That's IT. If Panda ToesPhilebrity can call for a moratorium on banger, I can call for an end to videos that begin with me being told that I am "about to see something I have never seen before." Really? REALLY? You think I've never seen moving images, hoodies, diamonds, and cars before? You don't think much of my life, do you?

Learn a new trick.

So I've given We Got It 4 Cheap, Vol. 3 a more thorough listen and while it's still an amazing piece of work, like Status in't Hood, I have some concerns.

Unlike Mr. Breihan, however, I'm a little more concerned about the following from "Re-Up Intro", which seems to be escalating the Lil Wayne beef:

Sorry, but I don't respect who you applaudin'/Lil nigga flow but his metaphor is borin'/Don't make me turn daddy's lil girl to orphan/That'd mean I'd have to kill Baby like abortion

It's not just that I don't want my two favorite rapper(s) feuding with each other as, like Brett, I'm worried about the potential for real violence. Both groups are in such tenuous places, in terms on commercial success/respect, that we really don't need another career-ending tragedy.

With Weezy's recent legal troubles who knows if he'll respond and if he does, how. Tha Carter III is looking more and more like hip-hops version of Chinese Democracy and as far as I know he has no mixtapes scheduled to drop, but the dude is prolific and it's unlikely there won't be some sort of response within the next few months.

I can't say I'm disappointed with Clipse--it's a hell of a mixtape and even as I love Wayne, I respect the power of that diss. It's more, that these are two sets of artist who seem to get the idea of doing what you love, working the grind, and moving rap to the next level. It'd be a shame for them to take each other out, especially over something so unimportant as BAPE.

I can't upload songs right now (computer issues), but if you haven't heard it yet you can listen to the track here.

Brett can have all the hate towards Lupe and Kanye that he wants--I don't get what all the fuss is about over those guys, but Lupe did a song about a zombie gangster and I can't have too much animosity towards that. For my money the worst rapper of all time is Mars Black, a guy of so little significance that (luckily) you will never, ever hear him.

In fact, the only reason I'm aware of his existence is that he's from my home state and I was once sent his demo. The latter made me tell the label not to sign him until he learned to distinguish between yelling and flowing and the former is what pisses me off the most. I don't know what kind of rap scene Nebraska has--probably not much of one. But I'll be damned if this lame ass excuse for a rapper is going to be the only representative of it.

But, really, all you need to know about the guy is that he's signed to Conor Oberst's Team Love label. That only should inspire enough bile to want to bury Mars Black.

Pusha, one half of the Cliipse, decided to toss up a little video on the Re-Up Gang blog in response to Lil Wayne's interview in this month's Complex Magazine. After the obligatory self-promotion at the beginning, it's clear that Pusha is mad.




I'm troubled by this because I love Weezy, but I also happen to love Pusha and the Clipse. These are probably the two best lyricists in hip-hop, and it looks like they've got real beef, now. Most beef in rap, however, usually blows over, simply because there's too much money to be made when people work together--and as we all know, controversy drives sales, just ask Kanye and 50 Cent. The most significant part of Pusha's monologue is all of the gun talk. It's a bit frightening, and when coming from his mouth in this context is also a lot realer than rapping about hollowtips. Let's hope that no real shells start flying.