Rantings Of A Mad Rodent

Northern hip hop fans are a funny bunch. Whenever something popular breaks from the South, it's usually met with the same 2 responses:"They're killing hip hop!", or "He's a coon!". For real, dawg? Killing hip hop? Is hip hop that weak, to where somebody making childish pop songs about a dance can kill it? And a "coon"? My God, what has done to be called a "coon"? Did he swear allegiance to an LA street gang, while living in NYC? No wait, maybe he sold drugs to an old lady and his own mother? No? Oh wait, I got it, he snatched someone's chain at gunpoint and made a YouTube video about it, thus further incriminating himself! No? So, all he did was put on some funny glasses and make a song about a dance? Oh, okay.

New York is quick to play the "coon" card, and paint all Southerners with a broad brush, but the minute you mention Cam'ron wearing a pink fur coat, Jim Jones saying, "Biggie was our first Barck Obama.", or "This Is Why I'm Hot", then it's, "Hey, that's them! All New Yorkers aren't like that!". Really? Then why do all of us have to be "coons"? Furthermore; why are a bunch of grown ass men obsessed with a kid anyway?! Go to just about any hip hop forum, and there will the usual "F*ck Souljah Boy" thread with about 40 responses from seemingly grown ass men. It's quite sad actually. When Nas named his album "Nigger", New Yorkers said, "That brother's deep!", but I'll bet you a million bucks, had a Southern rapper done that, they'd have been all over him. Souljah Boy's not "killing hip hop" and neither is any other rapper. You cats need to let it go, and finish "bringing New York back". Hell, you've been working on it for what, 10 years now? At one point, you guys got so desperate, that you tried to put on crown on Mims' head for "This Is Why I'm Hot".

And then we have the West Coast and the Dirty South, who defines "real" as some stupid ass dudes rapping about doing self destructive hood shit. I've always found it funny to see a self described "intelligent Black woman" sitting at a table in the club being a "lady", and the minute "Put It in Your Mouth" comes on, she'll run to the dance floor yelling, "That's my shit!"

You see, I've been into and involved in hip hop for a long time. Probably longer than some of you have been alive. I remember hip hop's innocence and development. I remember my parents and the media saying that it won't be around in 5 years, and that was over 28 years ago!! Hip hop's not dying, it's just that the quality of the artist are crap now. It's hard going from PE, the Native Tongues, and NWA, to this garbage your generation has spawned. Yeah, we had rappers talking about pimping, money, sex, and dope, but they were in the minority. Today, it's ALL YOUR RAPPERS TALK ABOUT! Talk about being in a holding pattern! We even had some whack ass rappers too, but the MAJORITY of your rappers are whack! Shit, your "best" rapper raps through Auto Tune. For real, man?!

I say "your", because my generation left y'all something beautiful, and you guys ruined it. You dumbasses more or less, put fucking spinner rims on a Bentley! Instead of worrying about whether or not someone's a "coon", y'all need to be worrying about trying to bring the quality of hip hop back. New Yorkers love to talking about creating hip hop, but y'all ain't doing shit to improve the quality. In a sense, New Yorkers are a bunch of fucking deadbeat dads. And the rappers in other regions are trying out stupid each other by seeing who can say the dumbest shit in the studio. The public ain't much better than the people who put this crap out, and stop blaming the record labels and the radio stations! These fucking records ain't buying themselves, and the radio stations are playing this crap because Y'ALL asked for it!

Souljah Boy killing hip hop? No. Hip hop survived the drug phase, the pimp phase, gangsta rap, X rated rap, and the murders of 2 of the most influential rappers ever, but somehow, it can't survive Souljah Boy? Please, Souljah Boy can't kill hip hop, but y'all can, and you are!!