TALK TO ME!
TALK TO ME!!!!!!
AS I SIT IN MY SUITE IN DUBAI (BY THE WAY ITS 5:30 AM), I THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT I WRITE THIS EVEN THO IM SURE NIGGAS GONE HAVE ALOT TO SAY ABOUT IT BUT IT IS WHAT IT IZ .LAST NIGHT THE BET HIPHOP AWARDS AIRED,I WAS READING TWITTER FROM THE PLANE AND 85 IF NOT 90 PERCENT OF THE COMMENTS WERE BASHING IT.AT FIRST I WAS LIKE WHATEVA, BUT THEN I STARTED SEEING PEOPLE FROM ATLANTA IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS,RADIO,BLOGGERS,DJS ECT…. SAYING THINGS AND IT HIT ME, AS THE SO CALLED MAYOR OF THE CITY I FELT SOMETHING NEEDED TO BE SAID .I WENT TO TWITTER AND POSTED “I HATE THAT THIS AWARD SHOW IS LOOKING LIKE THE MOST DISSED EVER AND IT TOOK PLACE IN THE A, BECAUSE IT MAKES US LOOK LIKE WERE PART OF THE DEMISE OF HIPHOP”MOST OF YOU WEREN’T AROUND WHEN IT WASN’T COOL TO BE FROM ATLANTA SO YOU PROBABLY DONT UNDERSTAND WHERE IM COMING FROM,BUT I FEEL A ATTITUDE IN THE AIR AS IF IT HAS TO BE HERE,THEY DONT, MATTER OF FACT THIS COULD’VE BEEN ITS LAST YEAR IN THE ATL.IF WE LOOK UP NEXT YEAR AND ITS IN NEW YORK OR MIAMI, JUST KNOW ITS OUR OWN FAULT.WHEN I SAW THE RIFF RAFT BETWEEN WAKA FLAKA AND STEPHEN HILL I UNDERSTOOD BOTH SIDES BUT STEPHEN’S POINT MORE ONCE HE EXPLAIN THAT HE WASN’T JUST DISSING HIM THEY HAD A SHOW PLANNED AND WE DID’NT GET TO SEE IT. THATS 1 REFLECTION OF THE CITY, THE SECOND WAS SOMEONE TWITTED ABOUT ALL THE SEAT FILLERS IN THE FRONT ROWS #DEAD.THE CITY DIDN’T ALL COME OUT AS THEY SHOULD AND I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY THIS AINT LIKE GOING TO VELVET ROOM,THIS IS A CAREER IMPACTING NATIONAL AWARD SHOW AND WE SHOULD ALL BE PRESENT,(IM TALKING TO THE MUSIC COMMUNITY) FORGET HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT BET ITS ABOUT US KEEPING ATL HOT!!! BECAUSE ONCE ITS GONE ITS GONE
JD we know the rap game is messed up. But if the show was being held in ATL everyone in the industry should have been there!
Hey JD, I love the A! Went down there alot for work over the end of last year, and couldn’t get enough of Buckhead life! Man I would love to live there, and will def be making many wknd trips with my wife, exquisite dining, endless things to do, and shopping out the ass! Funny coincidence was in neighborhood on way home and you and Jiggaman’s song “Money ain’t a thang” came on the air, “ya’ll wanna floss wit us?”
Hello Beverly Hills of the South!
I don’t have time to read through all these comments but I’m sure this has been said. If not… here goes.
As a blogger… and as an ATLANTA blogger, I have to be completely honest and say that while I agree with you that the hip-hop awards don’t have to be here, since they are… they should be held to a higher standard.
Just because you’re hungry doesn’t mean you have to accept crumbs!
I covered the awards show and chose not to do a detailed post on it because the show sucked. Sorry but it’s a fact. The reason it sucked had nothing at all to do with Atlanta. The show is ran by BET and BET didn’t put any effort into it IMO.
BET chose to film the awards here because of 1) the cost effectiveness (it’s cheaper than other cities) and 2) the ratio of hip-hop artists already centralized in our city.
I can’t speak on the “rap game” because I’m not in it. I can however speak as a viewer/consumer who has supported Atlanta artists all my life. And it appeared to me that BET dropped the ball. NOT ATLANTA.
I feel like it has to do with what type of music the artist is putting out. I LOVE hip hop but lately it just all sounds the same, their comes a time when rapping about cars, women, and how much money you have and how much jewelry you can wear at one time gets old. Just saying :/
I believe that since B.E.T. dosen’t take this Show serious we as a community have no choice but to do the same, Hip-Hop is the major music listened to in today’s society. The fact is they make the Bet awards the show to go to and just throw another show together to carter to the fans, But really there just not giving hip-hop a platform to set a higher goal.. This show could be the grammy’s if they treated as such, but Since they don’t take it serious which was shown, thru every disasterous perfomance. There is no need to put the blame on Atl, but yet the channel themselves. There where few awards giving out and nothing worth talking about. Not even the vet’s or talented artist drew u in except, B.O.B and he repped ATL. Don’t blame the city J.D. we just spoke on the event’s that occured B.E.T dosen’t care about hip-hop it’s just a check for them…
steven hill was so right wacka 1st started out by tryin to bring other artist to the stage who as u could see from there faces didnt wanna go up there then he left them up there to go in the crowd when he came back to stage they were all GONE then his wack ass doesnt even rap 70% of his lyrics C’mon Son u have no right to beef…. but i feel u JD other than that part i thought the show was pretty good…. and the cypher was prob the absolute best part BOB was hot n i really liked how shock G was on the piano shouting out 2pac
HEY JD! “WHERE THERES UNITY THERES STRENGTH!” If we dont have togetherness we’re not gonna be strong! Not sure what its gonna take for us to get there..but we must stand together, hold on 2 each other, share with one another, just be there for each other! JD I HOPE UR HAVING AN AWESOME TIME..U DESERVE IT!
MUCH LOVE TO ALL THE LIFERS!
Sorry LIFERS!
Uncle GREGSTREET, I call him uncle cuz he calls almost everybody in the game lil’ bro!
He said it all and Jaysupermanager is not wrong!
After GREGSTREET comment, the CASE is CLOSED!!! I’m not saying that elder are always right, but we have, nah we must give them credit for experiementing and experiencing everything they did. And GregStreet is far from a man that doesn’t know what he’s talking about or disconnected from reality.
I’m with Greg Street and I haven’t lived in the A since 06…#BIEM
What’s up JD…..it will be the shit if you did a vh1 reunion with xscape thank a bout it…….Love you phatfffat you the shit….
There has been a lot of shitty music from the A…. Soulja Boy and Wacka being very good examples. But there has also been a shit load of great music. Crappy music has come from everywhere, ATL is just the capitol of hip-hop right now…… But on another note….FUCK BET, they don’t deserve anybody’s respect, I haven’t watched BET for years now because its pathetic. They make our ppl look sad and they are not even a good representation of the variety of really good hip-hop artists in this country right now. They play bullshit all day, and every year they do less and less good in our communities….makes sense though since they haven’t been black-owned in forever. I pray for a world without BET very soon
JaySuperManager – is telling the truth.
Agreed CatAnnBur.