lol that 50 shit was funny he dont giv a fuck

Yerp!

shit 50 is funny as hell!!!

G UNIT FOR LIFE!!!!

GGG UNITT!!

FUCK G UNOT

but smh at that gay ass crowd "Fuck Kanye"

i cant stand fif or his music, and kanye is one of my favorite artists period. But for some reason this shit is funny because the song is so wack to me....

ill be the first to say that who the fuck is buying these kanye albums? everywhere i go i dont hear shit playing by kanye. maybe its people from new york buying that shit because i never hear that shit playing in san diego. plus kanye has went from a respectable artist to a tight pants wearing fool. everytime he does something people make excuses for this clown. i tell you what he is going to act up to the wrong person and get delt with. shit im starting to question some of yall for loving this dude lame ass music............................."wonders if AHH has a big ass closet that people are hiding in".

HATER

HATER

HATER

FIRST BITCHES

HAAAA
HAA

hip hop has lost its hop

stupid cowboys

50 is trash always have been, hip-hop declined when y'all made him the top rapper

wow...attention whore

this dude might as well do a little bit of stand up comedy.
that shit was funny.

This dood is nuts!! I aint a 50 fan like that but Once he gets started with someone he will not give any nigga room to breath. But hes keeping is real.. Creativity and trendsetting has taken a second place to trend following. Next niggas are gonna be wearing top hats and shit... Gett'em 50...

he is hating on HOVA!! bitch period 1

I cant reach out to the FORUM WHATS THE PROBLEM!?!??!

LOL @ 50

on tha real 50 one of the biggest haters of this rap shit....
lmao his whole career built off beefin n hatin...

this shit would be funny if he actually sold more records then kanye on the first week n didnt look like a dumbass sayin he gon retire his lame ass if he loses

@TONY YAHOE AND SHITTY CENT A.K.A PUSSY ASS NIGGAS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI0KYyZEDcs


WHAT DID YOU DO ABOUT THE NIGGAS WHO TRYED TO KILL YO MOMMA

WHEN THEY SHOT HER HOUSE UP?

AND 50 WHAT ABOUT THE NIGGA WHO TRYED TO KILL YOU?

AND NIGGAS TRYED TO KILL YO SON TO WHEN THEY SET YO BABY MOMMA CRIB ON FIRE

COME ON MAN WHERE IS THEM GUNZ @

YA'LL NIGGAS AINT NO KILLAS YA'LL NIGGAS SOME HOES..

A NIGGA TRY TO KILL YO MOMMA AND YO MAKE ABOUT SONG ABOUT IT..

WHAT A BITCH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgyv8PPX0Eg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI0KYyZEDcs

chopperdeals said:
I cant reach out to the FORUM WHATS THE PROBLEM!?!??!

i know me to

on the real tho kanye been declared himself a pop artist.

he like the black justin timberlake.
wait.

justin timberlake was like the black usher, right?
or hold up.
usher like the new michael jackson.

i ont know.
but kanye is inserting himself in there somewhere.
on the pop side of things.

damn.
i can't fuck with fif's movement.
but i like he ain't have 100 ninjas on stage.

i hate that shit.

oh yo, the kanye vocoder shit  -- yo, who gotta link to the original kanye shit?

but yo, the kanye vocoder shit?
that shit do numbers globally.
on the pop side.

soulless people everywhere be lovin that shit.
'specially right here in hollywood.

in fact, unfortunately, you know how everything has gotten digitized?

soon all the bullshit y'all support on the radio and in y'all wack ass clubs only gon have dudes and girls singing on vocoders.

that's how y'all like it right?

i'm bout to listen to some real people sing.


"earth wind and fire singin reason why i..."

what's that nas song off of it was written?

but yo,
lemme cherish this people singin with real voices before it's all dead and gone.

lyn collins
earth wind and fire
war
brass construction
tower of power
stevie wonder
marvin
spankie wilson
harvey averne
teena marie
freak (rick james)
the gap band
lou rawls



ay darf grenis where you at?
i think i'm get out there with the young youth on thursdays.
it's in watts or something like that.
do this musical history shit.

i commited.
now i just gotta get the details.

yo... people needs to get real... what the fck is that kanye song..Kanye is a rapper not a singer... would you guys accept 50 coming up with a single like this ??? I mean cmon people...its like you people make excuses for kanye all the time... that single suckssssssssssss... Tpain should do tpain and stop that voice crazy shyt with other artist ..its getting annoying..what happened to "be yourself" seems like everyone is doing tpain nowadayz

if u want wanna join the forum you needs to create a new account because the OLD accounts dont work on ALLHIPHOP FORUM ANYMORE

i think 50 did it all in good fun. they was having a good time.

