The Clock Is Tickin' On Your Career...

What the fuck is wrong with this kid?!?! DeAndre Ramon Way (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em) has got the be the most ignorant, feeble-minded, stupid, talentless, ungrateful waste of sperm to EVER walk the earth! This dude seriously needs to be shot. Not killed per say, but just shot, with a life-threatening wound that will hopefully give him a different outlook on life. His teachers and parents alike need to be repeatedly slapped across the face for the horrible job they did on this boy. I try not to get upset at things I can't change, and this dude's blatant ignorance concerning everything in life is something I don't think anyone can change. But still, with all the senseless killing going on in the world, can somebody please shoot this young male? Remember, in the words of Robert DeNiro, "it's nothing wrong with shooting, as long as the right people get shot.

Allow me to take this time to explain why I want some sense to be implemented into this young male's body via bullets. Money is definitely the root of all evil, because once this dude started getting paid, he started getting an ego that is light years larger than his amount of talent. Kicking off his string of idiotic public statements, this dude has once stated that because of the popularity of his imbecilic debut single, "Crank Dat Soulja Boy" that he is hotter than Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Lil' Wayne. Personally, I am not a fan of Lil' Wayne, but he does have a lot of dick-riders. And I mean a lot. So for Soulja Boy to say that he is hotter than any of those 3 rappers was just an insult to everyone involved, especially himself.

But that incident pales in comparison to the point of this entry. Here's the deal: Soulja Boy actually said, on camera that Nas killed hip-hop, due to his 2006 album, Hip Hop is Dead. Let me elaborate before you begin cocking your pistols. Not only does a statement like that show that he, among MANY rap "fans" believe that rap music and hip-hop are one in the same, but he even went on to say that Lil' Wayne proved him wrong by selling a million copies in one week. He even went on to compare Nas to President George W. Bush, stating that "the same way Bush fucked up America, that's how Nas fucked up hip hop."

First of all, hip hop and rap music are not the same. Hip hop is a lifestyle. Rap is a genre of music. Hip hop is something you feel. Rap is something you do. Hip hop is how you live, how you dress, how you walk, how you talk. Rap is how African-Americans publicly demean themselves. If you don't get what I'm saying, you more than likely think they are one in the same as well.

Using Soulja Boy's political analogy against him, just because one rapper sells a million copies in a week, does not mean hip hop is alive. It just means that he has at least a million dick-riders. Furthermore, large groups of Americans have been known to make stupid decisions in the past, hence our president for all of the last 8 years. Granted, Al Gore did gain more popular votes than president Bush in the 2000 scandal, but Bush won the 2004 election as close to fair and square as you're probably going to get from a Republican candidate. But back to the topic. Hip hop was dead long before Nas made the 2006 album. I don't think there is a clear culprit as to who killed it, but it became apparent that it was over in the late 1990s after 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. were killed, thus beginning the "Shiny-Suit Era". But hip hop had been on the decline since about 1993, when rap music first began getting commercialized, losing it's Afrocentric qualities that are representations of hip hop to this day. But for the record, in the words of KRS-One, hip hop culture is eternal.

Rap music in fact is taking a turn for the worst though, and backing Ice-T, Soulja Boy Tell'Em is a big reason for that. Rap music has been more about materialistic things and less about topics that are relatable to average people for the majority of this decade, and as far as the mechanics go, lyricism has taken a backseat to delivery, catchy hooks, dance records, and most recently, swag. I'm sure this is what most people mean when they say "hip hop is dead", not knowing the difference between hip hop and rap music. The day that rappers-- no, lyricists-- such as Cassidy, Jadakiss, Papoose, and Fabolous, in addition to emcees such as Andre 3000, Lupe Fiasco, Common, Talib Kweli, and in my opinion the real best rapper alive, Nas start moving the units that a rapper like Lil' Wayne, 50 Cent, or the dreaded Soulja Boy Tell'Em (yes people, his debut Souljaboytellem.com did sell a million copies sadly) are, then rap music, not hip hop, is dead.

And soon will be the career of Soulja Boy Tell'Em, if he continues to make statements like this. And to conclude, I leave you with a quote from Chris Tucker during his role as "Smokey" in the 1995 film Friday, recited during the fight between Craig and Deebo and say... "Shoot him!!!"

-Trufe