Ma's album went brick selling a total of 75,000 copies. (If you think about it, that's 1,500 albums sold per state.)

Move over Knickerbockers! Ya'll aren't the only negros from NYC putting up bricks. If she sold a record for everytime someone saw her MySpace profile she'd be halfway gold by now.

And let's admit it, she looks rather stupid in this glass.

I told ya'll way back in Septemeber that this chick was going to brick.

Blame Fat Joe. Blame SRC. Blame it on the planet not being aligned with the sun. But Remy has not been the same SINCE Lean Back. Everything up to Lean Back was fire and then she fizzled out.

SMH

Before there was a MF Doom, there was Kool Keith - the father of the off-beat style is 32 albums deep - way more than Jay-Z & LL Cool J combined. You may write of Kool Keith as a weirdo but you have to give him credit for some of his futuristic insight on why rap music in NYC is stuck...

"...NY is just stuck right now. A lot of the head officials and some of the DJs are not open and more flexible to play E-40, Too $hort, or Yukmouth. You never hear Brother Lynch Hung...NY just plays people when they are hot only. Like, when Outkast started, they never played their records until they were hot....They jump on it too late...They stuck in time..." (source)

Preach!

"You go to a club and they still play Frankie Beverly's "Before I Let Go." They can't let a record go. It's a proven fact that they just been stuck in time. They have a lot of regional artists that people just don't know anywhere else...That's how broad their thinking is. It's just somebody who's hot around the midtown area." (source)

Amen!

He hit the nail right on the head - three years ago. NYC is stuck in time. Notice how the most highly anticipated albums for 2006 are by rappers who have been making records for 10 years plus and in their early to mid-30's.

• Busta Rhymes
• Cam'ron
• D-Block
• Ghostface
• LL Cool J (never highly anticipated)
• Ma$e
• Mobb Deep
• M.O.P.
• Nas
• Raekwon (not highly anticipated)

I'm not saying "old rappers move on" but are there just no hungry high school drop outs eager to get on the mic? Where is that next LL Cool J to usher out Kool Moe Dee? It's time to find some new blood.

NYC needs a serious new Gameplan. So far plan A doesn't look like much.

Really, it's true. I'd say only 10% of you actually read what I'm saying. The other 90% of you studder and stammer through the first few sentences, read that one line that sets you off and then you get all emotional.

People - it's just Hip-Hop.

"...did you see Mr. Irreverent got an award for his blog??!!!! How in the hell didn't you get an award for yours? I'm not on your dick or anything just givin you props for your journalistic abilities..."

Then in my comments I read:

"...and he's gettin awards for this type of shit! C'mon people nobody even talks about this shit anywhere else but online."

So, let's clear up the myth of the AWARD. Byron Crawford, suggested my blog for a "BEST TAGLINE AWARD" for the Bloggies. It was just Byron's suggestion. As Byron says on his site:

"I figured I would create a list of sites I'm officially endorsing, in case anyone here would like to participate."

Now, for those of you who don't know what a tag line is, my tagline is "I love Hip-Hop, I just hate the niggas in it" which comes from Phonte of Little Brother. 

Overall, Byron just likes my tagline. Great! Let's move on. And for the record, here is the Bloggies site. Not one mention of yours truly. Plus Ron Mexico is down with me. He does my landscaping. If I win, he wins. And vice-versa.

Now to ruminate tommorow's topic....

You know the type. The type that claims they make THAT REAL HIP-HOP and their style of hip-hop is so much better than someone elses. The type that feels if you didn't grow up on Eric B. & Rakim, Superlover Cee & Casanova Rud or Biz Markie you have no business liking Hip-Hop.

The thing about these Hip-Hop Purist is they forget that THEY TO have skeltons in the closet.

Why does Ghostface attack D4L's Laffy Taffy like it's all the South has to offer? Sure Southern rappers have an abundance of records talking about Grillz, but how many songs does New York have about hustling in the streets?

