WHACK RAPPERS!

This has got to stop. Someone needs to put a stop to ALL of the whack rappers coming out, have come out, and have yet to come out. There needs to be the A.W.R.C. - Anti-Whack Rappers Coalition!

I just came from a MySpace page by an artist that shall remain nameless, never mind- I'm so disappointed by this that I need to use this man and a few others as examples... 2-Wun. (MySpace address- myspace.com/x2x1x) He's from the 'burbs and in one of the tracks he states-

"I'm as real as it gets/ I'mma fill you with clips/ leave you bloodied up faggot/ blood drip from your lip/ snitch on my click/ I'mma leave yo' ass split!"

Pardon my choice of words but, what the fuck!? Excuse me! This is terrible Dr. Seuss wannabe gangsta rap. Kid, you live in the burbs and you even let it be known you live in the burbs. Your mom probably bought you a new car for your 16th birthday and then another new car when you graduated high school with a 3.0 GPA or better. I guarantee if you EVER get knocked by the cops, you would be the first one to snitch out your whole crew. You probably have never even seen the inside of a jail cell. Hell, you probably have never even seen a jail. You do not run with thugs, stick-up kids, or killers. You think you're gangster just because one of your boys probably stole a vibrating tongue-ring out of Spencer's in the shopping mall. And thus, I take a quote from Cedric the Entertainer in Be Cool, "THAT'S NOT GANGSTA', THAT'S NOT GANGSTA'!" STOP RAPPING PLEASE! White boys have it hard enough in hip hop without you shedding your copious amounts trash on the culture.

Next, we have yet another rapper that I actually had the privilege of knowing. This man has a new song entitled Mr. Balla' Man... I know what you are thinking, that just sounds like a clASSic (YES, SARCASM IMPLIED). My god man, you drive a battered escort/ tempo- YOU ARE NOT A BALLER! Stop! Fake rappers need to stop too. Your chain is fake. You stopped rapping with good rappers because they kept telling you to step your bars up. You got served outside of a bar by multiple assailants because you were running your yapper, in turn forcing a friend of yours to save your ass and get caught up in the melee'. Stop rapping about shit you don't have, don't own, and don't know! In the song it is stated that-

"I'm gettin' money in the A/ I'm gettin' money in the Bay/ I'm gettin' money in the 'Land/ God Damn I'm gettin' paid!"

YOU ARE NOT IN THE BAY! You are in Ohio; there is NO BAY in Ohio. You used to rap with M.C.'s that had previously lived in the Bay area, but this is not the court of law and you are not guilty by association!

As a reader you're thinking, "But, HollyWood these are just local rappers." Yes, yes they are but we have to start somewhere. We need to prevent people like MIMS from getting signed and saying crap like, "I can make a mil' by sayin' nothin' on a track!" NO YOU CANNOT! YOU ARE NOT POOTIE TANG! This is the real world, that's why he hasn't made shit. Let's not forget as soon as his cd dropped he got sued for copyright infringement because the schmuck that did his album cover stole his logo from a European rapper. Get your administration right before you make whack statements like that.

We have all these dope M.C.'s not signed to big labels because they don't want to compromise their artistic integrity. I give them kudos for that.

The one great thing about Hip Hop is that it is for the people by the people. We can't expect to get quality music out of this great culture until us as a people demand change. The Lupe's, Wale's, Common's, R.E.U.B.'s, Little Brother's and Mos Def's are few and far between. I mean even Jay-Z, Eminem, and T.I. are unbelievable with a hard twist but they are great rappers and entertainers because they are truthful, honest, and love the culture. Let's get it together people and demand more from rappers. Let's demand fully fledged Master's of Ceremony. I believe then and only then will we be able weed out the whack rappers who have the intention of raping this beautiful culture, and bring it back to its essence when rhymes had meaning, social value, and changed the way people thought. In closing, I raise my glass and tip my hat to the real M.C.'s and hope everyone who reads this does their best to STOP GASSING UP WHACK RAPPERS!

Out.