@HELLRAISER...u have to expand outside of the box my dude. its all good that u dont like kanye, u wont be the last one. but damn i find that people that dont like kanye only like music about the same shit (violence, making money, "trapping") with the same beats, same flows, same all around music which i fucks with every now and then but it gets old. i fuck with it all from 60's psycadelic rock to the hardest hiphop you'll hear but i dont just listen to hard hiphop, that shit will make you not only go crazy but also dumb as fuck...which is why you sound the way you do kid...remeber outside the box.

Queens4LIFE.. 50 sold more albums than kanye if you include worldwide sales.... check your facts!!

Watch these bandwagon bitches above and beneath me start hating on Kanye and go right back to hating 50. Kanye never said that was a single, and it sound like some shit that was leaked. You can tell by the quality. 50 mad at Ye like NY mad at Chicago cause Hilary mad at Obama.

Chicago hostin the World Series Sox vs. Cubs
Chicago hostin the Olympics
Chicago home of the next president of the United States
Chicago runnin it
We know why U Mad jo

The IC is back baby!!!!

im still waiting to see who really buys kanye shit. that should be the real talk on who is really buying his shit. all i ever see at his concerts is metro sexual dudes and a bunch of white women.....................

I GOTTA SAY I LIKE 50 MUSIC FROM GET RICH OR DIE TRYING BUT SHYT  DAT NIGGA BE CLOWNING EVERYBODY  EVEN KANYE HE JUST DOING TO HIT RECORDS SALES...........

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That Song Ain't Hip Hop... I Don't want to Hear The Same Shit Over and Over, I Just Want to Hear Niggas Rapping about Different Shit Not Singing Like A Fucking Homo.... 50 Calling A Spade A Spade....

LOL!!! I DON'T KNOW WHY 50 MAKING FUN OF KANYE.. WHEN I FIRST HEARD THE SONG I THOUGHT 50 WAS DOING HIS SONG CANDY SHOP!!!

http://djteknision.podOmatic.com
MIXES 4 EVERYONE!!

that's the idea hellraiser.
white women spend dough.

you can make a career off a white bitch.
ask max julien.

sike but naw.
seriously
when these dudes said they about paper that is what they meant.

you know the stats and shit, right?
about hetero black men spending the least money on music?

yo....real talk 50 is like that kid in school. Where no one never paid him no mind. so, he always did over the top shyt to get attention.

with that said this dude is a big @$$ kid!!!!! if Ye' album has the vocoder all over it. am not buying. not buying 50 album so he can go back & forth again no one is paying attention..

A ON THE LOW...50 CENT GOT SOME FEMALE TRAIT AND TENDICIES...LETS BREAK IT DOWN

FEMALES TEND TO GET EMOTIONAL N UPSET WHEN OTHERS ARE COOL WITH PEOPLE THEY AINT COOL WITH...CASE AND POINT: 50 FEMINIE ASS UPSET AT FAT JOE, AND JADA BECAUSE THEY MADE A SONG WITH JA RULE....AS IF MUFUCKAS AINT GONE LIVE THEY LIFE AND BE COOL WITH A CAT CUS YO SISSY ASS GOTTA PROBLEM WITH'EM

ALSO: 50 CENT IS THE HIP HOP DRAMA QUEEN. HE IS LIKE THE HIP HOP WENDY WILLIAMS..NIGGA ALWAYS GOSSIPIN AND SHIT LIKE THAT..YAP YAP YAP..YAP ..YAP ..YAP...YAP

ALSO..NIGGA GOTTA HIGH PITCH ASS VOICE..LISTEN TO HIS SWEET ASS WHEN HE ON THEM RADIO INTERVIEWS AND SHIT "BANKS GOT MORE MONEY THAN JIM"...REMEBER HIS GAY ASS WHEN HE WAS ON THE PHONE WITH CAM..YOUTUBE THAT AND LISTEN TO THE FAG

LAST: WHAT TYPE OF PERSON RECORD PHONE CONVERSATIONS???? WOMEN!!! I REMEMBER A FEMALE I USED TO DEAL WITH USED TO RECORD OUR CONVERSATIONS JUST TO HOLD OVER ME TO LET MY BABY MOMS HEAR...LOL....OH AND WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SUGE KNIGHT,. CURTIS JACKSON WILL DISS ANYONE...HE'S AN ATTENTION WHORE...

