Music News-November 2001
Jay-z's "The Blueprint" album cover
Nas
Mobb Deep's Prodigy
Some of Nace's work.
Battle Rhymes
Back in the day, it was LL and Kool Moe Dee and KRS-1 and MC Shan. And not too long ago it was LL and Canibus and the Lox and Bad Boy. It seems that it wouldn't be hip hop without the beef.
Who hasn't heard that song by Nas, "Stillmatic", where he disses Jay: "Nas designed ya blueprint/Who are you kiddin?/Is he the H-to-the-izz-O-M-to-the-izz-O/Fa shizzzle, you phony/The rappin version of Sisqo". Damn, the rap version of Sisqo?! Well of course, Jay came back with "The Takeover", "Yeah I sampled your voice, you was using it wrong/You made it a hot line, I made it a hot song/You n****s gonna learn to respect the King/Don't be the next contestant on that summer jam screen".
For those who don't know, Jay and Prodigy had some beef and Jay displayed a picture of the young Prodigy wearing a dance outfit on a big screen at New York's Hot 97 Summer Jam. That's beef.
Jigga, Guilty?
On December 2, 1999, at the Kit Kat club in Manhattan. Jay-z was attending a listening party for Q-Tip's "Amplified". He aledgedly stabbed Lance "Un" Rivera. Jay pleaded guilty on Wednesday, October 16, and is going to be sentenced to probation. He could do up to three years in jail.
RIP to a Fallen Graffiti Artist
On August 12, Nace, a 26 year old graf artist from New Jersey died when a drunk driver, who passed a stop sign, hit the car he was in. The other passengers lived but Nace's injuries were too severe. He died at the scene. Nace did a thousand pieces of work mostly on freight trains.
Jay-z's "The Blueprint" album cover
Nas
Mobb Deep's Prodigy
Some of Nace's work.
Who hasn't heard that song by Nas, "Stillmatic", where he disses Jay: "Nas designed ya blueprint/Who are you kiddin?/Is he the H-to-the-izz-O-M-to-the-izz-O/Fa shizzzle, you phony/The rappin version of Sisqo". Damn, the rap version of Sisqo?! Well of course, Jay came back with "The Takeover", "Yeah I sampled your voice, you was using it wrong/You made it a hot line, I made it a hot song/You n****s gonna learn to respect the King/Don't be the next contestant on that summer jam screen".
For those who don't know, Jay and Prodigy had some beef and Jay displayed a picture of the young Prodigy wearing a dance outfit on a big screen at New York's Hot 97 Summer Jam. That's beef.
Jigga, Guilty?
On December 2, 1999, at the Kit Kat club in Manhattan. Jay-z was attending a listening party for Q-Tip's "Amplified". He aledgedly stabbed Lance "Un" Rivera. Jay pleaded guilty on Wednesday, October 16, and is going to be sentenced to probation. He could do up to three years in jail.RIP to a Fallen Graffiti Artist
On August 12, Nace, a 26 year old graf artist from New Jersey died when a drunk driver, who passed a stop sign, hit the car he was in. The other passengers lived but Nace's injuries were too severe. He died at the scene. Nace did a thousand pieces of work mostly on freight trains.| BACK HOME BREAKING MCing GRAF DJing |