has no one here ever claimed their city or commented on fakers claiming their city?
personally i liked:i mean c'mon that is some backwards type of attidude
in hip-hop, really?
― fauxmarc, Saturday, 5 January 2013 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
you mean like when dudes from Houston claim NYC?
http://media.soundonsound.com/sos/jul07/images/DJPremier1_l.jpg
― President Keyes, Saturday, 5 January 2013 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
jesus this whole thing is now making me want to delete my month-old Twitter account
maybe I should just stop following Rich FourFour
― Angel Haze is my hero (DJP), Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
kick in the door, waivin' the @richjuz
― some dude, Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:57 (eleven years ago) link
"but perez hilton IS a messy faggot"
-- everyone
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 5 January 2013 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
YUNG RAPUNXEL @AZEALIABANKSA faggot is not a homosexual male. A faggot is any male who acts like a female. There's a BIG difference.
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Saturday, 5 January 2013 05:09 (eleven years ago) link
oh jesus fucking christ
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Saturday, 5 January 2013 05:20 (eleven years ago) link
thanks, eminem
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 5 January 2013 05:21 (eleven years ago) link
fourfrogbs
― fiscal cliff paul (k3vin k.), Saturday, 5 January 2013 05:28 (eleven years ago) link
honestly I'm much less offended by her original statement than her clarification
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Saturday, 5 January 2013 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
yeah why some people were so eager to give her the benefit of the doubt i'm not sure.
alex in montreal otm on twitter
― fiscal cliff paul (k3vin k.), Saturday, 5 January 2013 05:47 (eleven years ago) link
smh these two clowns
― teledyldonix, Saturday, 5 January 2013 06:18 (eleven years ago) link
oh azealia :////////
― lex pretend, Saturday, 5 January 2013 08:43 (eleven years ago) link
putting it on the spectrum of anti-immigrant rhetoric is LOL thats all
i was obviously putting johnny's comment on that spectrum, not azealia's
― lex pretend, Saturday, 5 January 2013 08:44 (eleven years ago) link
Rich's reactions the most surprising.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 January 2013 13:26 (eleven years ago) link
wtf did azealia actually say that
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 5 January 2013 13:32 (eleven years ago) link
Not that either comment was anti-immigrant, but how did mine come across that way when her's did not?
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 January 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
not surprised by his reaction, actually.
― s.clover, Saturday, 5 January 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
kdhjoedhewf
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 6 January 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
This backfired on both of them. Terrible stuff.
― dyslectic Christ Brown (longneck), Monday, 7 January 2013 13:14 (eleven years ago) link
love the judgments from on high about this episode, when did male rappers beefing ever get the "tut-tut, terrible stuff" line
in a month's time no one will remember
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 January 2013 13:32 (eleven years ago) link
Male rappers rarely look good beefing either - unless they can tie it into some sort of big mythology about themselves that they can build on. That certainly didn't happen here.
― dyslectic Christ Brown (longneck), Monday, 7 January 2013 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i mean the Cassidy/Meek Mill thing is stupid as fuck too, it's pretty rare that beef isn't especially these days
― some dude, Monday, 7 January 2013 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
i just remembered the common/drake beef over serena williams
i take my post back
though really how can anything actually "backfire" on an artist these days, that's evidence right there - everything carried on as normal for both despite their silliness, as it will here
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 January 2013 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
yeah people will pretend every beef has Ja Rule levels of potential career ruination and it's just delusional, the stakes are never that high.
― some dude, Monday, 7 January 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
my fav were the rumors floating around this weekend that interscope had dropped azeala for calling perez a faggot. those labels and their strict morals!
― J0rdan S., Monday, 7 January 2013 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
and things move too fast. something else will happen this week. pretty sure angel at least has significantly raised her profile.
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 January 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure angel at least has significantly raised her profile.
