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Hi Hipster! Can Busta Utilize The Current Trend To Make A Comeback?
Posted on October 16, 2008 12:30 PM
Kinda late with the post, but I was asked to post the video and kept getting the messages late thanks to good ol Gmail. I wanted to speak on this anyways.
Watch Busta Rhymes flaunt his "Arab Money" with the Arabs.
If you haven't noticed, there are scarves everywhere. Big bifocal glasses, skinny jeans, rope chains, and sneakers with extra fat laces are spreading throughout the streets like wildfire. Remember Mazzi of Soul Purpose? He's the one that first started attacking these hip-hop hipsters in his dis joint "Lesson A," which had the internet on fiYAH! In it, he was dissing Jay Electronica and the Cool Kids. The video had a shot of Mazzi holding a sign behind a collage of guys-- including Jay and the Cool Kids-- wearing scarves, with the sign reading "My Culture is NOT a Fad."
To make a long story short, Mazzi enlisted Q-Tip to follow up his first installment with "Lesson B," then this cornball named Mic Terror responded with some racist, poor-excuse-for-a-dis called "Lesson C." This was BEFORE Mazzi personally gave Mic a telephone call with record button activated-- and left Mic in Terror. That hilarios phone conversation, called "Class Dismissed," ended Mazzi's trilogy.
Oh man. If you didn't see this, you gotta check it out. This dude Mic was SHOOK. Absolutely classic.
Now, a season later, this hipster thing has skyrocketed in popularity more than what many thought. Jim Jones is claiming the honors, telling every media outlet he can that Jay was wearing the wrong scarf with his Gucci purse, or whatever nonsense he was whining about.
I said all of this to say: scarf swag is trying to replace chain swag. Now stacking Arabic currency is what's hot right?
Busta's "Arab Money" was floating around on Zshare for a while before it got snatched down. But we'll see where this takes him...
