Harlem. 140th and Lenox. Dipset. 40 Cal. This rapper, who hit the streets hard with the mixtape heavyhitter, Trigger Happy, has followed up with Broken Safety and is on the re-up with a few more projects serving as a street savvy recipe for his continuation with the Dipset “movement.â€
With the recent buzz circulating after his run-in with fellow Harlemite Loon, SOHH NYC caught up with Cal. to get his side of what went down in the Harlem barbershop, the situation with “Fight Klub†competitor Sam Scarfo, Young Jeezy snatching “Survivor,†Mase being “washed up,†and the “changing faces†of Harlem.
And contrary to most peoples' belief, his alias doesn't stem from the .40 pistol.
SOHH: You're from the "Danger Zone," right? Lenox Ave? So, I just wanted to get your opinion on what's been going on with the whole... them kicking people out of their apartments and jacking up the rent. I mean, you see what's going on in Harlem right? It's not a good look. How do you feel about that?
40: I mean, it's terrible. You already know like, a lot of people been living in their same apartment, same block, with they families for years, nahmean. And a lot of people got a lot of history and you know. What they doing now is the landlords is buying people out of their apartments for a few thousand dollars and all that. And what they're doing is moving the wealthy families in and charging, upping the rent about another thousand.
SOHH: Yeah, I'm not feelin' that too much. So let's talk about the album. You just recently dropped Broken Safety. Talk a little about that.
40: Aight...Broken Safety, first of all, it's more like a mixtape. I got a mixtape deal with Cleopatra/X-ray Records. It was like, Broken Safety started out as a mixtapeâ€"I was gonna put out like a regular Dipset mixtape. But a lot of people got wind of it and heard it before I dropped it, and they had bigger plans for it so that’s when the deal came into play. Right now, we droppin’ it right now lettin’ people know how I get down. Put it in stores, and we gonna see how it do.
SOHH: So it’s not really a full-length LP?
40: Nah, it's just like an album. All our mixtapes be like albums anyway. It's just in mixtape format. I got different types of songs. I got a slow joint, I got a fast down south type of joint, I got a party joint, I got an old school type of joint. I got a couple hard joints. I try to get every, all type of areas.
SOHH: So you’re not gonna come out with an album like maybe a while from now, maybe go all out do a video with it and everything or is it strictly gonna be mixtapes?
40: Well ,I got plans like, before this I dropped Trigger Happy, and before that it was 40 to Life which started out to be the best of me. And it was more like, people that didn’t notice me that didn’t really know me you know I had to give the benefit of the doubt. It was more like a mixtape. So I let them surface around the ‘hood and then I dropped Broken Safety that marks almost like a hundred songs I dropped like this year. So I’ma let all that air out and let the DJs they do they mixtapes off of that. I stay hittin’ every other mixtape with new music so you know…
SOHH: And I mean, the album cover was hot. Who’s idea was that? ‘Cause it was really representing with the [1]40th and Lenox in the background and all that.
40: Yeah that’s the block and I told them, I need the block in the background when I drop this. Nahmean. That’s how I got my name, 40 Cal. Calvin from 40th.
SOHH: Oh ok. Now I noticed there weren’t a lot of Dipset appearances... I mean there were a few, but not the people everyone would expect like Cam’ron or Jim Jones. I saw J.R, Freakey Zeaky, and somebody else too. But by not having so many collabo regulars were you just trying to do something different?
40: Yeah, for two reasons. I wanted to show people I could stand alone. Because lot of people know me from the features with Cam and Jim and everybody. I wanted to show more that I could stand alone, just me, and at the same time, I had did this like a year and a half ago. So at that point it was kinda hard to get the features I wanted anyway. So I just wanted to keep it like that. I got another one coming, you know, an album, album that I’ll have the regular Dipset features.
SOHH: So you do have a real album that’s coming out soon?
40: Yeah, I do. No doubt. I got a DVD coming out too, it’s called Broken Safety DVD. It has my “Fight Klub†battles on there, exclusive battles, interviews and some videos.
SOHH: And that leads me to my next question with the “Fight Klub†battle with Sam Scarfo. From what I understand you won the first battle and he won the second. After that, if I’m not mistaken, he got a little big headed with the bragging… So is this where the dis track “Sam Scared†came from?
40: Yeah… yeah. Basically, the way it started was, I mean… I don’t… if somebody was to beat me in a battle, that doesn’t make them my enemy or anything. It’s a battle, it’s a competitive sport. Like how…basketball or football. It’s just the fact that he got on the DVD and he was talking shit about it and making it… and defaming my name to make him look better. So you know, I was gonna get at him. I address all issues. But like I said this shit was like a year and half ago so it was kinda outdated. I was supposed to been dropped it, but he never really dropped nothing or said nothing I heard to make me wanna drop that but the beat, the track was so fire they was like ‘keep it on the album.’ Know what I’m sayin.’
