SOHH NYC

lol

Damn, just like that, huh Reckless!!! Mims is the "Prince of all Cornballs"!!

why do you hate MIMS so much? Don't you think he already knows he sucks?

normally i would complain that you do nothing but spread negativity.

in this case, however.... i mean.... the numbers.... LOOK AT THE FRIGGIN NUMBERS!

o well, at least i believe that MIMS is a really nice guy. and i also hear he was smart enough to invest some of that money he got.

That was your best post ever. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hater Much???
He Still Got Mo Money Than You!!
WTF Is A Reckless??
Are U A Breakdancer? lol

a site for hip hop that bashes the MC, what's the point of being a rapper or a writer for a Hip Hop site if rapping is whats gonna get you hated on in the first place. I seems like being Hip Hop is whats getting you DISSED on this site. Speaking and Breathing Hip Hop seems like blasphemy according to this website. Music sux because we as fans put a "price tag" on the music due to what RETAILERS say they want to charge US. We talking about SALES TO MUCH!!!!!!! We are a generation born to music and had it not been for GOOD PRICELESS MUSIC we probably wouldn't have been BORN, according to most of our parents. I beg the writers of the site as well as fellow fans to just stop measuring the artist based on sales. IF thats the case, EVERY ARTIST SETS HIMSELF UP TO GET LAUGHED @ NEXT WEDNESDAY IF HE/SHE SIGNS A RECORD DEAL. Lets start making more sense when writing these blogs because @ the end of the day 50 Cent, Mims, and every other artist SOHH uses as target practice for biased commentary has a BODY OF WORK, Gyant and Reckless and all our Hip Hop writers here on this site don't have a BODY of WORK like a Bonz Malone, Carlito Rodriguez, Riggs Morales, dreamhampton, Hodari Coker, and other GREAT HIP HOP writers of our PAST that documented the culture with HONOR. Lets demand more educated discussion and relevant topics when we log on to our favorite Hip Hop Blog Post and websites. Kill this Hate toward OUR Hip Hop Culture

@ HIP HOP; I am not dissing you.

I am just want to know: "What is Hip Hop Culture?"

Describe it to me and tell me in your view, why it should be preserved, honored and respected. What are we getting out of it as a community where this thing we call Hip Hop in 2009 should be so elvated and honored by all?

This is not a set up request to diss you. I just want to know your view on it.

I CO-SIQN HIP HOP.... Let's just say Mims sold 150k first week like JADAKISS did... I bet that would change the way people think about him. I don't listen to Mims' music except whatever may be posted on blogs or stuff i come across, but I can appreciate any artist that seems genuinely putting the effort in and trying to do something I think he/she likes. I didn't buy his album, but this chick i know did and i heard it from beginning to end. It wasn't too bad, but it wasn't good. He had a couple of songs with some nice production and the songs had good content. I think nowadays people just find any flaw (and it could be the very most microscopic and smallest thing) and attack or put that artist on blast. Let think back, how did this whole "We don't like Mims" thing start? was it because he repped NYC in one of his songs and in interviews, but he was actually from and grew up in another city in NY the state that was a good neighborhood??? lmao, wow...

@BigUp2bk... In my opinion and i think everyone can agree with this. The music of today can not be compared to the original HIPHOP era of the 80's and 90's. It's a complete difference and referring to lyrical content, not just the beats. But, like everything, it's supposed to evolve. It's about freedom of speech and anyone can rap about or portray something that they aren't and thats what todays music is about. muhfukkas talking bout killin, fuckin bitches, slappin hoes, pimpin, selling drugs. (i can tolerate talking bout making money, buying cars, and buying houses. thats positive...) BUT who listens to this? Im in the hood man, im from Louisiana man, the boot, and i see lil young 8-14 yr olds listening to this negative stuff when they shouldn't be, because its a direct glamorized influence. And half these rappers don't do anything they claim to talk about in their music. I think hiphop in it's purest form is about KEEPING IT REAL... you can talk about the bad things in the community but don't glamorize it to where it seems okay to go out and buss a muhfukkaz head and rob ppl or sell drugs or whatever. I have kids, so i speak from a Father's point of view as well... SAVE HIPHOP... Can we get someone to come in and take it back to the good times?

