So there is hope...
Judging from the buzz around local schools and on the radio, the hype surrounding 50 Cent and his impending major-label debut (on Shady Records) is greater than it probably has been for any artist since Em himself.
At first, this troubled me...50 is at best an above-average emcee, at least judging from his appearances on "8 Mile." He's not Em, he's not Chuck D...he may not even be much better than Booger D (okay, maybe I'm stretching it). "Wanksta" is not a great song, but he earned my undying respect when I turned on WGCI tonight and found them in the middle of an interview with Shady's new darling...
When the first thing I hear is someone calling Ja a "fruit-pot" (at least it sounded like "fruit-pot", I'm all ears...and when they unloaded one of the skits from his most recent mixtape, I was hooked.
The premise for this skit (and one other) is Ja's penchant for hollering on stupid duets. 50 parodies Murder Inc's number one fake hip-hopper singing over hits from the likes of Shakira, Enrique Iglesias, Nickelback, Pink and No Doubt.
There's even a "duet with himself" where Ja screams over his how-was-this-a-hit "Put It On Me"...
"Singin' with myself...that's me...that's me...in the background...hollaaaa!!!"
Absolutely classic.
So maybe I was overly pessimistic. Maybe the backlash is coming. It was easy for the public to ignore KRS-One's Nelly dis track...but 50 is going to ship multi-platinum easy...and word is Em is jumping aboard with a Ja dis of his own (biggest mismatch ever what).
The more people that scream on wack rappers, the sooner we'll see some progress...and the tripe that has plagued the radio over the last couple of years (Puffy, Ja, Nelly, J. Hoe, et al.) will hopefully be too shamed to continue on. Hopefully.
So yes, hip hop is still in a state of disaster...but at least we're to the same point we reached in Bio-Dome where Pauly and Baldwin realize what a mess they've made -- there's much work to be done, but it can be cleaned up.
Hopefully by then, Nas will seriously regret signing on with Irv Gotti's Platoon of Wackness...as if he shouldn't already.
It's muuuuurrrrrrdaaaaa...on wack ass rappers.
-- O
12:32:29 AM 
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