Off the 2013 XXL Freshmen mixtape that is out now..
I see you Young Sap. Fire track and dope lyrics by SchoolboyQ...
I see you Young Sap. Fire track and dope lyrics by SchoolboyQ...
Showing posts with label XXL Magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label XXL Magazine. Show all posts
(Words/hip hop) So once again, ya'll are 'disappointed' with the 2012 Freshman Class by XXL....
Color me SURPRISED over here..
I just don't get it. By it I mean, why do you guys hold up hope, year after year, that something that has SO MANY PEOPLE DECIDING ITS FATE, is going to turn out a certain way? Do you LIKE pounding your head against the proverbial brick wall? Is that?
I mean, by ALL ACCOUNTS, YOU ALL HAVE PRETTY MUCH ADMITTED THAT THE MAGAZINE (AND COUNTLESS NUMBERS LIKE IT) ARE NOTHING MORE THAN 'PUPPETS'/'PAWNS' IN A GAME THAT MANY OF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE YOUR FAVORITE ARTISTS PLAY. I see some artists are tweeting that they 'turned them down' too 'cause it was a bad look to be on the list. Yeah..'cause Meek Mill was on the list and...nevermind...
Look, if you want to be underground, then don't be out here in these Twitter streets getting mad 'cause the 'overground' didn't shout you out. That is moronic. Especially when you are out 'discrediting the list' to begin with. Which many an underground rapper tends to do. Not ALL...many. If your words/feelings for XXL are coming from a place where you feel as though YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THAT LIST, the BEST REMEDY FOR THAT IS...
Make music that forces them to pay attention to you and in turn, makes them come to you. That's it.
I just don't get it. By it I mean, why do you guys hold up hope, year after year, that something that has SO MANY PEOPLE DECIDING ITS FATE, is going to turn out a certain way? Do you LIKE pounding your head against the proverbial brick wall? Is that?
I mean, by ALL ACCOUNTS, YOU ALL HAVE PRETTY MUCH ADMITTED THAT THE MAGAZINE (AND COUNTLESS NUMBERS LIKE IT) ARE NOTHING MORE THAN 'PUPPETS'/'PAWNS' IN A GAME THAT MANY OF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE YOUR FAVORITE ARTISTS PLAY. I see some artists are tweeting that they 'turned them down' too 'cause it was a bad look to be on the list. Yeah..'cause Meek Mill was on the list and...nevermind...
Look, if you want to be underground, then don't be out here in these Twitter streets getting mad 'cause the 'overground' didn't shout you out. That is moronic. Especially when you are out 'discrediting the list' to begin with. Which many an underground rapper tends to do. Not ALL...many. If your words/feelings for XXL are coming from a place where you feel as though YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THAT LIST, the BEST REMEDY FOR THAT IS...
Make music that forces them to pay attention to you and in turn, makes them come to you. That's it.
@imatotalpackage aka Emmaly Lugo: XXL EYE CANDY OF THE YEAR CONTEST | The Total Package
XXL EYE CANDY OF THE YEAR CONTEST | The Total Package
Well it looks like Emmaly is having a CONTEST OF HER OWN. A contest within a contest? That is open to EVERYONE? Word? What a great idea.
So just what do you win if you enter the contest? Keep reading...Per her blog:
DEAR FANS,SUPPORTERS,FAMILY & INDUSTRY PEERS
MY GIFT TO ALL OF YOU IS :A FAN APPRECIATION VIDEO MADE THAT I MIGHT DO IN LINGERIE WIFE BEATER & BOY SHORTS OR BIKINI (WHICHEVER GETS THE MOST VOTES)
THE PRIZES TO BE WON ARE:
1) 10 OR MORE LUCKY PEOPLE WILL WIN AN EXCLUSIVE SIGNED POSTER FROM ME.
2) THE GRAND PRIZE IS A 15 MINUTE SKYPE DATE WITH 1 LUCKY PERSON! THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF MY BIGGEST SUPPORTERS!
SO YOUR WONDERING HOW DO YOU ENTER?
STEP 1) I WOULD LIKE U TO SHOW ME ON A QUICK VIDEO WHO U ARE(NAME WHERE U FROM) & THAT YOU CASTED YOUR VOTE.
STEP 2) UPLOAD IT TO YOUTUBE WITH YOUR REAL NAME/USER TITLE I VOTED EMMALY LUGO XXL EYECANDY OF THE YEAR
STEP 3) EMAIL YOUR NAME,AGE,LOCATION & LINK TO YOUR VIDEO TO EMMALYLUGOXXLEYECANDY@GMAIL.COM
So all of you who come here (or anywhere else) to see Emmaly's pictures need look into this opportunity. . Be creative and you won't come off like you are gonna be on the next episode of The Thirst 48 and she JUST MIGHT PICK YOU.
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*Hell, I might even enter...I have my OWN IDEAS OF HOW THE SKYPE DATE could be used. Probably on some TOTALLY DIFFERENT TIME than the rest of you but I will hold that close to my vest. It could STILL BE A WIN/WIN if you know what I mean?
So @XXL_Magazine gave @phontigallo's "Charity Starts At Home" album its rating/review? Bet...
I don't have to explain the review....Read it. DJ Flash (J-League representer) has a Best of Phonte mixtape coming next week by the way. @ those of you who aren't well versed as you should be on Phonte Coleman and his place in hip hop or MUSIC in general.
I know a lot of folks who are HUGE Elzhi fans...Elmatic .......@Elzhi w/ @WillSessions
If you aren't a fan or have NO CLUE WHO HE IS, you should check him out. I won't do you like most of my 'friends' on the Net love to do and insult you for not knowing. Just get familiar.
@MikeJaggerr.....XXLmag.com....video...Show & Prove/Rhyme Time...background info...video...
I am going to this in REVERSE order this time. Normally, whatever order I put the post up in, I take that order but this first part is VERY IMPORTANT. I suspect that there will be questions after some 'listen' to the interview. Questions that might be valid. So....lets do a lil historical recap on the MC formerly known as Miraculous and now known as MIKE JAGGERR.
Oh and before ya'll bring out the 'expose' word, these are facts that Mike DOES acknowledge so I am not 'exposing' anything really. I am educating. There is a difference. Some of you need to learn it. How do I know Mike acknowledges it? I am imagining that the stuff I receive in regards to Mike from the good folks that handle him that includes these tidbits of info WOULDN'T BE INCLUDED if there wasn't acknowledgment. So yeah...that's how I know...
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About five years ago a high school kid in Delaware was tenaciously on his pre-Twitter hustle blowing my phone up. He was one of hundreds of producers vying to get into Scratch magazine’s Hydrosonics column. He was making music as part of a program called Bassline Entertainment and was rapping under the name Miraculous. Thankfully, his crew had music good enough to warrant his persistence, so after finally connecting we arranged the interview. In his profile he told our good friend Celia San Miguel about making beats using allergy pills. “I didn’t have a shaker. I had what I had and knew what I wanted it to sound like,” he said in the article. “I was just using what I had at my disposal.”
Enjoy the interview. I have a lot of people* asking me 'Just who the fuck is this kid? Why have I NEVER heard of him here in Delaware? I mean if you are REALLY curious, you will watch the video and FIND OUT FIRSTHAND who is or what he is about.
All your questions should be answered after this twenty plus minute interview...
I see @MeekMill made the XXL Freshman Class cover....Good...He deserved it..
Lil Twist, CyHi Da Prynce, Big K.R.I.T., Meek Mill, Diggy Simmons, Kendrick Lamar, Yelawolf, Fred The Godson, Mac Miller, Lil B, and YG.
Hate 'em or love 'em, I am not 'mad' at this list...
So we have reached that time of year...The 'Top' MCs/rappers/whathaveyou list...
