Today, two things that were inevitable have come to pass. Firstly, the legendary athletic brand, Starter, has returned. That’s right, you no longer have to search ebay, old mom and pops shops, or vintage stores to find it. (The Hundreds also released some ill snap-backs this weekend so check those after the jump and at your nearest spot.) And secondly, Cudi and Consequence peaced it. No surprise there and it even seems like he listened to Consequence’s fashion tips and toned his look down…
More info on the Cons/Cudi drama, and what to look for from Starter and The Hundreds, in stores now, after the jump…
[Edit: It’s possible this video is actually directed at up-and-coming artists other than Kid Cudi. New info will leak here when it surfaces because this post alone will probably cause some to.] I’ll keep this short and sweet so you can get to the beef. Basically two of G.O.O.D. Music’s signees, Consequence (cousin of Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest) and Kid Cudi don’t seem to be getting along lately. Cudi rubbed Conse the wrong way somehow at Q-Tip’s recent album release party and below is a video of Consequence addressing the issue. Check it out - dude is pretty heated and it’s kind of funny.
Not wasting much time, you’ll hear Consequence laying it on Cudi pretty thick. Off the bat he calls him a hipster, says his fedora is a “Molly Ringwald from the breakfast club hat,” and then talks about how he has way more hits on the web than dude… In other words, this sh*t is straight jokes…
The funny thing is Conse released a video of him and Kid Cudi in the studio only a month or two ago. Check the video of that out after the jump—the song they were working on actually sounds pretty nice… (Click “Read More”…)
There will soon be more to see around here as we’re adding a new dimension to the site: a non-music-related branch of the LAF. The following video is the type of post you’ll see on there—actually, this post is more like one extreme end of the spectrum. The new blog will probably include only 10% make-you-think content. The rest of it will be composed of 50% eye-candy… and 40%.. make-you-laugh content. In other words, it’ll be ill, so keep it locked or come back in a month or whatever..
Now back to the much more important topic of this video…
At the very least, this is worth watching in its entirety. I personally am so glad to see this guy speaking out. It’s refreshing to hear—no matter how biased or exaggerated of an opinion you or I may think he is expressing.
So the Adbusters “hipster” article that caused so much controversy (written by: Doug Haddow, read it here) has now also inspired a party. I guess they’re trying to show that they’re unfazed by the article by embracing its title and using it as their own. Or maybe the organizers aren’t like the thousands of hipsters that got all mad about it, and just think it’s a funny name for a party.
Aren’t there like two or three different types of people that get called hipsters right now though? Check out the current issue of XXL or one of those other mags. They have Wale, Kidz In The Hall, Mickey Factz and the Cool Kids in there featured in some article about the “hip(ster) hop” new school or something. (Who stole the term I made up last November, by the way? Everyone, I guess.) I don’t know if those dudes signed up for that (probably not!) but I’m glad I don’t fall into the category based on any of the hipster criteria of either article.
More info about all the “controversy” after the jump…
Someone asked Charles Hamilton about the Lupe Fiasco diss lines and he gladly responded with an explanation/whatever:
QUESTION: Yo Charles Hamilton, me and my mans(both day 1 Harlem residents) had a argument today on what you meant by this comment:”I’m sorry my lines are something that you ain’t get, but I do make sense. Fuck all that Lupe shit (0:38).” and this “I got more pupils than eye ball flesh. I got no love for the Fiasco like A Tribe Called Quest (0:30).” I aint even wanna listen to the song yet only because in the song i can come to realize that you didnt mean it the way that it originally appears from reading that quote. I just wanted to see if i can get what you meant by that 1st hand and if you dont fuck with Lupe thats your decesion but if its music wise how can you then turn around and fuck with Asher Roth the way you do?
ANSWER: At the time I wrote the first bar you mentioned, which was in the song “Unapologetic”, I was in a bidding war. A bunch of label execs were comparing me to Lupe and Kanye in style and demeanor, which I found insulting because they were (and to some degree still are) in a better position than me. I didn’t have money to afford the clothes I wanted to wear, I wasn’t showering, etc. So I took them comparing me as a way to put me in a box to easily classify me. So I was lashing out at THEM, not LUPE. Got a lot of respect for Wasalu. Read earlier blog entries.
At the time of the second bar you mentioned, which was on “No Escapin My Nuts”, I was tight at how the media was perpetuating Lu’s comments on Tribe. They made it sound like he didn’t rock wit em. When all he was saying was he didn’t grow up on em. It was clear to me, but not clear to them. So I used sarcasm to add fuel to the fire. I was saying that what’s happening to hip-hop nowadays is a fiasco, and I got no love for it. Like A Tribe Called Quest.