Amen... Record sales should never be the measuring stick to judge an artist's talent. Anyone who uses them that way loses all credibility with me. The nigga reckless is a hating ass homo who uses his hate to generate hits and posts to his/her blog. When all is said and done it's just this little nigga's opinion. That's all

@ BigUp2K Why Should We Perserve Hip Hop? Why Should We Honor it as a Culture What Has Hip Hop Done For Me. Well Hip Hop Is all I Know growing up in the streets of Irvington, NJ. Hip Hop was how to dress, how to speak vice versa. Hip Hop was simply asking my Mom as a child if I can go Outside. So Hip Hop as a culture is apart of who I am. Music is the expression that we as people enjoy as a soundtrack to our own lives. Biggie Smalls "Ready to Die" Album is the soundtrack to me moving into my dorm room in college. Have you ever listened to Jay Z "Kingdom Come" While riding on the 1 Freeway with mountains on right side and the Pacific Ocean on your left? Have you ever drove over that bridge that separates Miami from South Beach while blasting "Push It to the Limit" by Rick Ross, have you ever watched the movie "The Wood" starring Taye Diggs and Omar Epps and when "Back In the Day" by Ahmad played didn't that just bring a chill up your spine? Do you have emotion, feeling, heart for the very way you talk, wear your clothes, the way you walk the way you swag in the club to kick it to a female. Too many Great people Died over this culture for us to now have the Internet and destroy because the majority never done they research on Hip Hop or never walked through the Bronx to see Why Soulja Boy is a Hip Hop Artist to begin with. To Read an old Source Magazine and see the reason WHY we have a SOHH.com..... MUSIC is what UNITES CULTURES PERIOD and NO BLOGGER on EARTH can take away that with hate. No Blogger can take away the fact that Hip Hop has made MILLIONS FOR PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE DEAD OR IN JAIL and NOW ARE ENTREPRENEURS AND FORTUNE 500 INVESTORS. So why should we preserve Hip Hop? Because I'm proud of Jay Z from Marcy Projects has become, I'm proud of what 50 Cent from Southside Jamaica Queens 134 and Guy Brew has become, I'm proud of what Rick Ross from Carol City has become, I'm proud of Paul Wall, Chamillionaire, Slim THug- Houston and all my beautiful people that can make a living off the culture of Hip Hop, and most of all I'm proud of myself coming from Irvington, NJ and making an honest living with a beautiful home, lovely bride who loves her Maxwell but appreciates her some Common, and a child who watches Noggin but is familiar with Hip Hop the way I was growing up loving wrestling and karate and video games. I am a product of the Hip Hop culture who has recited every NWA line to appreciating Tribe Called Quest to rocking with Capone N Noreaga to appreciating a Bishop Lamont, adjusting to a Soulja Boy, a Lil Boosie, a Lil Wayne ( who I must say APPRECIATES MUSIC because New Orleans is a Musically Inclined Culture , you can't avoid music in the NO) for all they have contributed to not only there families but their communites and the culture in whatever expression they have in their own unique way. Thank You for the respectful reply.. KILL THAT HATE TOWARD OUR CULTURE

I don't see how this guys a failure. I think the music business needs a new model to compete with how readily available albums are for free online. This is why I'm hot was a hit. The single went Platinum. Move if you wanna is a hot song in my opinion. Lyrically he's not Eminem, Jadakiss or Jay Z and I think people hate when they feel to be worthy of the success he's had he should be a more lyrical artist but being a lyrical artist alone is not good enough to be successful. Its just one ingredient. Mims has made at least two hot singles that makes him two-up. Listening to MIMs album reminded me of Diddy or Kanyes Albums. I place these guys in the same bracket lyrically only MIMs doesnt have as many other talents to make up for what he lacks lyrically. One thing he's proved to me is that he's more than a one hit wonder. Lets not get it twisted being a one hit wonder is far from a failure. One hit wonder he's not. Hes more than that. If he got dropped he could probably go the indie route and make more money from record sales then being on a major label. I think if Flo Rida could sell a million ringtones in two weeks and then still have underexpected first week sales proves that a new business model in general is needed more than a failure on the artist part.

