Adult Swim is giving away free DangerDoom remix tracks on their website, but not until May 15th. To go there looking for free DangerDoom songs before that date would be dumb, since its not yet May 15th. Take it from someone dumb enough to have tried…
Other medium sized news out of the underground this week is that Chicago’s newest favorite son Lupe Fiasco will proceed with the release of his internet-leaked Food & Liquor. There was initially a lot of emotional and heart-wrenching talk about the album being permanently shelved. Black rap nerds everywhere (except me) shed a few Salt & Vinegar flavored tears at the thought of Lupe having to throw away his life’s work, all five years of it. I, on the other hand, saw through this marketing ploy since the only way one’s life work would take five years is if one were five years old.
He dated himself with the Thundercats reference.
I don’t know if you’ve gotten a load of this one yet, but on a remix to Rick Ross’s “Hustlin'”, Busta Rhymes makes a cameo and says some really outlandish shit:
Amphetamines, weed the empire that I’m building
Even got a coke connect through Pablo Escobar’s children
Heard what I said bitch, Pablo Escobar’s children
They call me whenever they manufacture the coke shipment
Whenever there is a drought and we need to place an order
I holla at Manuela Escobar, Pablo’s daughter
From Columbia through Bahamas, Florida Keys border
Yes, the hunger for enchilada gets hotter please call her
She gets me coke that makes bodies numb once ya fingers in it
So white, the coke got a sparkle like she got crystals in it
Look, out of town my gangsta’s bubblin’
See I will flip and sell you any drug cuz I be hustlin’
Look, I’m all for artistic expression and fantasy-rap and all that cosmic shit. Hell, I’ve got songs where I rap about being an octopus. But this brand of bullshit should come with a disclaimer. This dude is 34 years old and has had a record deal since he was 17. He’s got five platinum albums and is prepping a release on Dr Dre’s Aftermath label. You mean to tell me he decided to start selling coke last year? I hate it when rappers say shit to try to sound cool when they’ve put in enough work to be above that shit. I could see him doing coke, but selling it?…
In somebody’s-got-to-have-a-f*cking-spine news, Billboard.com is reporting…well actually I just tried to find it on billboard and it wasn’t there, but f*ck it. Let’s pretend its true…Gnarls Barkley, our generation’s Simon & Garfunkel (…or Ceefus and Reesie…) recently turned down a multi-million dollar deal from McDonalds Corporation. I guess Ronald wanted to use the tune to sell more goat-burgers and the dysthymic duo wasn;t having it. This is the beginning of a new-found respect for Cee-Lo from me. I usually don’t trust people with big heads and little hands.
Have you seen how Tom Cruise acts when he’s in Harlem?
The wife-to-be digs it. If I was there, I would have peed in a cup and threw it at him.
Old School Rap Rumors of the Fortnight
-“I got a story to tell” was vaguely based on a real life incident Biggie had when he was slipping pipe to John Starks’ woman.
– The D.O.C. damn near ghostwrote everything in the Death Row Era.
– M.F. Grimm (NOT Doom) was supposed to be on “Live at the Barbecue” but he was arrested on the way to the studio.
That’s all the irrelevant dirt for this week…
If you’re privy to any questionable facts about rappers that are too old to shoot me, let me know…
I’ve got a headache, now. I’m going to bed now.
If you see this somewhere, you should go buy it…
…my solo joint on there is extra bizarre…you should enjoy it.
OpenMikeEagle
Out.