SOHH: Now, a couple of weeks ago, and I heard this story in so many different ways. But from what I understand you got into a fight with Loon at a Harlem barbershop. Like, everyone’s been telling the story the way they heard it. So do you wanna tell your side of the story?
40: Yeah, well… I don’t know how they heard it.
SOHH: Yeah they were just saying that… people just twist things up and tell it however they wanna tell it so I’m really not sure of how credible any of it is. They were just saying basically that you got in a fight with him and someone had a shovel. They were saying you had a shovel and some said he had a shovel…and, I donno. So you just wanna clear the air a little bit?
40: Aight. What happened was we was in the barbershop, and me and him have the same barber. Basically, he tried to sneak me while I was in the chair. And my back was turned and he came behind and tried to hit me. He wasn’t successful, I got up out of the chair, he swung again, I blocked it, went pushed him in the chair, snuffed him, he ran…no he picked up a shovel after that. He had a shovel after he um… he got up. I told him put the shovel down. He ran outside, jumped in his car and I finished getting my line, my hair cut.
SOHH: And that was it? So I mean, it just ended that quick? He just jumped in the car and left…
40: I mean, I just gave you a quick formation. I mean um, like after I pushed him in the chair and snuffed him, he grabbed me and the barber broke it up. And was like ‘come outside.’ He grabbed the shovel, went outside, dropped the shovel and ran. Or passed the shovel off and ran. Jumped into some like, Ford Focus. And I finished getting my hair cut.
SOHH: That’s crazy. So I mean, where did this come from? I mean, I heard he was going at Dipset, that he was just running his mouth. I mean, where did it start?
40: Somethin’ about…we was arguing on the radio so he said somethin’ about I was on a dis track, and was talking about him. The history go back further than that ‘cause we knew each other for a long time. Before Dipset you know, he used to be under me. The dude’s like older than me. So I put him under my wing, taught him a lot of shit. I don’t … he got the Bad Boy deal, I had got locked up for a like little while, I had did this short, short bid. Came back, he wasn’t putting nobody on. Wasn’t trying to put nobody on. I fucked with Cam, got on with Cam, and he got on the radio and said on the line that he ain’t like… I heard he was mad, came around my block, and was poppin’ shit. I wasn’t around. But when I seen him, approached him it wasn’t none of that. It was just like, he was just coppin’ pleas about how Puff’s doing him dirty and shit with a song he wrote. But, I mean, it’s a long story…
SOHH: Right. Well do you feel confident with the album? Would you have done anything differently?
40: Nah. Not really. I’m not… I wouldn’t do nothing different. I’m real comfortable with the album. I put a lot of work in them tracks. A lot of shit like, to me that was like a masterpiece. A lot of tracks got leaked ‘cause it’s only for so long that you can hold on to something so fire. But you know, for instance, like the history of the song “Survivor†with Akon. A lot of people don’t know I had the original track before Jeezy. At the time I had just met Akon. He had did another song for me called “Outlaw“ that I never put on the album. But a lot of people don’t know. He had did that track. That’s how he was doing. He was sellin’ beats and the hooks at the same time. Long story short I had did that track and I ain’t really release it but I ain’t get good clearance with Akon. Long story short you know, Jeezy got that Jeezy paper [laughs]. All I did was…you could see the hook is slightly different from the other shit. The only thing that’s the same is the ‘keep on movin'…’ I told my boy Reck, that’s my producer, to switch the beat and… it came out good like that.
SOHH: So you don’t feel a certain type of way about Jeezy taking it over?
40: Nah it’s all business man. I mean, he ain’t know. He ain’t know I wanted it. I would do the same thing if I was him.
SOHH: Now Mase is from Harlem. A lot of people say he’s washed up. Just with the way of him bouncing back and forth between preaching and rapping or whatever it is he’s doing... I don't know. He don’t even know himself. I mean, do you feel like he’s misrepresenting Harlem?
40: Well um, Mase… I don’t know man. Yeah…I agree. I think he is washed up. I don’t know what kind of fans he has. I mean, he might have… suburb fans. Like, urban friends, I don’t see none of those…like honestly, ain’t nobody in the ‘hood talking about Mase. But who knows. He couldâ€"50 [Cent] do his hook, come out with a hot beat, anything is possible. I don’t know man. I ain’t with that man. Dude… dude Mase, I don’t know about him, man. A couple of my friends be with the G-Unit entourage and I be hearing the stories about Mase. I donno…that dude need to wash it up, man.
SOHH: Well is there anything else that you wanted to address that we haven’t touched on?
40: I mean you already know man. Broken Safety is out. Cop that. Broken Safety DVD coming up next, battles after that. Got a new mixtape coming out. I’ma drop it soon it’s gonna be hot. I’m droppin’ ‘em like mini albums nahmean. I might call it “Don’t Beat Me in My Head Volume One†[laughs] nah… or um, “The Koofey List.†And we gonna get it in like that and address all issues…you already know. Dipset all day.
FIRST!
40 and JR and Hell Rell are the only decent dudes in Dipset. Fuck the rest of that wack ass group.
CAM=WACK
JUELZ=WACK
JIM JONES=WACK
ZEAKY=GAY
40 and JR and Hell Rell are the only decent dudes in Dipset. Fuck the rest of that wack ass group.
CAM=WACK
JUELZ=WACK
JIM JONES=WACK
ZEAKY=GAY
All them Dipset boys are wack ass niggaz, the shame of New york!
DIPSET R LIKE THE EASTCOAST VERSION OF D4L & DEM FRANCHIZE BOYZ
LOON WHIPPED THAT BOY ASS LOL LOOK HOW HE STUTTER & SHIT
He wasn’t successful, I got up out of the chair, he swung again, I blocked it, went pushed him in the chair, snuffed him, he ran…no he picked up a shovel after that. He had a shovel after he um… he got up
Like LOON could BEAT somebody up...LOL hahaha !! LOON went to high school in Beverly HILLS !!!!! 40 CAL and HELL RELL are them DUDES !!!! Im not a fan of the whole Dip set shit, But them 2 niggas is nice...I'll Co-sign CAm,Jim,Santana and Jr's WACKNESS !!!
BKLYN ALL DAY !!! GATBUSH WHADDUP!!!
Nigga eats salads. He's a softy. He's gay.
What's good? This kid sounds kinda ok but i haven't listened to anything from him yet...the dickset click haven't given me some hot shit in a minute so i don't fuck wit em much...
i would give him a listen if he is like JR n Hell Rell....
whateverhappened with that kid Sky Balla...he spit a mean joint wit Juelz on some mixtape....%0 do not agree wit the level of violence on Dickset's music...please let the shit be justified not gratuitous like wit Cam's verses a mad number of times!
PAMOJA!!!
Mildly informative interview, .40 Cal searches for ummm..., words like Loon really hit him the shovel....ummm....
Does he think i'm an idiot? His name did come from the .40 Calibur pistol, who's he trying to fool?
His street is 140th & Lennox not 40th and if its not modelled after the pistol why is it spell ".40 Cal." instead of just "40 Cal."?
Dude can rap, but the more important question is can he run faster than Cam and Jimmy?...LOL Loony Bin Loon never got the shovel off so we won't know anytime soon.
Where's My Cheesecake?!!!
Hell Rell is a beast and I dont get it when yall say 40 cal is better than Santana on the mic yall must be suckin dick for crack to be sayin some dumb shit like that. Jim got a new crew called Byrd Gang wit stack bundles and this one dude name NOE an NOE can eat up your favorite rapper any day on the MIC real talk.
Dude can rap, but the more important question is can he run faster than Cam and Jimmy?
Posted by: ODEMIC at August 23, 2006 07:42 AM
LMAO!!!
Yo whats good O'
This was a funny ass interview ya boy 40 Cal stutter more than a washed up boxer. I was trying to feel what he was saying but between all the ummms and nah means it was just a little too unbelievable. Anyway this blog should have all the Dip-Set stans and haters popping off b4 12:00 so on that note I'ma hit the background and just read the post and maybe add my 2 cents every now and then.
SHOUT OUTS ALL THE USUALS, ODEMIC, ODHIS, BIGUP2BK, KSH, ROCKY, IJUSTKEEPONHUSTLIN, BXCONNECT, MY 2 CENT, BLAZEMCHERBS, E. FRAZIER, BLACK FRIDAY, BANGA, AND ANYONE I ELSE I 4GOT GET AT ME!
PEACE!
BROOKLYN STAND UP!
Half of ya'll dudes on here iz ass,always commentin on how a nigga movin and dont even live in the same state moreless near his block...i saw the battle against scarfo..."so i put em in all white cast like sienfeld"..dude iz sick.
I'm up early because it's an early work day for me.
Shouts to the usuals, Bigup2BK, KSH, Karess, Xclusive BK Dude, IJUSTKEEPONHUSTLIN, willysimmons, BXconnect, My2Cents, Blaze, Black Friday, Banga, Rocky(when it's not Bey vs Janet on Soulful)just kidding, lol, Odemic and anyone I forgot.
