I am writing this article cos i keep readig on the internet about one rapper being real and one being fake...one being hood and the other being soft and ish like that. I really don't understand why a rapper's talent on the mic must be judged by where he comes from, or what he does or cliams to do in his spare time. Everytime i read a comment about
Rick Ross being a correctional officer, and
Young Jeezy being the real hood guy, i get really pissed off. So what if
Rick Ross was a C.O for a year when he was 19 (17 years ago), he is a great rapper now, that's all that matters.
Jeezy had beef with
Rick Ross and was saying all the reckless things about Ross, and talking about street ish and all that.
Rick Ross got on radio and other mediums to challange
Jeezy to any street battle he can bring on, and nothing has happened to
Rick Ross since.
I don't support violence, but if a rapper says he is street, let him go all the way, or shot his mouth and just rap. So they say
Rick Ross never did all the hustling....how do they know that for sure? He got into the rap game at 30, have you thought about what he was doing to keep himself alive all the while after stopping his job as a C.O 10 years before being presented to the hip hop world? 10 whole years!!! So, jeezy was affiliated with the Black Mafia Family in the past, and that's what people are concerned about.
I really don't get people really. They support something one day, and then they say the opposite the next. They say they want realness, but when
50 Cent was waring against
Game and
Jimmy Henchmen, and
Tony Yayo's house got riddled with bullets after he slapped
Jimmy Henchman's son at the mall, they said that's taking it too far. And all this people that support 50 Cent and his so called realness (after living in connecticut for the last 10 years) all because he was the one that leaked the info about
Rick Ross being a C.O forget that that same 50 was beat up by the whole Murder Inc crew from back in the day. And he had to wait till he was rich before he could go at them- which included him taking the stand against Irv Gotti (Murder Inc Co-Founder) & Supreme...and was happy when supreme gto convicted . I wont be surprised if he was one of the sources that helped get
Jimmy Henchmen in jail. The same 50 that got shot 3 times, but made the world believe he was shot 9 times...so who is fake and who's real now?
So what are we talking about? There shouldn't be any half-stepping here. If they are gangstas, they should go all the way, and stop making all the noise in the media. Rappers are just entertainers; none of them go out and gangbang anymore. How can they have time to do that when they are mostly in the boot recording or doing shows? Why should they do that when the money they are making from rapping is more that they can make in the streets?
If rappers want to rap about what they did in the past, it is okay, but no rapper's mic skills should be based on howmuch drugs he sold in the past. People lash out at
Drake all the time for being soft, but he is just expressing himself. You don't expect him to rap about gang banging when he didn't grow up in that type of environmnet. What matters is that he expresses himself the best way he can, and he does a pretty fine job as far as rapping is concerned. I'm a fan of
the Game, but he has let his ego for keeping his street credibility get in the way of his actual rap career, and that's what has made him less relevant in the game right now.
People want to be entertained, so some rappers tell hood stories, add a little drama to their lyrics, but that don't mean it's all true. Eminem's
Slim Shady LP had lyrics on getting high, sex, killing people and drugs...but that doesn't mean that was what he was indulging in at the time. i guess he explained that well on his track,
Stan (from Marshall Marthers LP). You don't have to take everything rappers say seriously...they are entertainers. They are artists.
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I don't think there is any rapper in the game that gets more hate than Rick Ross, but he keeps winning with every move he makes. I guess success breeds enemies. I am not even a big fan of Rick Ross like that, but I see through all these jealous ass niggers going at him with every chance they get. Freeway Rick Ross, who was a legendary drug dealer back in the day is the one Rick Ross the rapper got his name from, and he recently said he once had to stop goons in the hood from taking down Rick Ross. He even said he had to talk Suge Knight out of taking Rick Ross down.
"It's hard," he said when asked how he keeps people from confronting Ross on the streets. "Trust me, these dudes in L.A. don't like what he's done...Even when I lost the lawsuit, three of the shot callers from the hood came to me and said, 'Is it time yet?' I was like, 'Nah, man.' I don't want that. I don't want nobody to do nothing to him. They want to put a no-fly zone on him, saying he can't come to L.A."
Jay Electronica is finally ready to drop his debut album- Act 2: Patents of Nobility. He was in the underground circuite for a long time before he got signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation label. Below is the tracklist of the album. He doesn't have an official release date for the album yet, but it is sure to drop before the end of the year.
Then he had 2 number one albums in the 00s- Stillmatic (2001), and Hip Hop Is Dead also made it to number one when it was released in 2006. Now, in 2012, he bags another number one with his Life Is Good album which dropped last week, and sold 149,000 copies in its first week in stores. Congrats to Nas on his longevity in the music industry.
Nicki Minaj has finally earned herself a Platinum Plaque globally with her second album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. This being its 16th week out, it sold 24,000 copies worldwide, and now stands at a total of 1,017, 000 copies sold globally. Congratulations to her.
Earlier in the year, one half of the legendary rap group, Havoc put up some tweets sayings some not too nice things to Prodigy But news later broke out that Hav's twitter account had been hacked, and that there was no bad blood between the duo. But information from Havoc now is that we were lied to...things are no longer smooth with the Hip Hop legends. Read Havoc's tweets from April before I go on.
Apparently, r&b singer Ciara has a bad habit of stalking boyfriends, past and present. That's the reason she loses them so fast. In fact, 50 Cent had to threaten her with public embarrassment before she could stop stalking him after they broke up. I guess Ciara is one insecure woman. I remember Chelsea Handler (a tv celeb who 50 cent dated for a while) talking about 50 warning her that she might get a nasty call from Ciara while they were dating but that she should ignore it.
I bet people also don’t know that she caught feelings for Chris Brown while he was dating Rihanna. A couple of years ago in a nightclub, she basically stalked him the entire night. Chris started off being really cool about it, although he wasn’t interested, since he was dating Rihanna and Ciara doesn’t look like his type anyway, so he wasn’t willing to creep.
So, those are the rappers i consider the hottest of the last decade. If you have anything against any of the rappers i have listed, or the positions i gave them, i would love to hear from you.
G.O.O.D Music artist, 2 Chainz just released the official tracklist of his debut album, Based on a T.R.U Story, which is scheduled to drop August 14. In case you didn't know, he used to be called tity boi while with his old group, Playez Circle.
Nas debuts on the chat at number one this week with his 10th album, Life Is Good album, which sold 149,000 copies after one week in stores. MMG's Self Made Vol.2 album sold 18,000 copies this week, and now is at a total of 172,000 copies sold so far. Flo Rida's Wild Ones sold 8,400 copies this week, to total at 53,000.
Rick Ross is about to drop his 5th album- 'God Forgives, I Don't'- and I am going attempt to predict what it would sell in its first week out. Although he makes great albums, he has never really been one to debut with big numbers on the chart through out his career. His last album, Teflon Don (2010) sold 176k first week; his first album, Port of Miami (2006) sold 187k first week. He has keep it consistent with first week sales of between 150-190k his whole career.
He just released a compilation/group album (Self Made Vol.2) with the other artists (Wale, Stailley, Meek Mill, and Omarion) signed to his MMG label, and that sold 97k first week. I would say Rick Ross's "God Forgives, I Don't" album would sell between 130-200k first week...plus or minus.
Nicki Minaj sold 25,000 copies globally of her Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded album this week, and is now at a worldwide total of 993,000 copies sold. That is just 7,000 copies from attaining that platinum status globally...good for her.