I mean, what's really wrong with Laffy Taffy? It can't be the message because I've heard worse. It can't be the beat because there are some really wack beats. The problem with Laffy Taffy is that it has invaded NYC radio and clubs and it's just ONE MORE SLOT that the South has filled up. And don't front, if Dipset did Laffy Taffy NYC would eat it up - just like they did PUSH IT. SMH.

Before "The Great Holy Ghostface Killah" disses Laffy Taffy, maybe he should explain TUSH, TUSH, TUSH; video and all. And how he had the nerve to let Missy get a verse on it. Explain how "Wanna slide in the bush, bush, bush?" is any better than "Shake that laffy taffy; that laffy taffy". Explain Tooken Back and he put the worst female Southern rapper on the track. Explain that. I'd settle for an in-depth blow-by-blow on how Wu-Tang made Gravel Pit. Horrible. 

I respect the fact that Ghost makes way more substance than he does bullshit, HOWEVER he acts like his track record is beyond approach and he's not.

"I think he knew something that he wasn't able to tell me," Lara Ramirez told The Daily News. "But that's up to him. That's his conscience. If he's a God man, like he swore to me he was on the phone, I think he'll do the right thing."

"Busta said he was there when it happened," Lara told The Daily News. "He said he would do everything in his power to get justice."

Busta also promised to pay for the funeral of Ramirez and said he would try to help provide for Ramirez's three children. What are funerals these days? About $4,000 - $25,000. He can make that money back doing a guest appearance.

1. How do you TRY to help provide for three children? Either you do, or you don't.

2. What POWER does Busta have? This negro is signed to Dre. He ain't made a power move since he left J-Records. This negro is a worker-bee.

In all seriousness, the Ramirez family needs to "man-up" and not accept this man's money. What they need to do is kidnap him at the funeral and pistol whip him until he tells them what they need to know. There is no way in hell that you're going to walk God's green Earth knowing who killed my brother.

This whole 'SNITCHING' things is some real bullshit. It's got you negros looking real stupid.

Nothing like a thug pampering himself. So I guess when Capo finally smacks that Kufi off of Nas' head, he'll probably have nice soft hands to do it with.

Hold your head Harlemworld. Rob Base is making a comeback!

This is some bullshit. Watch the video for yourself. Notice how the guy is on the floor already and two cops are already beating him. A 3rd cop joins in followed by the 4th cop who runs up from out of nowhere and, unable to get any room to hit the guy's upper body, stomps on the guys ankles. Cop #4 then looks up and notices the helicopter filming and quickly stops and walks away innocently -- that selfish nigga didn't even bother warning his other boys in blue!

Heads need to roll.

But unfortunately, they won't because in the USA, the police are above the law.  Ever since the Rodney King beating when the police officers walked even after video evidence blatantly showed the abuse of conduct, a precedent has been set.  For a black person who gets beat down, you better have video, audio, forensic evidence, Xrays, eyewitnesses and a very gangsta lawyer if you even stand a chance.  Hey... you could even get one of those black boxes like they got in airplanes to capture all the data on your beatdown.

Makes you wanna holla...

Today, as I walk through Harlem, I see flags flying at half-mass and negros with their heads hung low. I ask one negro what happened and he said, "Cam'ron held a press conference to let everyone know that Jay-Z had something popping with Charli Baltimore."

I was in disbelief. No one with "Capo-Status" would send out e-mails and faxes to every media outlet to let them know such a trival fact, right?

Rest assured Harlemworld, and this too will come to pass.

LESSON LEARNED: Never hold a press conferences for a rap beef that isn't your beef. Unless you're Prodigy, then it's ok to take up another mans beef. [PUN INTENDED]

The new Diddy ads for his Unforgivable perfume is hot. It's clean. It's sexy. It's almost artistic. It's something that models can be proud of.

Now, I can already see you BLACK WOMEN complaining about he doesn't have you in the ads. Even as you read this, you're probably doing that thing ya'll do with ya'll neck when you're riled up. Don't go there.