Or 'car wreck' TV for hip hop heads. You see, every year, I sit and watch people bemoan these lists, yet FLOCK TO THE TV TO WATCH THE RESULTS. Year after year, people IGNORE the criteria that said publications, networks and tv shows set up and somehow get upset because they don't use the 'mythical' standards that one should use when judging who is the hottest/best/whatever.
I guess my question is this. Why DO YOU GIVE A FUCK what ANY OF THESE PUBLICATIONS SAY? Don't say you don't. You have something to say every time one of these lists come out. Usually about the panelist or the outlet. Knowing that you already have went on record as saying said outlet isn't 'shit.' Why? lol
It is clear that they don't use your criteria, which by the way most of you waver on depending on the artist in question. Most of you who rail against the lists ALREADY don't like the artist named on the list NOR THE PUBLICATION/OUTLET that is producing it. It is like waiting around for your arch enemy to announce his 'My favorite people' lists then getting appalled that you somehow miraculously didn't make the list. Really? You don't agree with the little bit of music they DO PLAY.@ the TV stations. You don't agree with the vast majority of the artists they DO FEATURE in their magazines, Oh you thought because your favorite MC SomeShit was in their little 'Cypher' that they were going to change? Ha! Oh you thought because your favorite rapper/producer is a guest 'blogger' for their publication, they were going to put them on their Top List? Stop holding your breath.
Now I know for some of you, it is indeed SPORT. Sorta. At least that is your 'defense'. So I won't go too hard on you. I will just wait for you to 'tire' of doing that and realize what we all eventually did when we continued to watch something we secretly (or not so secretly) loathe. Eventually, you will either learn to stop watching, stop bitching or accept that their list is (gasps) their list and you NOR ANYONE ELSE IS TIED TO IT. I mean, it isn't like 'advertising' where you get 'tricked' into thinking someone is hot.(For the record, I don't believe that shit either but...) Either you like the shit or you don't. Either dance to it or you don't. Either download the shit or you don't. That's it. We are all grown. We all control the radio/CD/MP3 player in the car at this point. So you can stop the 'It is all I hear everywhere I go' shit. Please.
No manicures on board? Switch your planes- Hov. @ the 'everywhere you go you 'hear' such and such'. Switch where you go....
Bottom line is this. If you think your current playlist of rappers/MCs/whathaveyou is the hottest, you shouldn't be getting upset/bothered/concerned/or any of that about anyone's list. You have your own mind so it shouldn't be taking stock in their list ANYWAY. Oh you are mad at the fact that the 'impressionable' youth will do that? FOH. We were once the 'impressionable' youth. The cats before us who left rap alone weren't exactly with the 'violence, gun and sex' thing we wanted because (gasp) it would lead us RIGHT TO THE ROAD WE ARE ON NOW. Lets REALLY TALK ABOUT IT. Yes, NWA and 'em got on covers with gats. Sure did. They were also 'reporting' what was going on in the hood. Not catching gun charges. Not 'keeping it real' by making sure that they ACTUALLY COMMITTED THE CRIMES. Which some of you LOUDLY demanded out of your artist. Now you want to complain because the shit has come to pass? FOH. @ the 'trash artists' that are dominating now. You had a hand in that. Don't act like that now. Yes YOU. When you shouted 'Wu Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with' and cosigned those stories in Baltimore, NY and everywhere else they went, hopping on folks. Doing 'what they had to do'. This was during that 'golden era' that we all like to refer to. A group we also refer to as having some of the sharpest swords lyrically. Yeah, lets talk about that....What did you think was going to happen to the youth that were being raised by this violence? What did you THINK THEY WERE GOING TO TEACH THEIR YOUNG BOYS IN RAP? Huh? You already know that the 'impressionable things' are what the kids see first. @ guns, money, drugs. The 'education' part is ignored.
