(AllHipHop News) One half of Run The Jewels is headed to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology later this week. Killer Mike is set to give a lecture on race relations in America at the prestigious Cambridge university.
Pitchfork reports M.I.T. chose Mike to participate in its “Hip Hop Speaker” series. The Atlanta-based emcee is scheduled to address the student body on Friday, April 24. Previous lecturers include Young Guru and Lil B.
Killer Mike has been very outspoken about American race relations in recent months. After Mike Brown’s killing in Ferguson, Missouri, Mike appeared on CNN to talk about the aftermath of the shooting. He later also addressed Darren Wilson, the officer that shot Brown, not being indicted during a concert.
Most recently Mike has taken up the fight against the criminalization of rap lyrics. He submitted an op-ed to the Huffington Post voicing his concerns on the issue.
“Unfortunately, in many instances law enforcement really does treat rap like crime,” wrote Mike. “We’ve seen a troubling increase in the number of cases in which prosecutors introduce rap lyrics as evidence of a crime, (mis)representing the lyrics as autobiography or confession in order to secure convictions when other, more traditional forms of evidence are lacking.”
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Man! The stuff bloggers blog about! By the standards of this new-jack hip-hop phraseology I should preface this blog with a big fat “Pause” and “No H###”—‘cause a man writing about another man’s “c###” certainly deserves that, but ah! If you pay attention you’ll see that you’re either too young to know what I’m talking about or old enough to remember what I’m talking about.
I’ve lived through the eras of the 33, 45 & 78 vinyl records on record players/turntables, the 8-track tape player, the reel to reel, the cassette, the CD and now the MP3, but I ain’t effin’ with that!
So the other day I was cruisin’ in the whip bumpin’ some Snoop Doggy Dogg—his first album to be exact entitled, “Doggystyle” (circa 1993). I pride myself on knowing all the lyrics to that album, which I consider one of the Top 5 greatest hip-hop albums ever made (“The Chronic” is the greatest hip-hop album evaaar!). There is not a whack track nowhere to be found on “Doggystyle” and it’s seamlessly woven together to stand the test of time and surely devoid of a thousand features like these rappers today who don’t have enough material to complete a whole album, so they invite every semi-hot rapper “From Here to Timbuktu” to jump on a track!
Anywhoo…
I get to the track “Gin & Juice” and I’m rapping along like only a 55-year old hip-hop head can as Snoop Dogg raps, “Dre gots the b###### from the city of Compton/To serve me/not with a cherry on top/’Cause when I bust my nut/I’m raisin’ up out the c###/Don’t get upset girl/That’s just how it goes/I don’t love you hoes…”
Now stop the presses! Did Snoop Dogg just say, “I’m raisin’ up out the c###?” I’m pretty sure he did. In fact, I know he did! But can you imagine a rapper today talking about “raisin’ up out (or off) the c###?” You’d swear he just rapped the most suspect lyric ever! LOL. Yes! You would!
Straightway, I went and did some fast-food research by way of Google to confirm Snoop’s use of the word “c###” in his song and to my surprise, these new-jack Internet folk who are supposed to give us correct information had Snoop Dogg rapping everything but “c###!” One website had Snoop Dogg rapping,“’Cause when I bust my nut/I’m raisin’ up out the cot.”The cot? A cot is a fold-up bed or a bunch of blankets & spreads on a floor that I use when all my grandchildren come over for a sleepover. Have I been rapping the wrong lyric for over 20-years? It’s plausible because I f### up lyrics on the regular, but I was so sure Snoop said “c###.” Another website had Snoop Dogg rapping,“’Cause when I bust my nut/I’m raisin’ up out/to pop a cop.”Now wait a f###### minute! I know this lyric ain’t right!“To pop a cop?”Nah! Ice T & N.W.A. were the cop killer rappers of the era. Something is fishy up in Internet Land and I’m gonna get to the bottom of it! Have a listen and you decide whether it’s “cot,” “pop a cop” or “c###.” (3:38 mark onward)
Can I take you back in time, for a moment, to the year 1974? This is the first time a 14-year old Khalil heard the word “c###” from an older male cousin, but it was in reference to some coochie—stank-box—va-jay-jay—poonanny—p####—v#####! Indeed, black men in the South (Miami) called a woman’s v##### “c###.” There were no “Pause” or “No H###” moments when a dude said he just got off some “c###.” We understood quite well that he had just f##### a chick. “C###” was p#### and that’s all there was to it! But now, I still had to dig deeper and see if Snoop Dogg actually rapped “c###” or did I just insert the word “c###” hearkening back to my teenage years. Thinking back, never in the history of “Cockdom” has a black chick ever called my hang-low penis a “c###” and I’ve been with 100’s of black women!