Very simply, this cat is scary. He couldn't get it straight on that fight. He must have got his ass whupped or something! When it came to Mase, he started tip-toeing around his true feelings on the subject. Either it's out of respect or fear. I think earlier in the week someone mentioned Mase had a rep in Harlem for some foul shit back in the day. Either way, whether name is after a gun or a street it doesn't matter. Any nigga than can spit and win on Fight Klub has a place in my whip. I don't care enough about dipset to have an opinion on them either negative or positive. I just like hardcore shit. Speaking of that, Game's new shit is fire. I like the fact that he doesn't have a lot of naked chicks humping around his set.
For all you hip hop heads I just wanna say this.
The Mixtape circuit is getting out of control.
Niggas is throwing mixtape verses on albums and vice versa. First of all mixtape D.J.'s need to encourage emcee's to flip off the top of the dome.
I don't want to buy and album that I heard half the verses already.
anyway
Download "Glamorous", the first single off my I.W.'s new album from the link below.
New single comes out today.
40 cal gun or street name the nigguh got skills respect where respect due....Who gives a fuck if he got beat by loon r if loon beat him up....Fuck who is the hardest it's who is the smartest.....Myspace.com/bottlesbaby..
"Nigga eats salads. He's a softy. He's gay"
Posted by DJ Lucky Luke at August 23, 2006 07:29 AM
Eating salads don't make U soft, an ox is strong as fuck, but it eats nothing but grass
Hey dolls...(usuals)
Not a big Dipset fan so I really only have an opinion on Mase - HE needs to sit his ass down. He was making rounds all over the ATL (Eddie Long, Creflo Dollar, Megafest-TD Jakes) and he even came to my church a few years ago and he was talking about the violence in rap and trying to encourage young kids about what to do; he did not seem sincere to me - and now he is rolling with 50 - I guess preaching ain't paying like he thought.
And Loon jumped in a Ford Focus - oh my that's a Barbie car right?
That was the funniest shit I have ever read. I never seen a nigga stutter in an interview. It's funny because before I heard about this fight everybody was talking about how tough Loon was and he will beat a nigga ass and then when he beat 40 Cal (dipset nigga) ass it's Loon can't fight that nigga softer than wet tissue. Can I get some consistency?
I heard a lot of good thing about 40 Cal, but the bottom line is niggas is overflooding the mixtape circuit and the shit is getting ridiculous. I cannot buy a fucking mixtape every two weeks so I will just wait to he finally release a single and judge him off of that.
KSH whats good mami???
LOL@THE FORD FOCUS
I was thinking the same sh!t. I'm like this ni99a suppose to be a rap star and he pushing a $15000 car lmao. Damn Puffy must be really raping ni99as @ Bad Boy take that, take that
FK dis
Last Night HBO Aired Spike Lee's Documentary about the Aftermath of Katrina
The Government is completely ignoring them
the sht he showed is fk'd up
There should be a blog on that instead
I didn't know they never built Levy
they built something called a I-Tower or something Levy are supposed to be built 17feet below the surface to work
there's was only ten
They was like 10 to 15 yrs ago when they were built, they knew them shts couldn't up to a hurricane and they didn't want to spend the money on doing it properly.
Then they were showing all the oil companies off their coast doing all this drilling for oil but none of the money went to N.O. cause they were a certain distance away from the shore so the government got it all. Did anyone else see dat that sht. I'm fkin heated
Them people were paying insurance companies their entire lives every month for yrs on their homes and the insurance companies didn't give em sht.
They got trailers for people to live in
just sitting in a lot but because of political issues they haven't given them out yet so the people can come back home.
@Essex:
I feel you homes. I noticed that shit a while back too. Jay spit a "radio freestyle" that came to be his verse on "The Watcher". Same thing for "Dear Summer", which I heard started as a diss to Game, then some words got change around...don't know if that last part is completely true. Anyway, 50 has done this shit like a hundred times too.
Also like when you catch niggas on "The Basement" spitting verses off their albums as freestyle. Lloyd Banks & Tony Yayo are the two latest examples I can think of.
Shout outs to them Suspects,
We dont believe you, you need real people.....
I heard Zeaky a snitch, Killa Stan paid for nigga to get transfered to DC or something, shamefull.
Um, Loon had ran, no, um, he had a shovel, and then he passed it to somebody or threw it and ran, um, yeah, he ran.
Loon can box and he's holding a shovel. Nowhere does it say Loon was outnumbered, I dont see him ditching and running, he probably tried to Barry Bonds 40Cal's ass.
This is just like when Tru "couldn't come up with da money", when infact he brought extra to the table, THEY folded when he raised, and then the PR genius Cam started spreading stories.
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I'm a drill sargeant...
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lol, I was just trying to stay away from the Ford Focus comment. No wonder niggas are jumping off Bad Boy like it's the New York Mets bandwagon when Pedro got hurt last week. A fucking Ford Focus.
Peace to Xclusive, and one of my personal faves KSH!
@Blaze...
