Jay Z/ Nas and other hiphop throwdowns...resurrected. Part 4

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What's up people at ilxor.com? As you can see here is one last attempt to continue one of the most interesting hiphop/rap DIScussions I've ever been a part of. If it works no need to thank me, and if it fails, hey, I tried. None of the other rap threads move me and I need another site to visit while I'm at work (not working). Well, let's get this thing started (again). This topic was originally presented back in August of 2001 if memory serves correctly. So let's talk about/ post about/ and or rap about Jay, Nas, rap, crap, movies, girls, girls, girls and whatever else comes to mind. All our welcomed; come out swinging.

Qoolout, Thursday, 11 September 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I suspect "jiggy"/"bling"/etc. has had its day as the primary hip-hop meme, and that conscious/whatever will rise, along with, interestingly enough, hardcore. This will happen because, oddly enough, both prize "authenticity."

Ess, Thursday, 11 September 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

rap? more like Crap

sean g, Thursday, 11 September 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

qool did you see cover story in the source dissing 50 ?

trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 11 September 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I suspect "jiggy"/"bling"/etc. has had its day as the primary hip-hop meme, and that conscious/whatever will rise, along with, interestingly enough, hardcore. This will happen because, oddly enough, both prize "authenticity."

Indeed, Ess! Did you hear about Chan Marshall joining Disturbing Tha Peace?

Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 11 September 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

If hardcore is resurrected commercially, does that mean that M.O.P. will finally chart? I've never understood why they didn't, I guess they're not glamorous enuff, but who knows what's possible with the Roc behind them.

Adrian (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

ante up was huge

trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, and it still is kinda. but I don't remember M.O.P. actually moving many units - though i'm sure it's possible that I'm conflating their lack of press coverage w/imagined sales figures in my head.

Adrian (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i guess i'm just looking for them to get a little more mainstream respect, they deserve it for doing a song with (kaff kaff) "Lyte Funky Ones" alone!!

Adrian (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i think since 50 theres def more mainstream appeal for hardcore, it feels like 1995 all over again... i wonder how the new cnn album will do

trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure about 50 bringing back the griminess....for all the hype about how gangsta he is, he's a lot more pop than people seem to think....I mean, In The Club, PIMP, and most of his hooks for that matter aren't exactly The War Report or Shook Ones...

Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I want so badly to come onto this thread with some rhymes, but am afraid of getting laughed at by 1) the old-school regulars of the Jay-Z vs. Nas threads 2) the ilx massive 3) ethan

J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

yo step into the cipher and kick some shit off the dome, son!

Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

matt you cant deny his subject matter is less iced out lens-flare mansions and more street!! even his sex rhymes are the realness instead of i got two hundred hoes stuff

trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

also john, no

trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, but part of what makes 50 saleable (among many other things) is the romantic post-pac imagery; the kaff "authentic" kaff standpoint that Wanksta cannily established for him has been pretty key in supporting an image and persona that people are very eager to get a taste of. it's not so much how tuff he actually is or isn't or even how that carries over in repping himself on the radio or whatevs, it's his past (AND present - people look at him kind of like a human train-wreck??) and his too-insane-to-be-true-oh-wait hustler background. bonecrusher brings a lot of mean & grime to the table, but there's not quite as much *viscerality* to what he's seen as doing (tho maybe he's not a good example, since the sight of a screaming nine thousand pound thug is pretty arresting).

Adrian (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

bonecrushers actual rhymes dont have alot to do with the gangsta hyper-realism of 50, hes just anohter in the shouty southern mcs tradition... out of atl right now the most street is probably t.i., his newest is like the southern illmatic

trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you talking about 50 compared to like the Biggie type era or I thought you comparing 50 to CNN in particular....That CNN record is pretty bleak, not much bling bling, it's pretty much just all straight up "we are going to smoke weed drink and kill people every minute of the day in the foreseeable future"....

also, I'm not saying not being grimy or so-called "real" makes 50 bad, The War Report is one of the most-overated "great" rap records imo.

Also, I haven't heard The War Report for years so I may be distorting what its really like....

Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

war report is incredible still though their rhymes are a little vague to be held up as examples of realness.. when i think of hardcore lyrics i think like, survival of the fittest, shook ones, ... 50 is closest to that right now

trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

the closest to b.i.g. right now is hov, though both have that post-street good-life-but-shit-is-catchin-up-with-me!! whereas 50, considering his recent shooting incident, is still gully for a multi-platinum artist

trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i haven't actually heard crusher's album, but "Grippin tha Grain" definately seems to me like it's in the 3-6 scary thuggin' trad. that's pretty much what i'm saying though, 50 as realistic street poet (erm, there has to be a better way to say that) kinda offers a different appeal than just straight-up hard dudes rapping about doing nasty shit.

Adrian (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

well what was capone or prodigy if not street poets!! three six are too unrepentant to be called hardcore theyre just straight evil, theres a diff between hardcore and horrorcore

trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

bringing the south in this argument feels wrong, the styles and personas are so difft... 50 isnt just bringing back the nyc hardcore tradition by being hardcore, its also being a massively popular rapper actually from nyc... recent gangsta pop stuff like clipse hasnt been nyc

trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

and yeah theres jigga but when was the last time he rapped about anything but the rap game

trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought horrorcore was like that group chino xl was in. anyway yeah, I was gonna bring up the NYC thing too - i think there's an attraction (i'm doing a lot of projecting here aren't I) to this young cat "taking back" NYC hiphop (again he's authentic!!) and all. I didn't really mean to bring in southern rap as something comparable, like as if there could be a southern 50, but just because i was thinking of all the mildly dark, rowdy southern singles that have been big this summer, and how because of the established newyork gangsta history it means more to people that 50 is out there, whereas the south really has had to fight for a recognized place in the hip hop community...

Adrian (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

gah there were so many errors in that. i'm too tired to be posting, i should just go to the mogwai show now and let them lull me to sleep

Adrian (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i find Nas severely over-rated, i don't know how to really explain why but he's never struck me as all that - what am i missing here if anything? ('Nas Is Like' and 'Made You Look' totally great tho, so recommend any other tracks by him in that vein - i can't be doing with any where he mentions 'my boo' or whatever tho)

i can see the love for Jay-Z a lot more (more evidently amusing, even witty, hollers better, sings even worse) - to give some perspective, but i used to prefer the former for the beats and shit - Jay-Z used to irritate the hell out of me (i didn't even like his skit on 'Crazy In love' at first), go figure - but give me some good Jay-Z album tracks as well, and remind me if 'Who U Wit' is good or not, and if you can where that wonderful backing sample/track to 'Girls Girls Girls' comes from

i've been thinking about actually listening to a full hip hop album for the first time in A LONG TIME lately too, so maybe give me some recommendations (bearing in mind my attitude to and taste in hip hop is pretty much in alignment with Nate's). in fact it's almost scary how few hip hop albums i've heard in full in the last ten years.

stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 September 2003 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm gonna download the tracks on trife's new mix for starters

stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 September 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i love hip hop

astroblaster (astroblaster), Thursday, 11 September 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

stevem i dont even know where to start with recommendations, im guessing if the only nas songs you like are made u look and nas is like you dont even like his rhymes so you probably wouldnt be feelin most nas, but his best albums are illmatic, gods son, and it was written ... jigga is easier just pick up any of his cds theyre all like top-to-bottom greatest hits

trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 11 September 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

want so badly to come onto this thread with some rhymes, but am afraid of getting laughed at by 1) the old-school regulars of the Jay-Z vs. Nas threads 2) the ilx massive 3) ethan

Take the risk, yo! The rhymes I was going to use has plain flown out of my head, though

Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 11 September 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not so sure about 50 bringing back the nyc street tradition as opposed to the southern style that's ruling right now. I was actually surprised when I heard Get Rich... because is sounded so southern, esp. his accent and vocal mannerisms. I think he's one of the most southern sounding NYC rappers ever....he seems alot more southern sounding now than when I first heard his mixtape stuff in the Power of a Dollar phase...I know he said his voice changed when he got shot, but I don't think that would give you a southern drawl...

Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 September 2003 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

steve you've probably heard it but if you want to listen to a hip hop album in full and haven't in a while,if you haven't heard wu-tangs 36 chambers you really should
also,trife is otm about illmatic,some of the best mcing i've ever heard,and ghostface's ironman is great as well...
fairly obvious recommendations,but excellent nonetheless...

robin (robin), Friday, 12 September 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

50's voice did get slower and less whiny after the shooting, i dont reallylike it before then but i also wouldnt say he sounds 'southern' now, as far as prominent drawls go hes not snoop

trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm just saying a little southern - you don't see that at all? Not like the Big Gipp or anything, but it seems like he's picked up a little accent....it's not crime, god knows southern rappers have been influences by NYC throughout history so why can't it go the other way round now?

Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 September 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

well yeah i admitted he had a drawl!! some of the beats on get rich are really bouncish too but thats just current hiphop not really 50

trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

50 sounds pretty New York to me. the way he says lines like "all them other hard niggas is from Yonkers" or even the way he stresses the W in "swords" is really not southern.

Adrian (Adrian Langston), Friday, 12 September 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i guess i'll finally investigate 'Illmatic' - i never looked further than 'The World Is Yours' but i liked that one. i'm not sure i'll like it/him but whatever.

stevem (blueski), Friday, 12 September 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Illmatic is one of those albums that is as good, if not better, than everyone says it is....however, I just listened to God's Son the other day and am starting to realize how much (with the exception of Made You Look) that album completely and totally sucks....I had myself talked into believing it was a return to form because for some reason I want Nas to be great so badly.

However, I will stump for It Was Written any day! It's super underrated, I didn't think it was a disappointment at all, it just had the misfortune of coming after what, in my mind, is the best rap album ever made....Even though his best metaphor (I Gave You Power) on that album is a quasi-ripoff of Organized Konfusion's Stray Bullet which is better...

Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 September 2003 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah it was written is MAYBE better than gods son.... its funny how that metaphor has mutated over the course of organized konfusion-->nas-->pac-->jigga

trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i didn't realize how much i loved illmatic until one morning i couldn't find the cd and i ran up and down the house all frantic like. (it was behind the sofa). so, yeah, buy that.


mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 12 September 2003 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

50 sounds south to me even some of his beats are pseudo bounce!

stevem, despite what most people will tell you, 'it was written' and 'god's son' are the best nas albums lyrcially, if you want hungry classic queens crack music then 'illmatic' is better but a bit too jazzy. i actually think 'lifestyles ov da poor and dangerous' has better mcing and better beats.

i think nas is better than jay z because i have a feeling i'd get on better with him in real life, i love jay z but i think he'd do my head in after while.

ok i have a question who is better proof vs royce the 5'9"?

sean g, Friday, 12 September 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I gotta agree with what Matt said about 50. He is not all that hardcore to me. Actually, I don't like most of his tracks, but I only hear what they play on the radio. I will say I was wrong about him sale wise. I thought he would flop but I stand corrected on that point, but I still can't get into most of his songs (with the exception on Many Men). Trife, I didn't see the Source/50 story yet, but if they dissed him I'm not surprised. Eminem, one of the people behind 50's recent success, had beef with Benzo. Ben has very close ties to The Source (Em said Ben owns it). Ben and Em had words, so it's not that big of a jump for Ben and or the Source to send hate toward 50. It's the case of my enemy's friend is my enemy.

Qoolout, Friday, 12 September 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i know the story with that, i just couldnt believe they made a fucking cover story out of it!! sean g i said the exact same thing abt 50 having 'bouncish' beats earlier!! and i dont think illmatic is really 'too jazzy', it doesnt have that weak jazz sound like so many golden age albums... qool if you dont think 50's that hardcore (though many men is possibly the streetest track of their year, lyrically...i remember hearing it the first time and just gasping at each verse) who are your top ten realest mcs ever!?!?! 1) b.i.g. 2) pun 3) pac 4) beans 5) scarface 6) capone 7) prodigy 8) cube 9) pastor troy 10) 50 cent

trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

oh sorry wait 1) benzino, duh!!

trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my God, this shit is back up... shout out to Qool for letting me in on this...

But since we talking about 50, I gots to go with Chris Rock. All you hear about 50 is "he got shot 9 times!" hows the record? "HE GOT SHOT 9 TIMES!". Yeah some of the tracks are tight, but most of that is down to production, and yeah he puts down (a few) hot lines but it aint a great album. As for him being hardcore, well, the spits are hardcore, the way he does it aint. If you want hardcore, go with DMX.

