March 03, 2005
Missy Elliott - Road To Failure
Sure Missy Elliott is a major rap superstar and songwriter, but does she really have what it takes to pick talent? I don't think so. But I eagerly sat watching Missy Elliott's Road To Stardom every week? Probably because it comes on before Kevin Hill so I just leave the channel to UPN on Wednesdays.
Missy has a knack for finding good talent, but has the gift of never developing them. Personally, I thought her best choice was Nilyne from Plainfield, NJ. She was cute, spunky and could hold a note. Doing a little bit of research, I found that Nilyne was actually down with R&B singer Donell Jones and has pursued a modelling career before her Road To Stardom break. However, this isn't about The Road To Stardom, but The Road To Failure if you let Missy steer your career.
Jessica - The latest singer/songwriter duped into Missy's pyramid scam. We'll see what happens.
Little Brianna - Missy's latest sidekick. This would be Missy's attempt to get that Lil Bow Wow cash. Good luck.
Tweet - Tweet just had bad timing. Her debut album dropped on the same day as Ashanti's debut. Silly love song single with Biggie beat wins over risky self-masturbation song anyday. Her second single, Call Me, became the theme song for some major phone company but afterwards, nothing. Tweet is about to drop her second album this year.
Mocha - Female rapper feature on Nicole's debut album (see below). I downloaded her single, Running Shit, which I thought was kinda - cute. Different flow, good beat. She popped up on the Life soundtrack and one of MC Lyte's album, but after that...{cricket, cricket} Here's what she looked like. Maybe you'll recognize her from Walmart or something.
Nicole Wray - She appeared on All N My Grill. A year later she would drop her solo single, Make It Hot, but for some strange reason, the album never dropped. And then Nicole disappeared. Now she's signed to the Roc and that new single, If I Was Your Girlfriend is pretty descent.
Lil Mo - The girl was everywhere. Hot Boyz, Put It On Me, Parking Lot Pimpin'. Then she had Supawoman Part II popping followed by Gangsta and then her album did nothing. Then she dropped another album. Nothing. Now she's rolling with Cash Money. Hopefully Mannie Fresh can get Lil Mo out of the Elliott ditch.
Danja Mowf - Techincally, Mowf was the first artist signed to Gold Mind Records. Mowf already had the classic Word Of Mowf LP under his belt. Missy signed Danja on the strength of the Aaliyah Remix which was bumped nationally. I even heard that Mowf was on the Dangerous Mouths track alongside Redman on Missy's 2nd album but was mysteriously cut. Years later, Mowf has finally bounced back with R&B singer Tara of 'Country Boys' fame.
Why Missy gave Nilyne the heave-ho [no pun intended] is still questionable, but Nilyne should look at it as a blessing considering Missy has the natural ability to stall everyone's career but her own.
Missy Elliott = SOHH Not A&R
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March 01, 2005
Funkmaster Flex: Hide Or Cry Chick
What's up with Funkmaster Flex? He's always around instigating two camps beefing but he's never available when the beef jumps off. Flex is like that kid in your neighborhood that's always hyping others up to fight, but you never seen him in a fight. When it gets thick he's never around. The one time when you do hear about him throwing down is with DJ Steph Lova.
If you was to look up shook one in the dictionary, one of the alternative definitions would be Funkmaster Flex. Imagine how he was in the booth when Nas offered up $1,000 for anyone who could snatch Flex's chain? I bet he was having a seizure when he took that paternity test and it came back 99.99%. I honestly just don't like dude.
Funkmaster Flex = SOHH Girlie
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February 28, 2005
SOHH What You Saying?
These rappers kill me saying things that 'sound' cool but are actually pretty ignorant. Here are a few of my favorites.
Julez Santana - Refering to himself as cooked crack. NEWSFLASH! Crack is cooked cocaine (and baking soda), therefore you wouldn't cook it again. Fat Joe, who's been in the streets forever, refers to himself as 'Cook Coke'. Referring to yourself as cooked crack shows that you might not really be up on your drug game.
Jadakiss - On the The Raw Report DVD Magazine, he is questioned about why he is wearing a Ronald Reagan' shirt. He goes on to say that Reagan was one of his favorite presidents and that he was sad to hear he died. Why? Because Ronald Reagan was the coke years.
The evidence shows that for nearly 10 years a Central Intelligence Agency operation sold crack cocaine by the ton along with sophisticated assault weapons to two Los Angeles youth gangs, the Crips and the Bloods.
The CIA then funneled millions of dollars in drug profits to U.S.-trained terrorists in an effort to oust the Sandinista government in Nicaragua during the 1980s. The Sandinistas had overthrown the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship in 1979 in a mass-based revolution.
Under President Ronald Reagan the contras were responsible for killing thousand of civilians, including children. This new admission, however, sheds light on how the war against Nicaragua also took innocent lives here in the United States, through poisoning the African American community by the proliferation of drugs and high-powered, sophisticated weaponry. - Workers World.org
Despite his college education Jadakiss still manages to say some really dumb shit every once in a while
Raekwon - Everytime I listen to C.R.E.A.M. this one line makes me chuckle. "Kick the truth to the young black youth" Get it? If not, mouseover this link. What are some of your favorite lines?
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February 25, 2005
Kanye West - Stop Sucking Yourself
Kanye West must have had two ribs removed becase this guy stays sucking himself. Musicially, I like Kanye West but personally I can't stand this guy. First, he's griping about not being acknowledged by Dick Clark, now he's thinking about making magazines to pay him to be on their covers.
"These magazines make money from ads and subscriptions. But I know that part of what drives subscriptions and ads is who these magazines put on the cover, so if you're putting me on the cover and people are buying your magazine because of me, why shouldn't I get paid to be on that cover? You are going to have to pay me to do magazine covers now!"
It's statments like these where you can clearly see how a good education would help him. Allow me to give old boy a crash course in 'ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER 101'.
Kanye, magazine covers give you exposure. While it's true that popular artists help the sales of magazines, it's also helps boost sales for the artists. When people see an artist on every magazine cover, people tend to follow the hype and buy the album.
The question is should the label's pay publications for the exposure? Considering many of the people featured on the covers are wack yet they sold a considerable amount of records.
Kanye West = SOHH Stupid
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February 23, 2005
Jadakiss - Overated? Or Am I Just Hating
For some reason I'm just not feeling Jadakiss like the rest of the world. When he was making his mixtape rounds before the Bad Boy signing I was feeling him. I honestly liked Money Power Respect. On We Are The Streets and Ryde Or Die Vol. 1 - 3, the guy was a monster. But what's up with the solo albums?
Not only was his second album, Kiss Of Death, weak, but it has the same guest appearances as the first album which was also weak. Why would you bring on the same cast of characters who failed you the last time?
But my real question is who is Jadakiss? I mean, 2 group albums and 2 solo albums deep and we don't really know too much about him. IMO he's shown no growth as an artist and personally there is nothing exciting about him.
If Jada put his ear to the concrete, he'd hear that his mixtape, The Champ Is Here, was better than his albums. Hopefully, Jada will figure out the formula or else he can kiss his career goodbye. Pun intended.
Jadakiss = SOHH SOHH
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