I thought that was the deal too. I read (can't remember where) that Tru did put the money up...then Jimmy copped deuce on the whole thing. I say let them dudes box it out...and get that on TV. If it happens...Jimmy better win, dudes career couldn't take another L.
@ Ciceroe
I lost respect for that shit when I heard Jada spitting shit off his album in the Basement. The only one that flowed on that shit was Tigger. I only remember one nigga spitting heat on there and that was Redman. That's why I always cop his shit.
@Blaze
That shit is funny!
Xclusive BK Dude:
Hey babe! I was a lil puzzled by Loon running b/c in the ATL they say don't nobody f&*k wit this nicca cause he is crazy. I don't know. But the Ford Focus took me for a loop - and if somebody get at me like that I can't see letting them run out and me chillin'- but who is gonna tell that they were a lil skarred! (shovel or not)
Banga! Did you catch the first episode on Monday? If not, next Tuesday they are going to air all 4 hours - I am not sure what time but check it out it is very informative. I have been done there 4x's since it happened and I have to go back in November. Slow progress and nonchalant attitudes from the government - they started doing some stuff when they found out Spike was coming down there - but when the camera's left - everything was back to normal - everybody taking their time to do things b/c contractors are ripping off the government and the city of New Orleans.
All our mixtapes be like albums anyway. It's just in mixtape format. I got different types of songs. I got a slow joint, I got a fast down south type of joint, I got a party joint, I got an old school type of joint. I got a couple hard joints. I try to get every, all type of areas.
This is the downfall of New York rap. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, New York niggaz did their own thing. They didn't try to make slow songs or party joints or "fast down south" type of joints.
Bottom line: Do you. Rep New York.
been tellin dudes for years the 40cal is the nicest in dipset, he has his own flow style not like the rest of them dudes....One thing I need to know where is the promotion for these DipSet dudes, I mean they say shit on mixtapes that come out like two months b4 the alblum, Cam and Jim need to step there game up...
@Ernest
I threw my hands up with BET...I'm done. They were one of the few channels I actually watched but now...they're slowly turning into another 24/7 "reality" TV network. I used to hate AJ on 106 & Park (annoying as fuck, always trying to be cool, and sniffing up Free's ass)...then Free bounced, and they actually found MORE annoying people to replace him...Look for the plugged to get pulled on that real soon. The Basement, does that still come on?
@KSH and Banga
I missed it due to late night work and I didn't DVR it because I forgot. But, I have been keeping up with Ray Nagin headlines and it seems he is most of the reason for the slow response and the lack of urgency in rebuilding. His ass is getting kickbacks kind of like Daley up here in Chicago. Word in the last headline on Comcast.Net is that Nagin is going for another type of resident in those areas. Remember Monday's blog?
@ernest frazier
Hey sweetie!
I was trying to figure why would any nicca go to Harlem in a Focus - Loon need to be hitting Diddy's ass with a shovel if got him riding in the Barbie car - hell Barbie don't even use the dam Focus she got too much class!
& no doubt you are one of my personal favs too!
Here's the article that is focusing on exactly what KSH is saying:
1 hour ago
NEW ORLEANS - No less than a half-dozen reports on the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort are being released to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the storm _ and nearly all criticize the sluggish pace of the response.
The reports document a host of problems, from the still-unfinished levees to the plight of small businesses and the city's continuing racial divide.
"It's a pretty bleak picture," said Minor Sinclair, who heads the U.S. regional office of Oxfam America, a charitable organization.
Many of the reports focus on the failure of federal dollars to reach their intended targets. Oxfam's report points out that although $17 billion has been approved by Congress to rebuild homes in Louisiana and Mississippi, not one house has been rebuilt with that money in either state.
A report from the Democratic members of the House Small Business Committee found that 80 percent of small businesses on the Gulf Coast have not yet received loans promised by the federal government. The Small Business Administration has approved loans in excess of $10 billion, but only $2 billion has found its way to business owners.
The report also cited massive delays at the federal agency, forcing some business owners to wait as long as 100 days for a decision on loan applications.
"These long delays have not only caused many viable small businesses to fail that would have otherwise survived, but has contributed to the slow recovery of the local economy," the report said.
SBA spokeswoman Anne Marie Frawley said late Tuesday that the agency has approved more than 156,700 loans, 52 percent of them to businesses. Money has been sent to more than 100,000 recipients, she said.
Frawley said that it isn't surprising that all the approved loans haven't yet been disbursed. Thirty-two percent of approved loans remained undisbursed a year after the 2004 hurricanes in Florida, while a year after Katrina, 29 percent remain undisbursed, she said.
Three reports found that the lack of federal aid disproportionately affects black residents and the poor.
In Louisiana and Mississippi, blacks are more likely to be renters than whites, two reports noted, citing census data. Though a large proportion of the dwellings destroyed by Katrina were occupied by renters, only a fraction of the federal housing assistance has been earmarked for rental units, according to several of the studies.
A report by the Mississippi conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said the lack of rental aid will have long-term impacts on places like Biloxi, Miss., where 70 percent of renters were black, and Pascagoula, where 75 percent were black. A report by the Brookings Institution in Washington argued that with rents having risen 39 percent in New Orleans, the need to repair affordable rental units is crucial.
Compounding the problem is the degradation of such services as public transit, which are typically used by low-income residents. A policy paper by the Washington-based Leadership Conference on Civil Rights found that only 49 percent of the New Orleans area bus routes have resumed. Only 17 percent of the buses are operational.
"Many of the poor in New Orleans do not own cars ... so they are dependent on public transportation in order to work," the paper said.
Several studies said the lack of affordable housing continues to weaken the labor pool.
"If people have nowhere to live or if they can't afford to live where they work, it becomes difficult for them to go where the jobs are. ... The end result is that recovery in the struggling areas is being slowed, sometimes to a near halt," said a report by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government and the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana.
Amy Liu, author of the Brookings Institution report, pointed to streets that are still choked with debris as evidence of the failings of the recovery effort.
"These still storm-scarred neighborhoods are a stark reminder of the magnitude of the storm," she wrote. "But they also hang like billboards, advertising that little progress has been made."
Sorry for the long post.
YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO DIP-SET???
Jay-Z happened to Dip-Set. Ever since he stopped co-signing they sh!t and became El Presidente them dudes have never been the same. But it was business nothing personal but the Pink Ranger took shyt a little too serious. If the Dips was smart they'd get a new leader and fast...how does Juelz sell 700k and cam is stuck below 400 thousand. Damn thats some crazy shyt. Since the days of Roc-A-Fella not one artist ever sold more than Ji99a and I'm not dick ridin' I'm just stating the facts. Dip-Set has a strong presence in the street they just need guidance and direction to keep the movement, moving
FUCK DIPSET ACCEPT JUELZ BUT FUCK DIPSET AND FUCK KILLA SEASON DA WORST FUCKIN HOOD MOVIE EVER MADE Y DA FUCK HE DOIN A SEQUEL? I MEAN HOW MANY SALES DID THE FIRST 1 HAVE ? TO MAKE A SEQUEL HOW MANY PEOPLE WAS LIKE DAT MOVIE HOT U GOTTA DO A PT 2? DIS AINT STATE PROPERTY CAUSE ATLEAST STATE PROPT 1 WAS GOOD AND HAD A DAMN PLOT!
@ernest frazier
Ray Nagin def is not on the up and up. But feds got a whole of that money and they are not releasing it. And the feds no they f&*ked up big time; you gotta catch that documentary. Insurance companies are holding on the their money and are giving every excuse not to pay. But I will get upset so I am done talking about it.
***now back to the blog****
Shit I am done with that too. I will work now so you fellas hold it down til mami gets back -- Xclusive and ernestfrazier behave til i get back :-)
KSH:
Yeah don't let me stop you from doing ya work mami I'ma hold you down while your gone. Lata
Thanks EFrazier for the info.
***I am gone for real now***
I will holla back after while!
@KSH
When I watched that last night
it made so upset but I couldn't turn the channel
It reminded me of watchin eyes on the prise where you just fk up every white person you see. But they didn't just sht on blacks they sht on whites too and even the white people we're like they're casualties of war because Louisiana has no political power. The president doesn't see them as a threat so he could careless about em. And Based on what Barbara Bush's ignorant ass said that these people were poor and underpriviledged anyway so now they're better off. Sharpton like well if his mom feels that way you can only imagine how George Bush feels.
Whats even more f'd up
In Boston we have a metro newspaper where people can write up voice their
opinions. White people are so defensive when it comes to race the first thing they came back and said is its not Fema its their Mayor. Its his fault its not Bush blame Clinton. I fking heated because its bad enough there's people in high places that don't give a sht.
But we also got all these other people rebelling against the truth n pointing fingers cause they feel they're being used as a scapegoat. So now no one cares and no ones doing sht. Worse I work in a Corp environment and alot of these Suburban americans think Spike Lee is a manipulative trouble maker who profits off black peoples misery and pain. Trust I heard em say it.
God said Love thy Nieghbor I understand why this world is fk'd up cause no one gives fk about each other.
I feel you Banga. The color lines are somewhat being erased...it is all about the dough now. Don't take that as meaning that racism is no longer an issue. Money talks, you know the rest. I belive that.
Had Katrina hit Beverly Hills or somewhere like that, believe the response would've been a lot faster, and more organized.
Interesting thing though...I read more whites died in Katrina than blacks.
