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Had to break out of hiatus for this one.

Am I a Jay-Z stan? Yes. But this pisses me off for another reason. Because once again, hip-hop looks DUMB AS FUCK.

I’m sitting at home watching the World Series. Jay-Z and Alicia Keys open up the game with their soon-to-be-Grammy-winning song “Empire State of Mind”. Now it’s dope to me not because I’m a Yankees fan, but because Fox’s cutaways showed all members of both teams nodding their heads, Mayor 9/11 bopping away, and pretty much 45,000 people getting amped for this game off HIP-HOP. Some of the players brought camcorders to film the performance. Old white people were grooving and all that good shit. This wasn’t like Nelly joining a pop-star cast of fools during Super Bowl’s halftime to run an awkward verse off “E.I.”. This was a legit moment showcasing legit hip-hop (no less in a song where no one died and a bitch didn’t get fucked). And I was actually kind of proud for hip-hop.

We like to unknowingly indoctrinate that hip-hop has somehow done all it can in the world, and that we’re devolving in the struggle to tread water until Corporate America moves on. But that’s false. Hip-hop has yet to peak or even approach it’s peak, we’ve all just gotten lazy and think sales are more important than self expression.

So here’s Jay-Z, doing what he does, expanding the breadth of hip-hop’s domain (thus, ironically helping out the lap sitters he doesn’t want to help). No less than 5 hours later, fair and balanced Diss Jockey Kay Slay, the Drama King, announces that Beans hit him saying he’s got a joint for him where he’s confronting Jay-Z. Now when he says this, he explains that he’s waiting on the email because they’re in the studio making a radio clean version for him. Reasonable deduction would lead one to believe that the song was made that night and quite possibly AFTER Jay took the stage at Yankee Stadium.

The song is whatever, not good, not bad, definitely personal. Seems like the People’s 53 in the trial proving that Jay-Z is a selfish, shiesty dickhead (which seems likely, after all he is a SUCCESSFUL RAPPER). At the end, Beans proclaims he’s got love for Jay, it’s not full on beef, this is just him pulling Jay aside telling him he’s got issues, yada, yada, yada. Whatever.

There’s many problems with this whole shit. First off, Beans was JUST sucking on the dick of BP3 a month ago, stating it was the best album Jay ever did, the intro was CRAZY, it’s Roc for life, etc. Secondly, I find it RATHER coincidental that the night Jay-Z performs for roughly 20 million people, this just happens to surface. Chalk that up to some good ole nigga shit, I’m sure Beans’ album is on THE way. Thirdly, it’s one hell of a way to pull someone aside and let em know you’re beefing ON WAX. Honestly this shit doesn’t even sound like a diss track. There’s no Ether showmanship about it, no challenge or anything. It’s like a Young Buck/50 Cent phone conversation in rhyme. These are the same two dudes that literally cried on a song together. It’s probably the most awkward diss track ever put out. And lastly, the debut of it just happens to come via the notoriously anti-Jay DJ, Kay Slay. Yeah, that’s definitely a great way to ensure people don’t think it’s beef. Add that all up, and you’ve got fuckery.

Having been in a public and HIGHLY retarded conflict myself, I can tell you, NOBODY looks smart from it. Will the same people that rocked out with Jay last night even have this land on their radar? 99 percent no. But that’s not the point. The point is WE know. This isn’t a diss for the sport of it. This isn’t competition. It’s overtly personal and has essentially NOTHING to do with anything close to a battle. This is hip-hop once again displaying it’s shitty sense of conflict resolution because we still subscribe to these laws and codes of the streets, laws and codes that have worked NEVER in ANY facet or arena of life. We fall into our same patterns and never learn from our mistakes and then have the nerve to wonder why Mudede feels the need to say dumb dismissive shit like THIS. It’s because we give him reason to, and this is an example of it. We’ve GOT to do better. Fighting and threatening executives, collecting indictments like traffic tickets and attracting random gunfire ain’t cool at a certain point. Did it get Jay to where he’s at? Yeah. So did selling drugs, you don’t see him doing that still. Why did he leave the Roc-A-Fella hood crew for dead? Because they’re still the Roc-A-Fella hood dudes. It’s as simple as that.

BTW, Jam Master Jay died 7 years ago, what a way to honor him.

UPDATE: Beans explains the whole situation with Charlamagne Da God, and it’s a modern day tragedy honestly. This is how I want to remember these dudes: