss Ahmad
I don't wanna dwell on the Pac aspect too much. He came from a very difficult background. That being said, if that shit gives you skills, watch out for this little muthafucka I know on the Eastside of Detroit.
@L and TV
That's what the fuck I'm talking about! That muthafucka is the main perpetrator of the bullshit.
KZ
"K-Fed": ROFLMAO
A "You Tube Distaster" is also funny as shit!
And people want to talk so badly about Vanilla Ice, but I remember Africans being out on the dance floor when that "din din din da da din din" of "Ice, Ice, Baby" would start playing. AND Africans knew all the words. I bet if I said, "STOP," you would automatically chime in, "collaborate and LISTEN!" Flashback to black spandex and high tops fades, like a MUG.
LMBLAO.
*My* favorite rapper of all time? Biggie!!
But I am no authority on hip hop, that's for sure - I just know what I like. :)
My Man This is on point and totally true...I was telling a co-worker some similar shit..no one can fault that man's hustle... WTF was "Laffy Taffy" that shit got on my Gotdamn nerves..."Shoulda Lean" WTF is that about.. K-Fed probably knows he's garbage especially if he's comparing himself to this "new" shit that's out. I'm out.. I got a headache.
WOW! That was deep.
Honestly, I could care less about what K.Fed does or Paris Hilton, for that matter. I won't buy it, but that doesn't stop them from doing whatever they want to do.
What's crazy is that all this music is garbage, but we pick and choose who call out on it.
All I could think about was the Chicken Noodle Soup dance when you mentioned dumb ass dances.
A lot of those rappers get more praise than the average rapper because they left at the height of their careers. Biggie, Pac, Slick Rick, etc. IMO Slick Rick was overrated. But he went to jail while he was still popular, so that's probably why. That's showmanship right there. Going out on a high note.
If Ja Rule died in 2001/2002 (or whenever he was popular) people would be calling him a legend. But now he's a joke.
i just watched k feds whole performance and i may represent the anti christ of rap here but i'm kinda sweet on the guy, i think he's rather awesome!
PAH-REEECH IT
ZED
PAH-REECH IT!!!!!
Like Roy Jones said, "Y'all must've forgot!!"
What in God's green earff can I say that nobody else said...
I love TuPac.
N. American's buy bullshit.
N. American's listen to bullshit.
N. American's watch bullshit.
Why are we surprised? Do ya'w live overseas or sumffuin?
First of all let me say that your new "about me" is fricken HILARIOUS!!!
O.K. on to the post-
I FUGGEN' FEEL YOU!!
I am NOT ashamed to say that I don't own ANY
"hip-hop" records. FCUK<----- (hahaha)
TUPAC, 50, ALL THESE NEW MO-FO'S
(who's names I don't even care to know)
AND K "BRITNEY" SPEARS.
Hell- since we are on the subject of music...
It's ALL gone to hell in a handbasket!
EVEN R&B. Where has REAL music gone?
@Monica
I was at the gym yesterday and they were piping in music. There was a noticeable bounce when Ice Ice Baby came on. That'll be K-Fed's shit in 10 years.
@1 In
If he's putting his shit up against the shit they call hip hop now, how is it garbage?
@Dynasty
That's the thing, the pick and choose shit. You wanna hate on K-Fed 'cuz his woman got loot, but what about J D who's ol' man was a record exec when he got put on? I'm not saying the skill level is the same, but damn. Be consistent.
@Questie
My taste is so far underground now it's not funny. I don't know what's on the radio and people don't know who the fuck it is I'm listening to that sounds so dope. Great hip hop is still being made, we just have to look for it.
www.sandboxautomatic.com
@Khalil
That's what I'm sayin'. Biggie was overrated somewhat, but he had massive skills. That muthafucka could MC!!!
@L and TV
Not Slick Rick!!! I luv Rick Da Ruler! But you have a point. Death and unavailability make an MC much more coveted and lionized. I shoulda shot Posdnous in the head back in '91.
@Miss Ahmad
I think you're trying to piss me off, aren't you?
@CC
As my ex-girlfriend used to say, you have shoved that shit down my throat for the last time!!!
@DL
I understand why I people love Tupac. It's the same reason I'm still fond of my first love. The skills were mediocre, but the feelings she gave me were unmistakeable.
We can't force good taste upon the masses. They'll fuckin' revolt.
@SD
I think you're the only one that has read that "About Me".
R&B might be getting the worst of this shit. The singing over "beats" hybrid shit is outta control. You can unapologetically be an R&B singer. You don't have to wear hip hop outfits and swagger around. That's that ol' bullshit right there.
@Ironmunki
Do you know how many people I piss off by pumpin' Doom in my car? I got friends that claim I don't listen to shit made after '96. They almost have a point.
These cats like Yung Joc, these catchphrase MCs, these Hook Chanters, these I was just sellin' crack this morning muthafuckas, I hate this Africans with a passion!
KZ
there's not much for me to add to this conversation. about 90% of music is shitty these days. that's why i listen to my ipod. 14 gigs of shit i like. i can't tell you what's on the radio.
word.
I'd need a sedative to listen to ANYTHING Roy Jones recorded. He sounds like he got socks in his mouth.
On the one hand I applaud non-rapper businessmen (like 50) for getting paid out the a$$. The early rappers never had the opportunity to make a quarter of the money 50, Juvie, Trina or YingYang will make. Gawd Bless Em! This is America. So by all means,
Make.That.Money.
And I have to say I am glad/surprised/astonished that such a direct artform has lasted so long, through the elimination of vinyl records to the current Federal crackdown on the sale of mixed CDs in Harlem...
But being from the Bronx and witnessing the birth of HipHop, I am sick to my stomach with what we are forced to listen to on commercial radio and TV due to the racist, mysogynous programming departments.
Thank God for internet and college radio, MySpace and all the independent labels/artists out there...one brother mentioned his Ipod. Because of all this technology, you can censor yourself and listen to music that speaks to your soul.
And one last thing:
Those of us who know better have to SUPPORT OUR ARTISTS. Mainstream will never understand LilBrother or Common and we cant expect them to. But its up to us to make sure that the conscious/ talented/ skilled artists continue to eat. So stop buying bootleg! Go to a concert every now and then. Buy music as gifts. Get the T Shirt! Do something to support!
((leaving soapbox))
more blog please ZED~
@Tony
How do mainstream artists approach creativity? They find new ways to reference crack sales and new ways to degrade women. Creativity is for suckas.
@Aqua
That's what I'm saying. In addition to my little off brand ass MP3 player, I'm into my fuckin' CD changer (which broke on Monday!!!). The radio is just for weather and traffic.
@Stilts
Damn, give him a break, Stiltsie! He gets hit in the head for a living!!!
@Chezniki
You've got to write more if you want me to get your point (just kidding!). You damn loquacious ass lawyers! Beautifully articulated.
@Miss Ahmad
I'm blocked. I must be too happy to write.
KZ
((sticking tongue out))
((grinning))
Let's hear it for Bill Cosby IV!!! You speaketh the truth though. Music/hip-hop has been shot to hell. Quality artists are rare, and it seems like they don't get as much attention as the rappers who glorify violence and 'bling bling'.
PS...KFed was featured in XXL not long ago.
Man muthafuckas are on bullshit!!!
Please come to my spot and keep it real....
i like lil weezy...
Man- you were going off!
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