Comments on: The Album Of The Year Is HERE, featuring Jay-Z and Nas http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-album-of-the-year-is-here-featuring-jay-z-and-nas/ Keep Your Ear To The Streets... Tue, 6 Jan 2009 04:17:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: jeneral http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-album-of-the-year-is-here-featuring-jay-z-and-nas/#comment-36737 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:37:28 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-album-of-the-year-is-here-featuring-jay-z-and-nas/#comment-36737 nas i right. nas i right.

]]> by: evenwhenilie http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-album-of-the-year-is-here-featuring-jay-z-and-nas/#comment-35429 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:03:19 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-album-of-the-year-is-here-featuring-jay-z-and-nas/#comment-35429 what is a hip hop scholar? ...........some one who studies the cultural origins and socological ramifications of hip hop idealists, artists, fans, and all other facets of the phenom called hip hop. I bet its something like that........ what is a hip hop scholar?

………..some one who studies the cultural origins and socological ramifications of hip hop idealists, artists, fans, and all other facets of the phenom called hip hop. I bet its something like that……..

]]> by: cool to be smart http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-album-of-the-year-is-here-featuring-jay-z-and-nas/#comment-32755 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:54:16 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-album-of-the-year-is-here-featuring-jay-z-and-nas/#comment-32755 it used to cool to be smart in hiphop ... wise intelligent, kool genius of rap, knowledge reigns supreme over nearly everybody ... now they making it cool to be a drug dealer - funny thing is, cats havent been selling cocaine like that since the 1980s, so what's that mess yall be talking? ... read a book! it used to cool to be smart in hiphop … wise intelligent, kool genius of rap, knowledge reigns supreme over nearly everybody … now they making it cool to be a drug dealer - funny thing is, cats havent been selling cocaine like that since the 1980s, so what’s that mess yall be talking? … read a book!

]]> by: Reef http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-album-of-the-year-is-here-featuring-jay-z-and-nas/#comment-32352 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:22:49 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-album-of-the-year-is-here-featuring-jay-z-and-nas/#comment-32352 I saw Mr. Dyson in person once, he is amazing, dude gotta extensive vocabulary to, the realest nigga alive I saw Mr. Dyson in person once, he is amazing, dude gotta extensive vocabulary to, the realest nigga alive

]]> by: Kalifornia http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-album-of-the-year-is-here-featuring-jay-z-and-nas/#comment-32329 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:02:08 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-album-of-the-year-is-here-featuring-jay-z-and-nas/#comment-32329 I hate to sound SO harsh...but ...who cares? Like J.dot said, hiphop is not to be explained. And as far as him being from the "streets" or whatever, that's irrelevant if you can't be unbiased. Motherfuckers romanticize the streets too too much. But his existence is good; I guess for him to translate to people "not of the streets" is good. But really I don't give a fuck cuz I'm still in the hood. I don't hate the man but, I don't care if Yale students know why hiphop is, or what it is. final word: WASTE OF TIME I hate to sound SO harsh…but …who cares? Like J.dot said, hiphop is not to be explained. And as far as him being from the “streets” or whatever, that’s irrelevant if you can’t be unbiased. Motherfuckers romanticize the streets too too much. But his existence is good; I guess for him to translate to people “not of the streets” is good. But really I don’t give a fuck cuz I’m still in the hood. I don’t hate the man but, I don’t care if Yale students know why hiphop is, or what it is. final word: WASTE OF TIME

]]> by: J. dot http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-album-of-the-year-is-here-featuring-jay-z-and-nas/#comment-32265 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:50:24 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/08/28/the-album-of-the-year-is-here-featuring-jay-z-and-nas/#comment-32265 I like what he is doing. I support the brother we need more scholars. But let us not be enamored by big words with 4 syllables, more than we are with bass beats and rhymes just because it's packaged in the intellectually legitimate form 'a book'. I'm not sure if hip-hop needs a translator. What is a hip-hop scholar anyway? If a black man writes a book about culture it's hip-hop? I'm not so sure. I don't think people should look for some one to speak for the culture as if to excuse it or apologize for it. Let the culture speak for itself a big part of hip hop is spoken word, rap. Let the people speak for themselves. Hip-hop is a culture like jazz and it shall live in the forefront of mainstraim and one day it will relinquish it's place. For all the fuss it has raised it has yet to really challenge the system or lead our people into a democratic, social, or economic revolution. It really hasn't even challenged us to do anything but buy more records. I love the music but I don't get the fascination. What we need is unity, respect, fathers, responsibility,and to get away from the materialistic consumerist mindset (bling bling). Put that in a book holla. I like what he is doing. I support the brother we need more scholars. But let us not be enamored by big words with 4 syllables, more than we are with bass beats and rhymes just because it’s packaged in the intellectually legitimate form ‘a book’. I’m not sure if hip-hop needs a translator. What is a hip-hop scholar anyway? If a black man writes a book about culture it’s hip-hop? I’m not so sure. I don’t think people should look for some one to speak for the culture as if to excuse it or apologize for it. Let the culture speak for itself a big part of hip hop is spoken word, rap. Let the people speak for themselves. Hip-hop is a culture like jazz and it shall live in the forefront of mainstraim and one day it will relinquish it’s place. For all the fuss it has raised it has yet to really challenge the system or lead our people into a democratic, social, or economic revolution. It really hasn’t even challenged us to do anything but buy more records. I love the music but I don’t get the fascination. What we need is unity, respect, fathers, responsibility,and to get away from the materialistic consumerist mindset (bling bling). Put that in a book holla.

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