To be honest, when I did the Charles Vs. Lupe post I knew that realistically either Lupe wouldn’t do anything about it or Charles would apologize or whatever. I still really wanted to hear some diss tracks though…
Recently signed to Interscope Records, and endorsed by Eminem and Kanye, Charles Hamilton is likely to blow up in the coming months. Not wasting any time, on his recent mixtape he takes clear (but easy to miss) shots at well-established and fairly well-respected MC, Lupe Fiasco. As you’ll see below, there’s definitely potential for Lupe to come across what I’m about to point out, and honestly, I’d love to hear his retaliation. I mean, it would be two skilled MC’s going toe to toe and the last decent beef in hip hop was between two cats that virtually no one has ever heard of—or heard of since for that matter. Anyways, let me get to the point…
As I said, on two tracks on Charles Hamilton’s recently released mixtape he takes the following shots at Mr. Fiasco:
“I’m sorry my lines are something that you ain’t get, but I do make sense. Fuck all that Lupe shit.” (38 seconds into ‘Unapologetic’ - Track 10)
And this one, which must kind of hurt:
“I got more pupils than eye ball flesh. I got no love for the Fiasco like A Tribe Called Quest.” (30 seconds into ‘No Escaping’ - Track 11)
He does also say something along the lines of “Shout outs to Lupe, it’s all love, I’m just sick of the comparisons” on another track though so I don’t know what’s going on in dude’s head. I’m thinking Lupe might wonder the same thing pretty soon and have a couple things to say about it… if he even cares (or dares) to fire back, that is.
This is how serious shit gets once death threats and religion come into play…
PREVIOUSLY:
My apologies, I forgot to cover this beef despite being put up on it by the good people over at DONOTFOLLOW.com. I meant to cover it in full when I did the May Wrap-up.
FULL STORY:
As far as I know, basically this Mazzi dude came at Jay Electronica and The Cool Kids, Mic Terror responded (because he knows them and they dissed Chicago), and then Mazzi responded back. Watch the main video of this post and you can consider yourself all caught up…for now.
“Last August, a blogger in Cincinnati going by the name CincyBlurg reported that a black friend from the southeastern U.S. had recently discovered that she was being called a Canadian. “She told me a story of when she was working in a shop in the South and she overheard some of her customers complaining that they were always waited on by a Canadian at that place. She didn’t understand what they were talking about and assumed they must be talking about someone else,” the blogger wrote.
After this happened several times with different patrons, she mentioned it to one of her co-workers. He told her that ‘Canadian’ was the new derogatory term that racist Southerners were using…”
Disclaimer: The video below depicts extremely cruel treatment of a defenseless animal. A few skeptics and conspiracy theorists believe that this video is a hoax and that no animals were harmed during filming. Whatever the truth may be, David Motari is either a puppy killer or someone with, at the very least, extremely questionable morals, possibly psychological problems, and enough time on his hands to concoct and orchestrate an elaborate hoax.
Watch it (and play the audio) at your own risk.
David Motari
24419 Florence Acres Rd
Monroe, WA 98272-9662
Phone: (360) 794-7191
[March 7th:]
I would also like to you use this post as an opportunity to address the topic of U.S. soldiers in Iraq and, (U.S.) soldiers in general.
Not all U.S. soldiers are bad people so don’t let this video affect your view of them as a whole. People from all walks of life join the U.S. military and their reasons for doing so vary greatly. Some might be driven to enlist purely by a strong sense of patriotism, and on the opposite end of the spectrum, some who are targeted by recruiters in communities with job shortages might join out of necessity alone. Therefore, not all U.S. soldiers support the politics or beliefs behind the war in Iraq (or any war for that matter) and not all of them sympathize with their leaders.
Whether it’s a case of a soldier that agrees, 100 percent, with everything their president stands for, or someone that completely disagrees with the war they are a part of, once they’ve enlisted (or have been conscripted) they are basically “owned” by the government. All U.S. soldiers then have to follow orders, put their lives in the hands of leaders whose true motives will forever remain uncertain, and subject themselves to harsh conditions and the risk of being killed by an enemy of their country at any time. Hence, I would like to respectfully offer my condolences to all the brave soldiers serving in Iraq, all war veterans, and the thousands of soldiers’ families who have been forced to cope with the untimely deaths of their loved ones.
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