@ PUSHA:

Thank you for your insight. You explained it exceptionally well. I guess my thing is that I am tied to the 80's and 90's. What most people describe as an evolution I see as a steady regression.

I see people justifying foolishness in the name of Hip Hop.

I sort of see Hip Hop as an HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities). Like some HBBCU's the more Hip Hop became racially diversed and Blacks became diluted the regression began. There are HBCU's in West Virginia and even Lincoln University of MO that are now majority white. I read an article about five years ago where a sista unknowlingly applied to one these HBCU's schools thinking that it was predomonately Black and was suprised at what she saw she arrived. She talked about seeing a white student body, white faculty, white administrators, and at the football games - a white band and white cheerleaders and totally feeling robbed of the experince she anticipated recieving.

Well this is how I view Hip Hop. Talib is from Brooklyn and tends to give his listerners a fuller and more rich verbal narrative and portrait of his experience as a young Black man growing up in Brooklyn as oppose to this one demensional experince of violence and misogyny which is offered by everyone.

I listened to LUPE's last album and saw a brother give me a well balanced socio-political economic description of his life. To me a hip hop joint should be a well balanced rich source of data for a sociologist. It should almost be enthongraphic for the sociologist in nature. It should allow me to go into your existence or an existence that you have been exposed to and enlighten me.

This is why I think that so called Gangsta rap has a place in Hip Hop. It is because if you know the life, and can explain what created the culture of crime and sustains it in your community then that story should be told and should be told with honesty. However, if you are creating these narratives so that you can entertain white kids who parents and the society at large have systematically conditioned them to be little subconscious racists then I have a problem with that.

This is why I had a problem with the Curley skits and the Porn 50 passed of to his large white following. Many people in their ignorance built up this hatred for CO's (even though none of them have ever been locked up ) and was giving a free pass to a philosophy that faciltate and promotes an image of Black inferiority and degradation. They were too ignorant to see it, though.

Like a hip hop version of Paslov's Dog, they themselves were programmed to say this assult of the image of black people was a siple case of entertainment and Hip hop - although our sisters are Queens by nature. But this wasn't the narratibe being offered and cheered on by white kids and lost Negroes. Our people in their ignorance cheered showing one of our sisters as a cheap filfthy women. They laugh at showing our women as ho's. We endorsed our sister's porn tape that was unfairly exposed to the world as a simple case of Hip Hop.

I mean the Black woman has carried our race over the last few hundred years and this how we thank her. How can any black man of 50's stature do that to one of our sisters. I don't want an answer. The question was rhetorical.

So, when someone says "save Hip hop" - my response is, why? It is not real and the narratives are no longer made for us. Hip Hop is an HBCU turned white.

So this is why i don't understand this so called culture and why people value it. Hip Hop today to me, as far as i am concerned, is music that no longer reps me or my community.

I thank you for sharing your thoughts. I hope that others will respond to my question.

Peace to Bigup2bk&Hip-Hop
@Hip-Hop....You get a standing ovation for that homie..But at the same time, you seem like a smart, intelligent fellow. So with that being said, yes, Hip-Hop is something that we breathe, love, listen too & Embrace...But you have to remember that this is a buiness in the musci "INDUSTRY". And any job in any industry has the right to be criticized whether good or bad. It just comes with the territory. I applaud your opinion on " Why Should We Perserve Hip Hop", and I agree with damn near all of it. But at the same time, lets say we didn't have people in our own culture to criticize the art that is being put out for the masses. Artist will start thinking and feeling that they can just put out any old thing..
Case In Point: Mims said "I can sell a Mill w/out saying nothing on a track"!! Come on now, who & why wouldn't a Hip-Hop finatic criticize that??? I know Hip-Hop has changed and evolved, but has it changed and evolved for the better or for the worst?? This is why Hip-Hop needs to be criticezed good or bad by our own people so that we can keep it on the artist brain to do their best and not put out half stepping material..
Peace to Bigup2bk