@  DruMANATI - for the record my friend i listen to everything. enya, enigma, yanni, portishead, black sabbath, crystal method, earth wind & fire, sade, sting, and so on. so if thats not outside the box then i dont know how big your box is lol. i just dont like that dude music or personality. he acts like his name should be DIVA WEST..........................

yung joe do you have a myspace page?

 
HELLRAISER said:
im still waiting to see who really buys kanye shit. that should be the real talk on who is really buying his shit. all i ever see at his concerts is metro sexual dudes and a bunch of white women.........
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LOL!!!   RIGHT NOW THAT'S ABOUT 95% OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUALLY BUYING HIP HOP!!

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MIXES 4 EVERYONE!!

man that shit was funny i mean that kanya joint is a bit strange i like the beat but thats bout...kanye jus weird to me he like the revenge of the nerds rapper or somethin..if hova aint co sign him he d be nothin....he been jockin jay-z to get attetion for sometime now...

SHITS FUNNY NIGGAZ ACTIN LIKE BITCHES OVER COMEDY...

KING HAS SPOKEN....

so i guess y'all heard already.
in a show of solidarity they want all the people that's for obama to wear blue on september 30th.

The new Kanye song is kind wack though. 50 cent is an overated rapper but Kanye is a waaaaaaaaayyyy overated rapper. I really think most of his music is average. I like his beats but as an MC? Nah!

50 is trash always have been, hip-hop declined when y'all made him the top rapper

Co-Sign

Be Prepared for Kanye to use common to stop this trashy ass poseur, 5-0 has always sucked as a rapper and always will be.

No Wonder hip-hop's approval rating's at 22%

The new Kanye song is kind wack though. 50 cent is an overated rapper but Kanye is a waaaaaaaaayyyy overated rapper. I really think most of his music is average. I like his beats but as an MC? Nah!

Um 5-0's way worse

Kanye will outsell this loser again.

Common will kill 50 big time.

okay to all ya 'ye stans 50 and 'ye said it wasn't serious beef it was just fun comp. i didn't watch the full vid but he wasn't dissin 'ye from what i saw he was just makin fun of his songs. its like you makin fun of one of your boys damn calm down some of ya'll actin like this makes a huge difference in your life

Them niggas be hating. And for everybody who says The Game need to stop talking bout G unit, shut the fuck up! this is why he should never stop..50 a bully and when somebody get in his ass he wanna leave them alone such as The Game, 50 dont spit no bars aimed at homey, what about kiss? now they squashed it and we all know kiss didnt ask for the treaty or else we would've heard the phone call by now!.........but that shit was funny,lol

50 such a damn hater!  he need to jus stick to his word n retires his hatin ass already...go do movies n what not

btw to ya'll stans 50 was lip syncin and movin perfectly with the song which means 50 listened to the song enough to know the words

***in talents voice*****
its just comedy

im glad 50 went at kanye.  we need niggas dat love and wanna do hip hop representing hip hop.  4 really!

im glad 50 went at kanye.  we need niggas dat love and wanna do hip hop representing hip hop.  4 really!

Not if Kanye's artist common will stop 5-0.

Will noone explain to me what the video was about because I'm not going to watch. lmao
Seriously,
I've seen it already. For years. I'm sure it's the same ol same.
I'm just not even doing the celebratory thing when I see grown ass black men [which is all that do it] acting like niggaz. On the world stage they call us "Step and Fetch It". WE ARE GOING BACKWARDS.
I'm thinking of not even letting my sons watch anymore of the shit. Out of embarassment. We are on the brink of World World and Totalitarianism. And all we can do is shuck and fucking jive.
Not on my watch.

I'm going back to yesterday's rumors. I guess I got too grown too quick. :smh:
Lmao

One Love!

fiddy is a fool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI0KYyZEDcs

I buy kanye album's. Something (like record sales) tells me I'm not the only one. I buy his albums because he is unlike 98% of rappers (who call themselves artists) that only originate half of what you purchase in an album, the words. Thats if they even right their own sh*t.  Kanye creates his whole  sound and is one of the most complete well rounded hip hop artist of our time.

