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Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III (Cash Money, 2008)
You guys know I wouldn't interrupt my weekend for some shit like this. This review was written by Akuma. I got fucked the fuck up yesterday and didn't realize this shit leaked until just now. Word on the plantation is that mixtape DJs did it, because they were pissed at something Weezy said in some interview. Roffle.
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You guys remember Dice Raw, right? He dropped one good verse, way the fuck back on The Roots' first major label album, Do You Want More?, and he hasn't done anything worthwhile since.
I'm not sure what he's been up to in the interim, but my guess is that he might be hooked on PCP, like Malik B, going around wearing fur coats in 90 degree weather, pulling out guns on people and what have you.
Well, just now, my boy Akuma hit me up to inform me that this crazy son of a bitch has been making death threats against me on record. On a mixtape called the Money Making Jam Boys (no, really) that he put out with Truck North, one of the guys who fucked up the new Roots album, he talks about sending a couple of thugs to my residence - presumably not to mow my lawn, though it could use it.
Here's the exact quote, near as I could make out:
Niggas wanna play till I show 'em who the boss is. Send a couple thugs down to Byron Crawford's residence. Leave no evidence, criminal intelligence. Life loss without no wevalence(?). Raw like black get, pure excellence, nigga!
That one line, I'm not sure what the fuck he's talking about. Dice Raw sometimes has a hard time enunciating, because he was born with a few physical deformities. The best parts of him obviously ran down his mother's leg.
Besides that, I'd say it's a testament to the extent to which no one gives a shit about Dice Raw that this shit has been available for free on the Internets since the beginning of the year, and I'm just now hearing about it. I consulted the Google just now, and I couldn't find anything on it.
Checkit: Dice Raw & Truck North - Battlefield (feat. Nikki Jean) [zShare]
Today over at XXL, I weighed in on the mysterious fire that burned down Fiddy Cent's house on Long Island - the one he's been trying to have his baby's mother kicked out of for a minute now.
She had taken him to court earlier this year to have her child support increased from an already ridonkulous sum he had been paying her, probably because she heard he'd made $400 million from Vitamin Water. Not only did she not get that, but he got the amount he was paying reduced to an amount that's not reasonable per se, but is way less than a lot of these dudes are paying.
Diddy, for example, is getting effed in the a by comparison.
From what I understand, as part of the agreement, it was determined that she was gonna have to start paying him rent, at what I'm assuming is roughly the market rate for a house like that (i.e. a shiteload of money each month, and a nice chunk of the money he was paying her in child support in the first place), or she was gonna have to find another place to live.
And I guess she figured she could get away with just not doing either. So a few weeks ago, they went to court again, where it was decided that her ass needed to be out of his house by May 1st. Obviously she wasn't, if she was in there just now, when the shit caught fire.
Hmm...
Checkit: Who burned down Fiddy Cent's house?
And after the jump is a video tribute I put together for 50 Cent's son. Hang in there, little buddy!
We might need to get our behavior together between now and November.
Today, over at Unkut, you can vote for the biggest douchebag in hipster rap. Your choices include the Cool Kids, Kanye West, Kid Sister, M.I.A., Lil' Mama, Lupe Fiasco, Kidz in the Hall, N*E*R*D, and all of the above.
Out of that list, I'm not really sure who I'd roll with. If there had been an option for Santogold, I would've gone with Santogold. All of the above is a tempting option, but it seems like a bit of a cop-out.
Kanye West is easily the biggest douchebag on the list, but at least there's a market case to be made for his recording career. Some of these other people? Not so much. For example, I read just now that the Cool Kids' Bake Sale EP only sold 4,300 copies its first week out. If that's the extent of their popularity, why are we always hearing about the Cool Kids? I'm not convinced that I couldn't put out an album and sell more copies than that. Shit, I'm famous on the Internets. Where's my feature in Spin magazine?
Kid Sister would be another tempting option, just because - why lie - I'm a bit of a sexist. It's hard to make a case to me that there needs to be any female rappers in general, unless their lyrics are ghostwritten by the Notorious B.I.G. and they all have to do with sucking a guy's dick for some money. But that Kid Sister record actually kinda cranks, in a Nu Shooz "I Can't Wait" sort of way. ('90s babies, step your game up.)
So if I had to pick just one, based on the criteria of utter douchebaggery and sheer lack of talent, I'd probably roll with M.I.A.
Checkit: The Search For The Biggest Douchebag In Hipster Rap [Unkut]
And elsewhere, I see one of the guys from Oh Word has launched another one of their racially confused, boom bap dinosaur missives - this time against, you guessed it, hipster rap. In particular, it takes issue with Tom Breihan's review of the Cool Kids record for Pitchfork and his suggestion that the term hispster rap is meaningless.
Checkit: It takes a Nation of Haircuts to Hold Us Back [Oh Word]
To date, no one's written a really good story about all of the various times R. Kelly's been accused of having sex with underage girls and pissing on them and what have you. If someone wanted to pay me a shitload of money, I'd write one myself. But you know white people's stance on paying me a shitload of money.
The guy who writes the blog Hitsville went and compiled - from reports from reputable publications like the Chicago Sun-Times and Tribune - a list of facts re: legal issues Arruh has had due to his penchant for young trim. All told, he's been accused of having sex with 11 different, erm, minors. And that's not even counting all of the ones he hit who have never come forward. (Because the were pros, natch.)
To save you the hassle of reading the entire thing, though my guess is that some of you might want to, I've gone and put together a list of the ones I found most interesting.
