The Rebirth of Ignorance

            Who said catchy hooks and hard Drumma Boy styled beats weren’t hip-hop?  Won’t lie, I was once that guy but lately those are becoming one of my biggest guilty pleasures (next to watching porn every night).  I’m getting better with time.  As a young lad you could find me listening to Life and Times of S. Carter, Marshall Mathers LP, and Back for the First Time.  I wouldn’t dare to touch a Cash Money (until Tha Carter II) or a No Limit project, sorry Whoadie. This doesn’t mean that I didn’t appreciate the songs in a party or the culture.  It just wasn’t something I cared to hear in my headphones on a daily.  Back then I called it “bullshit rap”.  A wise man once said, “a closed mouth mind don’t get fed”, therefore broaden your horizons.  One cannot receive through a clogged passage.  As you get closer to your event of demise you begin to appreciate certain things you overlooked as an adolescent.  Hip-hop doesn’t always have to sound like Blu x Asher Roth x DOOM x Wale, or any other artists that try to give you a brief mind-fuck with their vicious wordplay.  It doesn’t hurt to wild out to some Gucci or Flocka in the whip every now and then.  We can still have fun people! 

            It all started out with the reincarnation of the term “swag” in 2010.  As much as this word was shunned upon in the hip hop world we have to respect Lil B for bringing that shit back along with a unique sound he categorized as being “based” including a new dance to do to all of his songs.  When I first heard “Wonton Soup” I thought it was the wackest song ever.  Just like anything else, it grew on me.  So I decided to download the “Everything Based” mixtape just for laughs (stepping out of my comfort zone).  And surprisingly most of the tracks were appealing to me.  Not to mention the cooking dance he taught us and the random funny shit he would shout out.  Every second he transformed into a new celebrity.  The beats were hard, the hooks were catchy and funny, you have to respect that.  After “Blue Flame” dropped I had already conformed to the based movement (only for the music though, not to suck his dick on Twitter and worship this coke head like he was Jesus Christ).  His music was the only ignorant shit on my iPod for a while, and I must admit that attending a Lil B concert was one of the funniest moments of my life.  When “Paris Hilton” dropped all hell broke loose!  Mothafuckas were in there with spatulas and aprons, shit was ridiculous.  At the end of the day you got to recognize his grind, dude has more songs than most artists out right now.  We made some money off him too.  #COUP

            Another Oakland native that I seem to bust nuts over every now and then brought her swagged out thrifted style to the game last year.  She goes by the name of Kreayshawn.  When I first matched the name with the porcelain face I thought it was kind of disrespectful.  Then I found that that her name was derived from “creation” which is dope in my opinion.  She clogged the airways with the “Gucci Gucci” video in 2011 and everybody went nuts.  The Odd Future appearances in the video helped her out as well.  It wasn’t too ignorant.  Beat was dope, hook was catchy, lyrics were mediocre, so I guess it is suitable for a sedan?  After downloading “KittysXChoppas” I wasn’t too impressed.  The mixtape had a “based” vibe but it just isn’t the same without the BasedGod.  Kreayshawn lucked up and caught a deal with Sony, but for some odd reason I feel like her album will never drop.  She’s getting respect from artists that she wishes to emulate; such as 2 Chainnnzz.  It is to my surprise that Gucci Mane recently linked up with Kreayshawn’s hoodrat white friend V-Nasty for an album.  I wonder if he’ll let her say the N-word on a track.  I fuck with Kreayshawn, no words for V-Nasty and the rest of the White Girl Mob (minus Lil Debbie, she can get it).  If Kreayshawn keeps collaborating with artists that have mastered brilliant ignorance like Juicy J she may be able to stay relevant in this here rap game.  Oh yeah, “Rich Whores” is my shit too. 

            Can you say no to drugs?  Are you really trippy, or do you just like screaming it on Twitter?  The “Blue Dream & Lean” mixtape has been marked a classic by me and the rest of the #COUP.  Yes, I’m speaking for all nine of us.  We rage to that shit faithfully.  Lex Luger has been killing the game lately, and he was just the sound Juicy J needed to rejuvenate his career.  So much for DJ Paul *shrugs*.  Both of the “Rubbaband Bidness” mixtapes were hard, the first one definitely got heavy play from me in the summer.  Flipped that bitch a few times!  I downloaded “Blue Dream & Lean” the day it was released and just let the whole thing rock while my girl was doing her homework, I couldn’t stop bouncing.  She was mad but I didn’t care.  At that moment I realized that I was definitely beginning to appreciate that “ignorant shit”.  Shout out to Juicy’s Pat Riley references and his step by step manual on how to get Ozzy Osbourne high.  This is definitely one of the must have fun mixtapes of the year, you can’t tell me otherwise.  I don’t agree with his recent signing to Taylor Gang, but it seems to happen to the best of ‘em.  Looks like just another Prodigy/G-Unit deal to me, but that’s for another day.

            Don’t get me wrong, I am definitely a true hip-hop head at heart and huge on lyrics.  But sometimes it’s cool to listen to some trap shit and wild out.  And say things like, “My bitch sucks dick like she sucks dick.”  That was the illest quote of the summer; I had to think about it at first.  Music of this caliber is coming out in abundances nowadays and these projects are very difficult to ignore; even though I’d rather anticipate Schoolboy Q’s new album.  Waka Flocka, it’s hard to fuck with you man.  Maybe one day, French saved you on the “Lock Out”.  Gucci, stop getting in trouble.  2 Chainz, keep spitting man.  Soulja Boy, keep making that shit you make.  All of these cats deserve that same respect as Rick Ross and Kendrick Lamar because they are good at what they produce.  People always seem to hate what they don’t understand.  We trippy mane!!!!!!

Side Note:  One of my friends told me the other day that I couldn’t listen to French Montana because “it wasn’t me”.  What the fuck nigga?  He thought it was blasphemy to use Tyler, The Creator and Waka Flocka in the same sentence (not knowing that Tyler is a huge Flocka fan).  Ignorance is bliss.

_MAERC

Relevant

[Dre]
Me and everything around me, is unstable like Chernobyl
Ready to go at any moment, jumpin like a pogo stick
I never lived up to my expectations, so I accept the patience
Expect the worse but now I’m pacin
Back and forth, inside, I’m melting like water on wicked bitches
A monster truck done came and ran over my picket fences
I had the best of life in my clinches but monkey wrenches was thrown
Like chairs kings sit on, my prayers seem to long
I fall asleep before the endin, don’t even get to say Amen
I hope He understand I be on bended knees
At times, I think I’m crazy, so I say forget it
Or maybe it’s the devil infiltrating and like Riddick…Bowe
I’ve been fighting this since them fetus days
I count from one to twenty, when I’m through, repeat the phrase
It’s just a phase, it’s gon all pass, but that gets old too
I’m weakening like a deacon doin dirt
What am I supposed to do?

Planets and stars
Earth, Jupiter, Mars
Hoes, clothes, cars
It’s who you are