Take Mr. Jackson for example, he has made one album worth listening to in Get Rich or Die Trying. This was heavily influenced by Dr. Dre and Em. The more and more fifty  allowed himself to executive produce his own albums the more he has went back to sounding like the old 50 before we knew who he was. He isn't the artist Mr. West is who has for the most part gave himself three albums worth of timeless hip hop.

Now do I like this Love Lockdown bullshOt......the hook sounds like a down syndrome with a sinus infection trying to sing....this can be the downfall of letting your creative enerygy go too far. If he likes it then he should keep that shOt to himself.

Fifty needs to be made fun of for actually putting out that last G-Unit album. Did anyone else see that wak ass video for with them in that military gear. Pathetic.

Is it gimmick time again already?

its safe to say everyone on here but LAonMyFitted985 downloaded kanye bullshit music.....................
fuck record sales i download...............................

yeah, I'm on http://www.twitter.com/keyannabean but I'on see what the big deal is either.

Im sorry but this shit wasn't funny to me. This looked like a desperate attempt for media attention! I hope Ye doesn't bother entertaining this shit because this nigga was supposed to retire when he outsold his ass in 07, what happened?!? To make matters worse, T/O/S didn't do as well as they anticipated and he is still trying to sale albums by starting shit, wow, now that's hilarious right there. Love Lockdown aint a hit to me either, but I think the fans should be the one to judge, not Fiddy.......

All these cats hating wish they were 50, y else would they take note on the guy and hate? Yo 50 can do whatever he wants and im not mad at it. Plus he dont give a fuck. Once you at the top its boring so you got to poke at cats for entertainment and competition. It's fun. Part of the game, MUTHA FUCKAS!!! LOL. Yeah I'm crazy.

wow so it's gonna be another 50 vs Kanye this year 2? *sigh* lawd even the gimmicks are gettin redundant

DEAR FIFTY CENT AND UGLY ASS TONY YAYO:

YOU ARE A HATER. LEAVE THE MAN ALONE. HIS MOTHER JUST DIED. HE'S DEALING ON HIS OWN. HE'S DOING HIS OWN THING, MAKING HIS MONEY. SO LET HIM.

KEEP TALKING SHIT FIFTY... BUT I'M LAUGHING... BECAUSE THE WHOLE HIP HOP/RAP INDUSTRY HATES YOU... NO ONE WANTS TO GET ON A TRACK WITH YOU... YET KANYE JUST GOT A TRACK WITH TI WAYNE AND JAY-Z ????? SO REALLY.. STOP CLOWNING. YOU LOOK LIKE A FOOL.

NAAA NA NAAAA. HOW IT FEEL TO WAKE UP AND BE THE SHIT AND THE URINE NAAA NAA NAA NAAAAA

tony yayo = 50s sidekick bitch.

that new kanye track is pretty catchy though haha. i like it

50 FUNNY AS HELL FOR REAL. ON THE MUSIC SIDE, HE GOT SOME COLD SHIT BUT HE ALSO GOT SOME BULLSHIT.
AS FAR AS KANYE, HE GAY AS THE GAY PRIDE PARADE, AND REALLY HE HUFF AS HELL, HOWEVER HE'S ALMOST SINGLE HANDEDLY KEEPING REAL MUSIC ALIVE. NOW THAT 'LOVE LOCKDOWN' ITS COOL REMINDS ME OF SOME OLD SCHOOL HOUSE SHIT
BUT WHY IT SEEM RAP FANS BEEF HARDER THAN RAP ARTISTS.

ReAl hiphop will Never Die yALL!!!

"missdallastx214:

he is still trying to sale albums by starting shit, wow, now that's hilarious right there"

i know. whats new right lol. dudes been doing this for about 5 years now haha

"Supreme Mathematics said:
The new Kanye song is kind wack though. 50 cent is an overated rapper but Kanye is a waaaaaaaaayyyy overated rapper. I really think most of his music is average. I like his beats but as an MC? Nah! "

so just because someone is original, unique and actually talented and brings something new to the table every time they're overrated? that kanye being overrated was the biggest shocker i've ever read on ahh =D and i've been reading for years lol

biggiebig07 said:
okay to all ya 'ye stans 50 and 'ye said it wasn't serious beef it was just fun comp. i didn't watch the full vid but he wasn't dissin 'ye from what i saw he was just makin fun of his songs. its like you makin fun of one of your boys damn calm down some of ya'll actin like this makes a huge difference in your life
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When did they say this?!? I didn't hear about it, if it was a joke why didn't he let that be known before he started this little charade?!? Why are his stans in the audience screamin "fuck kanye"??? It doesn't make a difference in my life, but since this is a forum and I am entitled to post my opinion that's what I'ma do and I don't give a damn wether anyone agrees with it or not, good day to you...