But to leave on a high note, heres a little from my man Dizzee Rascal. 19 year old kid from London who just won the Mercury music prize which is a pretty big deal over here.

"more destructive and troublesome than ever/i'll PROBABLY be doing this PROBABLY forever/fellas wanna stop me they'll PROBABLY come together/its PROBABLE they'll stop me/PROBABLY - never"

I'm out like... part 1, part 2 and part 3...

Peace

3:16, Friday, 12 September 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

dmx isnt 'hardcore' hes practically incoherent

trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

really i like x a lot but his melodramatic shit isnt very hardcore its like a tragic vaudeville show

trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

haha yeah, DMX is hardcore... something...

his new single is a lot more fun if you imagine him yelling "I LOVE DIIICK" instead of the actual chorus. and the video supplants what is usually his overt homoeroticism with ALL OUT GAY PORN ORGY.

Adrian (Adrian Langston), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

trife, I think you left someone off the "realest" list: Kool G Rap.

1) He basically (w/songs like Rikers Island, Streets of New York, and Talk Like Sex) was the first hardcore gangsta NYC MC.

2) His tragically underrated Live and Let Die (even though it supposedly got butchered in the final release thanx to Ice-T's cop killa) is really the first NYC record to incoporate some of the West Coast sound and gangsta attitude...Bascially, the same thing Biggie did with Ready to Die but 2 years before Biggie came out

3) His flow, voice, lyrics, everything are damn near perfect

Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

First of all, you make a good case for the refs. But as usual, you are wrong. Yeah, you. Those bammas can defend themselves, just like anybody else. And even if they did have a rule that said refs can't open their mouths, how does that justify a coach or player having to bite his tongue? The correct thing to do is to let them both speak. Trust me, from my point of view, whenever you have somebody not letting all parties involved talk, there is some kind of cover up most of the time. I don't care if its a lawyer with a client, a police with a victim, or a husband with his spouse. Let everybody talk. And if you make 100 good calls but you mess up on a very IMPORTANT call, as a player, I should be able to say, "That was a terrible call. That call made us lose. If the ref would have called it the correct way, we would have won." Now what's wrong with that? Nothing, but if Kobe came out and said that, or if LaVar said it, they can expect to be billed for those words. Yes, if I say something about his mother or his famo then maybe I should be fined, but when I'm speaking the facts, why do I need to keep it hush hush? If a ref makes a bad call, its on ESPN for a few days, people tip-toe around the subject and then it's over. But the team still has that "L." The team has an "L," when they should have a "W" but it ain't nothing to do about it but live with it. All the money the NFL makes and we still have bad ref-in'? Pay them for the whole week and get somebody in there who can call it better, and if they can't get it right, go to instant replay. Why does a team get charged a timeout in the NFL if the refs disagree? That's more nonsense. They should have another set of refs that we don't even see, looking at every questionable call. Why does the coach need to throw out the flag? They (the NFL) know if it was a questionable call. Moving on, "Hip Hop Star" is weak. It is NOT clearly about sex, at least not Beyonce's part, which is what you said. You could make a case for that, but don't come posting on here putting "CLEARLY" in all caps. And I listened to cuz's 1st verse and I don't understand how you can say that it is even CLEARLY about sex or loving making. Again you can make a case for it, but just like you said I can't dismiss the whole song, you can't ignore those parts that are indeed pointless. You can say I don't get the metaphors all day long. But you can say that about any song. I can say a given song has no point and you can come back and say it does because I missed this slang or this jargon. Whatever; that song sucks. I'm not going to argue with you (AGAIN) about it being pointless. If I was wrong, so be it and that's your right to say so. But if a line or two does not connect in a song, I'ma say so about that. And give me a break; there are more than ONE or TWO POINTLESS lines in that song. Where do we draw the line? Can every other bar be pointless, but since the artist says two intelligent things, it therefore has a point? And I never said a rapper should not put out albums if he ain't the best. I'm saying, if your boy said "I can't rap" then no, he should not be rapping. That's like I go to the Bulls and say "I can't play basketball, but I want you to sign me." Or if I say, "I can not write, but I want you to hire me as a writer." Now I want you to disagree with this Hillis. Seriously, you have no grounds here. Moving on, just because somebody beat you in Madden on ONE given day, does not mean that they will get the same results next time. Please believe. Also, I never said Tim's beats aren't good. Plenty of them are great. He hooked up the L.O.X on their Double R CD. He's great at that; that's where he shines. My point was, if they were as hot as YOU say, then he'd be a better rapper. See, on "Is That Your Chick," everybody sounds tight. Missy, Jay, and Bleek. Yes, the beat is flames, and it probably makes those rappers look a little better, but they still have to bring something at least a little good to the table. Like if Bleek got on the mic and said this: "Is that your chick?/ Her car looks like a brick/ My goldfish is sick/ and I went on a trip." Now, that beat ain't THAT fire to cover up those rhymes. It sounds like (but I don't know) you're saying it was the beat and nothing but the beat, that made the song hot. My case is, "It helped a whole lot, but other things (yes, Bleek) played a part too. On Hey Papi, I agree that Bleek added nothing good, Jay carried it. But on "Is that Your Chick?" he gets props from me. Speaking of Jay. In his Vibe article that HE WROTE, he said that he is certain Bleek and Beans would get more attention and be bigger, if they were on any label but the ROC. He claimed that he, Jay-Z, being on the label too, is holding them back. How do y'all feel about that? I think that since he is on the label too, it has helped them, because I can't really see them being the head rapper or the go to guy. I can see it, but it's like B.I.G being the head rapper on Bad Boy, and then Puff. You don't feel them as much. And that's if Jay was there at one time, or was never there. If he wasn't there ever, I think they would be less known then they are now. Lastly, Spurrier quit. He hung it up and I can't blame him. The Skins played terrible ball this year and I guess he didn't want to be a part of it anymore, but I did want him to come back for one more year and try to fix it. He lost about five games by 3 points or less; if they would have won those, we would be talking about the playoffs. Thus, I think he is being too hard on himself, but like I said, I can't blame him. After not making the playoffs since the late 90's, it doesn't take much to please us (Skins fans). Well, once again my Skins are probably looking at another bad season next year. And the next to leave will be the best CB since D. Green and D. Sanders, watch. I hope I'm wrong. Dag homie.

Qoolout, Wednesday, 31 December 2003 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Nigga sip syrup through a funnel... I can do dat!" - Juvenile

First of all, I'm not wrong. I agree with you that the players shouldn't be fined. I just think they shouldn't be allowed to infer that one bad call or even two or three cost them a game. I don't disagree with you that the refs could have their own interview session, but I don't think it would go any way like you seem to think it would. All it would be was a finger pointing ridicule seesion about how they screwed up, which is clearly not fair. Besides, what would be the point? If they got it wrong, they got it wrong and all they could do was apologize, which is what the league does anyway. So I see your point, but it's more idealistic than realistic. If James the umpire made a bad call, then go ahead and say, "That was a bad call." But the refs NEVER cost a team an entire game - ESPECIALLY on one call! That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard! Case in point #1 - Seattle was up 41-24 on Baltimore in the fourth quarter in a game earlier this year. Now AFTER SEATTLE BLEW A 14 PT LEAD, the refs F'ed up and gave Baltimore a little extra time to kick a field goal to send it in to OT, where they eventually won. But Mike Holmgren didn't blame the refs, and no one said the refs screwed them. BECAUSE THEY BLEW A 14 PT LEAD IN THE 4th QUARTER! Case in point #2 - New York lost to San Francisco in the playoffs last year because the refs missed a pass intereference call that would have offset an illegal man downfield call that cost the Giants a shot another field goal that they had just botched. Now, the league admitted that a pass interference call should have been made. BUT THE GIANTS LOST BECAUSE THEY BLEW A HUGE 24 PT LEAD! Case in point #3 - In the NBA Playoffs last year, the Lakers and T-Wolves played in probably the worst officiated game I've ever seen. There were two calls against Wally Zer-bee-ack where he didn't touch Kobe or Jannero Pargo and he got called for fouls. I mean, Zer bee ack clearly avoided both players and the replays showed it wasn't even close, but he was called for fouls in a close game. BUT MINNESOTA WON ANYWAY! They overcame the bad calls AND KG fouling out in OT AND WON ANYWAY!

If you think that refs should get every call right then you're an idiot and you should be kicked out of the NFL or NBA. There's a never a point in life PERIOD where every detail is called correctly, so why should it be different in sports and refereeing? Instead of pointing at ONE bad call and saying that cost you a game, why don't you go back and look at the missed tackles, missed blocking assignments, blown coverages, turnovers, offsides, holdings, and all the other mistakes the TEAM made and work on those so it doesn't get to a point where it SEEMS as if the game is decided on ONE ref's call?! I totally agree that if LaVar goes, "I was held on that game winning TD. I would have sacked Tom Brady if he hadn't held me. The refs missed that" and he was clearly held, then that's no problem. He's speaking the truth. But if LaVar says, "I was held on that game winning TD. These refs cost us the game by not callin that! I woulda sacked Brady" then he SHOULD be fined for that stupid ass assessment and for flat out blaming the refs for something they didn't do.

Sometimes I wonder what goes on inside your head. So if Beyonce came up to you and was like "Are you infatuated with me? I could end your curiosity. If you don't think I'm to prude, here's your chance to make your move" then I guess you think she's talking about discussing DC politics? LMAO! Flip outta here! I guess if she said, "I dare you to undress" you'd take your clothes off in preparation to talk about George Bush's economic policies? Come on now, Qool. Just cause you don't like a song, don't start making up things about it. And what part of Big Boi's verse has nothing to do with the song?

Your analogies are understandable, but they're irrelevant. Timbo isn't asking anybody to hire him as a rapper even though he can't rap. He has his OWN label, he produces his OWN songs, and he makes his OWN profits. He puts his albums out there and if you don't like em, fine. That's your opinion. But SOMEBODY buys em, so why should he stop? Some people can't sing; should they therefore NEVER sing? No! Some people enjoy it even though they're bad at it. Just like sports and other hobbies. And even still, I probably don't got no business callin up the Bulls tryin to hoop or the Washington Post if I wanna write when I admittedly got no skills, but what if they say "Sure, we'll hire you!" Then is that my fault? Anyway, back to Bleek. That "Is Your Chick" beat was flippin flames. And those sorry lyrics you made up wouldn't take away from that. As I do with Bleek NOW, I would just ignore his terrible lyrics and focus on Timbo's beat. As far as Jay-Z holdin other Roc members back, that's pure nonsense. His presence has helped. Beans is good on his own, but Jay-Z being there has definitely helped him in the process. And Bleek? Shit, Jay-Z is the only reason anyone knows he's alive.

If your owner wasn't a jackass, he might keep a coach. Maybe he should sit down with Jerry Jones and learn how to get a proven coach and stay out of the way. These Redskinnies...

I'm out like Champ Bailey. Peace!