The piss scene in the video:
In the tape, the singer called her by her first name; she called him “Daddy.” [...] Besides a variety of sex acts, the girl urinates on the floor at “Daddy’s” direction. “Daddy” then urinates into her mouth.
The time he married Aaliyah:
In 1994, Kelly married a 15-year old girl. Married! Her name was Aaliyah Haughton; she was a singer and a protege of Kelly’s with whom, associates have said, he was having an affair. Without telling her what was going on, Kelly arranged an impromptu wedding at a suburban Chicago hotel and then swept her toward a plane. Fortunately, the girl called her parents. They came and got her and, articles have said, the pair never saw each other again.
The time Arruh dodged a bullet:
In 1998, Kelly picked up a 16-year-old girl at the so-called “Rock ‘n’ Roll McDonalds” in Chicago, just north of the Loop. They had an affair that lasted until she told him she was pregnant, GQ reported; one of Kelly’s associates drove her to the abortion clinic.
That's wrong how he did his mother:
According to GQ, Kelly is estranged from his siblings and didn’t take care of his mother, who drove a beat-up car and could not pay her medical bills. After she died of cancer in 1997, Kelly declared that he had “found the lord”!
Arruh's personal hygiene issues:
GQ also reported that Kelly’s personal hygiene left a lot to be desired; he could wear the same clothes for a week, the story said. Said one of his former assistants: “I could never understand the women. I’d be like, ‘How could you be with him when he stink like that?’”
Could it have been the money? I'm just saying.
Checkit: R. Kelly SexFacts™ Complete—The Director’s Cut! [Hitsville]
Weezer, Weezer (The Red Album) (Geffen, 2008)
If you're an older brother such as myself, Weezer hardly need any introduction. The Blue Album is arguably top 10 all time, regardless of genre. Hardly anything else they've done can even be categorized as "good," but damn it if I'm not still holding out hope.
Any guesses as to what this new Kanye West video might be about?
It just sort of appeared on the Internets this weekend. Supposedly, this was the first version of "Flashing Lights" (of three total), but then they went and shot the second one because they figured this wouldn't play on MTV. I'm not sure what's the deal with the third one, or if there even is a third one.
But that could all be bullshit. I just read that on some d-bag's blog.
In this second clip, a smokin' hot white chick (i.e. Kanye's thing these days), rolls off the bed at the ass crack of 2:30 in the afternoon, as I've been known to do. Then she tries on a bunch of different outfits, which is a good opportunity to check her out in her underwear.
Later, she heads out to a party, where she gets her drink on. Then, as she's stumbling home, it looks like she might have gotten violently raped in an alley. But it's hard to tell exactly what happens. Hopefully, I'm not just projecting my own personal issues onto this.
Check it out for yourself after the jump and tell me I'm not the one that's the pervy misogynist here.
In my post the other day on "Lesson C," Mic Terror's Arab-bashing response to this guy Mazzi, who had tried to boost his own career by dissing hipster rappers like the Cool Kids and Jay Electronica, I joked that Mazzi might try to retaliate by blowing up somebody's house.
I suppose I should have known that might actually be a possibility.
In the intro to "Class Dismissed," Mazzi's response to "Lesson C," he actually gets Mic Terror on the phone and suggests he can show up to Mic Terror's house, if need be. To which Mic Terror's response is like, "Whoa, hold on a sec, bro! I was just having some fun on the Internets."
After all, it's fun to do bad things.
If that really was Mic Terror on the phone, he kinda played himself admitting he was just fucking around on the Internets. (Literary tip for today's youth: Always pretend there's some sort of greater purpose.) But for what it's worth, he might have been genuinely afraid Mazzi was about to try some shit.
If I was Mic Terror, I might even submit this recording to Homeland Security - not that this necessarily constitutes an actionable threat, but just to get it on the record, in case some shit actually does pop off.
If 9/11 taught us one thing, it's that you never can be too safe.
Checkit: Mazzi - Class Dismissed [Sharebee via Nah Right]
And after the jump is the video for "Lesson C," which I don't think I posted here before.
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According to Last Week's Poll
Proud black man that I am, you fruits know it's not my m.o. to work unless I absolutely have to. But I figured I might as well get this shit out of the way, so I won't have to deal with it tomorrow, and so people in foreign countries (they don't have Memorial Day in foreign countries, do they?) can have something to do today.
Periodically, I've been running these polls where I list several recent rap albums and let you - the customer - decide which is best. Since I don't even listen to that much rap music, I figured I might as well also run a similar poll, with non-rap albums.
So that's what this was. Here are the results.
Best new non-rap album?
Again, you'll have to forgive the fact that the percentages don't seem to make sense. I'm not sure exactly how they work, and I might need five more years in college before I can figure it out. And I just plain can't afford that.
As far as the results... well, it'd be easy to explain these away as '90s nostalgia like I did last week's rap poll, which the Roots won. But I heard the new Portishead is actually good. I haven't had a chance to check it out myself. I think I did listen to it once, but the one I had was that weird, unmastered version.
Out of the rest of the list, of which I've heard pretty much all of it, I ended up rolling with the new Death Cab, the new My Morning Jacket, and Islands.
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This week's poll, which I just put up a couple of hours ago, has to do with the Kennedy family, which has been in the news a lot lately, what with Teddy having that brain tumor and Hillary Clinton suggesting Barack Obama might be the next Bobby Kennedy.
I should note - because my guess is that some of you are prone to confusion - that this week's poll is a return to old school, American-style voting, where you can only pick one. I know it might be difficult, given how many important people there are in the Kennedy family, but you're just gonna have to man up.
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