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Vince Staples recently performed Senorita and Lift Me Up on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The young and talented rapper from Long Beach, released his debut album Summertime ‘06, last Monday, and it’s insanely good. The beats, lyrics, flow, and production of it, has a pretty dark tone throughout the majority of the album. Only 21, Vince Staples will definitely be someone you’ll keep hearing about for years to come. Give the whole album a listen if you like his sound.

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Kendrick Lamar Puts Geraldo Rivera In His Place, After The  Ignorant Statement He Made On Fox News

“The problem isn’t me standing on the cop car, I think his attempt is deleting the real problem which is the senseless acts of [cops] killing these young boys out here. I think for the most part it’s avoiding the truth, it’s reality, this is my world, this is what I talk about in my music and you can’t dilute that. Me being on a cop car that’s a performance piece after these senseless acts.”

“Of course I’m going to be enraged about what’s going on out here, of course I’m going to speak on it,” continues the 28-year-old MC. “But at the same time, you can’t dilute the overall message.”

“Hip Hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem. This is our music, this is us expressing ourselves. Rather [than] going out here and doing murder myself, I want to express myself in a positive light, the same way other artists are.”  

Well, I couldn’t agree more. Watch Kendrick lift us all up during his performance of Alright at the BET Awards. “Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright“

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziuCl9ZbXbw

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Kendrick Lamar Responds to Fox News During An Interview With TMZ

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Yesterday, Kendrick Lamar responded to Fox News, in an interview with TMZ. 

“How can you take a song that’s about hope and turn it into hatred?,” he asked. “The message, the overall message, is we gonna be all right. It’s not the message, we gonna kill people.”

“This is our music…“ This is us expressing ourselves. Rather [than] going out here and doing the murders myself, I want to express myself in a positive light the same way other artists are doing. Not going out in the streets, go in the booth and talking about the situation and hoping these kids can find some type of influence on it in a positive manner. Coming from these streets and coming from these neighborhoods, we’re taking our talents and putting ‘em inside the studio.”

I would love for Fox News to have Kendrick on their show, for a discussion about the statements they made, vs. Lamar’s response. They don’t have a clue what they’d be getting themselves into. They probably think he’s some spoiled rapper with no brains, when truth be-told, K-Dot has a higher IQ then the entire staff over at Fox News. He would destroy them, and make ole Geraldo embarrassed for the things he said. 

Here’s a link to Kendrick’s response on TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_uxpkzlva

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Fox News claim that Kendrick Lamar’s BET Awards performance “Incites Violence.” Fox News also claim that they’re the most ignorant, closed-minded idiots, on television. Kendrick’s amazing performance of Alright was a talking point on the latest episode of “The Five,” which is a program on Fox News. “This is why I say that hip-hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism in recent years,” said Geraldo Rivera. Rivera continued: “This is exactly the wrong message. And then to conflate what happened in the church in Charleston, South Carolina with these tragic incidents involving excessive use of force by cops is to equate that racist killer with these cops, it is so wrong, it is so counterproductive, it gives exactly the wrong the message.” I really can’t even wrap my head around this. People like Geraldo Rivera, and major TV programs like Fox News, is the reason this country will always be held back from moving forward. Rivera, probably glanced at this performance for less then a minute, and decided to make this bold statement, just because he saw a black rapper performing on-top of a police car. He doesn’t have the slightest idea of who Kendrick Lamar even is, or represents, and wouldn’t be making statements like this, if he had ever listened to To Pimp a Butterfly, or knew anything about Kendrick. But like usual, people automatically know everything there is to know about an individual, after just a brief glance. 

Here’s a link to the video: http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/06/29/foxs-geraldo-rivera-hip-hop-has-done-more-damag/204195

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Makaveli (2Pac) was just hitting his peak on The 7 Day Theory, which is one of the realist albums I’ve listened to. “To the homies that I used to have that no longer roll Catch a brother at the crossroads… Plus nobody knows my soul, Watchin time pass Through the glass of my drop-top Rolls, hold ya head!”

NowPlaying “Hold Ya Head” by Makaveli from The 7 Day Theory

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Boosie Badazz is spitting fire on his track Mercy On My Soul off his newest album Touch Down 2 Cause Hell.

NowPlaying “Mercy On My Soul (feat. Jeezy & Akelee)” by Boosie Badazz from Touch Down 2 Cause Hell

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Kendrick Lamar has shared the video for his amazing track Alright, which is from his (WORDS CAN’T EVEN DESCRIBE) album To Pimp a Butterfly. The video features Lamar performing a variety of crazy stunts in a black-and-white resolution. It was directed by Colin Tilley and the Little Homies. Enjoy…

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-48u_uWMHY)

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The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory by Makaveli (2Pac’s Stage Name) is one of my favorite rap albums. The album was finished in 7 days during the first week of August, 1996. The lyrics were written in 3 days, and the mixing was an additional 4 days, which is insane. It was the last full-length album he recorded before his fatal shooting on September 7, 1996, which was around a month after. Compared to his albums before, The 7 Day Theory is definitely his darkest release. Shakur’s rapping style is still emotional, but is intensified throughout this album, and the production is so raw. He makes a bold statement by calling out all of his rivals, and all of his enemies, and it’s “the realist shit” anyone has ever wrote. Usually, it’s the realist people who speak the truth that end up dead, and Tupac knew the consequences and was willing to face them. Literally, he sounds like he’s ready to go to war when he flows. It’s sad that some cowards had to murder one of the greatest, because he was just hitting his peak. If there’s not a heaven for a G, for Pac, then I don’t want to go there. But I’m sure he’s sitting high up there, starring down on us, as he sips on a 5th of Hennessy.