Hillis 3000 (Hillis 3000), Friday, 2 January 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

How can you say players shouldn't infer that a given play caused them to lose? You have to know that one bad play can end it. You gotta know this. If your team is down by 4 with 1 tick left, and the QB lobs up a bomb from the 40 to the end zone, and nobody catches it, but interference is called, you get a new play...from the goal line. I'm cool with that, but what if there was no pass interference and the ref just made a bad call? Stranger things have happened and if that team gets in from the goal line, sure you can say "Well, the D should have held them on that one," but really, the ref put them on the one and consequently decided the game with a bad call. Also, what up with the no reviewable calls? Every single call should be reviewable. I see your point ALL THE WAY with your "point #1," however, a given team should be allowed to blow a 14 point lead or any other point lead and still win. Saying they shouldn't have blown the lead is perfectly understandable, but that does not excuse the "bad call." I didn't see that game, just the highlights, but from my understanding, they blew the lead, but if the refs would have called it correctly, they still would have won. Not taking that into account is dumb; not the dumbest thing ever from you, but it's right up there. And I agree that an apology is pointless. What they should have done was say, "we messed it up, we looked at the tape and the Seahawks get the W. Now I know that this will probably never ever happen, but wouldn't this be fair? Which is more just, letting B-More keep the win, that they didn't earn or correcting the mistake? So the players and coaches didn't blame the refs, so what? That means nothing. For one, everybody knows it was a bad call and if it would have been called right, the game would have been over; no OT. Two, how do you know they ain't say nothing? Well, I don't know that they did, so I'm not going to dispute you (all the way), but they had locker room time, team meeting time, and countless other times to discuss it away form the public and I don't doubt that they DID say it was a bad call. Maybe at the time they ain't know, but afterwards, when it was on the news and ESPN, you telling me that they ain't say it was the refs? Three, if they would have sat at a press conference and blamed the refs, you and I know that they would have been fined. Correct? I never said I think every call should be called correctly, dead at the spot. But it is possible to review the bad calls and correct them, if you don't believe this you are an idiot. Why can't it be done? And just because a team overcame bad calls means nothing except that they "overcame bad calls." They aren't out there to overcome bad calls, they are out there to play the other team. Moving on (somewhat) there are points in life where every detail is called correctly, so you are wrong right there. In addition, even if your claim was true (which it ain't) why should football or any other sport go by those pitiful standards. That doesn't make it okay, that doesn't make it right. Few other jobs pay what professional athletes make, and since it cost so much to see a professional game, I want the calls to be on point. So that's why football should be different. People don't pay (well, maybe you do) $50 and higher to see a whole lot of false calls. Your attitude that says we should just live with it is nonsense. No, they should get it right, or at least get it better. You think players go thru training camp, rehab, all of them practices, and whatever else there is, just to have the refs lose a game for them? If Beyonce' came up to me and said what you said she said (lol) then I would assume she was singing a song. Bamma what are the odds that she would come up to me and just start throwing at me? I can't say 100% what she is telling me unless she flat out says it dummy. Yes I might think the same thing you would think, but don't fake like THERE IS NO WAY she could be on a different subject. And why should I point out the pointlessness in that song when I already know you can't be honest. For the love of the man upstairs, you said Jada was tied with Luda. You said Luda was better than Lauryn Hill and tied with DMX. You said two sentence weren't remotely close when anybody would tell you otherwise. You even act like "Hey Ya" is about something, EVEN after we broke it down, ab libs and all. You act as if my lyrics penned for "Is that You Chick?" wouldn't make any difference to you. It would still be a good song. I give it to you, you go down with the ship. Your name is not Toby. You did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsk. Bamma, you are full of yourself as well as something else. As for the analogies, you missed the point. If I can't ball or write, I have no reason to call the Bulls asking if I can play, or the Post asking can I write for em. Most people that KNOW they can't sing, don't put out an album. Except your boy Pharrel, I can't think of anybody. True maybe some people can't rap and they still record, but YOU said HE knows he can't. If Luda can't rap, but he doesn't know that and he believes that he's tight, then I don't fault him. Well, I do but not as bad. With Timberland, if that bamma admitted to not being able to flow, I think he should either try to improve or hang it up like our coach did. Speaking of him, that was messed up. Like I said, I understand why he left but you don't go to the Superbowl in just two years; I wish he would have stayed. Cuz, Jerry Jones still gets up in the mix. He ain't even the one that made the first move to go get Parcels. Parcels came to him, and Jerry was on TV the other day talking about he doesn't plan on getting a vet to back up his sorry QB. What does he have to do with it? Maybe Bill wants a vet or just somebody better than Carter. As far as our owner, yes "cuz be messing up some stuff." But I don't know if I can blame him right here. Spurrier said he left because he didn't have the know how to win in the NFL and he's too old to be switching up; now maybe Dan Synder did have something to do with it, but we don't know that and Spurrier didn't point the finger at him. With Norv Turner and the other stuff, yeah you can blame it on Dan, but I don't know about this time. Maybe, but I don't know. They talking about getting Ray Rhodes or Dennis Green, but after the past few years, I refuse to get excited about ANY move the Skins make until they prove it to me. I don't care if they get Vick, Jerry Rice and the Tuna; I'm on chill.

Qoolout, Sunday, 4 January 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Return of the gangsta thanks to them niggas that think you soft and say y'all be gospel rappin, but they be steady clappin when you talk about bitches and switches and hoes and clothes and weed, let's talk about time travelin, rhyme javelin, somethin mind unravelin, GET DOWN!" - Andre 3000

Hmmmmm... well allow me to retort...

"I didn't see that game, just the highlights, but from my understanding, they blew the lead, but if the refs would have called it correctly, they still would have won... what they should have done was say, "we messed it up, we looked at the tape and the Seahawks get the W." - QS 1/4/04

That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard! It's obvious you don't know what's goin on with the game - since you even said it. First of all, that mistake DID NOT cost the Seahawks the game. If the refs had got it right, all it would have done was force B'More to call their last timeout and it would have been harder for them to get in FG position. And they still could have done it. So, as usual, you're wrong. B'More still could have won. So why take a much needed W from B'More when they had a legitimate chance of winning, with or without the call?! ESPECIALLY when the Seahawks could have made sure it never got to that point?! I suggest you get an idea of what you're talking about before you make stupid ass assessments like that one!

"...but afterwards, when it was on the news and ESPN, you telling me that they ain't say it was the refs?" - QS 1/4/04

That's exactly what I'm telling you.

"But it is possible to review the bad calls and correct them, if you don't believe this you are an idiot." QS 1/4/04

No, YOU'RE the idiot for thinking anybody wants to watch a six or seven hour football game because they're gonna review EVERY "bad" call. A "bad" call is all in the eye of the beholder. I think the fans of the Skins and Cowboys might watch one "bad" call and have two TOTALLY different views of the "bad" call. Take your example at the beginnning of your post. What if it was Champ Bailey puttin the clamps on Derrick Mason? I'm sure you'd be ready to put a slug in that ref, but I'd be ready to take a slug for that ref, lol. We'd probably argue for weeks about that "bad" call. The point is, if every coach had the opportunity to review EVERY call, the game would be unwatchable! It would be long and no one would ever agree and all the great plays that happen in football would take a backseat to the 30 or 40 calls they reviewed. And those "bad" calls might be reversed and what if the other coach still disagrees? What then? Can he have it reviewed another time? Sometimes you amaze me with your inability to see the OTHER side of a situation!

"Moving on (somewhat) there are points in life where every detail is called correctly, so you are wrong right there." QS 1/4/04

Examples?

"Also, what up with the no reviewable calls? Every single call should be reviewable." - QS 1/4/04

I disagree. Pass interference and holdings are judgement calls. A ref can watch it a million times at a million angles and he still may make the same judgement, even if the coach or other officials disagree. Why waste time disputing one man's definition of PI or holding, when he's only gonna change his mind once out of every 30 or 40 times anyway? I mean, I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying I think it would hurt the game of football in general more than it would help it.

"How can you say players shouldn't infer that a given play caused them to lose? You have to know that one bad play can end it. You gotta know this." - QS 1/4/04

You have got SIXTY MINUTES that go into deciding a football game. SIXTY MINUTES! Bad play calling by the coordinators, bad defenses, missed blocking assignments, blown coverages, dropped passes, dropped INTs, turnovers, incomplete and off target passes, "bad" calls, CORRECT calls, GOOD blocks, GREAT reads, GREAT play calls, GREAT coverage, picking up blitzes, accidentally slipping, the weather, missed FGs, made FGs, TDs, XPs, 3 and outs, etcetera, etcetera... If you honestly in your heart think ONE bad call out of SIXTY MINUTES of football decides an ENTIRE game (ONE CALL?!), then I have a hard time believing you actually PLAYED football. Honestly! Let's go back to your example. What if the exact same "bad" call was made and my team was down 30? If we get on the one and score and time runs out do we win?! ABSOLUTELY NOT! It's clear that for that call to even be a factor that there had to be FIFTY NINE MINUTES AND FIFTY NINE SECONDS OF FOOTBALL for the game to even get to that point! And in that FIFTY NINE MINUTES AND FIFTY NINE SECONDS OF FOOTBALL each team probably had NUMEROUS CHANCES to keep the game from being decided on a PI call in the end zone! So if ONE BAD CALL really did decide an ENTIRE game of football, then it wouldn't matter if the score was tied or if it was a blowout! MORON!

"For the love of the man upstairs, you said Jada was tied with Luda. You said Luda was better than Lauryn Hill and tied with DMX. You said two sentence weren't remotely close when anybody would tell you otherwise. You even act like "Hey Ya" is about something, EVEN after we broke it down, ab libs and all." - QS 1/4/04

That's my opinion. I can't believe you're saying I'm LYING about my own opinion! As I said before, Jada/Lox albums all SUCK! You even admitted his flaw of bein fire on everybody else's stuff and his stuff is lame. So tell him to quit bein fire on collabos and come with his OWN goods and then I'd say he's better than Luda! And what have DMX and Lauryn Hill done since their debut albums?! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! And as far as Hey Ya goes, it has a point as I have posted numerous times. You're wrong. The artist even tells us the point and you're still runnin your dicksucker! Why can't you admit it has a point? I'd post it again, but you'd conveniently ignore it, just like you conveniently ignore the song's VERSES (not made up Qoolout verses), and go ramblin on about when he was talkin to the crowd and his band, so why do you even bring it up?

Those sentences aren't remotely close. Again, just cause a sentence has the same words, doesn't mean the point is the same. I clearly demonstrated that with other examples. Why you ignore them is a demon you'll have to face. And it's funny how you bring up Pharrell, even when he contradicts your wack ass rule! lol Pharrell knows he can't sing, but he does it anyway. It's his decision; who are YOU to tell him he can't sing? Not everybody follows your wack ass rules of life. I said that I agree that one shouldn't call up the Bulls or Post if they admittedly can't hoop or write (you must have missed that like you normally miss everything else). BUT TIMBO AND PHARRELL AREN'T DOING THAT! Pharrell and Timbo aren't calling Rap-A-Lot, Bad Boy, Def Jam, Rocafella, etc. and going "We can't rap/sing, sign us up!" Timbo and For Real/Pharrell are making their OWN stuff on their OWN dime they get from all the tight beats they produce. If I take my hard earned money and produce an dstribute an R&B album when I know I can't sing, then that's MY decision and I'm not bringing anybody down with me!

As far as Jones saying that about gettin a QB, I doubt he said that as a final word. He's probably saying that to back up Quincy Carter and give him some confidence or keep from calling him out in the public. Check back after the trade and sign deadlines, then we'll see. Parcells will get what he wants from Jones, trust me. And even if they don't get a QB, the fact that the Cowboys sucked on O is probably only 20% Quincy Smith/Carter's fault. They had ZERO running game and Carter is not Manning or should I say, Joe Theismann or Mark Rypien? They need to address that ground game before they address gettin a veteran QB.

In all honesty, your Skins are in good shape. If they keep Champ, your D will still be fire. You'll get Ramsey back, you still got a decent O line. Like the Cowboys, all you need is a running game and y'all might be playoff bound. Be glad Spurrier is gone. He wasn't going to adjust to the NFL soon enough. Next year, their coach will emphasize the run more than Spurrier would have. He traded Stephen Davis like a dummy. Unlike college, where teams like Vandy and Duke are always on the schedule to boost your teams confidence when you win 55-3, the NFL ain't like that. The worst team has a good chance of upsetting the best team because the gap isn't as wide. But Spurrier didn't feel like putting in the work it took to succeed in the NFL, so it's best he left. Snyder will go out and get a proven coach who knows what it takes and if not next year, the Skins probably should be in the playoffs in the 05/06 season - barring any terrible trades or key player leaving.

If this split national championship ain't some nonsense...

I'm out like split national champions. Peace.

Hillis 3000 (Hillis 3000), Monday, 5 January 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Do I blow you away?" - Beyonce

And by the way, if you can't recognize what Beyonce is talkin about in that song by how she's singing and what she says, then I am 100% sure you two will never get married. I mean, you realistically had a chance because who knows what would happen if y'all actually met. But I now see if y'all met, it wouldn't do you no good. Now if she came up to me spittin all that, I'd be on that ass faster than Steve Spurrier on a plane out of DC! Whoa. That's pretty fast. I mean, damn, son, she'd go "Undress me, undress me, undress me" and you'd be like "What for? I'm not sure what you're talking about. Can you clarify?" LMAO!

You flunkie.

I'm out like Beyonce would be after Qool couldn't recognize the signs. Peace!

