Showing posts with label Beef. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beef. Show all posts

Thursday, January 29, 2009

More Dissage


Now call me blind for not seeing this one coming.

Charles Hamilton vs. ... ... ... Rhymefest?

Yeah, that's verging on the side of retarded. So supposedly there was a freestyle battle at some point and Charles even professes to have lost like Eminem did to Fest waaay back. So then, completely unrelated, CH has an impromptu battle at SOB's with Serius Jones (who is that dude who never blew up, in my opinion), and CH drops a one liner with Rhymefest's name in it. Never touched on it again in the battle, on his blog, or anything. Just an off-the-dome rhyme. So a day or two later after some Twitter threats, Mr. Jesus Walks dropped this:


Personally, I hope Charles hits him back, cuz that track right there is weak. Weak. And Rhymefest is dead nice. I don't know if he just mentally hasn't recovered from the Blue Collar flop or what, but that was a crazy good album. And besides the alright Michael Jackson mixtape, he hasn't been heard from for real since. Just threatening to drop El Che the last few years. I don't know. But that doesn't make up for the complete lack of quality in the diss track. I'm disappointed cuz I can't stress enough how ridiculously great Fest can be.

Fest explained in this MySpace post, but still. It all sounds like a dual misunderstanding on all incidents involved and, as most rap beefs turn, it seems more street threats occur than actual conversation. We'll see what happens.

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Monday, January 19, 2009

Don't Fight Joe Budden


Ouch. The newest and definitely most interesting beef in hip hop today is Joe Budden vs. Saigon. Budden holds his fame from his huge club record "Pump It Up", an impressive mixtape series of Mood Muzik I, II, & III, plus his constant label trouble and reoccurring beefs. Saigon is famous for his highly emotional street records, never having an album released, being on Entourage, going to prison, and quitting the industry all together (...) over a MySpace blog.

It all started over a Joe Budden freestyle punchline which he's said was not meant to mean anything serious. Sai, though, took this as a call to arms and started a war he hoped he could out-flex his way through. Now this really sucks cuz I definitely like the previous material I've heard from the man a lot. I'm sure he's got the short end of a lot industy-wise, but he's always picked the wrong outlets to voice his frustration through and oftentimes comes off looking like a 'roided e-thug just wanting to pick fights. But his words on wax amount to so much more than that. And that's where my constant frustration with him lies. He fueled the wrong fight with the wrong rapper.

Joe Budden has voiced his own against the likes of Jay-Z, G-Unit, The Game, Mistah F.A.B., Ransom, Glasses Malone, Royce da 5'9", and now Saigon. Thankfully, the ones with Game and Royce resulted in amazing collaborations upon making up later. Can't beat that with a gat. The others ... not so much. Here's the line in question that started the Yardfather incident: "soon as my wife gone, they jump on the python, she ain't know I’m out to hit and run like Saigon." Joey, as he is a master at crafting relevant punchlines, simply stated here why Saigon went to jail. Sai didn't see it that way. So ensues the next beef hailed for the ages. Well ... prolly not, but oh well. Here's the three part back and forth between the men so far.


So there's those. For using his own instrumental against him and going five minutes hard, Joey wins. I don't think Saigon can even come back with anything after that. I hope for the best out of both of their upcoming albums (if either is ever released), cuz they both got their lanes still in the game. Saigon is just off-roading for a minute. Let's just hope he doesn't wear down his tread hitting the wrong pot hole. That metaphor went on three sentences too long. Now I could pull out Budden's old ether, but I wanna promote beef resolution with these two post-hatred products.


Are you in them shoes yet???

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Sunday, December 14, 2008

I Am Not Charles Hamilton








You can't talk to me about rap music today without me bringing up this dude. It's that simple. As 2008, Charles Hamilton is hip hop to me. He epitomizes everything enjoyable and worthwhile in the genre. Even though he wouldn't want me categorizing him within any genre.

It's just refreshing to hear someone who's not trying to be the next ... anybody! I'll take less money bragging, less thug posturing, less automobile endorsing, and less I-got-everything-on-lock any day of the week in my music. And in the same vein I'll take more introspection, more conceptual girl songs, more musical composition, more actual personality, more not-afraid-to-be-different while not being-different-just-to-be-different but because-I-actually-am-different, and more fun mixtapes any day of the week in my music, as well. Ladies and gentleman, let me reintroduce you to everything that is Charles Hamilton.


Name me any other label-backed musician in the world who is allowing you with full endorsement to take his music at your own discretion for an entire year absolutely free. Literally eight mixtapes worth of creative juices all for the effort of a "Right-Click, Save As". With anybody else, I'd be calling foul due to little or no creativity and each tape's prolly just a compilation of lazy freestyle verses over industry instrumentals. But not hear. Charles helms a butt-load of his own production along with fellow Demevolist producers and brings you an entirely new music experience every single time. But even you nowadays-heads would be proud as he flips ridiculous amounts of highly contemporary music into imaginative samples and creates a brand new song and concept out of something that was on the radio literally months ago. Take, for instance, Beyonce's "Single Ladies" [Ringtone Rap] or Rihanna's "Shut Up & Drive" [Lemme Know] or Hoobastank's "The Reason" [Mr. Perfect] or Young Jeezy's "Put On" [Jeezy Hamilton] or Rob Thomas' "Lonely No More" [Sweetheart (Take It Back)] or The-Dream's "I Luv Your Girl" [Wrong Side of the Bed]. Tell me you aren't completely feeling at least one of those songs or wanna hear how it got flipped. I dare you.

And now the clincher. Look deep inside of your soul and tell me who could flip the various retarded Windows computer noises into a hot hip hop joint? Seriously. This dude is beyond a genius musician. He's a real person.

Here are the links for the Hamiltonization Process 2008. It was pandemonium. And he's got beef with Soulja Boy? What else could you ask for from a rapper?




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