I think 50 is mad because he wasn't on that "Swagger Like Us"  with Kanye, Jay-Z, Wayne, And T.I.  He is jealous.

i'm starting to side with 50 on kanye. kanye is getting ridiculous it's coo to experiment but the vocoder isn't art and "fuck hip-hop" statements from someone who benefits from hip-hop is just fucking ridiculous. he's becoming a side show. and not the good bay area kind but the clown circus kind.

and pac was above a lot of cats heads. he used poetic rhyme structure and just because he didn't say some corny ass metaphor or simile like wayne or something doesn't mean the man wasn't a lyrical genius because he was. how is biggie's crack rhymes better than pac's thug? i don't get it. they're both evil. i think a lot of the pac biggie argument feeds directly into east coast biased. something you see in the media all the time. pac was way ahead of anyone you can name.

"if i die tonite" off of me against the world let's you know the skill that's above a lot of cats heads. the alliteration (some of you guys don't even know what that is) the rhyme pattern all of that. emceeing isn't about coming up with clever shit it's about presenting your thoughts effectively and pac was great at that. so was big. pac used all sorts of literary devices in his music that's why they study his music at the university level. rip 'pac. i don't believe in this "the greatest" talk hip-hop is obsessed with but if there was a greatest it was tupac shakur.

50 you a funny ass nigga,everybody knows you pussy in Hip-Hop. Now you trying 2 get @ Kayne?? Nigga take your long loot thanx 2 these ignorant Fucks supporting your bullshit music and Bounce--Sucker MC!!!

Man fif is funny as hell, this man is about to be a billioniare so diss or no diss fif is still getting payed.

fuck 50 and kanye for dat song and da vma but he still a good producer tho!!

@ soccerman.
Read what I said fool I said first week numbers which kanye won
CHECK YA STATS
Bottom line 50 is an attention whore n his career was made off other people (beefin hatin talking shot ect)

@ soccerman.
Read what I said fool I said first week numbers which kanye won
CHECK YA STATS
Bottom line 50 is an attention whore n his career was made off other people (beefin hatin talking shot ect)

yo who all the dudes who went vocoder?

snoop?
Kanye?

who else did it?

lmao i respect both artists but fif is my dude i'm sorry he is hilarious i don't listen to pop music  so i will not be copping Ye's album

Kanye is turning white, we already lost Jay-Z

Real talk...

Kanye's last album was better than 50's....

But 50's did have some heaterz on it...more than that G-Unit album...

And this video was funny.  I thought Yayo's rendition of Kanye and the cameraman was right on time...lol

Don't make me do the Kanye..

Hella funny...

On the real, 95% of yall niggas is bitches, and that goes to every nigga on this bitch if you feel this is directed at you. Its like everything 50 Cent does yall will hate on it, how is this a gimmick to sell records. He was makin fun of the nigga track which is soft as hell, as any nigga from the hood would do. Every nigga on here says the same shit, "this nigga wants attention, this is a gimmick, 50 is done" shut the fuck with that irrelevent ass hating. None of that shit is real.

The shit last year wasnt a beef, it was a media created challenge, neither of them niggas even mentioned it until the media made it a hedline you stupid mothafuckas. If the nigga need gimmicks to release records what was the gimmick for T.O.S, nothing, but you niggas still hate.

First it was, "50 does pop music", then T.O.S comes out as a 95% street album that is hard as hell, now you say, "T.O.S flopped. WTF is wrong with yall hoe ass niggas, I know life is boring to you lame niggas sittin in the crib tryin to decifer Wu Tang lyrics, does that mean you gotta hate 50.

The mood in here gets really weird?  I have seen a few people take offense to words that technically weren't even "toward" them.  Kinda like if someone uses the word "b*tch", and then a whole bunch of women take offense, but the word wasn't directed towards them (unless they feel that's what they are?  I dunno...) Anyhow...

