Media Chin-Check

This should be a fun week!

I love that XXL cover with The Game's hands bound by a bandanna.

It has so many possible readings, from The Game's being held back by his gangsta past to The Game coming out as an BDSM submissive.

XXL pushes the boundaries yet again!

i just hope ur serious about ego trip coming back out. that and stress were my favorite magazines -- besides my own.
yeah this does sound like fun...BDSM! lol...

I just be knowin that the eye candy fo dis month be cross-eyed as a mothafucka. Honey got a fucked up nose and eyes that be steady lookin at eachother. Hers tits is big tho and in tha picture on page 088, she looks like she got sum nut-up on her back while she on all fours in the water. Oh that right I forget that I put that there. HAHA. Haters get on your job!

That nigga webbie ugly az hell. He be lookin like he got that downs sindrome and shit. Why his face be looking like dat? One time I seen him at the movie theatre and he be had some popped corn. I went up to that bitch and straight said, "girl, gimme that" and he got scurred.

Y'all know I'm a Jim Jones hater, so p.112, it's goin down like this...
First, we got brother man posted up in a highrise office with posters and shit thrown on the wall more randomly than a teenager's room. Posters basically reminding dude that he thinks he's somebody and that he thinks he has some role to play after waking up everyday. Notice--NO PLATINUM PLAQUES--no gold either, but no one cares about gold anymore right? This nigga supposedly the man when it comes to smoking, then why the fuck he's stll gotta cover his eyes with sunglasses when he's indoors...just do you thang man, nobody gives a fuck if you look stoned, because you been lookin scrub for a while now--it'd be a nice change. JJ's got the nappy braids comin out the back of a black fitted--no doubt black so the sweat and grease stains don't show so easy. The typical, "I shave with scissors look so people KNOW he's from the hood--not one of these clean-cut Jay-Z types (who's still from the hood.) Moving down, I ask, what would a rapper be without his chain? Then I ask what would Jim Jones be without his chain? That's right--a no-good pothead. Then he's got the biggest watch he could find--shit's water logged, stopped working last year at 4:20pm, April 20th, smells like his wrist sweat, and screams to the discerning viewer that Rolex's are not the prestige watch to have anymore. Dude's got a black tee on so his body will get hotter and consequently sweat more--producing that priceless--"hood aroma" that certifies your gangsta. Below the waist we got wrinkled jeans with either cum stains or paint splases. This goes to show that whether you getting skeeted on, or making ends meet by painting on the side, that you ain't no pretty boy, no matter what you wearin. Below the ankles, we got the size-6 Adidas Stan Smith's. These are all-white and sure to get dirty and scuffed as well as having the toes curl up after use to complete the clown/scrub look. If the wardrobe weren't low budget enough, you got a white dude pushed in the corner, shooting film on a 8mm handheld--these were the shit back in 1970 something--around the time JJ was born--no fancy shit here--we straight gangsta remember? The dude's desk ain't cluttered with important documents neither--only a half assed soundboard, desklight, and some pencils--the rolling paper is found in the 2nd drawer, left side. He'd got a makeshift sound booth in there--complete with a wall of plexi-glass window for producing the shittiest sound absorbtion next to singing underwater. Now I know why his music sucks--look at the dude's studio! Luckily XXL only broke two pages with dude's picture--else the magazine would have disintegrated with so much bullshit inside. I mean, dude having an office job sounds like what should have been all along--he wasn't a rapper, wasn't politicking--basically just a dude that used to stand in the back of the videos, taking two baby steps forward so he could be seen. I want to see you in MY office JJ, bring it...

Man, anybody check out the modeling on pgs 148--157. The title reads: "Fall back with XXL and UTP in N'awlins for our hottest back-to-school fashion ever." Get the joke yet? Okay, look at the pictures once more...still don't get it? Okay, one hint: 'stereotypes' Still don't get it? Well you'z a dumb nigga then. Anyway they showin back to school fashion on a bunch of porch-monkeys that wouldn't know how to SPELL 'school'. Got niggaz loungin on they front porch and in the street all day talking bout goin to school. Shit nigga, please... Take these stankin hood niggaz that ain't got runnin water and put em in the flashiest Hip-hop inspired threadz and damn don't they look stupid. Niggaz in front of a house with newspaper for the windows, yet they steady mobbin with that camoflage and pastel colors on. Dudes on 153 lookin like they either gonna pull a gat out or maybe they just skippin along the sidewalk like some fairy fags. Dude on 157 looks like he's old enough to be the principal if he wouldn't be the one slangin the rock in the school... Yeah, them niggaz need to go back to school--start over again in the 5th on some summer school shit--get off ya asses and do something folk!

Yous a bitch for hatin on jim jones. his new album is gonna be off the chain. What the fuck you got against my man anyway? dipset baby

anybody check the "letters" section in the front...i dont really have a stance on this but the entire section is letters from people complaining about 50 Cent and Tony Yayo being on the cover and rippin on both of them and g-unit for numerous reasons...maybe XXL omitted lots of pro-gunit letters that were sent in to create a slant or to defend themselves against claims that they ride the shady/aftermath dick all the way to the bank...but it does give the appearance that there is a real grassroots anti-50 and G-unit movement brewing up around the country...one that i'm sure The Game is having a healthy effect on

This should be interesting.

Cant we stay off commentary about 50 cent and Gunit for at least one forum.

look at that gay ass butterfly tatoo on the game's face. haha, i tried to like his corny ass rhymes, but i've had a "change of heart" hahahahahahahahahahaahahah

50 is the hardest working man in the rap game now so let him shine. Nas,Fat Joe and Kiss might win the rap battles but 50 will win the "PIGGY BANK" war like Jay-Z did. 50 and G-Unit run N.Y.C. right now so get your weight up not your hate up.

Congrats to XXL but damn, you`d better get back to being the hiphop mag that dealt with the truth and did it in a damn literate but street way.

Who cares if some white punks buy your mag because 50`s over exposed ass is on it? Stop force-feeding everybody that man, tight though he is and props to him for making it big against the odds. You`ll still get a big, big readership even if you don`t put 50 and G Unit on the cover - maybe even more readers.

I like the way XXL keeps it real by printing stacks of letters, some of them really dissing y`all. That`s the way to go Elliott, Yellow Nig!

The Source done lost its credibility by censoring all the letters that smacked them for being up Benzino`s ass and much as I don`t listen to Eminem that much, I know peeps who wrote The Source telling them to grow up and stop using the mag to chase Benzino`s vendettas.

The Source didn`t publish those letters. XXL is still street but get off the G Unit bandwagon for covers and how about a Crooked I story? One of the best rappers is starting over again with Dynasty and he deserves his chance.

Fuck 50, game, gunit
That's all I got say
And yeah fuck them niggaz hatin on jim jones ya fucking pussyies
Liv dat nigga alone is da only gansta in this game
bz up
Blood up niggaz & cz down bitchies
Dip dip dip set

Fuck 50, game, gunit
That's all I got say
And yeah fuck them niggaz hatin on jim jones ya fucking pussyies
Liv dat nigga alone is da only gansta in this game
bz up
Blood up niggaz & cz down bitchies
Dip dip dip set

50 cent the game and gunit is bloodz seig fukn hell dik headz

fuck 50 its all about game blackwallstreet 4 life gggggggggg g-unot