Diddy has been supporting his BLACK WOMEN from day one. When he needs some tailfeathers to shake in a video, who does he call? BLACK WOMEN (read: LIGHT-SKINNED BLACK WOMEN). When he's paying that child support, who does he send that check to? A BLACK WOMAN. Kim Porter is getting enough money a month to get her hair did every half-hour. So don't act like he's not down for his BLACK WOMAN.

The bottom line is that unless you're a white man (Shout out to Bill Maher), a BLACK WOMAN is not a symbol of success. Play the background and let Diddy do his thing.

Oh yea, Unforgivable IN STORES NOW. You BLACK WOMEN know you're going to buy it for your man to smell good for you. Take that - take that - take that.

But what about the Bronx?

To my recollection, the best The Bronx has to offer is Big Pun, Boogie Down Productions (not KRS-One), Slick Rick and Nice & Smooth. You could toss 3/4's of D.I.T.C. (Lord Finesse, Diamond, Show & AG) in there too for impact, but not sales. But after that, it's a wrap. Remy Ma. Drag-on. Fat Joe. Chi-Ali. The Legion. I'm sure I'm missing some people but that just shows how boring the BX is.

It just goes to show that it doesn't matter who started it, but who finishes it. This is just a segment of a large issue, which is NEW YORK HIP-HOP IS IN A COMA. I'm too busy to write it out and be thought provoking, but rappers in NYC suck - ESPECIALLY PAPOOSE. This negro is garbage. I've heard people say he's the 2nd coming of Raekwon. Ya'll are bugging out. Papoose is sub-par. And you tell him and Kay Slay that I said it.

"I'm a little afraid, as you [Julia Beverly] just being a woman and the way he was talking to as woman - using the word bitch, slut and you know...it was pretty ugly." - Funkmaster Flex (listen to part 1, 2, 3)

Um, didn't he try to knock out former Power 105.1 DJ Steph Lova? - and she's 6 feet tall!

And when he's not knocking chicks out, he's knocking them up.

He should consider joining HEAVY HITTERS.

"If you have to think negative, you're gonna see and feel negative. If you hear a little blank put in a nice word in there. I always think positive, so I don't even foster the thought of the children or [that] anyone [is] gonna put in the blank with the nasty, nasty words."

So on that note, we're going to play:

VOLETTA WALLACE'S THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS WORD GAME

Choose any verse from any B.I.G. song. Replace the negative words, with positive words. You can not use cuss words. Cuss words defined as words you would not say on a job interview. And try not to use the same verse as someone else.

I'll go first.

Now, I would have thought that our regularly scheduled chin checker of the media would be above the Jedi Mind Tricks of the media, but I see he's not built like that. He's just another working minority who has been successfully turned against other working minorities. So while he's on mental strike, I'll take over and check the media.

The media chin checker says he'd trade in his writers position to push a train but you don't get lung cancer writing a blog. You don't deal with millions of angry niggas everyday writing a blog. You don't have back pain from writing a blog. You don't die before retirement from writing a blog.

Jay DeDapper from WNBC, NY was "reporting" that the TWU had turned down a "sweet deal" from the MTA. He never gave the details of the deal, and he never gave the details of what the TWU wanted. However, it was a "sweet deal". They'll give Mayor Bloomberg 10 minutes of unedited time to ramble on about how the strike is against the law, but they'll edit Roger Toussaint's statements.

You think these workers want to strike? For some of these workers, they've been doing this since they got out of high school. They are unskilled in the sense that they don't know how to do anything but move a bus or a train but they are skilled because ain't no one crossing that picket line to take their jobs.

Hashim, you make it seem like "driving buses in circles and doling out change from their token booths" is easy but if you're like most New Yorkers, you probably don't have a drivers license so that disqualifies you from driving the bus. And you're not built for doling out change from a token booth. Do you remembers when token booths were getting burned up with the employees still inside? [i.e. Intervale Ave in the BX]  Trust me, it's much safer behind your firewall.

