Posted on 13 April 2013. Tags: Adopt, African, american, Culture, Elements, Italianamerican, Many, Rappers
They act like guineas all the time. For example:
Kool G Rap named himself after Sam Giancana
Yo Gotti named himself after John Gotti
Daz Dilinger named himself after John Herbert Dillinger
Scarface named himself after, well Scarface
Nas made a song called “The Don”
Wu-Tang and their affiliates frequently reference La Cosa Nostra in their lyrics.
The list goes on.
Why do so many rappers try to emulate Italians?
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Posted on 28 June 2012. Tags: amp, ATCQ, core groups, Core", Favorite, Game, native tongues, Rappers, tongues
From the core groups (ATCQ, JB, & De La) and any other affiliates.
BQ: Are there any newer rappers that you could see being in the Native Tongues if they came to the game earlier?
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Posted on 03 January 2012. Tags: 2pac, Album, album titles, Caliber, death row, dr dre, hip, Label, mic, pivotal events, Rappers, rhyme, scenarios, snoop dogg, Want
Think about some of the pivotal events in hip hop that weren’t made on the mic.
Signings, Album titles, album release dates, when an artist came on the scene,
certain rappers not being meant to rhyme on beats, anything that was
something that an MC or producer couldn’t control, or could control but wasn’t
aware of what would happen.
Pick a famous event or decision in hip hop, and change the outcome.
Then predict what the resulting impact would be.
Example: 2Pac never signs to Death Row after he gets out of jail.
Suge Knight never posts 1.4 million bail, instead another label does it.
The label doesn’t work the same as Death Row, it’s more traditional.
Would an album of the caliber of All Eyez on Me still be released?
Would 2Pac continue with the tone of Me Against The World?
(more conscious stuff)
Also what would become of Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, anyone affiliated with him?
Make up your own, then explain what would be the lasting impact.
If you do what-if-so and so-never-died-and-continued-to-make-musiā¦
type scenarios then make sure there is detail.
I’m not really the best at explaining my questions, so I hope you guys understand
what I mean…..
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Posted on 23 April 2011. Tags: dumb reason, going to war, grown man, hip hop producer, jay z, mobb deep, plenty of times, Prodigy, Rappers, squash
Jay-Z pretty much worked with every producer in the game for years but what I’ve noticed is that he has never worked with The Alchemist. I know deep down inside that Alchemist wants to work with Jay-Z but he’s afraid that his relationship with Prodigy of Mobb Deep will come to a bad end. Yea everybody knows that Jay-Z and Prodigy hate each other but goddamn can they all just get along? First of all, Jay doesn’t have nothing against Alchemist because they both were on tour with Eminem on “The Home and Home Tour”. Second of all, Prodigy really needs to go sit down somewhere and he really needs a hug. Prodigy needs to stop talking **** on everybody. He’s always mad at a lot of rappers for some dumb reason. Alchemist is a producer and producers can work with anybody the hell they want. Prodigy acts like Alchemist belongs to him like that’s his son or something. He’s a grown *** man. Yea although he’s affiliated with Mobb Deep and they discovered him but he’s not signed to their label or “belong” to them. Prodigy needs to suck it up and let Alchemist do what he wants to do. Well at least he got a chance to work with Nas plenty of times before Mobb Deep and Nas relationship soured. This is hip-hop people. Everybody is so worried about going to war with each other. Why everybody just can’t be cool with each and make money? I think Prodigy needs to squash his longtime beef with Jay. Jay-Z is still in his prime and he wants to work with everybody in the game. What do ya’ll think about this?
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Posted on 28 January 2011. Tags: Affiliated, amp, bloods, crips, lil wayne, Rappers, realest
Obviously Birdman & Lil Wayne are the realest Bloods ever.
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