Nowadays, the game is 70% marketing dollars, 25% production, and 5% mic skills.

There are crews signed to labels that won't dare share a stage with us, 'cause they know that they are wack and that the real pioneers from the 206 will do them in!

Mic battle or boxing ring (Moorpheus is the 2003 WA. State Toughman Boxing Champion; lightweight division), we do it all! Real talk!

i am pretty sure i was standing next to you in disbelief at the show that inspired this paragraph...it's a damn shame.

we have not been taught how to think in this culture...it trickles down to all the bs people watch on tv and then go act a certain way or maybe rich white fat ceo's have a master evil plan to steal hiphop from its intented purposes. yeah something like that.

The problem with Hip Hop is that the mentality that coexists with it....You know the classic "My shit is dope, and everyone else is wack kind of attitude...." I mean there is a lot of bad music out there, but at some point you gotta just quit worrying about what other people are doing and focus all your energy on what you are doing....Just some food for thought I guess....Take care

Hell, they call me a backpack rapper cuz I'm female and look fly but don't talk about tits and sleeping with guys.  That's what's messed up. People see you and think you sing but when you open your mouth, these hard lyrics come out, they get mad and tell you that you are too militant or hard, to soften up some. Well, I got a BA in pre-law, political science and communications. I was not made to be soft so they can suck someones balls. Word up.  To bad that society wants a feel good religion, feel good party music and they will all die because of the lack of knowledge in their AIDS society where the music reflects the sexual orgie we see on on MTV and BET. World full of hypocrites. But thank G-d, real emcees ain't a part of it.

shalom,

ka

Cosigned.

....2 years later.