Hillis 3000 (Hillis 3000), Monday, 5 January 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

You are a sad clown cuz. I already stated that I ain't see the game, so why is my statement the most idiotic thing you've heard? I noticed that the more somebody makes sense against you, the more you come with the name calling and other nonsense. When you actually have a point that is hard to dispute, you talk with reason and are somewhat persuasive, but when a brother shows how stupid you truly are, you just run off at the mouth...interesting. Anyway, a bad call is a bad call, not in the eye of the beholder. The NFL even admitted the mistake and you still wanna act as if the call was cool. Man, it ain't even nothing I can say about it. If THEY even said it was the wrong call, you need to just accept it. Certain people are conditioned to go along with things, just because that's how things are. You seem to be one of these people. It does not matter if B-More needed the win, you can say the Seahawks needed the win. If a team didn't earn it then they don't deserve it and therefore should not get it. Now you have brought it to my attention that my example wouldn't apply to that particular game. Fine. First of all, you lie so much I don't even know if I should believe you. Second, giving you the benefit of the doubt and ignoring all of the many lies you have typed on here before, I accept that my example ain't fit right there FOR THAT GAME, but there are plenty of bad calls that cause games, and in that case the NFL needs to go back afterwards and give the "win" to the correct team. See you are so used to bad calls and the fact that teams have to live with the "L" that me saying "No, let's makes it right" scares you. It interrupts what you're used to. It's easier to just leave it like it is, right? No, wrong MORON. It's fools like you that keep the NFL and other sports the way they are. If more people demanded better refin' then you would see a change. You are the only clown who would admit that he'd pay his money but ain't really concerned if the right team wins. Bamma, you might as well pay 8 bucks for a movie and don't even trip if half the scenes are missing or if they can't be heard. You might as well pay $100 plus for some Jordans and don't complain if they melt in the rain. Speak up for what's right, dummy. If something is wrong, don't just leave it like that, try to fix it. See
that's why you just accept music like Luda's and probably call him one of the best. LOL, sad and funny at the same time. Moving on, how do you know what a team said when the cameras weren't there? That's right, you don't. More lies. Moving on, you think correcting a worng PI is a waste of time? I'm not sure and that's why I'm asking? Fool, PI is clear cut. You can bump 5 yards off the line or so and you can make some contact when going for the ball. You need to brush up on the rules before I can even discuss this aspect with you. Eye of the beholder indeed, lol. Moving on, God doesn't make mistakes so everything he does is correct; hence you now have an example. Moving on, I find it hard to believe that you are this stupid, thus I have to believe that "you go down with the ship" like I said yesterday. Look, if you play 59 minutes of football and you have the lead DESPITE WHATEVER MISTAKES YOU'VE MADE, if you have the lead and the refs make a bad or WRONG call, THAT CALL MADE YOU LOSE. Yes, that one call was the deciding factor. The mistakes a given team made, was the teams fault, but they overcame that; that's what they are out there to do, not to compete against the refs. Okay, answer this question for me with a yes or no. If my team is up with four seconds left and the ref makes the WRONG call, which puts the other team on the goal line, and that other team wins because of that, that's my fault? When if the correct call was called we win? And that's my team's fault? Why? Because we should have been up by more points? You can't be flippin serious. I don't think even you will go down with the ship right here, but we'll see. Moving on, I never said the LOX album sucks. Youngin, that last L.O.X CD is one of the best rap CDs in the last decade. Fool, Jada's solo wasn't as tight as I expected it to be, but like I said, it has 3 or 4 tight songs. That's 3 more than I've ever (in my whole entire life) heard from Ludatrix. And I don't believe that you really believe that cuz is better, thus I can call it a lie. Also, DMX's last CD was okay and "...Then There Was X" is fire so what are you talking about this time? And what band does cuz from Outkast have? LOL, that's him...that's all him. On the song and in the video. Beyonce's and Lucy Lui has nothing to do with anything in Hey Ya. Go re-read the lyrics/ad libs/whatever you wanna call it and ask yourself, "Does this really have a point?" Moving on, I can say somebody can't sing if I want to say it. So the "who am I question," was a waste of time. Anyway, I bring up Pharrell because...dummy I already told you why I mentioned him. He is the only person I could think of who said they can not sing, but continues to sing. And again you miss the point. I'm saying if Tim says it himself, why is he doing it. He shouldn't be... just like I shouldn't call the Bulls etc. It ain't about all the BS that you are bringing with "Well if they hire me" and blah blah blah. It ain't about that, it's about should I even do it. Again, I know you understand, but since you have to insist that your name ain't Toby, your hands are tied. You can't change your mind even if you wanted to, right? Moving on, Q. Cater is sorry cuz and there are a number of QB's that have no running game and they still go deep in the playoffs. But yeah a running game is a huge help and they should get one and all that. But all I was saying is that he's sorry and I predict that next year, he'll be a back-up. If not the first week, by week 5. And Jerry Jones said what he said, why must YOU try to explain it to me? LOL, I heard him I don't need you (of all people) to put a spin on it. If Jerry Jones was all "hands off" as people say, he wouldn't be talking about getting or not getting a QB. Or he'd say, "Bill wants/does not want..." etc etc. Lastly, if Beyonce' came up to you singing a song and you just rushed her and commenced to take it, you would be in jail so fast and I'd be laughin my rectum off, dummy. If she really wanted me I'd find out, I wouldn't just let her go. I don't know about you, but most grown men know how to make sure everything is everything before they "close the deal." And if I meet her...I mean.. WHEN I do meet Beyonce' it's gonna be on like popcorn...whatever that means.

Qoolout, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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His name was Kunta, dumb ass.

"I already stated that I ain't see the game, so why is my statement the most idiotic thing you've heard?" - QS 1/6/04

For you to make the statement that the league should reverse the W and give it to the Seahawks when you don't know what actually happened is a pretty idiotic thing to do. First of all, that call did NOT cost the Seahawks the game. Had they got the call right, B'More probably would have used their last TO to stop the clock. It would have made it harder for them to get into FG position, but that doesn't mean it couldn't have been done! It might have forced them into a Hail Mary that could have been caught, just like in the Zona/Vikings game. B'More still would have had a decent chance, so to take the win from em because the refs made a mistake would assume a lot against B'More which wouldn't be fair at all! Plus, the league didn't say the refs cost the Seahawks the game; they said the refs made a mistake that hurt the Seahawks. It hurt them, BUT THEY STILL HAD A CHANCE TO WIN! Plus, I NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER said the mistake was cool. You won't find anything REMOTELY close to that. All I said was it didn't cost the Seahawks the game. And I've NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER said we should settle for bad officiating. When did I say anything remotely close to that? Of course, I feel there's room for improvement. My stance has been, and will continue to be, that referees do NOT cost a team a game on ONE bad call. Maybe - MAYBE - on several bad calls, but ONE? That's asinine!

"Fool, PI is clear cut. You can bump 5 yards off the line or so and you can make some contact when going for the ball." - QS 1/6/04

Ok, peep this, Jack. Have you ever watched a game and there's an incomplete pass near the receiver and there's some contact and the receiver gets up begging for a flag and the ref throws it and the DB goes nuts cause he disagrees? You and I know the rulebook definition of PI, but that doesn't mean every PI call or non call is that clear cut. Why do you think receivers and DBs often disagree over it? And your definition is extremely vague. You can make A TON of contact if the ball is uncatchable or tipped. You can't make ANY contact if you don't turn your head and make a play on the ball. And all those are JUDGEMENT calls. I understand that some PI calls or non calls are blatantly wrong SOMETIMES, but you can't just review the blatanly wrong and ignore the not so blatant ones. The point of replay is not to get EVERY call right. Again, if it was, no one would watch these six and seven hour football games. It's purpose is to give coaches an opportunity to question a call they feel might adversely affect the outcome of a game. But still, you mean to tell me you ain't never seen a PI call that could go either way? You ain't NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER seen a PI call or non call that wasn't clear cut? Honestly? Honestly, Qool? Even after a replay? You really believe PI is ALWAYS clear cut? Always, Qool? Honestly? Honestly?

"Moving on (somewhat) there are points in life where every detail is called correctly, so you are wrong right there." QS 1/4/04

That childish example with God ain't gonna cut it. God isn't on the field refereeing the game. HUMANS are! We're talking about flawed HUMANS calling a football game. Do you hold the refs up to God's standards? Since God is perfect, the refs must call football games perfect? Did you seriously post that nonsense about God?! That's your example?! A perfect NON HUMAN?! Ok, can you give me an example considering the HUMAN element of imperfection where every detail is called correctly?

"Moving on, how do you know what a team said when the cameras weren't there? That's right, you don't. More lies." - QS 1/6/04

I didn't know you were referring to the locker rooms and off camera. You said "Maybe at the time they ain't know, but afterwards, when it was on the news and ESPN, you telling me that they ain't say it was the refs?" and I thought you were talking about them being in the news or ESPN after they found out. I apologize. I misunderstood. You're right. Off camera, I don't know. However, when asked about it in the news and on ESPN, they didn't blame the refs or the mistake. They blamed themselves. That's all I meant to convey.

"If my team is up with four seconds left and the ref makes the WRONG call, which puts the other team on the goal line, and that other team wins because of that, that's my fault?" - QS 1/6/04

It's absolutely not your fault, but it's not the other team's fault, either. That's what you fail to realize. You CANNOT punish a team because of ONE bad call! What about earlier "bad" calls? They don't matter anymore? Why do you focus on just the "final" one? For the sake of argument, let's say things unfold like you say they should. Let's say the Colts are up 24-20 on the Chiefs next week. The Chiefs get the ball and throw a hail mary and PI is called, but it's a "bad" call. The Chiefs get it on the one, score, and win. So later the league apologizes and says it was not PI, reverses the W and the Colts still win. So what if the Chiefs go to the league and say, "We had a TD called back on holding. It's not holding. Plus, on this blocked FG, the guy is lined up offsides. That cost us 10 points." So the league reviews it and the Chiefs are right. Can they re-reverse it? Should every game came down to how many "bad" calls the league finds and whoever has the most go against them, then that team wins? As you asked about pointless bars, where do we draw the line? I admit that it is technically possible to review all questionable calls, but the league is trying to limit the amount of controversy around replays which is why they limit it to ball spots or catches - where conclusive evidence will prove the ball hit the ground or his knee was down or his arm was going forward. Things like hldong or PI are what the league (not just me) refers to as judgement calls and feel that the game is best served if those calls are best left up to the officials. And I happen to agree. Since you don't, then fine, but don't act like EVERY call type should be up for review because it's always "clear cut."

"And I don't believe that you really believe that cuz (Luda) is better (than Jada), thus I can call it a lie." QS 1/6/04

No you can't, dumb ass, cause I didn't say Luda was better than Jada. I said it was a tie... lol, how you gon twist that, MORON? Anyway, I'm through debating my opinion with someone who clowns Ludacris and then reps Wish Bone (on a song he didn't even spit on) and Memphis Bleek (all that marketing; he still flops). You can have your opinion. I personally think all of DMX's albums after his debut were suspect. But if you like em, fine. I personally think all LOX and other related CDs by their members are atrocious. In fact, I was listening to DMX's debut the other day and was reminded why I couldn't stand them back then. But that's my opinion. If you thought they was tight, then fine. Whatever.

"And what band does cuz from Outkast have? LOL, that's him...that's all him." QS - 1/6/04

In real life, Qool, yes, it's him. But as it is CLEARLY portrayed in the video, the band is made up of different characters (i.e. Andre 3000, Johnny Vulture, Possum Jenkins, the Love Haters, etc.) Did you miss that? Like the Klumps are all played by Eddie Murphy, but he plays different CHARACTERS? Did you miss that? There's Sherman, (come on) Cletus, the mamma, the brother, plus Buddy? Did you miss that? In Austin Powers with Beyonce, Mike Myers plays Austin, Goldmember, Fat Bastard, and Dr. Evil? Did you miss that? Andre 3000 plays about 6 distinct members. Moving on (somewhat), the artist tells us the point. I have explained it to you. Why can't you admit you're wrong? Why must you say stupid things like Beyonce and Lucy Liu have nothing to do with the song when they are CLEARLY metaphors for other attractive women listening in the audience? CLEARLY! Why must you make up verses? Why do you ignore the songs real verses and point to him talking the band and audience like it has nothing to do with anything? Why, Qool, why, must you make up incorrect inconclusions just because you can't admit you're wrong? WHY MUST YOU DEBATE WITH THE ARTIST WHEN HE TELLS US THE POINT OF HIS SONG?! You're a joke!

"Lastly, if Beyonce came up to you singing a song and you just rushed her and commenced to take it, you would be in jail so fast and I'd be laughin my rectum off, dummy." QS - 1/6/04

Maybe. If she sang it. But I'm talkin about if she SAID it to me. You know? TALKING? That whole conversation thing? Saying and singing are two different things. I said if she SAID - Not SANG. SAID. NOT SANG. SAID. NOT SANG. Get it? Yes? No? Anyway, if she SAID "Undress me, undress me" or if she SAID, "Here's your chance to make your move" and this was SAID to me, the only place I'm goin fast is all up in that - quite legally. If she SAID those things TO YOU, and you think to yourself, "Aw, she's just singing a song" even though she SAYS them to you and is TALKING to you, then playa, that's your interpretation.

