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I was wondering what was going on with them...
MBW III

NICE

NICE

Good to know they are still doing their thing.

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Yeah, as they say "what had happen to them." i thought T-Pain was suppose to bring them back out. Oh yeah i though he (T-Pain) said he couldn't them together? Oh, how they tell lies!

yo t-roc, you thinkin' of the wrong group boy boy, T-Pain's group was Nappy Headz if I remember correctly.

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I went to Western w/ these dudes.  It's good to see them back doing the damny.  Shout out to B-Scott and Mel.

...oh yeah... I knew somebody was missin'?  What's up with Ryan?  Profit doing the solo or what?

Im from Ky and Big V my cousin but them niggaz is garbage...they get kno respect in da hood!! and yeah there is a hood in Ky

I liked these cats....

@yungthug08 said

damn my nigga.  i'm mad that's your cousin, but you still had to jump on here and holler that they're garbage and they get no respect in the hood.  can't a nigga at least root for a family member on the cool, even if you don't like their music?

man.  i think we just hit on the true definition of the word "hater"!

@richie sick

First of all my nigga im no hata...im get dat confirmed but these niggaz get no respect they go from sellin a million records and bein grammy nominated to shit...where i live homie the population small and every nigga i kno rap and them niggaz dont believe in helpin niggaz not sayin a nigga want a hand out aleast kick sum advice or somethin'...dey to buzy walkin round like they starz and i aint da only 1 feel like dat...so if u aint from where im from you will neva kno nigga...so check yaself b4 u call me a hata...

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@yungthug08: Damn, you gotta excuse me for jumpin in ya'll convo, but damn my dude. Why should they help you? What did you do to deserve help from yo cuzzo? Just wondering, I'm not gon' jump down yo throat and just automatically label you a hater, but nothing in life is free. I'm sure they had to grind HARD to get to the point where they got, but what have you or anyone else done to help them cats? I don't know you, and I don't know them personally, so I just wanted to know what would make you publicy discourage blood like that...

-On Topic-

I swear I was just askin' about these dudes some months back, good to see they're still doin they thing. Good luck to them, I felt like they were bringing some originality to the plate which I'd be happy to see again.

@yungthug08
What it do homey?  Like I said above, I went to school up there in BG around the same time as them dudes.  I know a couple of them...Mel was homies roommate.  I've heard several niggaz make the same statements you made but I can't say from personal experience with the couple I kicked it with cause we never mixed music on that business level ( more like blunted freestyle ciphers and shit like that ).  If that's how u feel then I'm sure you have your reasons, just like some others who have said the same thing.

@richie sick
If dude is family, he has more of a right to his opinion than any outsider cause he know dude first hand.  That don't mean he a hata ( although there is a fine line ).  Sometimes it ain't about what they doing...but more about how they did it.  

Shout out to my other BG niggaz.......Big T, Herb T, Diamond Cuttz, etc.

I guess R. Profitt left the group. That "tell the Dj" song gets plenty of spins here in the Ville. Big up's To LOUISVILLE baby!
Good for the return of the Nappy Roots

@Major ME
Maybe so.  A couple of years ago, I heard he had a solo deal, but you know how rumors go.  

The group T pain was talkin bout was the Nappy Headz

@ next gin, u must know my cousin percy or p wood..he went to scholl and hung with them too>>

much luv to them, i got their first joint and that was my shit. i was in nashville one time and they song 'shorty where yo head at' came on and i started repeating the words, some dude asked how i know it and im like i bump this in chicago, niggas was surprised. its alot of good shit that come from the south, Nappy Roots is  one of them

@duceconstant
That name sound hella familiar.   Is dude from the ville?

@Esq. of LastLeveL

u asked wat have i done to help them...Nigga i bought they albumz!! They had alot of underground albums out b4 they hit mainstream...and i neva said i wanted anything from them niggaz but therez alot of catz that looked up to them niggaz and the love people shown to them they dont give it bak...but like i said im no hata and neva will be i jus call it how i see it my nigga!

@Major ME

what it dew my nigga? I mean like i told them otha niggaz i aint hatin but i aint the only 1 dat feelz like dat...i done been in da studio wit these catz and the whole 9...done made beatz 4 Big V and everything and i neva asked to get paid i did it outta luv and respect 4 them niggaz...but dey dont return da same luv and respect so datz why i feel the way i do to toward them catz...but i wish them da best of luck!!! Apperciate u commentin on da situation homey...

@yungthug08

sounds like you expect something from your cousin. if you grown dont expect nothing from another man. thats some advice for you homie
http://www.myspace.com/jdubbthayounghectic  

@J-DUBB THA YOUNG HECTIC

Look my nigga i dont need nothin from dat nigga i aint asked em 4 shit and i neva will...i jus think dey garbage datz my opinion...fuck em! And like i said therez a million mo niggaz in da state of Ky feel like me! But appreciate the advice homeboi but i already knew dat

@yungthug08: Yea, I feel you on that then man. I HATE when ish like that goes down, but it's like J-DUBB was saying, you shouldn't expect anything from them cats. Sometimes, it's like that...but I know it pisses you off that much more when it's fam.

