Angel Haze

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

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

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 have you heard of this person ja rule

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

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

it is hilarious that this article exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_feuds_of_50_Cent

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.

Ja Rule's demise was more down to the fact that he allowed the accusations of "softness" to get to him an alienated his fanbase by releasing Blood In My Eye.

He did more damage with that than 50 could ever have dreamed of.

you realize the lead single of Blood In My was a 50 diss right

Well that's how Ross "won" - he didn't allow himself to be substantially influenced by the competing narratives about who (or what) he was. He did toughen up a bit, developing his signature grunt in a more aggressive direction, but in the end he only benefited from it.

That isn't the point. There were no club/radio friendly hits on the album, which is what had been his bread and butter. I think pretty much every song on the album was a diss and frankly nobody wants to hear that shit.

well i think in the end the funniest thing about the ross/50 beef is that it really freed ross of his existential shackles re having been a cop, thus allowing him to embrace the even more absurd persona that has fueled his renaissance.

there wasn't much room left for ja artistically anyway but maybe he should've gone all in with a best of both worlds album w/ ashanti or something

Yes and yes!

have you ever seen them both in the same room? think about it

where's the nabisco post where he declared Ja Rule to be his nemesis

are you saying nabisco's beef destroyed ja?

50 pretty much just kicked Ja on the way down

i think that's kind of an overstatement. Ja had two back-to-back #1 singles like 6 months before "Wanksta" hit.

It wasn't just Ja who sort of went nowhere very rapidly in that time period. Ashanti, etc. too. He was just especially high profile. That whole sound just sort of fell apart.

Already by The Last Tempation in 2002, Ja Rule wasn't producing the same sort of hits he had with Pain is Love.

Also remember Murder Inc. fell apart, came under federal investigation, got dropped from Def Jam, etc. Around that time 7 Aurelius, who produced some of the highest profile singles had a big feud with Irv Gotti too, claimed that Gotti had taken credit for lots of his tracks (probably true), and soforth.

chink santana is the unsung murda inc hero tho

fucking hell she was electrifying @ the scala tonight. so much stage presence and aggression. entire room completely silent and holding their breath when she did "cleaning out my closet". she's the most important young rapper in the game bar none right now

i stack their bodies on top of each other like i'm hitler

what's going on with her album? is it coming out this year?

yeah that's the plan, she's still writing (and apparently every time she comes to london she makes time to go into the studio with UK producers). no confirmed date at all but more likely in the autumn

"cleaning out my closet" last night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1vqjjlLIw4

she's the most important young rapper in the game bar none right now

― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, May 7, 2013 7:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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well that was predictable

as was the lack of justification

http://www.theonion.com/articles/there-are-people-in-world-who-are-concerned-about,32162/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J43YArHDUbI

it's sort of like all her favourite tics and lines wrapped up in a crossover package right? it's ok, she does a nice line in triumphalism which helps

http://www.spin.com/articles/angel-haze-a-tribe-called-red-unfinished-song-sparse/

Tribe Called Red are fucking awesome

what? What? WHAT YES.

A Tribe Called Red are amazing amazing wonderful perfect and the fact that they are working with Angel is the best unexpected thing ever.

https://soundcloud.com/yxxngclan/echelon

better link: https://soundcloud.com/angelhazeym/echelon-its-my-way/s-1h9Jk

amazing song

yeah, it really jams

I was hoping "Echelon" was going to have something to do with the NSA.

These bitches is awful, and me I spit that gospel
That... LYRICAL, BIBLICAL, HOLY GHOST, PENTECOSTAL

^^ Favourite bit. First heard it on 1Xtra, it's on the A list. Pleasantly surprised that she has become so well known in the UK

I love it.

I read that the album is coming out in January now.

not terribly into this song. production is great but lyrically i know she can just do so much more.

these 30gold freestyles are amazing

https://soundcloud.com/angelhazeym

angel might have just done the impossible and salvaged 'same love' for me?

https://soundcloud.com/angelhazeym/same-love-angel-haze

haven't heard these yet but fav so far is prob her "backseat freestyle"

*this

i mean. it's contemplative spoken word angel, not battle rap angel, but still

I love everything she says and does.

Ala$ka Yxxng ‏@AngelHaze 3m

And if I am, what does it matter? RT @JimDeuce: I'm convinced @AngelHaze is a lesbian.

according to angel's twitter half of that last verse is an andrea gibson poem - http://genderqueer.tumblr.com/post/22343870122/andrew-by-andrea-gibson

ok yeah whoa at her "same love". i love how so many of her remixes are...corrections to the original (see also her "bitch bad")

good article here: i agree, she's the most important rapper of 2013

http://flavorwire.com/421558/angel-hazes-30-gold-freestyles-prove-shes-the-most-important-rapper-of-2013

(i wasn't aware of her take on miley cyrus, even more amazing)