"Camron" Archives

SONG OF THE WEEK: “I Used To Get It In Ohio” (Camron)

Posted on 24 February 2009 (1)

DOWNLOAD Yeah, I used to get it in Ohio as well.  There was this one girl who….huh?  Oh, he meant something else.  I knew that.  Moving on.  A question for 50: if you “kill” someone and then they come back alive, are you still the Undertaker?

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PEEP THIS: Letters To Cam

Posted on 23 February 2009 (0)

Finally – Killa Cam gets to experience the pain and suffering I have to go through every time wife turns on Gossip Girl. My thanks to E and Jeff over at Its The Real for exposing this menace for what it is.  The gossip girls, I mean. And whoever is directing Cam’s career right now [...]

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5 Rappers Who Are Thankful For Rick Ross

Posted on 11 February 2009 (2)

There are a gang of rappers who must be thanking Big Baby Jesus himself that 50 Cent has found a new outlet for his frustrations and turned his eye to annihilating Ricky Ross.  While Fifty is busy murking Officer Ricky’s career (and some serious collateral damage on rap music itself),  it does provide a golden [...]

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50 Cent: From Rap’s Savior To Its Undertaker

Posted on 07 February 2009 (3)

This won’t take long. When 50 Cent first came out, he energized rap with Get Rich Or Die Tryin‘. As YFWB readers know, I respect Fifty for putting a competitive spirit back in the game. He took it to lazy rappers. At the same time, he brought rap to another level of popularity, bringing real, [...]

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The New Prerequisite For Rappers: TV Interview Skills

Posted on 31 January 2009 (2)

I’ve now decided that there is another skill an aspiring rapper must master before he/she can truly become a superstar: the mainstream media interview. No disrespect to the Shade45′s, the Angela Yees, the Miss Infos, the Pete Rosenbergs or even the Vlad TVs, but when a rapper does an interview with a hip-hop station or [...]

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Highlights of Jim Jones Complex Interview

Posted on 19 November 2008 (0)

Complex Mag has a cover story on Dipset leader and swagger monitor Jim Jones. An interesting sit-down to be sure. As usual, B-Double has the hook up. I gotta say, Complex seems to be pretty taken with Capo. I just don’t see it. “Ballin” was hot, but I just don’t see this slow rapping thespian [...]

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80′s Babies, Stand Up – The Samples

Posted on 20 October 2008 (0)

I’m not exactly an 80′s “baby”. More like an 80′s “kid”. My earliest and strongest musical influences were created in the 1980′s. Lots of joints on the radio back then I still spin today. Now, of course, once hip-hop came into my life it kinda crowded everything else out. Rappers and producers have long recognized [...]

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