That ish was hilarious...Kanye's been making better music (although I was never a fan of STronger or this Love Lockdown sh*t he just put out..).  And I hate that dayum vocoder.  I feel like they need to leave that to T-Pain, with the exception of SNoop...Snoop's track with it was hot...

BUt everybody else need to stop it...

Why is that Kanye joint considered a genre bender? I dont see anything fresh and new about what he's done with that song. Ye make some fire, so I aint trying to down him, but that song is not all that. Sounds like typical alternative shit. Nothing Earth shattering...so why so much hoopla?

As far as 50 fucking with Ye....i dont know. Shit seems like a marketing ploy. Keep the focus on the both of us and we will both win while we make people take sides. If the shit works, more power to them. That is the goal of buisness...finding angles and exploiting them. 50 isnt where he is by luck. Nor is Kanye.....

I wish em both well. BUT I wish everyone would stop trying to be fucking pop artists and eccentric trendsetters and shit. GIVE ME SOME FUCKING RAW UNCUT HIP HOP SOMEBODY! No dancin, no fashion show, no features, no rap sheets, nobody famous kid, just some quality thought, love, and care for what they do. I cant be the only one longing for that. All this weird shit is getting on my damn nerves. Im all for new shit and creativity, but it seems that we are leaving one extreme on the way to another.......ahhh....well theres always the underground.


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In the Beginning: Hip-Hop at the Movies
Rapper's delight
By Ernest Hardy
Published on September 04, 2008


Style Wars' hip-hop pioneersHip-hop has celluloid in its blood, from the countless song lyrics that reference movies and iconic film characters to the widespread sampling and interpolation of movie dialogue, film scores and soundtracks. It stretches from rap-video homages (Busta Rhymes' nods to Coming to America in his video for "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See" and to The Last Dragon in his "Dangerous" clip are two high-water marks) to the baby-daddy status of movie gangsters in relation to hip-hop gangstas. Then there's hip-hop's impact on the movies, which includes both the influence of its "urban aesthetics" on film style and the number of rappers who have ridden the beat to crossover dreams and forged acting careers. (The Negro caucus of SAG might still be a little salty about the latter.)

Cinefamily's monthlong hip-hop film retrospective "Word Is Born: Hip-Hop at the Movies, 1979-1984" places certified b-boy classics (Wild Style, Beat Street, Style Wars, Breakin') alongside cool and illuminating rarities that are the true jewels in the series. As an added bonus, there will be postscreening DJ sets from the likes of West Coast cult legend Arabian Prince and L.A.'s own international b-boy (and co-owner of Stones Throw Records), Peanut Butter Wolf.

If there is one "don't miss" title in this smart, ambitious survey (curated by programmer Gabriele Caroti), it's the 1984 documentary Beat This! A Hip-Hop History(screening on September 25). Made by director Dick Fontaine for the BBC with the intention of introducing hip-hop culture to British audiences, the film is narrated in rhyme, has thick sci-fi overtones in the camp-but-cool appearances of the legendary Afrika Bambaataa, is filled with insightful cameos from a who's who of hip-hop (Kool Herc, Sha Rock, Arthur Baker), comes loaded with film clips and news footage that would cost a small fortune in clearance fees today and, while wildly entertaining, doesn't fail to make salient political points. "Hip-hop doesn't belong to New York, L.A. or London. It comes from devastation," Herc remarks as he drives through an early '80s Bronx that looks like a bombed-out war zone. Another highlight — or lowlight, depending on your point of view — is an interview with British cultural impresario/opportunist Malcolm McLaren, whom Fontaine was reportedly forced to include in the documentary against his wishes. He makes his feelings on the matter crystal clear by introducing McLaren to the viewer right after the film's narrator observes that hip-hop's popularity quickly made it a prime target for "culture vultures." McLaren then opens his mouth and immediately lives down to the scornful tag.

With its grainy, gritty imagery, its leaps from music videos to street breakdancing performances, and its seamless segues from clips of Hollywood films to talking-head commentaries, Beat This!transcends its quotidian nonfiction components and feels almost experimental. Still, it doesn't have the frantic MTV-style editing that almost anything to do with hip-hop or Negroes has nowadays. It's thoughtful, playful and trusts the audience's intelligence to keep up as it winds through disparate cultural and political references.

