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Funny Idiosyncrasies About Hip Hop

*take them in fun cause i think they're funni*

#1) The MCs claim to hating the "wack mc". Now it is not bad that many people hate on the "wack mc", but the funny part lies in "Who is the wack mc?". I mean how does this certain mc even know he's wack? He's obviously been blacklisted from hip hop, so i mean should MCs really kick more dirt in his face when he's down.

#2) The "turn me up in the headphones" or "i can't hear my snares in the headphones" to intro tunes. Now Dave Chapelle touched on it on his show (see: MC Fisticuffs), but it's like why would you spend like hundreds to thousands of dollars an hour to only show up and not have u sound levels properly cued? *shrugs*

#3) When gun tottin' rappers (ie. Irv Gotti) say stuff like "We just trying to show black people that we can make it in a white man's world", but it's like "Didn't u just murder like 10 dudes apparently on wax?". I mean Ja Rule is yelling Black Power at the end of one of his videos, yet he smoked like 30 other people (let's assume black males) on wax. For me (being black) it's like "Ohhh Ja is all about the movement, right after he pops a cap in my ass".

#4) People who wonder "People like 50Cent talk about killing people and stuff, what's he going to talk about on his next album. I would like to remind them that though 50 and others have shot and killed many folks wax others like myself or my friends still haven't been shot by them so I guess until they bust a cap in everyone's ass they can continue to spit about clappin' gunz.

#5) The perverbial interview answer to "Tell us what makes you different as a rapper then others?" when the rapper says something like "I'm just telling about it from where i'm from (or throw in location like "Queens" or "Compton"). Well i guess that is true, but i mean there are a million MCs who've already come out of Queens and Compton and Brooklyn and the ATL so really what difference is there in your story. Now someone like "I'm going to tell about how it is in Eastside South Dakota" . . . now that's interesting

#6) How now the "hot topic" in battle verses is about "being a snitch" (to the "jakes" aka Police). Ja calls 50 a snitch, 50 calls Ja a snitch blah blah blah. What is odd is so everyone is like "Ohhh who's the snitch". THis is all fine and dandy, but then people complain that the murders of Tupac and Biggie remain unsolved and that mostly in urban areas crimes go unsolved . . . but wait I thought the worst thing one can be is a snitch so shouldn't this be xpected???

#7) Million dollar executives and people who went to yrs. of schooling and law school caught up in petty beefs and shootouts. I mean i dunno, if i went to law school i really wouldn't want to be all up in the mix within hip hop, i'd just like to make my money in peace, but u got peeps like Irv Gotti (who's worth millions) jumping people *supposedly* and Paul Rosenberg *Eminem's lawyer* caught in "street level" squabbles. I mean Steve jobs ain't waitin' "in the cut" for Bill Gates to "catch him slippin'".

# Most beefs nowadays start because someone didn't shake someone else's hand or acknowledge them (Ja v. DMX) (50 v. Ja) (Everlast v. Eminem) (ICP v. Eminem). I mean it is just funny i read someone is like "Yeah that nigga saw me at the club and didn't say hi, disrespectin' me in front of my peope's so now it's on".

#9) The phrase "You better act like you know" . . . now it's all good, but how can you act like you know when u don't even know what ur supposed to be acting like you know. I mean if someone says in a verse "When i step into a club, you better act like you know . .. ", i mean okay i guess i'll take it as "Oh this fool may bust a cap in my ass", but what if i am an optimist and am thinking "Maybe this guy is letting me know that when he comes to the club he'll bust a mean "cabbage patch" on the dance floor", either way i don't know what i am supposed to know, thus i'm screwed!

#10) The term "Metaphysical". I like this term, but then i got to thinking, didn't it take some of the world's greatest philosopher's their entire lyfetyme to understand the metaphysical only to die not knowing anything regarding it??? Now it's like the word "fresh" in hip hop. U throw it in front of any noun and ur good to go. "The metaphysical wonder bread" or "The metaphysical jumpsuit". I luv when Mekhi Phifer's character in "8 MILE" says "metaphysical" in his rhyme, it gives me a grin.

#11) Everytyme there is a beef in hip hop or sales are slow they have "HIP HOP SUMMITS". I mean do we really need the Nation of Islam to mediate the tension between Ice Cube and Common or Q-Tip and Wrecks N Effect? Funny how hip hop has had more major summits in the past year then the Middle East?

#12) Is there any role for the DJ anymore in hip hop? Yes of course we know there are great hip hop DJs still out there, but on the Commercial level? It is funny how you see a DJ in a video and you analyze his setup or how he is mixxing or scratching then realize he doesn't even have the tables turned on (u know that red light). That's like having a guitar and playing wildly but upon a closer look there are no strings.

#13) The Skits! I love them . . . how about an album of just skits. And we all know they're all the same. "The Beatdown", "The Bootycall", "The chillin' on the ave, car pulls up, they know it's they're enemy and gunshots ringout", the "answering machine". Snoop had the funniest when he went to speak to children in school, upon one of them saying "When i grow up i wanna be like Snoop", Snoop said "Don't be like me, stay in school u can be a doctor, a lawyer . . . a Laker", ha ha ha ha.

