Hopefully God forgives Rick Ross for this album, I know Nas Will

I'll leave a full post about Ross's "God Forgives, I Don't" alone and just say that the album is below average by great hip-hop album standards and average if not below even by Ross album standards. A few stand-out cuts, "3 Kings", "Sixteen", "Diced Pineapples", and my personal favorite "Amsterdam". There are a couple others I like as well but overall the album disappointed me even when confining my thoughts to "how does this measure up compared to other Fat Ricky joints". Yep, I said that in my head I promise.

With all that said, Ross's album doesn't really come close to touching Nas's album and I'm not overwhelmingly impressed by Nas's album either. It's a good Nas album but I'm not convinced it's a classic like lots of Nas stans seem to be proclaiming. But I digress.

The real point of this post is to let you have a listen to what I think would be the best possible combination of tracks from the two albums, "God Forgives I Don't" and "Life's Good". These are two most important releases of the last month or so in hip-hop and I'm not blown away by either (in fact, I'm listening to Childish Gambino's "Royalty" mixtape more than either of these) so I decided to create a mash-up of the two (hence the title of this post). Hopefully you enjoy it as much as I do.

THROWBACK!!! Rakim - Microphone Fiend

A lot of people always bring up Rakim when it comes to being the greatest rapper of all time. I won't deny that his style fathered many of the styles of the rappers that followed but I grew up in that era of hip-hop when Nas dropped his first classic disc, Biggie and Pac became uber-popular, died, and Jay-Z carried the throne for the next 15 years. For that reason, Rakim's not at the top of my GOAT list but he's definitely on the list and highly respected.

"Microphone Fiend" is one of the first rap joints I can remember hearing back in the day and I remember his voice grabbing my attention and not letting me turn away. Delivery was on point and that break-down at the end just put the icing on the cake. And on a funny note, I remember always thinking that Eric B. was Rakim and vice-versa because the person rapping (I assumed) came first, lol. But that just shows how much respect Rakim had for his DJ, Eric B. That's dope shyt. That was definitely a different era in the sense that one or only a couple producers/DJs would make beats for an entire album. You don't get that nowadays and when you do, people make it seem like the concept is ground-breaking. It's not. It's how things used to be. Back when rappers just rapped from the heart and not about contrived lifestyles of grandeur and before the "super-producer" concept came into hip-hop. Back then the only super producer was Quincy Jones, real talk. Anyway, I'm digressing but I'm sure you get my point.

Video: Ne-Yo - Lazy Love (semi NSFW)

Ne-Yo is an undeniably good (if not great) writer but I haven't really listened to much of his material recently. But this song is dope and the video has a lil something for the ladies with Mr. "I Always Have a Hat On!" going shirtless. But MORE IMPORTANTLY, it has something for the fellas with this woman that I - after a quick initial glance - thought was Zoe Saldana and then realized she isn't but that she's just as fine, lol.

Childish Gambino - Arrangement

One of my favorites off his Royalty mixtape along with Black Faces.



"Bank account looking like when little kids break shyt [oooooooooh]"

My girl 5'2", even her growth stunted"

"On Worldstar and I ain't have to have a ni99a moment" A couple more of my favorites off the mixtape below.

Unnecessary



One Up



Shoulda Known



They Don't Like Me

Video: Stalley feat Curren$y - Hammers & Vogues

One of my favorites off Sabage Journey to the American Dream. This joint has a permanent spot on my "Cigar Music" playlist.



"All these demons in my way I'm tryna brush past them"

"Just enjoy this life, fall in love lay back and enjoy your wife. And think twice before you throw the dice"

This CAN'T be real!

If this is real this has to be the most disrespectfully arrogant thing I've seen in my life.



Adrien Broner's overcompensating for something. Based on the necklace I know what my guess is as to what he's overcompensating for, lol.

It's Been A Minute...

It's been a busy summer and I'll likely be posting sporadically through the remainder of the summer but I wanted to drop off this video that my co-worker sent me earlier. It's by a guy named Illmind, check it out below.

Video: Prince EA: Backwards Rappers

It's been a minute, I've been traveling all over the place without much of an urge to do a post. Anyway, I ran into this video on Big Ghost's blog the other day and it reminded me of Nas's "Rewind". I like what he's trying to do here, I just wish he didn't have pink slippers on while doing it, lol. Otherwise, I think this is really creative and we need more "artists" doing stuff like this.

Childish Gambino (feat. Nipsey Hussle) - Black Faces

Another banger from Gambino aka Donald Glover.

"I don't fly Coach now, say I fly Goyard."

"Grind in my sleep man a ni99a need braces"

"People wrestle over petty cash, when we should really be crying over that 1 percent like we tipped the milk glass"

Let's take a trip back to 2004...

... and take a look at the XXL magazine article below where a nice sampling of rappers were asked whether or not they're into anal sex. Some of you probably saw this in its original print form but I was just made privy to it today.

I found some of the responses hilarious and my guess is that you will too. My favorites are paraphrased after the jump.


When it comes to anal I'm rolling with Fiddy as far as not really being into it, but some of the other responses had me dying laughing.

Lil Wayne: Oooh, my daddy said it in a song a minute ago and everybody started buffocking.

Talib: I'm much to pure to be doing anything such as that.

Jadakiss: "I don't pump on that block!" Apparently Jada is even nicer with the double entendre's than I thought.

Trina: I do it, I just don't want it to be in print.

Mr. Cheeks: Lights, camera, action!

Joe Budden: Only if a video vixen wants me to do it.

Nore: So after I sh*ts on the b*tch...

Bleek: I'm saying, what would Jay do?