Ain't Hip-Hop about the struggle? Ain't it about getting rich or die trying? That's all these people are trying to do. Don't knock the hustle.

[Told you I was coming for your head. You thought I let this slide?]

What is the hype with Big Pun?

Don't get me wrong, I like Pun, but I don't love Pun. Over the years, I've met people who say Big Pun is this great rapper, so when I ask them to spit something he did that made you a fan, without fail they always quote 'Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily'. Is this the best rhyme that he has?

My favorite rapper of all time is Big Daddy Kane. If someone was to ask me why I like Kane, I'm able to quote whole verses from RAW, Ain't No Half Stepping, Set It Off, Long Live The Kane, Wrath Of Kane, Come On Down, On The Bugged Tip, Burn Hollywood Burn...But that's just me.

I think Big Pun fans are doing Big Pun a dis-service. If this is supposed to be your favorite rapper, tell more than 2 bars of a tongue twister. 

Someone please school me on Big Pun! What is so great about this guy aside from him being the first Latino rapper to go platinum - which is questionable - isn't Sen Dog (Cypress Hill) of Latino descent?

Once upon a time there was a child rapper named Bow Wow. Using his cuteness and "106 & Park," Bow Wow sold millions of records and had every 9 year-old girl wanting to have his baby. The boys his age did not want to play with Bow Wow because they felt he was not "real."

To keep his image wholesome and his chain from getting snatched - Bow Wow built himself a gated community WITHIN his home in Atlanta. This allowed Bow Wow to walk around his hood safe and sound - never to worry about getting jumped or having to buy back his chain like his peers [ex: Prodigy, Ja-Rule].

As he approached his 18th birthday, Bow Wow's record label called with some very disturbing news...

Bow Wow started to get scurred. He knew other child rappers like Chris Kelly and Chris Smith of Kriss Kross who faded from the limelight. He remembered how Kriss Kross tried to be 'realer' on their last album, Young, Rich and Dangerous. It focused on money and two-somes with older women, but it backfired. Kriss Kross was never heard from again. Concerned that he would have to move back to the rough streets of The C.O., Bow Wow wondered what could make him more 'real'?

Then his fairy publicist two-wayed him and told him to try a few things to boost his career.

Date someone in the entertainment business!

This appealed to Bow Wow. While making himself more 'real', he could lose his virginity at the same time. Bow Wow reached out to Ciara, another rising young artist on the come up. Ciara blew up so large that people started to refer to Bow Wow as Mr. Ciara. It got him on the cover of VIBE, but no one cared about Bow Wow being on the cover of a failing magazine. When Bow Wow and Ciara would go out in public, guys would kick it to Ciara like he wasn't even there. He didn't like this. Bow Wow two-wayed his fairy publicist and asked what else he could do.

Take off your shirt.

As a child, Bow Wow couldn't take off his shirt. He was too little. But now that he was older, he could follow in the footsteps of LL Cool J and Nelly. Everyday Bow Wow would read books on bodybuilding and do 100 push ups and 100 sit-ups every hour, every day for three months straight. Sometimes he would do his push ups on his knuckles to make himself extra 'real.'

After two months Bow Wow had the body of a little black Purdue Chicken with corn rows. He didn't like this. Fed up and disappointed Bow Wow stopped two-waying his Fairy Publicist. He called up his Fairy Marketing Department and asked what else he could do to appeal more 'real' and sell records.

His Fairy Marketing Department had one last idea. He warned him that he might not be built for it and it could backfire.

Like a lil toy solder, Bow Wow stuck out his bird-like chest and said "Tell me! I'll do anything." And with that, the Fairy Marketing Department told him...

Start beef with a high profile rapper.

Bow Wow thought about this. He hadn't had a conflict since first grade which was over some Lego blocks and he didn't win that time. This wouldn't be easy. Bow Wow called his mother. Together, over some Henrock for mom and milk and cookies for Bow Wow, the two made a list of rappers to start beef with.