I wanna apologize for any confusion about Jerry Jones. I wasn't trying to put a twist on it. I wasn't trying to explain it to you. I was just lettin you know what I thought about the situation. I was just givin you my opinion on that. You could be right. I just think Parcells runs the show, no matter what is said on camera. That's just me. And I admit that you have a right to say that Timbo and Pharrell shouldn't rap or sing since they know they can't. I agree that people who can't hoop or write should not be calling up the Bulls or the Post. I'm just saying your analogies were off. Timbo and Pharrell aren't calling anybody saying "Sign me up." Or "Give me a job!" They produce their own songs and album and distribute them on their OWN dime. It's on them and not some other organization that they tried to get on with. A better analogy would be, I probably shouldn't produce my own newpsaper if I can't report the news very well.

I'm out like Brian Westbrook. Peace!

Hillis 3000 (Hillis 3000), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"I swing it like a bat, but these balls are not whiffle" - Ludacris

"I refuse to get excited about ANY move the Skins make until they prove it to me." - QS

You got to be halfway excited about Gibbs. Come on, Cletus, just a little, right?

H*WOOD, you've repped Cassidy before. From the video I saw with him and R. Kelly, he's wack. And it has nothing to do with the song cause R. Kelly and the beat and hook are straight. But his flow and lyrics are lame. What songs by Cassidy are any good?

I'm out like Joe Gibbs from retirement. Peace!

Hillis 3000 (Hillis 3000), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Dummy, I know what his name was, but the point is: cuz was being stubborn. He didn't care about taking a beating or anything else. Something, I assume his pride or some other personal beliefs, just made that man say "I refuse to do it." Thus I said YOUR name ain't Toby. Because even thought you've been proven wrong and people besides myself can read it, you don't care. YOU GO DOWN WITH THE SHIP. Unlike Kunta, you are incorrect but still wanna go down with it, but very much like Kunta you are gonna be stubborn, no matter the outcome. Anyway, I already said taking away the W does not apply in that B-More game. Why the long rant? Do you just like to see yourself type? I already admitted my example ain't fit? See, I'm not Bill Clinton, although I met him. Although we both are strong-minded people and have a lot of other similarities, I'm not him. I don't go down with the ship, if I can jump off of it and still live, idiot. A bad call can make the wrong team win. I would continue to argue this, but what is it to argue? If the ref makes the wrong call at the end of the game, that is a bad call and it may very well alter the outcome of the game. (shaking my head) You really don't get that? How can any educated sane man or woman not get that? Moving on, PI is clear-cut. So what if a receiver is begging for a flag? Yeah, if he didn't catch it he wants a flag. Just like Leon, point the finger at anybody but yourself. No, I've never seen the receiver beg for a flag and then get it, ONLY after begging. What game was that, if you saw it? And if I did see a PI that wasn’t clear-cut, I don't remember it; so tell me when you saw it. If there are so many I guess you'll be able to give me a few examples. Moving on, LOL don't gimme that. God is my answer and I played that card cause it ain't no way you can dispute it. Moving on, we are on two different aspects. You are saying looking at the bad calls would take too much time. I'm saying let's cut down on the bad calling all together. Work, train, and pay the refs full time and that takes away a good deal of the bad calls. Next, you seem to think that the league doesn't know it's a bad call until AFTER the game. Cuz, they know right there on the spot, during the game. You know how many bammas they got checking the stats and calls and all that other stuff? Well I don't either, but as soon as the call is made and you see the reply 3 or 4 times you have a pretty good idea if it was the right or wrong call. They can have somebody in the booth or box office or whatever it is they use, buzz them (like they do now) and say, “0y'all called it wrong; here is the correct call.” Now that wouldn't take 7 hours because like I said, better training eliminates a lot of those bad calls. And yes every play should be open to review. I think it's silly to say don't question me on a certain call, but can question me on others. So are you perfect on certain calls, but make mistakes on others. I guess you agree with the OT rule too, huh? Because if both teams get the ball that would take up too much time. Bamma if you need to be somewhere other than watching the football game, go there but me and mine wanna see the real game with the right calls. If it takes TOO long for you then so be it. Moving on, I have to let you know that you had me cracking up rollllling when you told me the actual names of the Outkast band? LOL, you are sad. For real, did you have that info committed to memory or did you look it up when you posted? Just wanna know. Man, if saying Beyonce' really was a metaphor, how can you put CLEARLY up in that? I didn’t know it meant attractive women and Lucy Liu would not be in my attractive category. Whatever, you are reaching. Go ahead down with that boat. And if Beyonce’ wanted me and I was confused about it she could always make it clear. This ain't no video game where I only have a few seconds to decide and I gotta guess and gamble. And since no stranger has ever seriously come up to me and ordered me to undress them I'd be skeptical. Maybe this has happened to you (which I doubt) or maybe you have to jump on any opportunity you can get (which I believe), if so that would explain why you would be in it quick. Cuz my analogies had nothing to do with whatever it is you are talking about here. First of all, how can you like Tim’s raps, but not Bleek’s? Let’s deal with that first. And how do you know who they call up and talk to? And them bammas are NOT distributing jack on there own dime. Where did you read that nonsense? If you own one of their CD’s LOL, which I’m sure you do, go peep the fine print. Anyway, youngin do you not understand that whatever rap cred you had, you are losing? Tim is cool, but not Bleek? Luda being TIED with Jada. The Double R L.O.X CD atrocious? Nas having only one good album? Luda in the top 15? Your views on LL? I could go on. Where will it end? Do you even listen to rap? Oh yeah, my analogy was straight. Let me break it down for you. If person “A” can’t ball (and knows it) he should not call the Bulls trying to be on the team. If person “B” can’t rap (and knows it) he should not go in the studio trying to spit. Do you see the parallel? Both lack the skills and KNOW IT. It all comes back to getting what you pay for, like how you don’t care if the football games are called correctly. If Tim KNOWS he can’t rap and according to you SAID IT…ADMITED IT why would I buy his compact disc? Now that (and you) is (are) truly asinine. Does he expect me to want his cd if he can’t flow? Probably not. So do you see why he shouldn’t even waste his time? Yeah I know, probably not. Get ready to be shipwrecked. I guess I’ll go listen to some Canibus Second Round Knock-Out. You know why. Oh yeah, he’s better than Luda too. Moving on, you think Parcells got in contact with Jerry Jones (this is fact) who ONWS the team (this is fact), and he runs the show? DESPITE what Jerry says on camera? Based on what? Based on you said it so you gotta live with it because you love going down with ships? Okay, I guess it’s possible; maybe the Tuna really does call the shots…even thought I have nothing to base this on I guess its possible. Just FYI, in one of Dallas’ games this season a lineman was hurt and was sitting on the sideline watching. Jerry Jones came from out of the booth (or from somewhere) touched that man on the leg and said “Son, I need you to get in that game for me.” And this idiot went. So did Parcells make a call to Jerry and tell em to do that? Moving on, I like that Cassidy joint with the Pied Pipper. I be cracking up watching it and my girl can’t stand it. But yeah, Kelly saves it. Lastly, I was catching some z’s the other day when the alarm clock woke me. The first thing I heard was the DJ’s talking about the Skins got Gibbs to come and coach. I first thought I was dreaming and then I thought they were joking. After I understood the situation, I admit I ACCIDENTALLY got excited. Cuz took us to the Super Bowl 4 times so I got caught up in that. But by time I headed out to work I had remembered my vow. I recalled getting Spurrier and Deion and Bruce Smith and just about everybody else. Then I calmed down, so when people came up to me at work saying blah blah blah I told them “I’m on chill.” Cuz been outta football for over a decade so I don’t see how he can be an instance success. Of course I thought we were playoff bound this year but really we could only muster 5 wins. My point is, I don’t know what’s going to happen and I’m not getting all worked up like I’ve done about the Wizards and Skins for the last five or six years.

Qoolout, Monday, 12 January 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"No longer living in fear my pistol close in hand, convinced this is my year like I'm the chosen man..." - 2Pac

So if the people at work called you "Dumb A$$ N*gger Monkey" and you maintained your name was QS, you'd be stubborn? lol

"God is my answer and I played that card cause it ain't no way you can dispute it." - QS 1/12/04

No, that's your answer because you suck at debating. Comparing GOD'S infallibility to HUMAN refereeing is moronic. You still haven't answered the question and I suspect you won't. Plus, you said "points" as in PLURAL as in MORE THAN ONE. So even if I accepted that God answer - which I don't - you still owe me one more.

"Anyway, youngin do you not understand that whatever rap cred you had, you are losing?" - QS 1/12/04

Do you think I care if I lose any rap credibility on this predominantly East Coast biased thread? Or any thread? Or anywhere?lol... Am I supposed to hide the fact that I enjoy Southern rap because 5 or 6 cats on the i-net (fam-o) I don't even really know don't like it? Maybe you come on here looking for acceptance about the music you enjoy, but I don't give a “flying flikkerin fukk what you think about my taste in rap/hip-hop, lol... "Rap cred?" Negro please. I ain't even gonna try to slide in any jabs about music you enjoy that I personally find wack. Let's just say that Hillis has no "rap cred" in Qoolout's opinion? Ok? And staying along those lines, I'm not about to debate about which MC is wacker between Tim and Bleek. Peep this, Jack. I look at Timbo like I'm trying to hoop with 10 and we only got 9. So Timbo is there and we ask if he'll run, and he tells us he sucks, but we pick him up just to run. So he proceeds to turn the ball over and get crossed by his man and lit up, but we can't really be mad cause he told us the situation. Bleek is that cat that swears up and down he's nice, but in the game he jacks up threes because he thinks goin for 1 for 20 behind the arc is ok, and he drives 1 on 4 because he made that shot 6 years ago on the high school JV team and thinks it's a high percentage shot. He shoots his team out the game and pisses them off. Now, I'm NOT saying that's how YOU should look at it, but that's how I do. I'll just leave it at that.

"Anyway, I already said taking away the W does not apply in that B-More game. Why the long rant?" - QS 1/12/04

Because you asked me why I thought it was the most idiotic thing I've ever heard.

"No, I've never seen the receiver beg for a flag and then get it, ONLY after begging. What game was that, if you saw it?" - QS 1/12/04

If I worded my statements in a way that implied that the receiver got the flag because he begged for it, then I apologize. The reason the ref called PI is irrelevant. I was pointing out the different reactions to it. The receiver thought it was PI, the ref agreed; however, the DB didn't. In the Colts/Chiefs game, Tony Gonzalez was called for PI on a TD he scored. After the game he said it was a bad call. Personally, I thought Gonzalez pushed off and it was a valid call, but it was kind of weak so I understood his side. My roommate agreed it could have gone either way. I'm sure the DB thought it was PI because Gonzalez injured him when he pushed off of him. The point is, it wasn't blatantly one way or the other as you seem to think ALL PI calls are. And for someone who supposedly played football - and receiver at that - to think ALL PI calls are clear cut is mind boggling.

"If it takes TOO long for you then so be it." - QS 1/12/04

I agree that officiating can always improve and that refs should be full time. I also think it's silly to say that a ref is always correct on certain calls, but others are up for interpretation. But in my OPINION, I think if you just make every call reviewable you take it back to the old way of instant replay that hurt the game. If you'll recall, there was a recent time when the NFL didn't have instant replay. Before that, they did. But players, coaches, GMs, and presidents didn't like it because it took too long - especially in a close game after the final two minute warning. They felt it slowed down the natural flow of the game and the refs took too long deciding on calls. Plus the refs, usually are about 90-95% anyway. So they got rid of it. But now it's back in the amended form to keep the flow of the game while still giving coaches to determine calls which truly might decide the outcome of the game. Plus the refs have a time limit. And you might be surprised to know, that some of the league don't like instant replay at all. Your way could be done, but I just think it would lessen the watchability of games. In my opinion. And yes, I like the NFL OT rule. I like the college rule, too, but I like the NFL rule more. It's no different from time of possesion. Why whine cause you ain't get the ball in OT? Play some damn defense!