The 7 Day Theory by Makaveli

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Canal St., off A$AP Rocky’s newest album, AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP, goes off so hard. After quickly going through the album, when it was released, I really didn’t think too much of it. The more I listened, the more it kept growing on me, and Canal St. blows me away. I really like the experimental direction he chose to go with on this album, and the vast majority of it is stellar.

NowPlaying “Canal St.” by A$AP Rocky from AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP

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This song Krazy by Tupac, just proves why I think he’s the greatest rapper of all time. After listening to most of his albums the past 2 weeks, Makaveli - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, is one of my favorites of all time. The production, lyrics, and Pac’s flow, is just so raw, and goes so hard. This man was a true poet. 

LYRICS

[Intro]
Throw me a cigarette, dawg! {*inhales*}
They got me feelin crazier than a motherfucker
I got Bad Azz in this motherfucker
Makaveli the Don, representin’ the Outlawz
Bad Azz representin the L.B.C Crew
So what'cha wanna do? Y'know how we do it

{*overlapping the [Intro]*}
.. puffin on lye
Hopin that it get me high
Got a nigga goin cra-zy
Oh yeah, I feel cra-zy

[Hook]
Time goes by, puffin on lye
Hopin that it gets me high
Got a nigga goin cra-zy
Oh yeah, I feel cra-zy

(Tell ‘em bout it)

[2Pac]
Last year was a hard one, but life goes on
Hold my head against the wall learnin right from wrong
They say my ghetto intrumental, detrimental to kids
As if they can’t see the misery in which they live
Blame me, for the outcome, ban my records - check it
Don’t have to bump this but please respect it
I took a minus and now the hard times are behind us
Turned into a plus, now they stuck livin blinded
Hennesey got me feelin bad, time to stop drinkin
Rollin, in my drop-top Jag, what’s that cops thinkin?
Sittin in my car, watch the stars and smoke
I came a long way but still I got so far to go
Dear mama, don’t worry; I'mma watch for snakes
Tell Setchu, that I love her, but it’s hard today
I got the letter that she sent me, and I cried for weeks
This what came out when I tried to speak - all I heard was

[Hook - repeat 2X]

(One, two, three, four)

[2Pac]
I see bloods and crips runnin up the hill
Lookin for a better wayyyyyy
My brothers and sisters it’s time to bail
Cause even thug niggas prayyyyyy
Hopin God hear me, I entered the game; look how much I changed
I’m no longer innocent - casualties of fame
Made a lot of money, seen a lot of places
And I swear I seen a peaceful smile on my mama’s face
When I gave her the keys to her own house, this your land
Your only son done became a man
Watchin time fly; I love my people do or die
But I wonder why, we scared to let each other fly
June 1-6, '7-1, the day
Mama pushed me out her womb, told me, “Nigga get paid.”
No one can understand me - the black sheep
Outcasted from my family, now packin heat
I run the streets, a young runaway, live for today
When he died, I could hear him say, (Thug Life Baby) c'mon(Westside)

[Hook - repeat 2X]

[Bad Azz]
God help me out here, cause I’m posessed
I need the root of all evil for my stress
Cause money’s like a stong prescription drug, it’s got me addicted
To the pleasure and the pain it inflicted
Somethin bout the paper wit the pictures of the president’s, head
Damn, it’s like a motherfuckin plague that spread
It’s epidemic; forgotten, forgotten it got worse
I keep my head on straight, makin money cause it’s cursed
Makin money makes a difference day by day so I gotta stay
Paid, no doubt, day in and day out
This life is like a vicious cycle called fightin to live
No matter how hard you try, it’s in death, you gotta die
A lot of my, peers didn’t make it to the years to come
Did life doin right, or did life livin dumb
Who has the answers? I wonder; I turn to my elders
They aged and experienced, but they can’t even tell ya
Or tell me, that there’ll be light at the end of the road
(Why?) Cause they don’t even know
A million thangs run through my mind(through my mind)
You ain’t gotta be in jail to be doin time(You ain’t gotta be in jail…to be doin time)

[Hook - repeat 2X]

{*Chorus repeats while 2Pac speaks below*|

[2Pac]
I feel fucked up in this bitch
I smoked half a ounce to the head
Chocolate tye, indo, Hawaiian, lambsbread, buddha, all that shit
I’m fucked up in this motherfucker, and Hennesey don’t help
And Hennesey don’t help - Thug Passion in this muh'fucker
Makaveli the Don puttin it down to the fullest, maximum overload
3 Day Theory - Killuminati to your body
With the impact of a 12 gauge shotty
Double-I slugs, no love, straight thugs

One time for my niggas in the jail cell
(One time for my niggas locked up)
One time for my niggas doin life in hell
(One time for my niggas and shit, one time)
One time for my niggas in the jail cell
(One time)
One time for my niggas doin life in hell
(One time for my niggas locked down)
One time for my niggas in the jail cell
(For my niggas locked up, one time)
One time for my niggas on Death Row
(One time for my niggas on the Row)
For my niggas on Death Row
One time for my niggas livin, broke
(Westside, California style, L.A.!)
One time for my niggas livin, broke
(You know what time it is, no doubt)
One time for my niggas in the.. jail cell
(Get high, puffin on lye, wonder if it get me high)
(Yeah, yeah, crazy..)

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7ZRKbTs6Gg)