― lex pretend, Monday, January 7, 2013 9:09 AM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark
lol exactly
― J0rdan S., Monday, 7 January 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Beef really hasn't been the same since 50 Cent failed to take out Rick Ross. That was the Titanic of Rap Beefs.
― dyslectic Christ Brown (longneck), Monday, 7 January 2013 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
well... the thing w/ that one is that people at the time saw 50 as being greater than ross even from an objective career perspective but he was really just on his execrable slide down a creative and moral bottomless pit, whereas ross' career was still on the upswing. granted that beef sort of amplified those trends but it was also 50 fucking with someone people cared more about even if a lot of others didn't realize it at the time. could say the same thing in less dramatic terms about his "beef" with kanye, too.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 7 January 2013 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
was 50 vs kanye the point where people started automatically thinking "publicity stunt" about beef? like, that was so contrived
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 January 2013 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
tho yknow cf http://favstar.fm/users/roxanne_shante/status/156178152270475264
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 January 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
Of course. But the remarkable thing about the beef with Ross was that it was all about authenticity and myth/persona. 50 tore down Ross' narrative about himself and it still didn't help.
― dyslectic Christ Brown (longneck), Monday, 7 January 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
all of 50's beefs circa The Massacre 2 years earlier were widely dismissed as publicity stunts
― thomp ynchon (some dude), Monday, 7 January 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, 50 Cent actually suffered from his misguided crusades.
― dyslectic Christ Brown (longneck), Monday, 7 January 2013 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
nah 50's downfall was proof that people care more about hits than drama, he stopped having hits even when he kept bringing the drama
― thomp ynchon (some dude), Monday, 7 January 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
word
― J0rdan S., Monday, 7 January 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
Rap beef is essentially a race to the bottom. You sling as much shit as you can and hope your opponent runs out of ammo/dignity before you do. Either way you generally come out of it covered in shit. Without an album to offset the attention all these petty spats could really come back to haunt Banks.
― tsrobodo, Monday, 7 January 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
xpost. True. But 50 Cent had built big parts of his persona around the idea of him being the guy who destroyed other people's careers. When he failed so miserably with Ross and his album underperformed, he found himself with no leg to stand on.
― dyslectic Christ Brown (longneck), Monday, 7 January 2013 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
that's a pretty rosy reading of 50's career at that point, longneck
― J0rdan S., Monday, 7 January 2013 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
things just ain't the same for gangstas
― What am I, in France? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 January 2013 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
they wear a lotta spandex
xpost. Ha, the 2007 album had some minor joints at least. And it did go platinum in the end, right? His era was definitely coming to an end at that point, but the double flop (beef + album) of 09 still felt brutal. At that point there was no coming back.
― dyslectic Christ Brown (longneck), Monday, 7 January 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
Before I Self Destruct and Deeper Than Rap sold almost the exact same amount, j0rdan's right that it was more about perception and their trajectories at that time
― thomp ynchon (some dude), Monday, 7 January 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
anyway it's hilarious that major media outlets are reporting on these 2 barely famous chicks as if it were a beef between artists as big as 50 cent and rick ross
― thomp ynchon (some dude), Monday, 7 January 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
What careers did 50 destroy?!
If AZB is harmed at all it'll be because she KEEPS ON beefing with amyone and everyone, not this specific spat (though using "faggot" when your fanbase is so heavily gay is uhhhh extra dumb). But it'll be forgotten in a month as all these things are
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 January 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
lex have you heard of this person ja rule
― J0rdan S., Monday, 7 January 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
Which is exactly how they both benefit from it! It's reported as if it's a Big Deal. Helps that it all happened in the dead 1st week of Jan
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 January 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
it is hilarious that this article exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_feuds_of_50_Cent
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Monday, 7 January 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
Ja Rule. Young Buck. Plus he had a hand in breaking up Dipset by beefing with Cam while becoming friendly with Jim Jones in public. He did also manage to make life difficult for The Game, even though Game kinda beat the odds on that one.
― dyslectic Christ Brown (longneck), Monday, 7 January 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link