It's always the same for poor people everywhere. New Orleans just brought the world into the reality of the hypocrisy of the US government towards their own people. They are so glad for the Isreal/Lebanon conflict because it takes the focus off of their bullshit for a little while. Spike isn't letting that shit drop and neither is HBO(the B stands for Black).
meanwhile back at the blog topic:
@ Xclusive
I feel you on the leader being less than the follower. You can't take a nigga and make him run the show because of his name. Leaders are born and Cam isn't one of them. He's always been like a back up singer. I remember when J bought Ja Rule on his "Can I Get a" track. You saw that Niggas swagger on that shit. Cam has always been kind of bubblegum to me.
@ Ernest
Good looking out
I know the mayor ain't einstein
but people up here and alot of the republican media are trying to put all the blame on him. I don't think he knows what he's doing but I do think he cares.
I hold the entire government accountable. I just feel somebody has to fall on the sword and the governmenr is using him as their sacrificial lamb.
But Nagin is incompetent, but he's not the one thats responsible for building those levy's. From what I saw last night is he's saying LA is extremely poor they can't even support their school system without goverment assistance he doesn't have the money to properly maintain those levy's.
@Banga
In remarks to the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists, Nagin said the hurricane "exposed the soft underbelly of America as it relates to dealing with race and class."
"And I, to this day, believe that if that would have happened in Orange County, California, if that would have happened in South Beach, Miami, it would have been a different response," Nagin said.
New Orleans was 60 percent black before Katrina struck Aug. 29. Early this year the mayor called on fellow blacks to again make New Orleans a "chocolate" city, but he later apologized.
On Friday, Nagin condemned federal regulations that discourage rebuilding in the largely black and low-lying Ninth Ward.
While tens of billions of dollars in federal aid have flowed to Louisiana and other states devastated by Katrina, much of it has gone to developers and contractors, Nagin said.
He's getting around but he's not doing anything other than talking. At least his ass is telling the truth.
Just ducking in!
@EFrazier do you believe in bigomy b/c I might have to propose after that last statement...lol
Get yo intellectual on boi!
***ducking out***
They only thing I wanna know is:
Did Reckless mention all the shit he's been poppin about DipSet to 40 Cal's face?
I'll be waiting for your answer Reckless.
And don't pull that 'I don't read the blog' bullshit either.
HOLLA!
(shout out to Ja Rule!!!!!Niggaz done jacked ya style!!!!!!Shameful!!!!!)
The media wants us 2 4get about Katrina and the victms, because the Israel/Lebanon conflict is more improtant than a bunch of po' people dying because they could'nt get out of town.
@Banga,
I feel U, when I first ceen Eyes on the Prize, that shit lit a saprk in me, then 2 cee and relive the pain of the people down there is enough 2 make U mad, especially after that handkerchief head ass bitch made those comments' "They're already poor, so they're better off" and mu'fuckas got mad at Kanye 4 making the comment of the millenium, yes I know the truth hurts
Shout out 2 Blaze McHerbs, Ernest Frazier, KSH, Xclusive BK Dude, ODEMIC
P.S. Dipset is str8 ASS!!!!
40 Cal is cool but I am on a wait and see basis with this kid. I really don't have anymore to say about him other than that.
Anyway, peace to the Real who are up in this piece!
KSH:
I saw the report and found the documentary on Katrina and government’s apathy and inactivity (up to this very hour) to be despicable, deplorable, immoral, diabolical, cruel and inhumane.
As I watched the documentary I saw shades of slavery; particularly with the separation of the families…that in of it self reminded me of the auction blocks in Jamestown, VA starting in 1619. As I heard the testimonies about people drowning in their own homes and corpses floating down the street I was reminded of the middle passage where we lost over 100 million of our African Brothers and sisters. Some people gave testimonies that corpses were left to the side of the road for days after the government did finally become active in addressing this unbelievable human tragedy. I was so angry and pissed at the total lack of government activity and over abundance of apathy.
Now, I have not e-beefed since I have been back and don’t plan too, but for the 50 cent fans; write that nigga and tell him to apologize for his defense of Bush and Bush’s administration handling of Katrina. Bush’s performance is indefensible and as a black man I am highly insulted by 50’s defense of this Bush on Katrina.
G-Unit supporters; this shit has nothing to do with 50’s skills as an MC; I have conceded that he is amazingly gifted and smart. This has nothing to do with his beefs with Game or D-Block or Terror Squad or anyone else. This has nothing to do with him signing Banks, or Buck or anyone else. It has nothing to do with his movies deals or sneaker deals or any of his business activities.
This all about being Black first, in my eyes and nothing else. You don’t ever put any artist or crew above the interest of your people and if you do that that makes you an Uncle Tom. I know 50… sent money and clothes down there and he should get credit for that but his words of support for Bush is fucked up and none of you niggas can defend that shit so don’t even try.