That radical feeling is pushed even further in Manfred Kirchhelmer's exquisite Stations of the Elevated. A 45-minute meditation on graffiti, which is scored to the music of Charles Mingus, Stations unspools for long, glorious stretches without dialogue, following the rails alongside its stars — colorfully tagged subway trains — as they glide through both urban terrain and lush countryside. As the camera seesaws its attention from exterior shots of the trains to their various surroundings, assorted questions are gently raised on the ways in which public space is used, and how the "outlaw" expression of graffiti and the world of corporate advertising influence one another. One of the best moments in the film involves a group of adolescent boys watching the trains go by, offering their critiques of the tagged images they see. From the group pipes up a youthful, bass-free voice of authority, "That one was all right. Wasn't nothing special. The ideawas good."

Stations is filled with footage of massive crumbling buildings, row after row of empty storefronts and kids playing among debris — all demonstrations of what a devastated infrastructure and political indifference can do to neighborhoods. It's old, pre-Giuliani New York, the place of rampant crime, poverty and fearful imaginings. Nearly identical images appear in Gary Weis' riveting 1979 documentary, 80 Blocks from Tiffany's, about gangs in the late '70s South Bronx; and in Charles Ahearn's The Deadly Art of Survival, also made in 1979 and on which Ahearn cut his teeth before making the seminal 1983 film Wild Style. Both films exude a kind of innocence now. As one gang member in Blocks rattles off a list of the kinds of weaponry commonly found on the streets of New York in the '70s, the low-grade artillery would make today's school kids scoff. Deadly Art, with its bad acting and transparently weak fight choreography, is a hoot — the series' guilty pleasure.


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fifty has exposed this homo for what he is

Not even worthy of a comment.

thats some funny shit....kanye has taken shit way too far, there has always been a singing element in hip hop but i dont know what the fuck that shit is kanye got out...

Real talk that Santagold joint "LES Artistes" was harder than that Kanye song....IMO. Lyrics are ill and no vocoder....shit bangs.

Stand_Alone said:
Why is that Kanye joint considered a genre bender? I dont see anything fresh and new about what he's done with that song. Ye make some fire, so I aint trying to down him, but that song is not all that. Sounds like typical alternative shit. Nothing Earth shattering...so why so much hoopla?

As far as 50 fucking with Ye....i dont know. Shit seems like a marketing ploy. Keep the focus on the both of us and we will both win while we make people take sides. If the shit works, more power to them. That is the goal of buisness...finding angles and exploiting them. 50 isnt where he is by luck. Nor is Kanye.....

I wish em both well. BUT I wish everyone would stop trying to be fucking pop artists and eccentric trendsetters and shit. GIVE ME SOME FUCKING RAW UNCUT HIP HOP SOMEBODY! No dancin, no fashion show, no features, no rap sheets, nobody famous kid, just some quality thought, love, and care for what they do. I cant be the only one longing for that. All this weird shit is getting on my damn nerves. Im all for new shit and creativity, but it seems that we are leaving one extreme on the way to another.......ahhh....well theres always the underground.


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DON'T LET THIS SHIT FUCK   YO DAY UP

Detroit Goon said:
On the real, 95% of yall niggas is bitches, and that goes to every nigga on this bitch if you feel this is directed at you. Its like everything 50 Cent does yall will hate on it, how is this a gimmick to sell records. He was makin fun of the nigga track which is soft as hell, as any nigga from the hood would do. Every nigga on here says the same shit, "this nigga wants attention, this is a gimmick, 50 is done" shut the fuck with that irrelevent ass hating. None of that shit is real.

The shit last year wasnt a beef, it was a media created challenge, neither of them niggas even mentioned it until the media made it a hedline you stupid mothafuckas. If the nigga need gimmicks to release records what was the gimmick for T.O.S, nothing, but you niggas still hate.

First it was, "50 does pop music", then T.O.S comes out as a 95% street album that is hard as hell, now you say, "T.O.S flopped. WTF is wrong with yall hoe ass niggas, I know life is boring to you lame niggas sittin in the crib tryin to decifer Wu Tang lyrics, does that mean you gotta hate 50.

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I've noticed folks on here hate on pretty much any and everything that goes platinum, so don't take it personal homey...

Oh...but Kanye's last album was better than 50's...better marketed and better production...

But that NEW Kanye ish is...in my opinion...HOMO:)

Kinda like how he came out with stronger on the last album...

@Sears Tower

4 sho, you know some niggas just be saying irrelevent comments, the internet gave too many niggas an opportunity to voice they opinion. It hurts hip hop in a way cause so many fans are so close minded, and followers. So if 1 nigga say fuck _______, others will follow, and probally never listen to the music, bt criticize.

