Remember a Chicagoan I introduced you to a while back by the name of Mic Terror? I think Jeff anonymously called him a coon actually lol. But thats neither here nor there.
Apparently we've returned to the days of hater-hop a la De La's Stakes Is High, when the conscious/intellectual/neosoul underground hip hop scene reveled in 8 Mile battles and taking pot shots at Puff's shiny suits and "commercial" hip hop. I aint really clowning em cuz my backpack ass was on it too. At some point, all of those luminaries turned 30 without major label deals and either fell off (De La & Wu-Tang), found Kanye and success at 35 (Common & Talib), or started releasing better movies than albums (Mos Def). Next came the mixtape craze of '02 and suddenly the new underground, was merely unsigned replicas of mainstream artists(G-Unit & Jody Breeze). Then came new & improved Weezy, the 7 internets (myspace, youtube, itunes) and the adult contemporization of Jay-Z. The result being a new era where major labels are like casinos, the underground consists of anybody with over 10000 myspace friends and a recording setup, and the only people buying albums are those who dont have macbooks.
As the best of the internet's avant garde have become overnight sensations, and the mainstream's avant garde have become DIY icons, fossilized backpackers and irrelevant gangster rappers aint feelin it. (all the while the South is jammin on posse remixes)
In the blog-hyped WWE of hiphop, Chicago's Mic Terror and NY's (or Israel or Afghanistan or something) Mazzi are verbally (and visually) sparring over Mazzi's Lesson A which takes potshots at The Cool Kids, Jay Electronica and anyone who ever rapped in selvedge denim (10 points if its colored). Somehow this lame got Q-Tip to weigh in as well. Enjoy the saga.
Mazzi - Lesson A
Mazzi - Lesson B
Mic Terror - Previewing Lesson C to Ruby Hornet
Mic Terror - Lesson C
Mazzi - Class Dismissed
Honestly, I'm riding with Mic Terror on this joint, Chi-town support or not, the nigga killed it. After that phone call tho, I really need my man to finish it. Its bad enough that he responded to the first track in the first place but that call just aint a good way to leave things. Your thoughts?
3 comments:
Imma use my real name, cuz I don't wanna get called out for being anon on this one.
1. Mazzi is wrong for starting this whole shit. Why hate on niggaz that's making they paper? It's like if what you doin aint sellin, shouldn't you look at yourself? I feel you on that backpack shit, cuz I used to be the same way...but then I realized that EVERYBODY cant be fucked up...you gotta take the good in everything.
2. You can't make a dis record and say its not a dis record. I mean, even though we all KNOW wrestling is fake, they dont get on tv and say that shit. And at the end of the day they was all dis records, but I don't think mic terror thought mazzi was gonna find that ass...but he should know that that's what Arabs do best. Just kidding mazzi if you happen upon this.
3. Q-tip made some sense, but did anybody else cough "bullshit" when he was talking bout people doin shit for the moment and not caring about the quality? And this the same nigga that brought us vivrant thang and was wearing a glitter bandana on the cover of vibe about 9 years ago? Thought so.
4. Mic Terror kinda crossed the line with the song, but I think he was right to say somethin in defense of his movement. The other hipsters aint gonna say nothin...they too busy makin money.
5. The nigga at the end of the last vide better hope that nuthin happens to Mic Terror or you can enter this as exhibit a in his trial.
Now for my thoughts on the whole issue. Everybody do you. I didn't give the cool kids a chance at first...but I did and I like it. Fuck what a nigga wears...3 stacks wears kilts and ascots and shit and will murk all the niggaz in the game. Mazzi said, "hip hop is dying cuz of hipsters focusing on being cool than the music", but isn't he focused on them being cool too? I once heard the clothes dont make the man...they don't make the rapper either.
I agree. And hasn't clothing always been important to hiphop and, in fact, all types of popular music? This is not art music, all of this music is an integral part of current culture, which is exactly what makes it relevant.
A few things in no particular order:
1. Don't threaten a man over the phone forgetting the lack of protection you may have upon touching down in Chicago. Show Mic Terrors pictures all you want but do you know his fam? this is Chicago, rap crews have less to do with the people you roll with than many may think. We hate each other and outsiders more.
2. It was a dis track.
3."Back Packer" is just as sad a title as "Hipster Rap" but both must co-exist because they both have validity. Despite Miles Raymers claim, the 80's hip hop weren't a Utopic subculture where race didn't matter. Some people loved this and some hated that. Keeping that in mind, we don't have to like everything thing that comes out.
4. If Hip Hop is dead shut then fuck
up and move on. Stop talking. Dont mention it in rhyme form. Yes the hip hop you grew up with is gone hence the term "history." I'm not defending anybody, ask David Kenneth I hate almost everybody I don't know but I respect differences. Listen to "Were Famous" by El-P and AesopRock and Take notes.
5.Mic Terror used to battle so yes he would be the person to respond.
6. General Rap truth: It doesn't matter if a person is making money, if you think they suck then diss them. Too many cats who didn't come up on a skill-based mindstate won't get that.
7. You can't see clothes in your head phones.
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