I don't see how this guys a failure. I think the music business needs a new model to compete with how readily available albums are for free online. This is why I'm hot was a hit. The single went Platinum. Move if you wanna is a hot song in my opinion. Lyrically he's not Eminem, Jadakiss or Jay Z and I think people hate when they feel to be worthy of the success he's had he should be a more lyrical artist but being a lyrical artist alone is not good enough to be successful. Its just one ingredient. Mims has made at least two hot singles that makes him two-up. Listening to MIMs album reminded me of Diddy or Kanyes Albums. I place these guys in the same bracket lyrically only MIMs doesnt have as many other talents to make up for what he lacks lyrically. One thing he's proved to me is that he's more than a one hit wonder. Lets not get it twisted being a one hit wonder is far from a failure. One hit wonder he's not. Hes more than that. If he got dropped he could probably go the indie route and make more money from record sales then being on a major label. I think if Flo Rida could sell a million ringtones in two weeks and then still have underexpected first week sales proves that a new business model in general is needed more than a failure on the artist part.

@ HIP HOP

Thank you for your reply. However, respectfully, what you described is not what we have today. What you described is the same thing that I love.

50 cents and many others before him and a few after him converted the culture into something else. I hate to tell people this but hip hop initially was not a multicultural, pluralistic corporate engine that offred a one deminsional narrative to one specific group of people. That is not what New York gave to the world. This thing has been on a steady decline for about 10 years. Hip Hop used to be the voices of the masses of people of color in urban enevironment, mainly New York and some of the northeast region.

Hip hop was a professor. It was organic. It wasn't a cookie cutter mass produced watered down product made with the intent to satify the racist imagination of white surburban kids. It wasn't about porn and pimps, either. It wasn't what we have today?

So if you want to re-enact and rebuild what we once had - then sign me up - but if you want to save what we currently have - then count me out.

In fact to go at Reckless to me is not Hip hop. Hip Hop to me gives an honest accounting and assesment of the reality of any social phenomena. If he believes as i do, that the music is not an accurate reprensentation of what hip hop is then as a Hip Hop head, he is OBLIGATED to say so. In fact, I think the New York HIP HOP HEAD is more obligated to be give their honest assesment perhaps moreso than anyone else.

I thank you for your description. I would work to save what you described too but that is not what we have.

Let's just say Mims sold 150k first week like JADAKISS did... I bet that would change the way people think about him.
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@ PUSHA.... But he didn't!! That's the point. And Jada proved why he can sell and Mims can't!

Peace to Clo-Fresh:

I am with you with in terms of what Hip Hop described. I support what he described. I just don't think what he described is what we have.

I'd like to ask a serious question seeing that it seems like there are a lot of intelligent thoughts being discussed in this forum. How do you (Clo, BigUp2BK, Hip Hop, anyone) feel about white people and hip hop? I for one am a white guy that grew up in the suburbs of NJ. My entire life I had to listen to people saying things like "Why do you think your black?" All b/c I was into hip hop culture. I wore baggier clothes, grew up on BIG, Pac, Wu (just missed the Rakim/Kool G days). And had genuine love for the culture. But its a difficult question to answer as a kid who barley knew himself. Now I can answer that question as grown man, it was the bravado, the attitude that "I'm the ish and no one can tell me different"(self esteem), the beats and rhymes, hearing about the struggle etc. It opened my eyes to an entire world i didn't know existed b/c I was in a predominantly white town. I like to think that I am a better person for it. i never listened to a Lox song and felt like I was being told to shoot guns and rob stores. I got it. But I also feel as a whole white people aren't really accepted in hip hop.

Is attacking MIMS the best you got? That's like picking on the handicapped kid in the class. It's wrong man...it's worng.

@ My Nigga Clo-Fresh... Lol so TRUE, he didn't put up those numbers... But he has been bashed by bloggers and etc etc... Sooooo, that has something to do with his sells... His "image" is tarnished so he needs to go back to the drawing boards if he wants to continue to be an artist.

