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What's Beef

Contrary to popular belief, rap beef is not when you need two gats to go to sleep or you need your enemy to start your jeep. Typically, it's a clever ploy to sell records or get your name relevant again. Occasionally it starts when a member of one rapper's entourage bumps into or scuffs the shoes of another rapper's posse. All in all it's some petty juvenile schoolyard shit.

Rap beefs come a dime a dozen and so do the diss songs. But today I chose two songs that stand out from the rest. Rap songs are usually 3:30-4:00 minutes, but these two songs are 8 and 9 minutes. To make a nine minute diss song it is obvious you have a big bone to pick. The first is Mac Dre and Coolio (not the one who did the "All That" theme song for Snick at Nite) going at Lil Bruce who happens to be E-40's cousin. Like all good Mac Dre songs his lyrics make you laugh out loud when Dre claims Bruce's mother cooks cats and dogs (Bruce is half Korean). Second, is MF Grimm calling out his old friend MF Doom. It's off Grimm's three disc album "American Hunger", which i found to be a lot of filler, but this joint is on point and offers a lot of insight on the falling out between the two former friends, from Grimm's perspective of course. Some of you are probably thinking, "But Game made 15 minute diss songs." Yea, well they sucked and he is the most chemically imbalanced rapper I can think of.
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some jazzy shit

funky dl - 2 long


freddie joachim - shoulder kiss

All Heads Wreckonize

 "When you eat the same food and drink the same drink, your doodoo is gonna smell the same, you know what I'm sayin." 

Oh I know what you're saying, when I get the machaca with eggs at my favorite loncheria in Ensenada and douse it in tons of chalula and my friend does the same, in all likelihood we'll both have some explosive diarrhea. Really, what Rock of Heltah Skeltah was describing were the similarities in sounds between Black Moon's Enta Da Stage and Smif-N-Wessun's Da Shinin'.   It's weird what sounds profound when you're passing three blunts around.  This interview was given way back in '94 right before Smif-N-Wessun's second single came out.  When asked what they thought about the drama between the East and West Coast the only definitive thing they said was that the weed from the west coast wasn't that good.  They didn't mention Biggie or 2pac, which is rather refreshing.  If you haven't heard Da Shinin' in a while, put that shit on right now. 

Common

Last night as I was driving into Boston I was listening to a CD I made 8 months ago for the hundredth time. I skipped through the entire CD and then realized that the time was 10:00 PM and 88.9@Night was just starting. This was the first song they played and it really picked me up out of my musical depression during that ride.

The DJs can be hit or miss but most nights they play great music. You can listen online at http://wers.org

shinsight trio

Shinsight trio is made up of shin-ski, producer extraordinaire hailing from Japan, insight is an "MC/DJ/producer/check casher" from the city of Lynn, MA, and DJ Ryow, another Japanese DJ who a little hit or miss in my opinion, but has some good songs. The trio kills it as a team and as individuals, so have a listen and pardon the lack of posts.

shinsight trio - early dayz amazement


insight - evolve


shin-ski - rigel


and last but not least

smooth current (AKA Dj Ryow) - That's It