"If the ref makes the wrong call at the end of the game, that is a bad call and it may very well alter the outcome of the game." - QS 1/12/04

I agree with that statement; however, that's not what you've really been arguing. But ONE call BY ITSELF does NOT cost a team an ENTIRE game! An ENTIRE game? Sure, it can alter the outcome of a game just like a missed block, or a crucial drop, or an untimely fumble, or all the other normal happenings of a game. I answer your questions; answer mine! What about that same "bad" call in the first or second quarter? Does it not matter then? What if the Chiefs got more bad calls against them earlier but the Colts just got that bad PI at the end? Which team gets the win then? I wonder what it's like to play b-ball with you. I guess if Qoolout does or doesn't think it's a foul it, Qool must be right because it's "clear cut." FLIP OUTTA HERE! You gonna tell me that whenever you hoop you ain't never been in or at least seen a situation where two cats were arguin about a foul call?!

"Man, if saying Beyonce really was a metaphor, how can you put CLEARLY up in that? I didn’t know it meant attractive women and Lucy Liu would not be in my attractive category." - QS 1/12/04

I guess you and the 2 other people who didn't understand that can discuss it all day. So since Qool doesn't think Lucy Liu is attractive, then she must not be, huh? Come on, dun! You gotta at least know that Lucy Liu is widely considered an attractive woman. Very attractive in my opinion. And he said "Beyonces" and "Lucy Lius," as in PLURAL, as in MORE THAN ONE! Of course, you're probably just pretending to miss that to cling to your incorrect conclusion that Hey Ya doesn't have a point. Down with the ship, indeed. And yeah, I have all those names memorized. He's referred to himself by those names WAY before Hey Ya came out so I already knew the names. Shouldn't you know that already "Hey Ya Expert?"

"Maybe you have to jump on any opportunity you can get (which I believe), if so that would explain why you would be in it quick." - QS 1/12/04

Maybe. Either way, I'm cuttin Beyonce and you're still wonderin what she meant. And if I were you, I'd be skeptical if a fine ass woman asked me to undress her, too... lol

Again, you may be right about Jerry Jones and Bill Parcells; however, most football pundits know that Parcells likes to have a LOT of control, and if he doesn't get it, he'll bounce like he did in New England. Those same pundits also know that Jerry Jones likes to meddle in football affairs more than he should. So for a coach like Parcells to go work with an owner like Jones makes me believe that there was some type of agreement that Jones will stay out of the way. And with them making the playoffs, I think Parcells hold on the Boys have strengthened. Kind of like I think Snyder will stay out of Gibbs way. And FYI, when you try and clown me on what I think about Parcells and Jones, it makes you look stupid when you acknowledge that I'm right after you TRY and clown me, MORON... Now, you said you liked the Cassidy song; but what do you think of Cassidy as an MC?... I been listenin to Through The Wire cause it's all over the place and I gotta admit that Kanye has me crackin up. Of course, two songs ain't gonna have me change my tune yet...
Your analogies sucked. If I call up the Bulls or the Post, I'm probably lookin to get paid by the Bulls or the Post. Timbo ain't gettin paid by no one but the people buying his records. Nothin else to say man, your analogies suck!

Hillis 3000 (Hillis 3000), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Flippin computer!

Maybe my "rap cred" is chillin with your clout... lol

I'm out like my rap cred. Peace!

Hillis 3000 (Hillis 3000), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Dag, ain’t nobody up on this joint. We’ll see what happens when I no longer exist. First things first, if somebody is whipping you and it hurts, and all you gotta do is say your name is (fill in the blank with anything) and you refuse to say the name, yes I think that that is stubborn. If you want the beating to stop, and can easily stop it, but you don’t want to give in, that’s stubborn. Moving on, the fact of the matter is that my "God example" was correct. I appreciate that you can’t actually say it was wrong (not while telling the truth) so you went with the standard call it moronic line. I understand. Proved wrong ONCE AGAIN so you had to lash out with the name-calling, lol. And no I’m not gonna make it plural when you won’t even admit the first example was on point. Moving on, I was cracking up when I read your Tim/Bleek B-ball story. I actually understood your point, and even concur that you surprisingly have a point. I’d hate to mess up this rarity with some knowledge dropping, but a man’s gotta do… you know the rest. Your story was entertaining and germane, however, it was slightly flawed. See in that piece of fiction, y’all picked up Tim because y’all wanted to ball and there was nobody else available. But when I go to purchase some music, there are plenty of better offers. I can hoop with peeps with skill; they are there for the picking. If I walked in the store wanting to buy a good cd and it ain’t nobody but Tim, I’d keep my money. On the court, I’d ball with him FOR FREE, but if it’s money on the game we gotta play another time. I used to work at a newspaper and they had free CDs all the time. So I got P!nk’s joint and a weak Bobby Brown CD among some others. Now if there was a rule where I could only get one and it was between Bleek and Tim, you know who I’d get. Let’s make it relevant to your story. If Bleek was there, swearing he was Jordan, but really played like a high-schooler, and Tim was there saying he sucked and played like a peewee league player, who would you get? The better baller, right? It ain’t about trash talk, it’s about the one with the better skills. It seems like you are saying Bleek ain’t that good of a rapper, AND HE AIN’T. But the question is, “Is he better than Tim (or Luda)?” and the answer is yes! And to answer your question about you caring, yes. I think you do care. You are the one who goes months back to find quotes and the one who lies even in the face of the truth. But that wasn’t even where I was going. I was just telling you that you have lost rap cred and I want you to know it. You don’t care? Fine. But do you know it? I just want you to know it. And I still say the thread, or what’s left of it ain’t bais. Personally, I like people who make sense and can flow. Most people I know, including myself don’t care where the rapper was born or rasied. “Are they any good?” is what others and I care about here and off the thread. You would see me reping Tigger and Nonchalant all day long if I gave points for a particular region. If I happen to hate Ludacris’ flow and the Skeet Skeet guys it ain’t because they reside or claim a certain spot. It’s cause they suck on the mic. Who on here said they are bias to the East? Moving on, PI calls being mind boggling to you does not surprise me at all. I felt what you were saying about the games being longer and all that, but I disagree with some of it, mainly the OT rule. I think both teams should touch the ball, just my thoughts. In time I predict that rule will change, but I guess no time soon. You can play great D, but if the offense plays great offense, we both know they can get 3. Since you are talking about watchabilty (is that even a word?) I think letting both teams get it would make it more exciting, but above that it would be FAIRER. Say a team drives down to the 20 in OT. You probably wouldn’t see them just kick it on first down for 3. If they knew the other team gets it and could turn it into a TD, they’d play with more effort. Oh yeah, while we’re on making the NFL better. I really hate the kneel-down play. Since I was watching football back in the day, too young to understand it, I always felt this was cheating. Back then I called it cheating. Now I know it’s not really cheating, but I think you should have to run or throw and risk losing the ball. Again, this just makes it more watch-able. And I feel I have been arguing the same point. A bad call can alter the game. To answer your question, yes, this is true in the 1st quarter to the last. If the refs make a bad call on the first play of the game and it puts the offense on the goal line, that’s important. That’s almost a free TD if they get in and undeserving. Now the cheated team has time to overcome that bad call, but that don’t make it right. And if the team loses by a TD you’d see why. Also, that unfair TD will make the other team play differently trying to tie it instead of maybe playing conservatively. The short answer is yes, it hurts at any time in the game. But it is worse at the end. And an untimely fumble, a missed block and all that other stuff is a player’s or team’s fault. The ref’s bad call is the ref’s/league’s fault. You ain’t got to wonder what’s it’s like to hoop with me. Just know I play by the rules. If you foul me and you say it ain’t a foul, somebody is wrong. Yeah I’ve seen two people argue over a call and somebody was wrong. Moving on, ain’t nobody say Hey Ya even had a point but you. Everybody I asked ain’t know or they said he doesn’t have a point. You are the sole fan that says he has a point. Thus you are clinging and going down with the ship. Bamma the Beyonce’ metaphor was NOT clear-cut at all. Go ask your roommate if he understood it. And I was just saying I wasn’t feeling Lucy. Being attractive is in the EYE OF THE BEHOLDER and since she ain’t attractive to me, she ain’t attractive. I can’t speak for you. But I was just saying I didn’t know why he shouted their names. Don’t try to switch to a differt factor. I figured he was just putting stuff in the song with no real reason, kinda like when he says “Alright” 5 to fifty-five times. I didn’t know nor care that he used them names before and no I should not have known. It’s pointless, kinda like Hey Ya and (fill in the blank with almost any other single by cuz). And if you want to hit Beyonce’ and end up in jail for rape, that would be your logic. Where as I can hit her knowing she wants it, or just not hit it at all and I’d still have my freedom. FYI, I said a stranger would make me skeptical, not a fine woman. Scroll up and see. Let’s establish that you don’t know how Gibbs or Parcell, or Jerry or Dan run their teams. Okay, once we establish that, we can go reread you comments about them and say you pulled a lot of stuff out your rectum and just leave it at that. “Parcells likes a LOT of control.” LOL, and I bet he likes a lot of money too, but that was pointless to say. Man, you and this pointlessness have got to stop. Is that your theme or something? I can call the bulls for some tickets and the Post for a paper. I bet most people who call are calling for a reason other than to get paid. Proved wrong YET AGAIN. Timberland is getting paid by those who buy his records, as well as many other people. Okay dummy, let me try to explain this to you. If he gives a bamma a beat, they will probably pay. If he performs at a concert or show, the members in the audience will probably pay. That’s just two. The people in both example didn’t necessarily buy his record. There are more but chew on those for a while. My analogies actually make sense, but sense you pride yourself on pointlessness and uselessness I can see why you thought they sucked. Cassidy as an MC, based on what I heard, ain’t all that. But he’s not terrible. I could hear some more that may make me say he’s great or horrible. Time will tell. When did I say I like him? You say two songs ain’t gonna change your tune, but how many did it take to set your tune?

Qoolout, Saturday, 24 January 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"The doctor said I had blood clots, but I ain't Jamaican man..." - Kanye West


Before I open with my rebuttal, I just want to know, who are you referring to when you say "everybody?" You say "everybody" knows I'm lying or "everybody" knows I'm wrong. Who? The TA Dodgers you work with? Is some female MSNing you again? More phantom fans? Is there a thread you started where everybody posts against me? lol I haven't seen anybody other than us post in weeks! And even when they post they stay out of our debates. So who is "everybody?"

First, your God example isn't a matter of being correct or incorrect. It's irrelevant. Sure, God doesn't make mistakes. But I never said anything about every being in the universe makes mistakes. I said there's never a point in life where every detail is called correctly. So when is God on earth in physical form goin, "No, this is what really happened..." Well? Have you seen Him? Tell me where God just sits on Earth in the physical lettin everybody know what really happened at the car wreck or the murder scene or to JFK, Jimmy Hoffa, Pac and BIG? I'll be there in a heartbeat! God doesn't make mistakes, but He's not anywhere calling out details at events, either. Second, we're talking about referees (i.e. HUMANS) and you brought in GOD???!!! So the referees shouldn't make mistakes refereeing because GOD doesn't make mistakes?! GOD?! GOD?! You absolutely cannot be serious! Third, you said points plural! You need to come with another example to validate your example (which you won't do because you can't). Why can't you come with more? lol Just say Zeus or Allah or Buddha or somebody, lol...

Me finding quotes about legitimate arguments we have here on the thread is unrelated to what you believe my "rap cred" is. I haven't found quotes trying to prove my "rap cred" to you, nor have I said anything about what I think about YOUR rap cred. So again, we'll just say that Qoolout thinks I've lost rap cred and we'll add that you think I care... lol

Well, I see how you feel the both teams get the ball in OT rule is more fair, but I think it's irrelevant. I feel if you can't win in the first 60 minutes, don't whine cause you lose the coin toss in OT and get scored on first. Is it fair that a team that gets the ball back in the second half can score right before the first half and retain possesion when the second half resumes? Why don't we just give everybody an even number of series for the entire game?

If you answered my question about the bad calls, I can't tell. I didn't ask which is worse. I asked who gets the win. And if you think the team that has the bad call go against them at the end should win, then why? Why should they be rewarded with a win because of when ONE bad call went against them? Why should the other team be punished because ONE bad call helped them at a specific time in the game? You have NOT been arguing that a bad call can alter a game. You've been arguing that ONE bad call can cost a team an ENTIRE game. A bad call can alter a game like this; if there's a bad PI call on the final drive of a game, on the next play or plays the defenders might be too nervous to play aggressive, so they get beat on some passes and the other team scores the winning TD. COMBINED with the DBs soft coverage, the bad call affected the other team, but it isn't the ONLY reason the team lost. Or if it happens at the end of the game, why do you ignore the first 59 minutes? You say missed blocks and tackles and dropped passes are the team's fault; so we just forget about the drops and missed blocks because of ONE bad call at the end? ONE? I could see three or four. But ONE?! Naw, I'm not feelin that. ONE call? Naw, man. Naw. Riddle me this; when the Bills and Giants played in the Super Bowl and Scott Norwood missed the game winning FG, was the fact the Bills lost the Super Bowl ALL his fault? Even though he had made some FGs earlier? Did he singlehandely (or footedly) lose the Super Bowl for the Bills?

