WHY YOU FRONTIN!?!?!?

19 Feb 2007

why you frontin!?!?!? I ain’t really up on all this blogging shit but I gotta get something off my chest. I’m really, REALLY sick of rap guys. I’m almost at a point where I can’t listen to any new rap records coming out cuz 1) they all sound the same, and 2) EVERYBODY’S FRONTIN!!!! Gone are the days of actually having to be fresh and authentic to be respected. We truly are in an era of disposable music where albums are downloaded one moment and forgotten the next. I think part of it is the record companies giving artists a matter of months to put an album together (which is a VERY short period of time to create a solid body of work) but it’s also the artists (if you can call them that) doing everything they can to perpetuate some bullshit, fabricated image. So far in my career I’ve met many emcees, some legends, some current and A LOT of wannabes. What everybody needs to know is that MOST of these guys are being FUCKED by their record companies. And by fucked I mean in a modern day slavery/raped with a tire iron/gangbanged by 12 gorillas on speed type of way. The cars, girls, money and jewellry you see in pictures and on television are merely a marketing ploy put in place by major labels to create an image. In most cases, the artist is actually broke due to gigantic advances and album budgets forced upon them by their label. Therefore, all the expensive things they talk about might actually be a reality to them BUT sooner or later they will be forced to recoup all the money the label has spent on them. Goodbye cars, jewels and bitches. Hello reality tv, infomercials and alimony. Have you ever bought an album by your favorite artist and thought to yourself, wow this sounds like it was recorded in 3 days and he was hungover the whole time. You know why??? BECAUSE THEY OWE MONEY AND NOW THEY PUMP OUT SONGS JUST TO GET OUTTA DEBT!!!! That is the fate of most artists. No plan for the future. Live for today, fuck tomorrow. So the next time your favorite rapper is limping around on stage, bloated and forgetting his rhymes, remember this, HE HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO BE THERE, HE IS FUCKIN BROOOOOKKKEEE!!!! There is an exception to the rule of course. There are some who have good deals and are very business savvy. But you’ll never know because those guys are too busy pumping their money into private businesses where the labels and lawyers can’t get their hands on it. What bothers me most is the newjacks. I cruise around myspace sometimes thinking, wow this is ridiculous. Do you really expect people to believe you??? Come on homie, those ain’t diamonds. Those ain’t even cubics!!! Your mom must be pissed that you stole her crystal miniatures and put them in your ear. What’s so gangsta about posing with guns??? In case you didn’t know, REAL G’S AIN’T ON MYSPACE POSING WITH PISTOLS, RETARD!!! No, they ain’t in the club spending all their dough on boring bitches and hangers on either. They’re the dudes in the caravan rockin sweatpants pouring their money into legitimate businesses and planning ahead (the smart ones anyway). Go to your nearest gas station or McDonald’s and think about where all that money came from. That’s right fucko, that’s what the real G’s do. They re-invest and clean their money. Just remember this, while you’re frontin and pretending to be something you’re not, muthafuckas like me are sitting back and laughing. We’re the ones actually making things happen and probably the guys you’re gonna copy and try to be like in a few years. Just to show that I don’t hate you completely, here are some words for you to remember before you sign that million dollar contract you keep claiming you have. CROSS-COLLATERALIZATION, PUBLISHING, BUDGET AND POWER OF ATTORNEY.