Furthermore, reading is FUNDAMENTAL. Those list consist of more than ONE THING. You guys LOVE TO harp on what is important to YOU and try to downplay the rest. Take 'sales' for instance. You love to downplay that shit. You can't DO THAT. If ten million mofos bought /downloaded a certain artist's music, whether you think their lyrics are shit or not, they are HOT. Someone, not named you and the thirty people you know, LIKES THEM. Sorry. Not saying you need to LIKE THEM EITHER. You are just in denial if you don't think they belong on a 'hottest' list. The point of being 'hot' is that people LIKE YOU. In abundance. Not a handful. In ABUNDANCE. It counts. These list are using a litany of criteria to take the 'opinion' out of it a bit. Hell, I DON'T LISTEN to half of the artists on ANY OF YOUR LISTS. Underground or not. I can respect that it is your list though. Half of the mainstream rappers, who rap about all the pussy they get, how many haters they have and that imaginary 'Nigga Heavyweight Championship of the World Belt' they have and half of these 'so-called' great lyricists you guys worship who rap about skateboards, cartoons, how many cats they have eaten up in a battle and their perceived 'superior grasp of the English language just because they rap don't do shit for me either! I don't shit on your list though. Why? 'Cause those rappers move you in a certain way. That's why. Who am I to tell you what moves you in what way? @ the insulting of some one's list. It is the VERY REASON I DON'T MAKE 'EM thought. If you ASK ME, who I like, I will tell you. I don't act like my list is the end all be all though. Neither do those making the 'public' list either actually. That is 'ya'll' acting like that. You can HAVE YOUR OWN LIST AND IT WILL BE AIGHT. Trust me..lol
Pick up the remote and turn the channel ya'll. You are killing yourself slow...@ watching something that you will never agree with again.
This is discussion kinda leads me into another subject that I want to discuss...MUSIC CRITICS. I have asked what the credentials are for one to be considered one and the like and have been promised some responses. I am awaiting those responses 'cause I want to TALK ABOUT THAT NEXT....I can't wait for that. I have a lot to say about that subject...smh
I guess my question is this. Why DO YOU GIVE A FUCK what ANY OF THESE PUBLICATIONS SAY? Don't say you don't. You have something to say every time one of these lists come out. Usually about the panelist or the outlet. Knowing that you already have went on record as saying said outlet isn't 'shit.' Why? lol
It is clear that they don't use your criteria, which by the way most of you waver on depending on the artist in question. Most of you who rail against the lists ALREADY don't like the artist named on the list NOR THE PUBLICATION/OUTLET that is producing it. It is like waiting around for your arch enemy to announce his 'My favorite people' lists then getting appalled that you somehow miraculously didn't make the list. Really? You don't agree with the little bit of music they DO PLAY.@ the TV stations. You don't agree with the vast majority of the artists they DO FEATURE in their magazines, Oh you thought because your favorite MC SomeShit was in their little 'Cypher' that they were going to change? Ha! Oh you thought because your favorite rapper/producer is a guest 'blogger' for their publication, they were going to put them on their Top List? Stop holding your breath.
Now I know for some of you, it is indeed SPORT. Sorta. At least that is your 'defense'. So I won't go too hard on you. I will just wait for you to 'tire' of doing that and realize what we all eventually did when we continued to watch something we secretly (or not so secretly) loathe. Eventually, you will either learn to stop watching, stop bitching or accept that their list is (gasps) their list and you NOR ANYONE ELSE IS TIED TO IT. I mean, it isn't like 'advertising' where you get 'tricked' into thinking someone is hot.(For the record, I don't believe that shit either but...) Either you like the shit or you don't. Either dance to it or you don't. Either download the shit or you don't. That's it. We are all grown. We all control the radio/CD/MP3 player in the car at this point. So you can stop the 'It is all I hear everywhere I go' shit. Please.
No manicures on board? Switch your planes- Hov. @ the 'everywhere you go you 'hear' such and such'. Switch where you go....
