'cause her album seems like it's repping for Brick City!
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.
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...
The people that know me always ask me what's it like being so hated on. My reply, "I don't listen to most of them because the majority of them can't read anyway."
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.
If it's one thing I hate, it's a HIP-HOP PURIST.
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.
To prove his street credibility Busta Rhymes is not telling anyone who shot his bodyguard Israel Ramirez at the video shoot this past Saturday.
"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.
