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Dear Bow Wow,
Let me preface this by saying, I actually like you and even some of your music. I also predict that when it’s all said and done you’re gonna have an LL/Will Smith-like career. You seem in it for the long haul. But no one is recognizing it. So what do you do? You act a fool. So in turn, you get no respect. But there’s still some other reasons too, homie. Peep game.
26 Reasons Why Sir Shad Gregory Moss gets no respect:
1 You’re short.
2 You’re really short.
3 You still got a baby face.
4 You seem like a mama’s boy. Worst than Usher before the family wrecker came along.
5 Somebody else bumped your girl. 50 Cent!
6 R Kelly punked you out the “I’m a Flirt” song.
7 Your mentor JD gets no respect.
8 You seem like an ingrate cause you’re always shitting on the dude that put you on.
9 You were born in 1987. A year after Raising Hell.
10 You dropped the Lil from your name. Which is worst than being Lil in the first place.
11 You made an album with a nigga from B2K.
12 Lil girls love you. No, they really love you.
13 You call yourself Mr. 106 and Park like that’s a cool thing to be. Who’s your comp there AJ or Terrence J?
14 You call yourself Bow Wizzle like a fake baby Snoop Dogg who never put you on in the first place.
15 Death Row never signed you.
16 You call yourself Bow Weezy and we already got a Weezy.
17 You call yourself the Prince of the O-Town.
18 You come up with bad nicknames.
19 You jack other rapper’s flows and styles.
20 You make bad movies.
21 You got a Napoleon complex.
22 You talk too much.
23 You don’t listen.
24 You’re loud and wrong. As usual.
25 You’ll probably dismiss this and any criticism as hating.
26 You don’t have any hip-hop fans who care about you enough to make a list this long.
Sidenote: Does anyone remember the diss song Bow Wow made against Funkmaster Flex? Am I making this up? Revisionist history? I swear, it happened.
Then, in early December, sources at Universal confirmed to XXL editor-in-chief Elliott Wilson that no Lil Wayne LP would be released until the official Carter III hit stores in February of 2008. Now, with just a week left until the new year, a five song Lil Wayne EP called simply The Leak has quietly appeared on the websites of online digital music retailers such as Amazon and Rhapsody. The EP includes tracks such as “Gossip,” which was supposed to be the first single off Tha Carter III: The Leak, and “Kush.” Amazon lists The Leak’s official street date as Tuesday, December 25 and Cash Money Records as the label. It is unclear whether the EP will ever be available in stores, or why no official announcement accompanied its release.
Here is the tracklisting for Lil Wayne’s The Leak:
1. I’m Me
2. Gossip
3. Kush
4. Love Me Or Hate Me
5. Talkin’ About It
9) Scott Storch- produced the universally-loved Papoose single “Bang It Out,” which was so hot that Pap had to leave the pop factory, Jive Records, for greener pastures; beefed, dissed, and ethered his former protege Timbaland, who then went on record in a Scratch Mag interview and said he still hangs out with the guy. Dear Mr. Piano Man, I’m your biggest fan, sincerely Mr. Tim-ber-land.
8) R Kelly- drops his album Double Up, which apparently every producer in the entire music industry worked on, then jacks everyone except like 2 people for their production credit because that’s just how The Rrrrrrr gets down. Didn’t The Runners produce like every song on this fucking album?
7) 7 Aurelius/Channel 7 or whatever the hell he calls himself now, and Irv Gotti- you can’t tell me that Ja Rule record, “Body” isn’t the hottest career comeback record evar. It was so hot that more people watched Irv Gotti’s VH1 show to hear him talk about the record than actually listened it.
6) Jermaine Dupri- gives Fabolous one the biggest fake hits of his career with “Baby Don’t Go” which he actually made back in something like 1994 for Whodini. Reselling beats and getting paid twice, that’s why Jermaine is the uber exec. What, you thought the music biz was about making music? It’s about checks. Cha-ching! Throw in that Paul Wall hit “I’m Throwed,” and you see JD was on top of his game.
5) Three 6 Mafia- produced the #1 ringtone, “Don’t Call Me No Mo” for Project Pat, as well as his whole album Walkin Bank Roll. Also dropped something like 15 incredible singles from their still unreleased new album Last 2 Walk and acted like great ambassadors for hip-hop culture in front of a national audience on their weekly MTV show Adventures In Hollyhood.
4) Soulja Boy- this kid is like 16 years old, obviously can’t play a lick, but produced the most infectious single of the year. Now I know everyone here hates this kid more than Bin Laden, but is it because you really don’t like his music, or because you’re sitting in your bedroom trying to hard while he’s getting rich off some bullsh*t?
3) The Neptunes- Admit it, that Twista single, “Give It Up,” was so hot that Twista got dropped from Atlantic Records because of it. Besides that, Skateboard P was busy opening up BBC stores in Soho and doing all sorts of cool shit producers do when they’re so rich they don’t even need to give a fuck about music anymore.
2) Lil Jon- outside of doing some random production on Pitbull’s new album, Jon spent the whole year working on Crunk Rock. Which is dope, because he spared us his repetitive 2-note beats being on the radio every 3 seconds. So he makes it to #2 just by not doing anything.
1) The Rza- Bob Digital hit his creative high point with Wu-Tang Clan’s 8 Diagrams. It’s unfortunate, however, that his Wu-brethren didn’t see things the same way and then went on to dis him damn near everywhere they could. Meanwhile, nobody in that crew outside of Ghostface can sell more than a thousand records on their own, so instead of bitching, they should have embraced their “Inner Digi” and rocked that Beatles shit harder than Paul McCartney.
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“I’m a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold’s for fried chicken. It’s all these things at once, because, as a tastemaker, I find the best of everything. There’s certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I’m a go get that. Like, on Christmas I don’t want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don’t want my credit to look black."
- Kanye West tells the new issue of SPIN.