In the p### industry, “c###” has been appropriated and hijacked from the hood as an exclusive term for the male genitalia. White chicks love to call a man’s penis a c###. (It’s “dick” b####! LOL!) But I’m sure that Snoop Dogg rapped “c###” and I’m sure that he understood “c###” to mean v#####. I’m not convinced or buying Snoop rapping about getting up off a “cot” or trying to “pop a cop.” And I don’t think these are the radio-friendly versions. In the official TV video Snoop rap’s, “I gotta hit the dope spot” (which rhymes with “c###.”), but that ain’t on the CD. Websites just got it wrong!
Alas! I found a website that must be ran by someone who’s familiar with black aesthetics and sure enough, according this website Snoop rapped, “’Cause when I bust my nut/I’m raisin’ up out the c###.” I knew it! I ain’t crazy after all! Snoop used the word “c###” as the old-school black guys in da hood had—in the proper context—and the proof is in the following lyrics—“Don’t get upset girl/That’s just how it goes/I don’t love you hoes…” Snoop had an orgasm in a girl’s “c###” (v#####) and she got mad when he had to leave and realized it was just sex and not love.
Snoop Dogg is the last generation of players/rappers that used the word “c###” as “v#####,” which tells me that he’s learned well the lessons and phraseology of the old-heads and O.G.s from Tha L.B.C. who walked around with manicured fingernails topped off with a clear coat of polish.(I still wear a clear coat of polish on my fingernails!)
So Snoop Dogg’s “c###” is a v##### and he—and I are not suspect. It is you young Negroes who just ain’t hip to the lingo of yesteryear and it is these white-washed websites who have changed and bastardized Snoop’s lyrics out of sheer ignorance and watching too much modern-day p###. “C###” may be a dick today, but it used to mean p#### and like Snoop, I used to be up in much “c###.” Ya heard?
Khalil Amani, a blogger blogging jus’ ’cause he’s self-entertained. As yes! He’s on Social Media and chicks used love his Jheri Curl! Don’t be hatin’!
Gucci may be in jail, but he keeps dropping new music. Yesterday, Guwop tweeted that he is working with producer Diplo. Gucci said that the album was EDM, but Diplo corrected that. No word on a release date, but stay tuned.
Last night, Bobby Brown announced that his daughter Bobbie Kristina Houston is awake and watching him. The R&B singer told the news to a packed audience at the Verizon Theatre in Texas.
Houston has been in a coma since January 31st this year. According to Complex, her grandmother Cissy Houston told a radio station that she’s been sent to a medical rehab facility in Atlanta last month. Let’s hope that Bobby Brown’s announcement is real.
The second weekend of Coachella is not without its surprises, for example, last night The Weeknd brought out special guest Kanye West during his set in what’s probably the biggest surprise appearance this year. Ye showed the audience some love by crowd surfing for a part of his performance.
To prepare us for their collaborative project Blood Thicker Than Water, Chief Keef and Fredo Santana releases a single off of the album titled “Maybach”. The album will be released as a Best Buy exclusive. Check out “Maybach” below.
Last night, Migos were caught on the campus of Georgia Southern University with a loaded gun and drugs. The TMZ video below shows two members of the Atlanta group, Quavo and Offset, being arrested backstage of the show after their performance was stopped by campus police. Both Quavo and Offset are now charged with multiple drug and weapon felonies.
Last night at a Greek cookout on the campus of Deleware State University, there was a shootout resulting in 3 victims being injured. According the local NBC affiliate, the shooting was the result of a fight that broke out earlier that day. While police made an attempt to move students away from the student center, the campus went on lockdown to find the gunman, who still remain at large. Another shooting happened three hours later close to the campus, no one was injured.
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The rappers were performing at Georgia Southern University’s Spring Bling concert when a stage manager told the DJ to cut the music because cops had shown up.
Quavo and Offset were arrested for felony possession of a schedule 1 narcotic, including cocaine, oxycontin and codeine. They were were also charged with carrying a loaded gun on school property, also a felony, and misdemeanor marijuana possession.
Are you enjoying Tyler the Creator’s new album Cherry Bomb? If you buy the CD, you will get his new song “Yellow” as a bonus track. According to HYPETRAK, the song is set to release on the hard copy version of the album sold by online retailers like Amazon. “Yellow” is a song dedicated to Tyler’s favorite color. Check out the track below.
Oakland singer-songwriter, Adrian Marcel, sits down with DJ Smallz and reveals what he learned from his mentor Raphael Saadiq, opening for Keyshia Cole on the “Point Of No Return Tour”, and studio sessions with R Kelly.