Looks like 50 Cent still has sour grapes over his defeat to Kanye.  If it goes down, again, the outcome will be the same.

Peace and more hair grease,

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I think that Kanye track gon be one of them joints you find yo self singing without even paying attention. Kinda grow on you & shit. Im in the middle bcuz u cant knock a nigga for trying something new & steppin out side the box but how far outside the box is too far??

As far as 50....typical 50! He use WWE marketing tactics....He's cool with being the bad guy...cant be a good guy without a bad guy...

And that video just show you how fickle hip hop can be! Niggas screamin "fuck Kanye" be the same mufuckas @ Kanye show screamin "fuck 50"....

Um, see this video at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpgMemILfSc

Kanye needs to hire common to respond to 5-0.
and remake this song.

5-0 is still a disaster.

@ HELLRAISER..AN ANYBODY ELSE WHO JUS TOO DUMB

Kanye is hot right now so 50 IS hating on him for the that fact, he's still salty because of last years situation. Im a Kanye Fan and Kanye's new song aint my type of shit to bump to but that dont mean that its trash jus cus its not for me, das like me saying 50 shit wack cuz i dont shoot no ratchets off.50 even used da vocoder on "Soldier" so he down wit dat shit too an I cant stand that vocoder shit for nobody not even T-Pain so dat needs to be X-ed out. Fifty fucks wit anybody thats hot jus cuz they getting more buzz than him, And if you dissagree with that then why did he Fuck wit Lil Wayne or Kanye or T.I. or Rick Ross Or DJ Khaled for that matter.He fucks wit niggas mindin they business doin them an he act like he got no flaws. He ran Ja out the game for singin but yet dis nigga singin on everything his damn self..Sumbody in an earlier post said why he dont spit at game? thats a good question, dat nigga killed G-Unit single handedly. Kanye Got 3 Albums Wit No Wack Tracks On Em, he got a classic under his belt as well, he's versatile somethings 50's not which is why alot of Rappers are better than him lyrically and creatively. Lets not forget that this nigga jus lost like 8 or 9 million fans on his last album...or did yall forget? why dat shit aint sell....maybe becuase he got a lot of bandwagon fans instead of real fans that enjoy his music an not his antics...plus Kanye fanbase is growing 3 million +..  

@ HELLRAISER..AN ANYBODY ELSE WHO JUS TOO DUMB

Kanye is hot right now so 50 IS hating on him for the that fact, he's still salty because of last years situation. Im a Kanye Fan and Kanye's new song aint my type of shit to bump to but that dont mean that its trash jus cus its not for me, das like me saying 50 shit wack cuz i dont shoot no ratchets off.50 even used da vocoder on "Soldier" so he down wit dat shit too an I cant stand that vocoder shit for nobody not even T-Pain so dat needs to be X-ed out. Fifty fucks wit anybody thats hot jus cuz they getting more buzz than him, And if you dissagree with that then why did he Fuck wit Lil Wayne or Kanye or T.I. or Rick Ross Or DJ Khaled for that matter.He fucks wit niggas mindin they business doin them an he act like he got no flaws. He ran Ja out the game for singin but yet dis nigga singin on everything his damn self..Sumbody in an earlier post said why he dont spit at game? thats a good question, dat nigga killed G-Unit single handedly. Kanye Got 3 Albums Wit No Wack Tracks On Em, he got a classic under his belt as well, he's versatile somethings 50's not which is why alot of Rappers are better than him lyrically and creatively. Lets not forget that this nigga jus lost like 8 or 9 million fans on his last album...or did yall forget? why dat shit aint sell....maybe becuase he got a lot of bandwagon fans instead of real fans that enjoy his music an not his antics...plus Kanye fanbase is growing 3 million +..  

This is the time we need to run 5-0 out of the game and so is gay-unit.

Russia to televise 911 Truth to 30 million+ on 9/11!!

Wow!

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Date: Sep 9, 2008 7:47 PM


Thanks!

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From: Guy
Date: Sep 9, 2008 8:37 PM


I AM SORRY, BUT ANYBODY THINKIN THIS IS BAD....THIS COULD BLOW THE ENTIRE CORK OUT OF THE BOTTLE!!! UNTIL THIS COUNTRY OF SLEEPY HEADS UNDERSTAND THE TR