Whining about the kneel down? Please. So I'm supposed to whip up on you all game, hold you on fourth down or get an INT and I can kneel down and get a win and keep my players from getting injured, but instead I'm supposed to give you a chance to win for no other reason than you guys couldn't get it done with all the other chances you had. We're just supposed to give you chances? Should I call timeouts for you, too? Maybe I should just give you an INT for no other reason than somebody thinks the kneel down is bad for the game. That makes no sense. How would you facilitate a "real" play at that point? Who's to say that the QB doesn't pitch it back to the TB and he just "slips?" I guess at the end of b-ball games the team winning should jack up shots with no later than 20 seconds remaining on the shot clock just to basically hand the other team the game, huh? Why is it that you don't expect teams to win on their own anymore?

Dude, I think Bleek is wacker than Timbo. On a PURELY lyrical level, Bleek is generally more complex, but it doesn't make up for his overall wackness and delusions of grandeur. Bleek does nothing for me. Nothing at all. At least Timbaland makes me laugh. I can see why you like Bleek more. Fine. Whatever. But he sucks to me. Worse than Timbo. I understand your hoopin analogy, but I still look at Timbo and Bleek the way I did earlier. That's just me.

It wouldn't be Kobe, er, I mean, rape. The only thing gettin raped is your ego as I'm LEGALLY cuttin up your girl. And I don't care what you said; if a fine ass woman came up to you and asked you to undress her, YOU should be skeptical... lol

Regarding everybody you asked either didn't know the point of Hey Ya or said it didn't have one... Ok, for the people who didn't know it, peep this; we don't know your legal name - does that mean you don't have one? Maybe they just need the point explained to them, like you did. Whether they choose to ignore it like you do is up to them. But them not knowing it doesn't mean that the song doesn't have one. And WHO beside YOU says it doesn't? My roomate and my friends know the point - we're familiar with Outkast's work so we got it. And you say nobody other than me says it has a point. First of all, Andre 3000 says it has a point. Second, did you miss that YOU are the only one who says it does not?! Yeah, you, negro. I didn't see H*WOOD, J-Dolo, Best, or anybody else go "Oh yeah, Qool, you're right. Hey Ya doesn't have a point." Did that slip your mind or did you ignore it just to help your lame arguments? Well, it doesn't matter. The song has a point and why you continue to argue is beyond me. And just because YOU didn't get "Beyonces and Lucy Lius" doesn't mean it isn't clear. It just means YOU didn't get it. My roommate and my other friends all understand that Lucy Liu and Beyonce are both considered attractive women. They got the metaphor. It should be easy to get it with him just saying "Beyonces and baby dolls." But you "missed" or pretend to so there's nothin else to say, man. You're a joke.

If you don't care about the region, why did you jump in with only "bad" Southern lyrics back in the first thread? Why not stay out of it or post bad lyrics from East Coast artists, too? Yeah. Exactly.

I guess that part about Parcells confused you. I capitalized "a lot" to emphasize that he likes control over the organization more than most coaches. I thought that would be clear, but I forgot NOTHING is clear to you, so I apologize. Bill Parcells likes a lot more control than most normal coaches. His famous quote after he bounced from New England was along the lines of "If you want me to cook the dinner, at least let me pick out the groceries" because owner Bob Kraft didn't give him enough say in personnel decisions. So, again, I find it hard to believe that a coach like Parcells would go work for an owner like Jones unless Jones gave up most of the contol. But that's my opinion.

Yeah, the people are buying Timbo records. He ain't tellin people to pay him to make records. The records are made already. In your dumb ass analogies, the product has yet to be made. The articles for the Post aren't written. The basketball games for the Bulls haven't been played. And he's not expecting you to buy his records because he can or cannot rap. His sales are based off his beats.

"Cassidy as an MC, based on what I heard, ain’t all that. But he’s not terrible. I could hear some more that may make me say he’s great or horrible. Time will tell. When did I say I like him? You say two songs ain’t gonna change your tune, but how many did it take to set your tune?" - QS 1/24/04

You lost me. I didn't say you liked Cassidy. And those two songs that weren't gonna change my tune were about Kanye West. Did you switch topics to Kanye and forget to put his name in there? I'm gonna wait for you to respond so I know what the *bleep* you're talking about.

I'm out like a Qoolout debate. Peace!

Hillis 3000 (Hillis 3000), Saturday, 24 January 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Everybody" is people that read and have common sense. If you say you didn't say something, and I post that you did say it and I tell when or show when, you have no case. Then everybody can see it. You get it now? Does somebody have to actually say you're lying for you to accept that it is really a lie? If a tree falls does it not make a sound? Next, God is everywhere to me. I respect that you might have beliefs that differ from mine. But God puts us here and is with us until he takes us from here. You can't call that anything but truth (unless you lie). And I'm not putting another example until you state that you can't touch my first one. Next, yes I believe that you have lost rap cred and you do indeed care. We agree. Next, I feel that your "why don't we just give everybody an even number of series" statement was stupid. It was just dumb. Next, I have been arguing that one bad call can alter the game. YES, one bad call can make you lose. I understand that you ACT like this ain't possible, but one wrong call can make you lose the game. Going down with the ship, right? Next, I don't know what you were talking about as far as teams not winning on there own. I was just saying it would be more exciting if they ran plays instead of taking the knee. It was funny that when I was like 6 watching the games with my father I would tell him that that's cheating because the other team doesn't have a shot at winning that way. I was six cuz, what are you talking about. See that's what I mean. Now ANYBODY AND EVERYBODY can read what I posted and then read you saying, "Why is it that you don't expect teams to win on their own anymore?" Perfect example, thank you. You spin and try to act like I said something that both you and I know I didn't say. So does someone have to post that they know you're full of BS to convince you or can we just apply common sense? And since I know you lie, and you assumingly know it too, who are you trying to fool? Next, if a stranger came up to me and asked me to undress her, that's right I'd be skeptical. Some of us can be a little more selective like myself, and I guess bammas like you have to take what you can get. I can't really relate but I do respect that. Next, Bleek is better than Tim, but what more can we say? You can have the last word on this one. Next, you are STILL sad. EVERYBODY I asked said that Hey Ya is pointless or that they ain't know what the point was. First of all I don't believe you got it by listening to the song, nor do I believe that your roommate or anybody else did. You told me the supposed point and after listening to the song again I determined that there were just too many pointless parts. Beyonce and Luci ain't got nothing to do with whatever you claimed the point is. You can whine about it all day long, but that ain't gonna make it be about something. I can say this post is about cats and kittens, but after you read it you know the truth. Next, I don't know what you're talking about from the first thread. You are the one who said I have a bad memory and I'm the one (and a few others probably)that said you lie. So show me the words or the dates (like you love to do) and then we can discuss it. If there were some bad lyrics posted by me, I didn't make them bad. I just posted them, don't take it personal; don't kill the messenger. Next, like I said, you don't know how Parcells runs his team so you are talking just to be talking. You can have the last word here too, but only after we both agree that you are just running your mouth. Next, I see you try to switch up your Timbo point but also try to keep it. LOL, you are sad. FYI, you can phone the Post and get old papers. Like if you want the paper that was released on 9-11, call em and get it. Thus, the articles are already done. Again, you run your mouth about something you don't know about and in the process get proved INCORRECT. As far as the Timberland part, you lost me. I thought he did want me to buy his records. Are you saying something different this time. Re-explain the whole part about Tim. Next, no I didn't forget to put K. West, I just thought you could figure out who I was speaking about there. You don't put "Qool" every time you address me, but I can figure it out. Are you so sad that you stoop to this? LOL, get your upper hand where you can, huh man? You pride yourself on debates (and that's all you, not I) and you post and date something where I left out a name as one of your points? LOL, sad and funny... @ the same time. How do you do it?

Qoolout, Monday, 26 January 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Somebody order pancakes, I'll just sip the sizzerp..." - Kanye West

You can't use "everybody" and ASSUME that they agree with you about me SUPPOSEDLY "lying." I haven't lied to you. Because I don't agree with your way of thinking, I must be "lying?" Goin down with the ship, huh? Because I don't agree with you? Because I like Ludacris or I'd listen to Timbaland before Memphis Bleek? That's lying? Because I don't allow you to use half of my sentences and leave out a crucial part? I'm lying? People with "common sense" can see I'm lying? How am I "lying?" What have I lied about? Are you saying I'm lying about my OWN opinion, an opinion about DA SOUTH I've stated and backed since my first post? What have I lied about? What, Qool, what?

EVERYBODY I know says Hey Ya has a point or they aren't sure. After I tell those that don't already know what ANDRE 3000 (THE FLIPPIN ARTIST HIMSELF) says it's about, they get it. You see, just because QOOLOUT says it ain't about nothin, doesn't mean anything. QOOLOUT is nobody. QOOLOUT can't tell ANDRE 3000 what's in his head or what was in his head when he wrote the song. QOOLOUT is wrong. QOOLOUT may not get it and QOOLOUT may try all types of angles, but QOOLOUT is no authority on a song he didn't even write. If ANDRE 3000 (THE FLIPPIN ARTIST HIMSELF) tells us the point, why would anybody care what QOOLOUT thinks?

Still avoiding the issue, eh? God is everywhere, true; so is He everywhere correctly calling out the details of an event? Where does this happen Qool? WHERE? CAN YOU ANSWER THAT QUESTION, QOOLOUT? WHERE IS GOD PHYSICALLY CALLING EVERY DETAIL CORRECTLY? WHERE? WHERE? I didn't say He couldn't or He isn't everywhere! CAN YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION QOOLOUT? Your smokescreens are useless and your God example is stupid - and you know it. Down with the ship, indeed. WHERE'S YOUR SECOND EXAMPLE?! W-A-S-I-T-S-O-M-E-T-H-I-N-G-I-S-A-I-D?

Next, we do agree that YOU (and only YOU) believe I care about your opinion on my rap cred... lol

Next, you don't know how Jerry Jones runs his team so you are talking just to be talking. You can have the last word here, too, but only after we both agree that you are just running your mouth (yeah, I took yo statement - I can easily say the same thing to you, Foolout)...

Blah, blah, blah, I'm still cuttin Beyonce up LEGALLY while you're STILL debatin the merits of her words... MORON!

CAN YOU ANSWER THIS QUESTION, QOOLOUT? If a game has one bad call that "costs" Team A a TD at the beginning of the game, and Team B has a bad call "costs" them the game winning TD at the end of the game, WHO SHOULD GET THE WIN IN YOUR OPINION? Since you claim the one at the end is "worse" (when it's really just more memorable), does that mean that Team B "deserves" the win more than Team A, so the NFL should give it to Team B? Moving on (somewhat), why is it that you only care about the bad calls at the end of a game? What about teams that get bad calls in the first quarter? You said teams aren't out there to overcome bad calls; so just because they have three quarters to "overcome" it should be irrelevant. Right? And as far as your rambling on about the kneel down, I didn't say anything about what you thought it was when you were 6. I'm talking about what you just posted at age 24. You, at age 24, said (and I quote) "I think you should have to run or throw and risk losing the ball." That's what YOU said. At age 24. And you said this was related to making the NFL better. So I say, the ONLY reason a team would do something that flippin STUPID is to basically HAND the other team a chance to win. So I'm saying why should a team fight to get up and be able to win the game with a kneel down but have to run a "real" play and risk an unnecessary injury or fumble simply because the other team couldn't do their job? Or in other words, I disagree and I think it would be stupid.

"FYI, you can phone the Post and get old papers. Like if you want the paper that was released on 9-11, call em and get it. Thus, the articles are already done." - QS 1/26/04

Aiyo, check it, what the flying flikkerin fukk does articles written on 9-11 BY OTHER PEOPLE have to do with articles I'm trying to write for the Post? If I call up the Post trying to write articles, you won't find any by ME on 9-11! Thus, the articles are NOT written! Dumb a$$! And as far as Timbaland goes, he isn't asking people to pay him to make the product. The product is made first, then he asks to get paid. A better analogy would be The Post tellin everybody their newspaper sucks, but also trying to get subscriptions or having them on newsstands for $1. Nothin else to say man, your analogies suck!