• 50 Cent? Nope. He'll beat me up. Next.
• Nas? Nope. Jay made that mistake. Next.
• Foxy Brown? She's not even trying to hear me. Next.
• Beanie Sigel? He's free? [Bow Wow tucks his chain.] Next.
• T.I.? He writes my rhymes. Next.
• Teairra Marí? "She's not a rapper. And she'll kick my ass."

Bow Wow came up with every rapper in the book from Kid Frost to The Rapping Duke. Tired and depressed he said "Mama, every rapper can kick my ass. This is hopeless."

Mama Bow Wow's Lil Meal Ticket was heart broken. She knew that she was Bow Wow's last hope. She threw back another shot of Hen-rock and started to think very hard. Suddenly, every light in the house went dim.

"Bow Wow!" his mother exclaimed. "They didn't say he had to be a good rapper!"  She told him who she thought was the perfect rapper to go at, and hen told Bow Wow how much she loved him.

"I love you Bow Wow. I picked you a nice safe rapper so won't have to walk around with the ATLPD like 50 Cent. You're my meal ticket out of The C.O. and I don't want to see you kilt like Tupac and Biggie. Plus, Jermaine Dupri owns your publishing and you don't have enough street cred to pull off a Free Bow Wow campaign. Make mama proud. Oh yea, my debt card is on E. You plan on going on tour next week lil nigga?"

Bow Wow called up his Fairy Marketing Department and told them the great news. The Fairy Marketing Department, who hadn't marketed a real Hip-Hop act in so long, was excited too. Bow Wow had come up with the perfect rapper he could handle. This would make him a 'real' rapper!

The Fairy Marketing Department called Interscope to reach out to Elliott Wilson. He and Jimmy Iovine ran XXL, the best Hip-Hop magazine by default, but he wasn't available to speak. Interscope put The Fairy Marketing Department through to Elliott Wilson's voicemail. Bow Wow also wanted to buy the cover, but was told that he had to be down with Shady, Aftermath or G-Unit to get on the cover. Bow Wow settled for the interview.

Before the interview, Bow Wow rehearsed his lines to start the beef. He practiced them in the mirror. He said them to his mom. He would say them while doing his 100 push-ups on his knuckles. He knew what he had to do to become 'realer' *and* to make 18 year old girls desire his seed.

The interview was by phone. As they talked, the interviewer could hear his heart pounding through Bow Wow's lil bird-like chest. Bow Wow dismissed the interviewer stating that he was "beating on the table."

With his hands on his balls, fitted pulled low over his eyes, slumped down in his chair displaying his best grimey face, Bow Wow was ready to start his first beef!

"To me, honestly, Will wasn’t like a real rapper. He was more like a gimmick. Then he zapped in to get a TV show, and it was on and poppin’. Then after that he was in Hollywood. So things came easy for him."

"With me, I’m a rapper. I ain’t with the whole colorful cornball type things. That’s just not my style. The only real rappers out there right now are me, Kanye, 50, and maybe Jay [Z]. But Jay ain’t in it like that no more."

"Will Smith can act, but he does more of those blockbuster Hollywood movies, which I wanna do. But also I wanna do it like Denzel. Movies that really mean something. I feel like I can definitely be better than him."

XXL, too lazy to question Bow Wow's statements, just published the interview. They felt they had wasted enough time with Bow Wow when they could have been doing a cover shoot with Spider Loc. [Iovine would be pissed. But that's another story.]

However, just like Bow Wow's other tactics, this too backfired. Many readers skipped the interview ignoring him just like when he's with Ciara. Those that did read the interview laughed at Bow Wow's comments. While they disliked Will Smith as a rapper, many saw Bow Wow as being worst than Will Smith. Bow Wow lost all remaining credibililty.

Bow Wow went home and jumped out of his window.

The End.