@yungthug08
Look at it this way.....u may be in a better position ( from a business standpoint ) doing your own thang.  All that glitters ain't gold.  Sorry to hear about u and Vito ( aka Scarface ).  He seemed like a cool nigga the few times I ran across him.  Me personally, I gotta agree with "J-DUBB THA YOUNG HECTIC".  Never wait on a handout from NOBODY.  That way, you have nobody but yourself to blame when shit don't go right and you have total control of your own destiny.

@Esq. of LastLeveL  

like i told J-dubb i aint expectin nuthin from them niggaz man...i jus dont respect em' like dat...i been my own man and im a keep bein my own man i aint neva depended on anotha nigga...i jus think if u got family in a good position like dat he should extend his help to a nigga! when u get own i thought that was 1 of the thingz u do is help ur family in ne way possible! but im not a crybaby nigga its all good...i jus got my opinion like everybody else and my opinion is they make ky look bad wit all dat country shit cuz everybody dont liva like dat down here!

@Nex Gin

Like i told everybody else homie im not expectin nuthin from them niggaz and u right its betta to cum up on ur own and create your on situation...and ima keep doin dat!

THEM NIGGAZ IS SLEPT ON!

@yungthug08
"my opinion is they make ky look bad wit all dat country shit cuz everybody dont liva like dat down here!"

Now that I can cosign.  That wuz the only real problem I had with what they were doing.  I lived in KY 20+ years, before moving, and I ain't neva been on a farm or none of that country boy shit they was spittin'.   I felt like that immediately pigeon holed any new artists coming outta KY.  It was almost kinda gimmicky.   99.9 percent of the artists I know from KY ain't comin' like that, or should I say, they weren't coming like that back in the day.  Niggaz in the ville either had a west or midwest swaggar due to the Blood/Crip shit poppin'.  Niggaz on the west side of KY was just diverse with the shit ( more up north, east and midwest type of shit ).

Man regardless 2 what yall sayin.. They are the face of Kentuky Rap .. Numbers dont lie. They sold Records.  & People like  them. They never fell off they just fell back.. They still cool in my book. Ill spin their records..

Humdinger? I dont know what thats about but hopefully they explain it on there disc

Much love and I wish much success to Nappy Roots. Yall made it, and gave the city some shine, keep doin ya thing. They dont owe no nigga in the city nothing, Lotta cats here did hate on the country vibe, but niggas is grown now and gettin money and understand the move yall made. KY lets get it. Southwick, Westend Louisville street cat we ride wit yall.

@ALLday_EVERYday
"They are the face of Kentuky Rap .. Numbers dont lie"

I think that was the point me and yungthug08 was trying to make.  With people seeing them as the "face of Kentucky", they think that is what Kentucky is when in actuality, the black majority of us from KY ( at least from P-town to the ville ) can't cosign that shit.  You said numbers don't lie. Plenty of new artists do #s their 1st and maybe their 2nd albums just off public curiosity alone OR people hopping on the next new sound.  Speaking for myself, I'm not downing the dudes cause I got love for them.  I'm just pointing out the obvious perception versus reality.

@ Bricks DF
Damn...the ville is in the spot today.

@ Nex Gin

I feel ya, but nthey made good music. And cats who was hating on  em in the city was 9 times outta 10 rappers(includin me, spoke on it on my new mixtape) who didnt understand they situation and looked at them like they was the voice of Louisville. But they wasn't speaking for jus Louisville, they spoke for KY. And truth be told, NO CITY, in KY is anything like Louisville. So we cant act like we the end all and be all of KY. Im glad to see anybody from here make it. And yea we in here! lol. But we always have been and will be in here, now we gotta make the game acknowledge we in here. Feel me

@yungthug08 said

ay, now that i hear your whole story, i feel you.  at least on the part about family helping family.  you're right.  a nigga should help his family out, theoretically speaking.  unless there's more to the story, which i don't need to be all up in your family business to find out.  

at the end of the day, everybody needs help at some point in their life.  ain't a success story in rap that didn't do it without a little bit of help.  i know if i was in a cool position, i'd love to help MOST of my family members out (ha ha!  we all know we got some annoying ass family members that we can't get along with.  like the saying goes, you don't get to choose your family).

so my bad for labeling you a hater.  it just sounded that way out the gates with no context.

