Yo bust this: don't act all irrational and pissed when a producer you're working with gives you a critique. M.C.'s as a breed can be super-egotistical.. you KNOW this because you ARE one and you believe yourself to be the best, or at LEAST beyond criticism.. BUT, if you ain't PAYING for the beats, it ain't like that!! Check it..

     I can't count how many times I've stood there while an M.C. flips through a CD of my beats, listening to them each for 6 seconds and going, "wack...wack...I ain't feeling THIS...THIS one is hot... wack... wack.. THIS one is aight.. wack.. this one's hot... wack... wack..." Here's something you should know: I probably put in WAY more time on a beat than you do on a verse. I put everything I've got into this day in and day out, getting busy in the lab while you're probably out spitting game at some dumb chickenhead. Every beat I do is like family to me! Would you go through my kids like "ugly...ugly...cute...this one's head is too big.. ugly..cute...ugly...ugly?" You best not!

     Just once I'd like to go through an M.C.'s rhymes and say "wack...wack...wack... this one's hot...wack..that metaphor don't make no sense.. wack..dope...wack..wack" But you and I both know that an M.C. would get bent the fuck out of shape if I did that. What makes y'all's rhymes so special that they can't be critiqued?

     A couple months back, I was working with an M.C. that had just gone through my beats with the usual cavalier attitude. I made a CD for him of the ones he liked and waited for him to get back at me. The first verse he wrote didn't go with the track AT ALL and when I said so, he was like "man, I spent a lot of time on that verse." So WHAT? I spent a lot MORE time on the tracks that you dismissed so casually and didn't say SHIT! We went around and around about it for a while but in the end, he just stopped coming through.. guess he got his feelings hurt or something!

     It's fucked up that producers are supposed to sit idly by while M.C.'s dismiss their hard work right in front of them. Don't think that it was easy just because you didn't witness the long hours that went into the making of a beat. Remember, getting a song together is a PARTNERSHIP between the artist and the producer. Both need to be man enough to take critique in order to get a product done proper. As Willie D famously put it, "your pussy ain't any more important than my dick!" I've been fortunate enough to be working lately with an M.C. that takes critique as well as he gives it, all in the pursuit of a better song. There have been others I can remember but they're the rare exception.

     Artists ought to remember that the producer is trying to make a career out of this too! It doesn't further a producer's career any by attaching his name to a weak product.. and why should a producer let you have their best work if you're going to fuck it up? Don't be such a sensitive little girl about getting checked, God knows WE stand up and take it!