And, Mims is a rookie compared to JADAKISS being a long time veteran. Everyone knows how Jada get down. He can come out with an album with little or no budget for marketing and promotion and still push some OKAY units out the store. i guess My main point was, would people look at MIMS differently if he SOLD those kinds of units??? I think so......

Hip Hop & Sam C, very intelligent comments. Have you guys considered writing reviews or a blog. If so send your contact info to mmg_19@hotmail.com

@ Broke... Thats a good question... Me personally, I don't think hiphop has a color barrier. It's a form of art and anyone can do it. Now, away from the music and getting into the hiphop art form of the way you dress and look and carry yourself? SOME, people would say something about a Caucasian person that has the whole swag down to the talking, jewelry, and clothes. I've seen it done. When i was in highschool back in texas, they would be like,"Why is dude trying to act black?" Even the Hispanics would be questioned because they would use the term "Nigga" towards their fellow Latino friends.

Oops, this site is messing up... where i left off from with the Latinos using the N word....

Man, I just wrote an entire response to Broke iz a disease's question and sohh did not post it. I lost the whole thing. I am off to a meeting. If I can i will sign on tonight and type an edited version of what i said.

I am out of the office for the rest of the day.

Peace

@ BigUpBK says: This is why I think that so called Gangsta rap has a place in Hip Hop. It is because if you know the life, and can explain what created the culture of crime and sustains it in your community then that story should be told and should be told with honesty. However, if you are creating these narratives so that you can entertain white kids who parents and the society at large have systematically conditioned them to be little subconscious racists then I have a problem with that.
Agreed.
Yet you say: I listened to LUPEs last album and saw a brother give me a well balanced socio-political economic description of his life. To me a hip hop joint should be a well balanced rich source of data for a sociologist. It should almost be enthongraphic {ethnographic} the sociologist in nature. It should allow me to go into your existence or an existence that you have been exposed to and enlighten me.
That Is why I feel we ought to defend a culture that brought some of us up. In the hopes that more Lupes, Talibs, even Meth and Reds if you just want to wind down and take a break or even my nephew just starting out rhyming like his pops, who taught me, can progress, raise, and RE Empower the culture. Then others can be thrust into their TRUTHFULL experience and perhaps learn with out having to suffer the same heart ache as the presenter. And be better off for hearing that exp. Like the bible is a book, when understood you know what God wants of you, not to get religious! we will save that for another time. It is filled with good examples and good-bad examples of what to do and what not to do in order to please God. You dont actually have to first hand experience the situation to learn, but you can understand it and discern how to keep yourself out of that situation. You need to trust the one doing the telling though. Do you trust your mom when she says The stove is hot, dont touch that? Be it the drug game, difficulty with you wife, child, or how to overcome bullys at school {nephew} and you can also be slightly entertained depending on the topic at that. I think that is precious. In fact, I will say Hip Hop right now, is in the Difficulty as heck Teen years! We can give it up to the bad influential association on the streets, who are coonin for the dollar and cheap laugh. No talent, no heart, or real natural affection for anyone but themselves. Then watch it die a needless death. Or we can tackle the difficult task of making sure those fools dont come out on top over my influence on that child. No Doubt. I knew hip hop before my 7 yr old son. Aactually I was younger than 7 when I feel in love with it. I love my son and Hiphop. I really would never ever give up on my son based on a bad attitude or a mistake he made, I will correct him, teach him, play with him, and back him with my dying breath. I gotta touch on this more a little later, Boss man lurking the office looking for the non busy folk. Be back in a bit. Hope you see what I am getting at, though? Also I have not read anything after Bigup2BKs post at 12:29 EST I believe? Sorry for being late to this topic. PEACE.

This wasn't an open letter....it was an anonymous letter....written by a bitch too afraid to reveal himself so he hides behing his AKA....reckless.

I can't stand MIMS and I'm happy a dude who used to make a "mil' saying nothing on the track" went wood with his new LP...but Reckless is the reason they invented the word herb.

Seriously...he makes Perez Hilton look like a credible journalist....at Perez's faggit ass isn't afraid to show his face.