@Bricks DF
No doubt.  They do make good music and they got a KY mixture.  KY is seriously slept on though.  I'm an old head, by hip hop standards, so I remember the rap atmosphere being totally different back in the day.  Nowadays you got these dudes following whateva is hot....rappin' one way back in '92 and sounding like they from the A in '08.  The shit is disgusting.  The one thing u gotta give Nappy is that they made their own lane, even if it does feel like a stereotype of what its like in KY.
Trust me, the times I been to Louisville, or home for that matter, it didn't ever feel "country" outside of maybe the slang.  KY hip hop is, to me, is diverse cause we surrounded by states with totally different vibes.  I hope that when we do get on , that is reflected.

I always respected them dudes musically.  I know they be down in Nashville a lot too.  I never really saw the country shit as a gimmic because when u listened to their music u see that they are repping for the whole state.  And to get cats like Kanye West, Raphael Saadiq, and Mr. DJ (the cat who produces with Outkast) to do work on your albums shows that cats see their vision.  As far as a personal level, one of my old homeboys used to chop it up with Fishscales and he would give him advice. However it wouldn't surprise me if nigga's where dick heads either. And I don't see why intelligent people would think KY or Louisville was country as hell.  It is the birth place and home of Muhammad Ali.  

Seriously slept on is an understatement for Ky. Where I'm from Hopkinsville(Down here we call it The Town)The real hood of Ky niggas be flexin on the mic 2 in every 5 niggas I know is talented as fuck when it comes 2 that pen and paper, plus we tha top hustlas in the state bar none

These kats was always kool

I wish 'em a good comeback...

"ALL MY LIFES BEEN PO BUT IT REALLY DONT MATTER NO MO'"

yo this fishscales. i feel yung thug's anger, but on the real i aint even from ky nor do i live there. im busy tryn to put my niggas on from my hometown. (GA). plus its always gone be somebody who feels like we didnt help them, cus the truth is- u cant please everybody. and as a founding member of nappy roots i know we got plenty of hood stories we could be rappin bout but we rather keep that shit to ourselves and rap about some more uplifting shit. my hood loves me and i say that wit tha most confidence. if u got a problem wit ya cusin then u should holla at him. big v is my brother and i know he's a real nigga who does real things. u cant say u ever had a convo wit me and i acted like i was too good and too much of a star, i dont git down like that

and preciate all u cats who wish us a good comeback. as we all know tha industry is shady so we need all the love we can git. nex gin wut up!

and preciate all u cats who wish us a good comeback. as we all know tha industry is shady so we need all the love we can git. nex gin wut up!

honestly that song they have..no static...is super DOPE!...i hear dit like  amonth ago on there myspace page..this cd will probably be as good as there past 2 and i loved both...best from the south major rec deals or not outkast,and nappy roots...and luda..but he hasnt laid a CDin a while

@fishscales

Dats good your hood luv you datz how it should be when u got da hoodz respect but niggaz in my city dont respect no Big V!! u supposed try to help yo niggaz from yo city get on if u able too! Now u say he a real nigga and he do real thingz but shit i cant tell my nigga...I kno u not from here and my anger aint wit yall otha niggaz...i dont even got anger toward him but the way he act affectz though whole group! If he act like his shit dont stink then automatically niggaz think dat bout da whole group...his actions can hurt da whole group!!! therez very few niggaz in Ky (hood niggaz) respect da muzik yall do 4 da simple fact we all aint country! When yall first came out doin underground cds i was buyin them all cuz yall was relatin more to da hoodz and wat was goin on in da hood...i got a opinion like everybody else got a opinion and datz how i feel im 100% bout wat i say and i aint the only nigga feel like dat toward da situation...but good luck to yall niggaz i wish yall nuthin but the best...im not no hatin nigga and neva will be! i jus call like i see it!

@fishscales

Dats good your hood luv you datz how it should be when u got da hoodz respect but niggaz in my city dont respect no Big V!! u supposed try to help yo niggaz from yo city get on if u able too! Now u say he a real nigga and he do real thingz but shit i cant tell my nigga...I kno u not from here and my anger aint wit yall otha niggaz...i dont even got anger toward him but the way he act affectz though whole group! If he act like his shit dont stink then automatically niggaz think dat bout da whole group...his actions can hurt da whole group!!! therez very few niggaz in Ky (hood niggaz) respect da muzik yall do 4 da simple fact we all aint country! When yall first came out doin underground cds i was buyin them all cuz yall was relatin more to da hoodz and wat was goin on in da hood...i got a opinion like everybody else got a opinion and datz how i feel im 100% bout wat i say and i aint the only nigga feel like dat toward da situation...but good luck to yall niggaz i wish yall nuthin but the best...im not no hatin nigga and neva will be! i jus call like i see it!

Yessir...

