sharing // October 21st, 2009 // Comments Off
Hip-Hop owes Cam’ron, whether it would like to admit it or not. Thank you, Cam’ron. “Of course, the straight guy who types ‘no homo’ with impunity isn’t the best person to argue that ‘no homo’ is unoffensive to gays. According to another IGN poster, ‘no homo’ is ‘pretty wrong, kinda like saying i could go for a watermelon, “no negro.”‘” — “How Censoring “No Homo” Will Help Hip-Hop” Amanda Hess / Washington City Paper


“Sweet levitating Christ, What is this?” you wondered all of 2009, as you reflected upon that faraway time when we questioned Puff Daddy and his crew of Shiny Suit Warriors. Good times, those. But no more. Recent months have given way to a new strain of atrociously dandy fashion choices within Hip-Hop. You have here Lil’ Wayne and his Smedium Money crew, who like to sing in auto-tune and laugh at their own jokes. Then there’s Kanye West and his merry band of Mariannes, who all made a big colorful statement early this year at Paris Fashion Week, and that statement was “Beat me up.” Fashion is all about standing out from the rest of us common folks, declaring to the world that you are cooler-than-thou and therefore confident enough to look like a complete asshole and suffer no repercussions which, of course, is the true essence of Hip-Hop–simply not giving a fuck.
This is how your beefs start, Hip-Hop. You will all remember this day. Not because Cormega has a project dropping today (who knew?), but because he thinks Drake is an insufferable rich bastard and therefore should not be rapping. If you have never sat a little black and white television on top of a busted floor model, or feasted upon Top Ramen and syrup sandwiches for dinner, or shook the roaches from your sneakers before heading off to public school, then you are not Hip-Hop, Drake! If you have not suffered the entire narrative of Ghostface Killa’s “All I Got Is You”, then put the blasted mic down! Find another job, you horrid Canadian tool! How dare you sully Hip-Hop’s good name with the stench of your middle-class lifestyle and honorably-earned, wheelchair-bound Degrassi money? The entire legacy of Hip-Hop is drowning in a pool of tears due to your transgressions!
To recap: Poor = Hip-Hop. Not poor = Not Hip-Hop, according to Cormega, who wrote the book on this subject and has been successful at it for many, many years.
Cormega On Drake “I Can’t Fuck With Drake. I Can’t Take Him Serious. He’s Rich…” — Worldstar Hip-Hop