My Eyes Burn, A Wednesday Roundup

I'm sleepy as fuck. Though I've been hitting the books hard for the past few weeks, it doesn't mean that I've neglected hip-hop--rather, I've just neglected to post about it. Indeed, there is shit going down.

Let's start with the dumbest thing I've seen this week, yes, it's Kanye West at the Grammys getting clowned on by the producers. "You gonna play music on me?" Man, how big is this guy's ego? Seriously, I've had enough of him. Graduation was alright, with a few hot tracks, but "greatest musician in the world?" Smh at this one. Humility missed this one.

Weezy been indicted and Game gets 60 days. Not a good week for my boys.

Lupe Fiasco has something to say about racism. Personally I just think he should keep his mouth shut. After managing to slander Tribe, dude needs to fall back, and by fall back I mean never release another album. Real talk.

There's a mixtape floating around out there of the samples used in Nas' classic, Illmatic. I hear he has another classic due out soon, and if you haven't seen it yet, you better peep the newest "commercial" for Nigger.

Get a load of the cover for the forthcoming Kids in the Hall album that we're salivating over.

The Cool Kids have some real talk for Ghostface, who recently slammed fans with a YouTube video admonishing them for not buying Big Doe Rehab. I guess the Pitchfork Award wasn't enough for him, then? As the Cool Kids say, "Artists that wanna protect their music or [say] don’t bootleg or don’t download, what are you gonna do? It’s like trying to stop everybody from doing drugs. You gonna tell somebody to not smoke weed?"

That's all I got for now. Time to sleep to the sound of barking sea lions.

bw in Roundup @ February 13, 2008 2:44 AM | 0 Comments

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