#14) When rappers make entire songs that are references to something that happened and end it with something like "You know who u are". Like they got in a squabble with someone else in their neighborhood and they do a dis song or lyrics to them. It's not bad but saying "Yeah back in august in *such&such* projects, you thought u caught me .. . u know who u are". To me u spend hundreds of dollars to go into studio to make a song about roughly 1-8 individuals. I mean i am no accountant, but i think a group email would've done the trick. And even if the arguement is "I want the world to know", i mean I don't know these guys of which u speak so why do i can.

#15) Biggie and Tupac beats the basic formatt for diss songs, if ur gonna dis make sure ur over one of their beats ("Who Shot Ya", "Hail Mary", "Warning" etc.)

*these are all in fun*

bleh~

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Here's something for s**tz and giggles from now on only refer to rappers as "MC ****", so like "Hey man u hear MC 50Cent's album" or "MC Birdie has tight beats" or "MC Lil' Moe is blowin' up"







MC BREED keepin' it real "ain't no future in yo frontin'"

[ mcxyz - 16 May 2003 18:42 ]

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#3 on the list is way hilarious xyz

did you get this on a site or did it just suddenly popped into your brilliant mind?

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hahah! good s**t!

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seriously chris, you should consider being a writer or journalist....pure genius brother, pure genius......

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i came up with these . . . .

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#16) Just how many members are there of the WU TANG CLAN. Do u realize that if u only bought the core member of the group CDs (let's include Masta Killa and Capadonna) you would've spent over $440 (pricing each CD @$20). Now in their hayday the Wu could breathe on the mic and people would eat it up, basically they were stackn' chips.

#17) The beginning of the 50Cent song when he's like "No-body likes me . . . ", i just want to fill in after that and say "...but the 5 million people who bought my album". Y do artists feel they are misunderstood yet are triple-plus platinum??? From Em to Ja to 50 to Jay . . . it's like "Ur actually understood pretty well according to Soundscan" . . . MANISH . . . now they're misunderstood.

[ mcxyz - 22 May 2003 13:01 ]

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good s**t! put it up on okayplayer.com

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Laughing my mutha-fuggin ass off...

..thanx G.

i needed that.

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#18 ) I discovered this in the car with my co-werker at lunch. BEAT MECHANICS 101: "The faster the high hat in a down south song, the slower the beat (and more bouncy)". Funny how it is the direct opposite in drum n bass, but u can use the same high hat speed in like R. Kelly's IGNITION that u do for a Bad Co. tune.

[ mcxyz - 22 May 2003 14:38 ]

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hahahaha good one....ive always thought that....

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nice one!

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#19) Can we please put to rest all of the hate that was given to MC HAMMER. I mean everything he did and the "groundwerk" he laid allowed Rappers to be xploited (in a good and bad sense) by corporate America. People dissed him when he was in the Taco Bell Commercial, now i am a Del Taco fan myself, but who doesn't have an advertisement deal now. Or people dissed him cause f his Pepsi deal . . . . well Pepsi is a whole lott better then Mountain Dew (ahem Busta Rhymes) or Dr. Pepper (ahem BEP). They people called Hammer "soft", but last time i checked at least he was trying to employ people and get them off the streets and he had many community centers in Oakland etc. (i mean how does Nelly get the Key To The City of St. Louis). Like Outkast said in an interview "Meng no rapper meng should say a damn werd about Hammer . . .. that meng was a pioneer" *sips Pepsi*

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#12 (damn thats so true..hahahaha)

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clear clear example of #12 was WARREN G on "Doggiefizzle TV", hwe was "cutting it up", but i was like "Ummmm there are no records on the tables"


*shrugs*

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just cause.

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I mean i am no accountant, but i think a group email would've done the trick.
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HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH... gotta love the little commentaries. this kicks ass. hands down the FUNNIEST thing i've read today. thanks for the comedy.

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My philosophy teacher advised students to try dropping the old "metaphysical" in conversations at parties. He said if you are shaky on its usage, to just start any sentence with "Metaphysically speaking..." and voilą!! You ARE A BUZZ WORD Dynamo-intellectually impressing all that hear you

KRS one drops the metaphysical representation right in his shtick I think.

#10) The term "Metaphysical". I like this term, but then i got to thinking, didn't it take some of the world's greatest philosopher's their entire lyfetyme to understand the metaphysical only to die not knowing anything regarding it??? Now it's like the word "fresh" in hip hop. U throw it in front of any noun and ur good to go. "The metaphysical wonder bread" or "The metaphysical jumpsuit". I luv when Mekhi Phifer's character in "8 MILE" says "metaphysical" in his rhyme, it gives me a grin.

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bwahaah ...this is dope, very entertainin :P hehe

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i was thinking about this earlier today on my ride to work:

how many times have i been murdered on wax? so many hip-hop songs are about what the emcee is going to do to me. "im gonna stab you and watch the blood rush out." "i'll lyrically slaughter you" "you think i'm a punk so i..." i have a feeling that they aren't talking to me but after hours of hearing "you suck, you this, you that" maybe it's subconsciously affecting the way i feel about myself.

if they are speaking to all the "haters" i have to wonder another thing. why are you making songs for people that don't like you and won't listen to your song in the first place?

(as a rapper i am guilty of this myself)


[ entitee - 2 Sep 2003 11:39 ]
[ entitee - 2 Sep 2003 11:38 ]

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ha ha ha, hell yeah i think i have been killed on wax like 20,000 times. I've also had my woman stolen from me also apparently . . . .well more like she was with me but as the rapper pulled up in his Bentley she got in his ride . . . . . and i thought i knew her, ha ha ha.