I wasn't trying to prove a point about Cassidy/K. West. I just didn't want to assume you were talking about Kanye and then you try play like I'm putting words in your mouth. You know how you are. I mean, you asked when you said you liked him, but you never said you liked him. And I never said you did, so why you would ask that baffles me. So since THAT didn't make sense, I just wanted to be sure I didn't just assume what you meant without more clarification. Anyway, I've heard 3 songs with Kanye West. One was on BP2, one is Slow Jamz, and the other is Through The Wire. On all three I think his rhyming is suspect. However, I ain't gon hate and lie that he has had me rolling on two or three lines. The song I heard on BP2, he was wack. Through The Wire has a good beat, but I wasn't really impressed with his flow - mouth wired shut or not. But he did have me laugh about orderin pancakes and sippin the sizzerp and lookin like Emmit Till and the line in Slow Jamz about Michael Jackson. So I guess it took three songs to set my tune. But those few lines won't change it all by themselves.

Now you asked me to do this, so here you go...

"Anyway, I agree I was hating on the South, but that was because y'all was hating on the East..." - QS 12/5/01

"And if someone attacks a rapper or coast that I like, I'ma attack one of their rappers or their coast." QS 12/5/01

At the time, Best and Big J were postin wack South lyrics, so me and Bama fought back with wack East Coast lyrics. Then you jumped in misquotin every Southern rapper you could find. You said you were defending the East Coast from us, but why? We only posted against the East in OUR defense. You even said that East Coast had wack lyrics, too. So why did you feel the need to involve yourself by posting only bad Southern lyrics if you're neutral. Why not post both and say that bad lyrics are everywhere?

I'm out like bad Southern lyrics. Peace!

Hillis 3000 (Hillis 3000), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

yo pist

The Rom, Saturday, 7 February 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I got Puffy's cotton balls but he's got to give me my money back, tell mister kyne west i said waz up

The Rom, Saturday, 7 February 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

What up? Man, I'm bout to roll out like Jordan (AGAIN). This thread ain't even fun anymore. All I do is come on here and speak the truth against the lying Hill. It's boring, plus it's pointless to keep rebutting only to have you twist my words. If peeps start posting again, holla @ me and I'll be back like Arnold. But until then, you win. You get the last word and I guess you ain't lying if nobody is here to say so...right? And no, God is not everywhere (to you, but to me he is.) I had to say something about that one because that's one of the best examples of how you were proved incorrect but ACT like you were not. Then you try to change the whole disscussion on that point. That just sums up your entire life on this thread. LOL, bamma you think I'ma just take two sentences from 2001 and go with that? Like you ain't take them outta context or put some other kind of spin on it? LOL, bamma please. Happy Black History month everybody. I'm gone.


I started this thing and I'ma end it.

Qoolout, Saturday, 7 February 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

but the bleek vs. timbaland debate has not been resolved!

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thanx for the ride dawg

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ahmmed sanusi, Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...
"Heart of a soldier with the prain to teach a whole nation..." - 2Pac

At first, I was just gonna leave this board and not post since it was just me and Qoolout anyway. But recently, I been thinkin, I just can't go out without saying my last lil bit. This probably won't ever get read, but I thought I'd drop this unappreciated masterpiece anyway, just to have closure. If this board or any other continuation gets hot again, it'll be without me. I'm never posting on ILxor.com again. If you want my opinion on anything, just email me. I'm through. I'm out. I'm done. But before I go...

I was wrong about Kanye West. He's flippin flames. As a pure rapper, he's good, but his production skills are exceptional. He's on Timbaland/Dre status as a producer. Except he can rap. He's hilarious. He hasn't shown if he has any versatility cause all his flows are comical and his metaphors are witty, but they seem to be more about laughs. I would assume he can battle but hasn't shown and can flow deep, but it's more of a stand up comedy deep than just a somber deep - like a Nas or Pac. As far as his album goes, it's flames. A 5 mic-er, in my opinion. Spaceship, School Spirit, and Get Em High are the best to me. Last Call is nice and it has Kanye explainin his rise to fame. The other tracks are pretty good, but the first four I mentioned are the standouts if you ask me. So I say, get the College Dropout. I'd say you should be able to find at least 6 songs you actively bump - unless you just are totally opposed to Kanye West. Still, I say buy it. Here's one classic line "I dropped outta school quick, I always had a PhD, a PRETTY HUGE DICK!" LMAO!

Since this is my final post, I gotta give props to Nchekwube. You are the funniest nigga I ain't never seen. I don't know if we ever met if you'd swing at me or ignore me or we'd be cool. But if I ever met your ass, I'd laugh for an hour straight. Swear to God. I'm sure you know you can flow. I've said it before and I'll say it again. You helped me step up my raps - no shame in admitting it. I feel like my weakest raps on here are better than 60% of the stuff out now simply because I knew if I brought some BS, I would get served. Of course, you may still say I suck. Whatever. I look back at the first board and our raps were miles behind what we did later. Some of them joints actually sucked. But both of our styles changed for the better. As a man, I can say you're nice and battlin you was the main reason I improved. And I see a great improvement in your style that I know I helped bring about, but if you say I had nothing to do with it, then I'll leave it at that. I don't know how seriously you take your mic skills, but I'd say you'd have a good chance of gettin a deal if you tried. On the real. That line about stepping into your office of rhymin so I can beat you with my suitcase would have been a good ass skit for a video. That line was hilarious. Also, you may want to think about comedy. Some of them posts had me CRYIN. "Ah, Robbie, that verse was mad tight, son......................... I'm lying" was hands down the funniest thing I ever saw on here. Classic. Classic. Other classics: "Unlinkable bars," that time you clowned me for pretendin to be you and Big J and askin for props - like I thought it was the tightest shit ever. HA HA HA! At the time, I thought it was, but now I look at it and shake my head and then LMAO... I know for a fact I wasn't the only one that found you funny. I have no reason to believe you ain't doin that engineerin thang, but if that don't work out, try spittin or comedy. lol I still don't agree with any of that Nas stuff - nor AZ, Cormega, Mobb Deep, and all your other rap points. I ain't dissin em, I just don't agree. But that's the truth so you can take this last post to the bank cause I'm out on this topic.

Qoolout may or may not care if I mention this, but oh well. I've met his non Madden playin ass now that I've moved to Virginia. I'm 10 minutes from DC now. Yup, H3K has left DA SOUTH but his heart's still there. But anyway, Qool talked all this nonsense about bein good at Madden, but he got served like that terrible movie. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to ball with him yet, but he better hope his hoop skills is better than his Madden skills. The funny thing about that is that we don't tell anyone we know how we really met - it sounds kind of fruity. For real, how would it sound if H*WOOD told his friend he first met 3:16 on the inet famo. So we say met hoopin, even though Qool has yet to get served. Even though we know what will soon happen. Qoolout was just as funny, but a lot of his humor wasn't as overt as Best. He also rhymed and battled tight, too. "I live in VA, dummy." Them flows was ill. But since I've met him, Best is still the funniest nigga I ain't seen. Them b-ball hoops rhymes was classic, too... if I ever blow up, I'll steal them. Nah, I'm just foolin... or am I...

H*WOOD, keep doin the DJ thang. I hope you make it... Steph, if you still spittin, go head with it... Faye, I don't even know what you do, but maybe Baron Davis will come around... Macka, you showed me that hip hop is alive and well. You knew hip hop like an American. That's an ignorant statement, but it's the only real way for me to show that I understand how credible a hip hop source you are. And don't stop spittin, Great Britain... Wiz - sorry I ain't put you in the 3rd post mention... lol I know you ain't mind, nigga! Dolo, hold it down at the corrections facility - if that's what you still be doin. If you feel the need to spit again, go back them Seriousness spits to get some inspiration... Kazper, hold it down in M-Town, North North, Orange Mound...

Anyway, to the rest of you cats, I gotta say that it was real. I ain't gonna front, this thread was a part of me for almost 3 years. Discussing my love of hip hop, sports, and battlin all of you has been a real highlight and it was nice to get some different views on all the issues we've discussed. And before I forget, when Wiz dissed me and said "these gays" that was the best diss on here out of all 4 boards. I got my ass murked on that one. But the best thing about it was that I totally didn't expect it. Best, Qool, maybe Dolo or Macka, but Wiz came out of nowhere (in my eyes) and said "You got served" like a B2K movie. That shit had me rollin. But still, everybody's called it quits, so H3K is out. And I ain't comin back like Jordan wavin the 4-5. Like I said, any of you can hit me on the email addy - even Best! lol

To anybody or anything I forgot, charge it to my head and not my heart...

"I'm Rick James, bitch!"

I'm out like me. Peace!

Hillis 3000 (Hillis 3000), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The best rapper is Juelz along with Cameron because new yorkers keep the gangsta shit real with real gangs so they rap about real street stuff unlike southern rap (i am not against tha south.)you cannot even understand what the hell they saying all they rap about is shouty and girls with big butts.

Alea, Sunday, 18 April 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Because Southern rappers don't take time when they record/write. They just get the beat and run with dumb raps.

myself, Sunday, 18 April 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHAHAHAHA

"you cannot even understand what the hell they saying all they rap about is shouty and girls with big butts" = exactly what white america said about ALL RAP when it was new = southern rap must be the BOMB if it's getting reactions like that

J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 18 April 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...
revive!

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 16 April 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...
revive again a year later!

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 May 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...
Believe.

Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man, there's some history.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

it's a beautiful thing.

HOOS is BACK steenaz (Hoosteen), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:30 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

I suspect "jiggy"/"bling"/etc. has had its day as the primary hip-hop meme, and that conscious/whatever will rise, along with, interestingly enough, hardcore. This will happen because, oddly enough, both prize "authenticity."

-- Ess, Thursday, 11 September 2003 19:12 (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

Ess the seer

Dom Passantino, Sunday, 20 April 2008 20:33 (seventeen years ago)

it's a beautiful thing.

-- HOOS is BACK steenaz (Hoosteen), Thursday, January 4, 2007 2:30 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

wtf is this

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 April 2008 20:46 (seventeen years ago)

in a hoosteen state of mind

J0rdan S., Sunday, 20 April 2008 20:50 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

where is part 1?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 02:50 (fourteen years ago)

oh wait is this it? Jay-Z / Nas hip-hop throw down? & other throw-downs?

Jay-Z / Nas hip-hop throw down? & other throw-downs? Pt. 2: The Saga Continues.

(trying to find it to show someone)

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 02:52 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YWYPaY5UUg

o_O

they loooovin the crut (The Reverend), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 09:36 (thirteen years ago)

uh

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 09:52 (thirteen years ago)

Must be a friend of his.

MikoMcha, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 13:46 (thirteen years ago)

important video

lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 13:52 (thirteen years ago)

why is nas hanging jay-z
iRapMad 3 days ago

because he won the beef after he dropped ether
MCBobbyE in reply to iRapMad 3 days ago

am0n, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 14:24 (thirteen years ago)

"Since Jay-Z would really let us hang him, we made this"

this dude is creepy as fuck

wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 15:39 (thirteen years ago)

Nas to be on CNN tomorrow morning for Soledad Obrien's Starting Point...
Nas to be a panelist on CNN tomorrow morning [6.13.12] for Soledad Obrien's Starting Point

Nas will get into all this tomorrow

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 16:25 (thirteen years ago)

rip jay z

am0n, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 16:27 (thirteen years ago)

I wanted to comment on the historical resonance of a bunch of white dudes making an animatronic image of a famous black dude that they could program to realistically struggle and twitch as they hang him from a gallows pole but the fact that this was all commissioned by another famous black dude is melting my mind.

also m@tt OTM

Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 16:49 (thirteen years ago)

At what point do you think, "y'know what? I don't think I need this particular paycheck this bad"?

heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 16:59 (thirteen years ago)

I think when you are watching the doc short played back and you realize you are the dude standing on the platform imitating the jerking movements of a black man struggling to keep from being lynched, you should have some regrets.

Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 17:00 (thirteen years ago)

http://img.youtube.com/vi/1YWYPaY5UUg/0.jpg

am0n, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 17:12 (thirteen years ago)

g.o.a.t. eyes

am0n, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 17:15 (thirteen years ago)

omg :55

goole, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 17:20 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

the salad days of Qoolout and Hillis 3000

a literal scarecrow on a quaint porch (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 14:38 (ten years ago)


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