Bottom line is this. If you think your current playlist of rappers/MCs/whathaveyou is the hottest, you shouldn't be getting upset/bothered/concerned/or any of that about anyone's list. You have your own mind so it shouldn't be taking stock in their list ANYWAY. Oh you are mad at the fact that the 'impressionable' youth will do that? FOH. We were once the 'impressionable' youth. The cats before us who left rap alone weren't exactly with the 'violence, gun and sex' thing we wanted because (gasp) it would lead us RIGHT TO THE ROAD WE ARE ON NOW. Lets REALLY TALK ABOUT IT. Yes, NWA and 'em got on covers with gats. Sure did. They were also 'reporting' what was going on in the hood. Not catching gun charges. Not 'keeping it real' by making sure that they ACTUALLY COMMITTED THE CRIMES. Which some of you LOUDLY demanded out of your artist. Now you want to complain because the shit has come to pass? FOH. @ the 'trash artists' that are dominating now. You had a hand in that. Don't act like that now. Yes YOU. When you shouted 'Wu Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with' and cosigned those stories in Baltimore, NY and everywhere else they went, hopping on folks. Doing 'what they had to do'. This was during that 'golden era' that we all like to refer to. A group we also refer to as having some of the sharpest swords lyrically. Yeah, lets talk about that....What did you think was going to happen to the youth that were being raised by this violence? What did you THINK THEY WERE GOING TO TEACH THEIR YOUNG BOYS IN RAP? Huh? You already know that the 'impressionable things' are what the kids see first. @ guns, money, drugs. The 'education' part is ignored.
Furthermore, reading is FUNDAMENTAL. Those list consist of more than ONE THING. You guys LOVE TO harp on what is important to YOU and try to downplay the rest. Take 'sales' for instance. You love to downplay that shit. You can't DO THAT. If ten million mofos bought /downloaded a certain artist's music, whether you think their lyrics are shit or not, they are HOT. Someone, not named you and the thirty people you know, LIKES THEM. Sorry. Not saying you need to LIKE THEM EITHER. You are just in denial if you don't think they belong on a 'hottest' list. The point of being 'hot' is that people LIKE YOU. In abundance. Not a handful. In ABUNDANCE. It counts. These list are using a litany of criteria to take the 'opinion' out of it a bit. Hell, I DON'T LISTEN to half of the artists on ANY OF YOUR LISTS. Underground or not. I can respect that it is your list though. Half of the mainstream rappers, who rap about all the pussy they get, how many haters they have and that imaginary 'Nigga Heavyweight Championship of the World Belt' they have and half of these 'so-called' great lyricists you guys worship who rap about skateboards, cartoons, how many cats they have eaten up in a battle and their perceived 'superior grasp of the English language just because they rap don't do shit for me either! I don't shit on your list though. Why? 'Cause those rappers move you in a certain way. That's why. Who am I to tell you what moves you in what way? @ the insulting of some one's list. It is the VERY REASON I DON'T MAKE 'EM thought. If you ASK ME, who I like, I will tell you. I don't act like my list is the end all be all though. Neither do those making the 'public' list either actually. That is 'ya'll' acting like that. You can HAVE YOUR OWN LIST AND IT WILL BE AIGHT. Trust me..lol
Pick up the remote and turn the channel ya'll. You are killing yourself slow...@ watching something that you will never agree with again.
This is discussion kinda leads me into another subject that I want to discuss...MUSIC CRITICS. I have asked what the credentials are for one to be considered one and the like and have been promised some responses. I am awaiting those responses 'cause I want to TALK ABOUT THAT NEXT....I can't wait for that. I have a lot to say about that subject...smh
I was wondering why she wasn't in the Freshman....Nicki Minaj and Drake XXL Cover.
I happen to understand that those lists aren't about who is the best 'lyricist' or who is the best underground rapper so yeah, I was surprised she wasn't on there. Looks like it wasn't 'cause she wasn't invited.
I don't make comments on Nicki 'cause I realize she is not 'for me'. So rather than complain over and over about her, I don't speak on her at all in that regard. I do understand that others like her though and she is not ugly so...
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