Ludacris - Bada Boom (Drake & Big Sean Diss)

I say this every few months and I'm back at this place again. I've been almost completely uninspired to post anything because I don't want to be the angry blogger that has nothing but negative words and energy to spread to everyone and the music that's being pushed out like fake Gucci purses on Canal St. in Manhattan will drive me straight over Bitter Cliff. There's a cycle that our beloved Hip Hop goes through every now and then when things just get repetitive and downright whack to put it into Layman's terms in order to be as blunt as possible. Yesterday I was thinking that as we get towards the end of 2011, there aren't that many memorable songs that stand out in my mind that I would keep in rotation until next year. Styles P and Jadakiss had hot joints. I get a heads up on Buk of Psychodrama and Marcia Ambrosius hurt the fragile male ego with one of the dopest lines of the year "I hope she cheat on you with a basketball player". Of course, Jay and Kanye are a given but I like the underrated and under appreciated.

This is actually about the much needed, good old fashioned, "I'm gonna take you out to the shed", lashings that are being handed down to the likeable, "you know, they do what they do", "I don't dislike 'em, it's just not my thing", "dude got a few jams", over appreciated rappers right now by Hip Hop heavyweight veterans. Not just cats that have been in the industry for a while, and bitter because time is running out. No, not by any means. These are individuals who are as sharp and viable as they were five years ago.

If you go back in the archives, you will find that it's no secret that I respect Drake for his success and his skill when he does rap, but there's always been something that made me keep him on the outskirts of a real Emcee and a face of Hip Hop. I'm not mad at anyone for being who they are and doing things their way, but I do have a problem with sucker isht.
(*Sucker isht consists of the following qualities and more that are reserved to possibly discussed at another time.)
1. Player Hating
2. Whining
3. Over emotional on a frequent basis when pretaining to relationships with the female gender
4. Having excessive amounts of over emotional outbreaks on a frequent basis when pretaining to relationships with the female gender
5. Too much singing on wax when not labeled as and R&B singer (See NeYo)
6. Not properly holding the mic
7. Lack of proper B-Boy stance or body definition when rocking the mic

I was and still am hoping that "Marvin's Room" was a clever way of explaining a situation where someone called a young lady that he is involved with a said these disrespectful, back door, foul mouthed, nearly obsene to a gentlemen, hater fueled, poisions against him. Time will tell that but, he has definately pissed off the WRONG person or people I should say. I don't really promote beef but I do promote battles and this seems to be at the in-between stages. More than anything, while I enjoy my doses of lighthearted, sometimes a bit corny, fill of just regular feel good music, I miss unfiltered, unmolested, Hip Hop with spitters and I don't think that Ludacris and Common of all people are the people you want jumpin in the booth just to do "rapperly harm" to you. The names are even an uneven match. This is just a case where a guy that people have let ride because he "does what he does" has began to unexpectedly started getting too comfortable behind the wheel, started feeling himself a bit too much and began texting while driving and is crossing lanes. Eventually, you have to get over from the fast lane and merge back to regular traffic with the people who have been taking the same route to work for a long time, they are never late, and have a comfortable 401k.

Drake was sprayed with the Ludacris buckshots for being too close to the main target Big Sean a he stating his version of the facts that he created a style that was actually used in the 90's by Q Tip, Cam 'Ron and others but, he may have put his own touch to it. I don't really know, I wasn't there. What I do know is styles are recycled in Hip Hop...even some of the other on he uses. In response to Big Sean's allegations that his style was improperly, and sub-parly used by the named Ludacris, the Mouth of the South who has brought consistant, percise, pure lyrics since 1999 responded with "Bada Boom" for Big Sean and Drake. I'm gonna Don King this and advise everyone to listen to "Bada Boom". I will say don't let the funny videos fool you.

Now I want to know how Drake pissed off Common so bad that he went back to being on the South Side of Chicago in '92. I guess because the Southside isn't dramatically overstated as being crime infested, or that Common hasn't overstated the hustle and street realities in his area that are comparible and at times understated than other famed Hip Hop neighborhoods and projects, or the fact that he usually plays an even temper when intelligently expressing the struggles of the hood and people as a whole, or the fact that most of us are so brain rotted that we miss the "real talk" that is being spit that, at one point, people thought he was soft. This was even after he shut down the legendary Ice Cube who was one of the most fierce on the mic at that time. Again, "what did Drake do to piss him off this bad" that he went in on a level that you almost never get out of Common. You will always get his ideas on whack rappers, clever shots at the industry as a whole, but this is a side that the semi-melodic, monotone, Drizzy probably doesn't want to see while facing a growing criticism of Sucker isht, repetitive topics, and growing lack of interest. Sure, his album will still do well and that's a great accomplishment, but as an artist you want your work to be respected by your peers and listened to a few years later. In any case, Common made a song called "Sweet" where he allegedly calls on the young Drake to harden up so to speak. What I will be interested in is if the YMCB star will respond, if so, will the response be nice and where does Common go from there.

I know KRS 1 is somewhere with a grape soda and popcorn in his hand smiling like a Cheshire cat enjoying the veterans take on the young bucks. This battle or beef is something that is needed so that:
1. People of the culture can be exposed to multiple styles of the artform
2. Different Hip Hop generations may listen to the same people at the same time
3. True lyricism can be brought to the fore front with other styles
Plus, I'm a bit frustrated with the Hokey Pokey songs right now. Nas' "Nasty" is honetly on of the best and most underrated songs of the year, and I almost never hear it when I'm in the car. I like live mix, Hip Hop radio. I want to hear the D.J. play some street records. Don't give me the mandatory slow it down for the ladies, and mandatory "the label is pushing this single", I want to hear what the D.J.'s play at home. I don't want to hear a stop and chop sing-song flow. Just rap sucka!

As always, TELL SOMEBODY!