So, 50 apologize for your comments and I will accept your apology but don’t let history show that you; the biggest Hip Hop Artist at the time of this tragedy supported Bush’s handling of this shit. That will tarnish your family’s name for all of eternity. Apologize and say you were wrong and let the historian get that shit on record other wise 50 years from now history will report you as an uncle tom and not the American success story that you are…
Aiiight…that is enough for now….
He wasn’t successful, I got up out of the chair, he swung again, I blocked it, went pushed him in the chair, snuffed him, he ran…no he picked up a shovel after that. He had a shovel after he um… he got up.
Hold up, I remember .40 cal admitting to saying that he got hit with the shovel on Hot 97, this nagga has contradicted himself. He's lying his ass off. Nagga tried to get the barbers to get on DVD and tell a different story. Loon said it best, the story came back ONE WAY.
Like LOON could BEAT somebody up...LOL hahaha !! LOON went to high school in Beverly HILLS !!!!! 40 CAL and HELL RELL are them DUDES !!!! Im not a fan of the whole Dip set shit, But them 2 niggas is nice...I'll Co-sign CAm,Jim,Santana and Jr's WACKNESS !!!
BKLYN ALL DAY !!! GATBUSH WHADDUP!!!
Posted by: mIZE2 at August 23, 2006 06:44 AM
Mize2, nigger nonsense you are a fool. Just because Loon attended High School in Beverly Hills does not mean that he is soft. Rich Kids get taught how to fight and defend themselves while niggas rely on thier attitudes and their crew to win their fights. It seems you have never been to Beverly Hills, not all of Beverly Hills is richy. He was living with an elder gangster friend of the family. If you guys did not know Loon's family were part of the organized crime family, so they had a lot of friends in high places. .40 cal is a nobody that became an overnight celerbrity by taking a shovel to the head. That's a terrible way to become famous for. 40 Cal is a stuntster just like the rest of his goonies. Cam and Jimmy got ran out of Rucker Park, Juelz got bitch slapped by some particpants in the spanish parade, Jim Jones has not done anything to Tru Life but run his mouth.
YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO DIP-SET???
Jay-Z happened to Dip-Set. Ever since he stopped co-signing they sh!t and became El Presidente them dudes have never been the same. But it was business nothing personal but the Pink Ranger took shyt a little too serious. If the Dips was smart they'd get a new leader and fast...how does Juelz sell 700k and cam is stuck below 400 thousand. Damn thats some crazy shyt. Since the days of Roc-A-Fella not one artist ever sold more than Ji99a and I'm not dick ridin' I'm just stating the facts. Dip-Set has a strong presence in the street they just need guidance and direction to keep the movement, moving
Posted by: Xclusive BK Dude at August 23, 2006 09:18 AM
I totally agree Xclusive, dick-set needs to mind their store and stop creating wars that they cannot afford. Jigga has the buying power as well as the influence to erase Dick-Set off the face of Harlem. Tru Life got Dip-Set scared to do anything, Hell Rell is going to get handled if he keeps being disrespectful to Styles-P. 40 Cal can just give it up because we all know that Loon pounded you with a shovel "Mr.King of The Car Rides". 40 is a joke, I hate to say it, whom has he battled that I can say that considers him a contendor. Loon had no business rollin in the dirt with a Bum ass nigga like 40 cal. I should cuss Loon out for arguring with a loser like 40 cal.
40: Somethin’ about…we was arguing on the radio so he said somethin’ about I was on a dis track, and was talking about him. The history go back further than that ‘cause we knew each other for a long time. Before Dipset you know, he used to be under me. The dude’s like older than me. So I put him under my wing, taught him a lot of shit. I don’t … he got the Bad Boy deal, I had got locked up for a like little while, I had did this short, short bid. Came back, he wasn’t putting nobody on. Wasn’t trying to put nobody on. I fucked with Cam, got on with Cam, and he got on the radio and said on the line that he ain’t like… I heard he was mad, came around my block, and was poppin’ shit. I wasn’t around. But when I seen him, approached him it wasn’t none of that. It was just like, he was just coppin’ pleas about how Puff’s doing him dirty and shit with a song he wrote. But, I mean, it’s a long story…
This guy is full of shit. I'll check your story and find you out quick. I hate niggers like 40 cal because he's all bullshit and no balls.
lmao KSH
I'm just posting from stuff I've read on the guy. It wasn't an original passage. I copped it off of Fox News. I couldn't go around today and let you believe I wrote that out of my head. I keep a lot of stuff about Katrina in my personal favorites.
I wish I could've impressed you with that kind of intellectual fitness.
I co sign all of it though.