“I’m sending you some text messages/
But you can call ’em sex messages/
And IDK when I’ll be there/
But I’ll TTY later and we’ll be loving ASAP/
And we can XOXO”
–Raheem DeVaughn, “Text Messages”
Raheem is the man, but the hook on this joint just makes me cringe. He should leave these kinds of metaphors to Kells.
“Fly with me, get high as me/A lot of alphabets, girl I’m a G”
–Rick Ross, “Here I Am”
Wack on multiple levels these days.
“I am not homophobic, but I do not believe in you f****ts/
Stay in the closet, Catholic priest maggot/
Elton John habits, raised on Bert & Ernie in bathtubs/
Scrubbin’ each others backs, that’s ass backwards”
–Reks, “The One”
Reks is dope, homophobia is not (even if you try to use a disclaimer).
I’m a big Reks fan, cause dude is one of the illest MC’s and hardest spitters that we have in the game today, but I can’t cosign the lines above. Anyone telling gay people to “stay in the closet” gets the Cliff-face. It’s 2008. Evolve.
His new album, Grey Hairs, is dope though. I just can’t vibe to those bars in that one song. Shrug.
“With stacks in my jeans just like my name was Billie”
–V.I.C., “Get Silly”
That might even be the best part of this song.
(LOL @ this picture getting watermarked twice. shameless.)
WLotD was on hiatus for a minute, but it’s back with a vengeance today. After all this Rick Ross f**kery that’s been all over the net the past week, today’s wack lyric is simply:
Every overexaggerated, faux gangster related word Rick Ross ever spit.
I’ve seen a lot of people wonder why anyone cares about this story, since we all know rappers lie virtually every time they open up their mouths. Well, the wack ones do. The thing is, you’d be surprised how many people don’t realize this, especially kids. Anyone who happened to be at a certain concert in the NW this past weekend can probably attest to that. So yeah…all of us messageboard/blog geeks never thought Rawwwws knew “the real Noriega,” but a frighteningly large size of the rap audience did. You can thank our piss poor educational system for that.
A word of advice for the next generation: if you want to lie in your music, you may not want to take it to such extremes. Of course, if you lie in your art, you’re losing from the jump. Honest expression is key, take it from Bruce:
“It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky. But to express one’s self honestly…that, my friend, is very hard to do.”
Demand yourself to be better.
Seeing as how Weezy’s coming to Summer Jam on Sunday, I should probably ease back on his WLotD‘s. Juelz is fair game though, even if it’s on Wayne’s album.
“I get money out the ass, that’s some expensive sh*t”
–Juelz Santana, “You Ain’t Got Nuthin'”
Nah…that’s some wack ish.
Continuing our grain related wackness from yesterday:
“I get bread like cold cuts”
–Lil’ Wayne, “Phone Home“
This song is really bad btw.
“I’m about my bread/You heard what I said…baby I’m a loaf!”
–Juelz Santana, “Poppin’ (Remix)”
“Poppin'” is the jam though, easily my favorite Chris Brown song…though that’s not saying a whole lot.
(i coulda used “peace, love, and Gap“)
“It’s the C-double-O, and I’m back again”
–Common, “Time Travelin'”
Com’s in my top 5 all-time and Like Water For Chocolate is one of my favorite albums, but that little freestyle/adlib always stuck out. In the build up to the verse, you hear “it’s the C-O-double-M-O-N” a few times, so this one didn’t quite fit. ?uestlove pointed it out on OKP right after the album dropped, but said they all heard it and decided to just let it slide. I guess the Coomon does what he wants.
“Mellow aggressive, we stay suggestive/
Some say greedy but we call it progressive/
We gotta blow, cause we’re congested/
We gotta blow, cause we’re congested”
–LMNO, “Make A Way”
The line is bad enough, but to repeat it at the end of a verse for emphasis? Come on now, there’s no need for that. It’s a nice joint though, Kev Brown KILLED the production all over the LMNO & Kev EP.
LMNO & Kev Brown ft. Dudley Perkins & Georgia Anne Muldrow – “Make A Way”
Listen to that beat! Cot damn.