Can someone please get Reckless his job at TGI Friday's back so we don't have to read his bullshit anymore?

ahh looks like i just missed yall.
@ Broke. I feel like this. For the art of the culture, yes, I think whites and other non blacks, non poor folk can understand where hiphop, true hiphop as i feel it is, is coming from or is expressing. I feel though, that the purpose, as I first came to understand as a very young child of 5 years old, in the basement while my older brothers deejayed, mixed and taught me the same, and graffiti, breakin, and rhymin. I feel that being in Iowa when this was happeing to me in like 1983, that it's purpose is to inform those out of your realm what is hapening becuse fox, nbc, cbs will not do it, not in the fashion where you keep your dignity as a person, as a race, etc. R you going to battle at the party and show lyrical skill? coo, i'm all for it, but there is no Act a certain way, be you, not what you hear, inform in the way you hear, but don't talk that way if it isn't you. gotta go again, darn, be back way later folks

Cool, I wanna address 1 thing though. Any white dude that uses the N word is a straight up herb. Like that ain't cool to me. With that being said, i use slang but i'm not fake with it. I don't go overboard tryin to fit in all types of slang for no reason and i don't go out buying scarves or whatever latest trend is poppin. A lot of dudes looking like followers with every Ed Hardy shirt out and some plaid scarf from the local Against All Odds. there is a fine line and at the end of the day your either real or fake and people can figure that out pretty quickly.

BigUp2BK i look forward to hearing the rest of your reply tomorrow.

@ Broke Iz a Disease
What i will ask you is. explain. "I use slang, but i'm not fake with it"?

Now i understand in a job interview the corporate interviewer will expect a certain common level of communication, do you use slang then? when you greet your grandmother do you drop a few learned terms then. Honestly my questions sound worse then they are. not to get religous again. But the apostle paul became all things to all people, he wasn't being fake though, he was finding the common ground that he could relate with for that particular audience, you understand? then he could build off that to get his point and teachings out. take an honest look upon yourself and answer those questions. only you know the true reason on how you use the slang you use. also how do you feel when using the terms, how do you feel when if you use the term and someone doesn't udnerstand them or you. or they pretend they don't? Once Hiphop was out of black hands, in my opionion, it became acceptable to value it's also artistic aspects. but i still feel that is not it's original purpose or the purpose in which i LIVE and raise my family by. just a side note... My nephew, 14, brings a tear to my eye when i snoop his mp3 player and he is bangin Wu, Rakim, EPMD, Roots, Common, Aceyalone, Pharcyde, Pharoah Monch, Del and Hiero Glyphics. AND BDP, among his Lil Wayne, 50cent etc., when i see his joy and love, it turned me back into hopefull and seing this as something worth fighing for. Although he currently only sees the non controlled by blacks anymore and now valued as an artform as opposed to a informational, uplifting, redeeming vehicle it should be.

Great question and that's kind of the point I'm trying to make. You need to know who to handle yourself depending on the situation your in. How you handle yourself during a job interview isn't how you handle yourself with friends. I don't talk to my bosses like "Yo what up B, what's poppin today?" But I can say that to one of my boys and its completely natural and lines up with who i am as a person. Nobody can say what slang is acceptable. if your tryin too hard your fake. If it comes naturally its real. Everyone on the planet uses slang whether its Ya'll, B, homie, son, whatever. But you have to be true to who you are. I think I'm genuine, I'm college educated and if i lined up every one of my friends in a row, you're going to see a very diverse group of poeple. People from Wyckoff, NJ all the way to Webster Projects in the Bronx, from Paterson NJ to Hawthorne NJ. They all know who i am and that I'm not here to front and that I'm just me. Growing up i questioned who i was daily b/c I kept being told that I'm "not black". I never understood that. What does being black have to do with who i am and what i like? Why can't i be white and be into hip hop culture. These are issues white guys deal with growing up in communities that aren't into hip hop. Also, I'm talking abut the late 80's early 90's when hip hop wasn't so mainstream and wasn't in the suburbs like it is today.