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@fishscales
Wutz good Mel?  Good to see yall back in the spot.  I cosign what u said about making the uplifting music.  That's what the game needs and what a lot of the up and coming artists from KY need to model after.  Its easy to make REAL street shit or spit fabricated rhymes....but it takes more to bring that creativity, spin that shit and still sound hot.  Don't worry about feelin' like yall owe anybody shit.  You don't need niggaz who are just around 4 what you can give them.  On the real, and I'm sure you already know this, but success brings the leeches out the woodwork.  There were always catz that felt like they were owed something (not talking bout yungthug08 cause that's family business, but u know what I'm sayin').  What they didn't understand is that, in the music business, it ain't always as easy as just givin' a nigga a deal.  This ain't the mom and pop store in the hood where ya homey can get you the hook up for the low....lol.   Its a business like any other business.  Keep doing whatchall doing, much success......and holla at the boy Mark ( aka Cuttz ) to get some of that heat for the album.  Tell B-Scott I said whats up ( ain't seen that nigga since the And 1 shit some years back ).  ~4080

@Jasper Murdock
"I never really saw the country shit as a gimmic because when u listened to their music u see that they are repping for the whole state."

No doubt...I feel what you saying. When I said gimmic, this is what I meant.  You know how record labels come up with these images for their artists.  Its like a marketing agenda to help the consumer relate or identify with the product, which is the artist.  I'm not saying this is how Nappy was packaged, but it could be perceived that way depending on where you grew up in KY or if you on the outside looking in.  "Country", to me, is different than "Southern".  When I think "country", I'm thinking the white boy hoppin' off his tractor, jumpin' in the pick-up truck with the confederate flag and gun rack on the back and muddin' around the farm...lol.   I think the lyrical vibe of the group is southern, but the image had that country feel to it.  Like my step dad is country as hell, but he from a 1 horse town that don't even have a McDonalds...lol.  Me personally, I've only seen a small percentage of "US" that fit that bill in KY.  Not a diss, just an observation based on my experiences.  Keep in mind too, that we are surrounded by states with distinctive cultural vibes and a lot of people who migrate from those areas and others ( Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, VA, NY, Cali, Cashville, GA, etc. )  Hope that clears that up.

"And I don't see why intelligent people would think KY or Louisville was country as hell."

Dude you wouldn't believe.  Hell, I live in Cashville now and they think KY is country as hell ( like horses in the street and no running water country ).  I'm lookin' at these dudes like WHAT?.  They are more country, southern, or whateva than we are....lol.  When I was out in Long Beach, they had this whole idea of how blacks in "KY" were supposed to be.  Again, I'm like "yall watch too much tv".  Niggaz got the same shit, just on a different level and vibe.   I experienced the same shit when I was in Chicago and VA.  It fucked 'em up when we didn't fit their stereotype.  

@Keezy Carter
"Nappy are a good groupe but there are nothing more than the poor's man Goodie Mobb"

GTFOH.  You take Cee-Loo outta Goody Mobb, and all you have left is a lyrically sub-par, forgettable group.  You can't say that about Nappy.

NAPPY!!!!!
I LOVE THESE NIGGAS!
I'm sorry to hear that one of their most charasmatic members left the group.
R PROPHET was dope as fuck!!!
Oh well....these dudes got enough talent to make it without him.

Also...their FIRST album was better than the follow-up TO ME.
"WOOD & LEATHER" was good but...toward the END of the album..the beats started suckin major ass.

and it's good to see that they changed their image...by NOT rocking the cowboy hat's & suspender's THIS TIME AROUND. lol

@Nex Gin said

goodie mob is subpar and forgettable?  you tripped nigga.  it's a whole lot of mutha fuckas who feel that their first album is a certified hip-hop classic, and i'm not prone to disagree with them.  after all, they the ones who invented the term "dirty south".  it wasn't dirty OR the south until they said it was.  respect that.

and for the record, anyone on the west, up north, or out east, think that anybody living in the south or with a southern accent (or even midwest) is country.  that's just the way it is.  ain't nothing wrong with it.  shit, my nigga pimp c said fuck all this bullshit ya'll talkin bout, we makin COUNTRY RAP TUNES (hold up!).

and no, i'm not a dirty south hater.  i love it.  lived in texas for about 5 years and tha koma for 4.  got family roots deep all up in there, plus louisiana too.

@richie sick
lmao.  I knew that statement would get a response from somebody.  Let me clarify my feelings on that.  Don't get me wrong, I like Goodie Mobb.  I've got all their albums.  The first is a mos definite classic.  However, when listening to it, I find myself tuning out everybody but Cee-Lo and at times Gip.  The other's rap style just doesn't do it for me.  That doesn't take anything away from them as a collective unit.  I just think that, lyrically, Kujo and T-Mo are subpar and forgettable. IMO.

@Nex Gin said

ok.  i hear ya.  just glad you cleared it up and said you feel kujo and t-mo specifically MAY be forgettable, but that the first album is a classic!  i'll entertain that notion.  ha ha!