SALES DO MATTER! If you want to keep being a recording artist professionally and not have to work in starbucks you better sell some units. Cornball records like mims' move and jim jones' dancin on me/pop champaigne is what did those guys in- LOOK AT JADA! If you from the northeast u better give folks more than that cornball dance/club tune. we support substance over here.

@ BigUp2K Why Should We Perserve Hip Hop? Why Should We Honor it as a Culture What Has Hip Hop Done For Me. Well Hip Hop Is all I Know growing up in the streets of Irvington, NJ. Hip Hop was how to dress, how to speak vice versa. Hip Hop was simply asking my Mom as a child if I can go Outside. So Hip Hop as a culture is apart of who I am. Music is the expression that we as people enjoy as a soundtrack to our own lives.

@ Jay ONE I don't care about sales homey, you add that extra stress to your life while i play some pure hip hop music on a Saturday whether its New Hip Hop or Old and continue to ENJOY MUSIC..........For Example, Biggie Smalls "Ready to Die" Album is the soundtrack to me moving into my dorm room in college.

Have you ever listened to Jay Z "Kingdom Come" While riding on the 1 Freeway with mountains on right side and the Pacific Ocean on your left? Have you ever drove over that bridge that separates Miami from South Beach while blasting "Push It to the Limit" by Rick Ross, have you ever watched the movie "The Wood" starring Taye Diggs and Omar Epps and when "Back In the Day" by Ahmad played didn't that just bring a chill up your spine? Do you have emotion, feeling, heart for the very way you talk, wear your clothes, the way you walk the way you swag in the club to kick it to a female. When is there time to think about record sales while enjoying a Hot Beat and some smooth lyrics.

Too many Great people Died over this culture for us to now have the Internet and destroy because we should worry about how much an artist is gonna "SELL" meanwhile its a knocking beat and a tight flow with a memorable hook balzing my speakers. We need to stop all that noise with the sales and use that same energy to research Hip Hop and walk through the Bronx and see why you even interested in commenting on Hip Hop in the first place. . Read an old Source Magazine and see the reason WHY we have a SOHH.com to comment on NOW..... MUSIC is what UNITES CULTURES PERIOD and NO BLOGGER on EARTH can take away that with hate or questions about SALES. No Blogger can take away the fact that Hip Hop has also made MILLIONS FOR PEOPLE and provided outlets for EVEN THIS SITE here to express and document the culture. So why should we preserve Hip Hop? Because I'm proud of what Jay Z from Marcy Projects has become, I'm proud of what 50 Cent from Southside Jamaica Queens 134 and Guy Brew has become, proud to see a Nas from the Notorius Queens Bridge Projects, SLim And Baby from Magnolia, Andre 3000 from East Point, I'm proud of what Rick Ross from Carol City has become, I'm proud of Paul Wall, Chamillionaire, Slim THug- Houston and all my beautiful people that can make a living off the culture of Hip Hop, and most of all I'm proud of myself coming from Irvington, NJ and making an honest living with a beautiful home, lovely bride who loves her Maxwell but appreciates her some Common, and a child who watches Noggin but is familiar with Hip Hop the way I was growing up loving wrestling and karate and video games. I am a product of the Hip Hop culture who has recited every NWA line to appreciating Tribe Called Quest to rocking with Capone N Noreaga to appreciating a Bishop Lamont, adjusting to a Soulja Boy, a Lil Boosie, a Stanky Leg, a Lil Wayne ( who I must say APPRECIATES MUSIC because New Orleans is a Musically Inclined Culture , you can't avoid music in the N.O.) for all they have contributed to not only there families but their communites and the culture in whatever expression they have in their own unique way. Thank You ALL for the respectful repies.. KILL THAT HATE TOWARD OUR CULTURE

@ HIP HOP, BigUp2BK, Clo-Fresh, Verbal Panther, Pusha:

I can talk smart too.... watch this....

"MIMS is a rapper, not a hip-hop artist."

See!!! That was the smartest thing said on this blog so far. And this is the best blog ever done by Reckless. And that's about all I'ma say bout that.

EASY