Hassan "Poppy" Campbell G-Checks J Prince Jr.

What's woody wood, grasshoppers?

Social activist, Hassan "Poppy" Campbell, is wondering why J Prince Jr. and his crew don't have the same energy toward police brutality and shootings of Black Americans like they have toward rapper Tekashi 69.

J Prince Jr. and rapper The Game wants Tekashi69, a self-proclaimed Blood, to check-in their hoods...checking-in is usually paying off goons for protection...but hell, what do I know?

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Peace and Afro Grease

Nah'Sun the Great @ www.nahsunblaze.com

Tupac Was White

What's woody wood, grasshoppers?

Off the heels of Lil Xan dissing a legend and the Bruno Mars debate about cultural appropriation (which is silly), I want to discuss the whiteness of Tupac Amaru Shakur

You see, 2pac was the son of a Black Panther Party member...an infamous political organization that brought forth social awareness to not only the US, but the world...Pac received his views about the world from his mother, Afeni Shakur, which had manifested itself in his first album, 2pacalypse Now

But here's the thing...

...that album flopped

That album was a biiiiiig whomp whomp

While 2Pacalypse Now was politically charged with tracks like Trapped, Soulja's Story, and Words of Wisdom, the album lacked a strong single

Brenda's Got a Baby was a dope song, but it failed to move the needle

And that brings us to this...

Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z was Pac's breakthrough album...hands down...he needed strong singles to push him to the forefront, and he got them...courtesy of Keep Ya Head Up and I Get Around

Not only those tracks had pushed him to the forefront...

...but they also brought him closer to suburban America

The demographic that moves albums past gold (500,000 copies sold)

No longer the politically charged eMCee like he was on 2Pacalypse Now, he repped THUG LIFE...an acronym for The Hate U Gave Little Infants Fucks Everyone...a concoction of the street mentality and social consciousness that he'd expressed on his first album...not only he needed the backpacker support, but he also needed credibility

Street credibility

Then came the tats, the outlandish public behavior, and the bad ass rebel image that he portrayed to the public

Pac was pretty much acting like the stereotypical nigga that America either loved to hate, or loved to see as a form of entertainment before the tragedy like a Shakespeare play

And tragedy came closer to my favorite 2pac album, Me Against the World...

This album shows the growth and maturity of 2pac...he wasn't as thugged out like his last album, as cautionary tales like Young Nigga, If I Die 2nite, and Death Around the Corner shows a different side of Pac other than the tough, braggadocious style of rhyme...Pac was on his way to striking a perfect balance between the negative and positive forces that govern people until a sex abuse charge had handed him a prison sentence for damn near a year

A prison sentence that was cut short with the help of Suge Knight, CEO of Death Row Records

All Eyes On Me had catapulted 2pac into full fledged whiteness; commercial acceptance...because the so-called real Hip-Hop headz didn't support him earlier in his career, Pac had to find other ways to market himself as a media giant...the album was a celebration as a new artist on Death Row...full of sex, drugs and rock n roll

Gone was the cautionary tales and political rhymes of past albums that fizzled faster than the cases of champagne he gulped

Don't get it twisted tho...

...he still managed to call out Bill Clinton, C. Delores Tucker, and Bob Dole in How Do You Want It, a club track with Jodeci members K-Ci and JoJo

The political side was still there (kinda), but not like the past, which meant that the album was safe...safe for suburbia to listen to without worrying about the revolution knocking on their front door (in contrast to his first two albums)

The double album was about partying and bullshitting...in a good way tho...but a far cry from the socio-political content he was previously known for as the album had went on to sell 5 million copies

A bonafied best seller

He traded in his Black Panther card as America's Nightmare to live the American Dream; mansions, yachts, cars, clothes, fine baby dolls, and countless nights of turn ups with weed and Hennessy

The same way Ice Cube had went from the Nigga You Love to Hate and AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted to America's lovable dad in the film Are We There Yet? for middle America (white folks) to easily digest and accept

So much for Burn Hollywood Burn

No longer the social activist we'd hope for, 2pac was all rock n roll months leading up to his untimely, youthful demise...

...the James Dean of Hip-Hop

And the sad thing is, before he was able to break out of the drug induced haze that clouded his thinking after he'd bailed out from Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, his life was cut short from a hail of bullets after a Mike Tyson fight in Vegas

Only for him to resurrect as Elvis Presley once people had crazily thought he'd faked his death and moved to Cuba

Aight ya'll, I'm Audi 5 stacks

Peace and Afro Grease

Nah'Sun the Great @ www.nahsunblaze.com

Loaded Lux vs Hollow Da Don High Stakes RECAP!!!

Loaded Lux vs Hollow Da Don

What’s woody wood, grasshoppers?

Ayo, I just witnessed the greatest battle rap event of all-time between Harlem’s Loaded Lux and Queens’s Hollow Da Don. Rap battle league Ultimate Warrior threw the monumental event (High Stakes) yesterday in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Internet personality Jack Thriller hosted the battle, and even though his interviews on ThisIs50.com are funny as hell, he fuckin’ annoyed the shit outta me at times during the battle

Anyway…

Headz had to order the 4 match battle event on Pay Per View from Ustream for 30 bucks…I didn’t pay for it, but I put that shit on lay-a-way by tellin’ my dude I was gonna pay him 10 bucks the next time I see him...he had the computer, I didn’t; I was home while he was laying at home a couple miles away with the wife

I was good with him just calling me every now and then for updates…I chipped in for the love of the battle rap culture even though I didn’t witness the event first hand…I shot myself in the foot by telling my man I was gonna give him 10 bucks for the battle after someone had uploaded the bootleg version of the event right after the joint had ended

Lucky me

Last year Loaded Lux waltzed to the stage as a preacher with his crew carrying a casket before his battle with Detroit’s Calicoe…

…yesterday he rolled through the joint as a member of the Black Panthers

That’s when I knew shit was gonna be real

Quick recap:

Lux’s rhymed first…his first round was stupid (stupid meaning “good” for the ebonically challenged)…the punchlines connected like crazy and he got the crowd going

Next up was Hollow…he roasted Lux about rockin’ “Eddie Murphy pants” and an “Hell's Angels jacket”…funny shit, and he came with more jokes…but I got Lux in that round

Round 2, Lux did his thing, but Hollow took the round even though he briefly got booed toward the end…I still got Hollow taking the 2nd...Hollow didn’t beat Lux rhyme for rhyme, he just outclassed Lux with charisma and wit

The 3rd round Lux took it home…he got personal with Hollow about his drug addiction to lean (cough syrup mixed with Sprite for the ebonically challenged) and impressed me with his punchlines that hit hard even though he also got booed briefly after kickin’ knowledge about Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Bobby Hutton…Hollow also got crazy in this round, and even brought out Calicoe’s father, BMF (Black Mafia Family) member Black Face, to the center of the stage

To make a long story short, Lux dissed Black Face during the battle with Calicoe two years ago on the Ultimate Rap League’s Summer Madness 2 event

Click here to watch, or keep reading if you already know the story

And Black Face proved Lux right last night…

…he is a lost nigga

Bringing out Black Face would’ve been more gangster if Black Face would’ve walked up calmly to Lux face-to-face with his arms folded and said, “Say that lost nigga shit now, nigga” with a MEAN stare down for a good 10 seconds before calmly walking off like a true O.G.

Instead, I saw this cat who gotta be over 40-years-old fake wild out on stage like he was gonna do something

Nice try, but no cigar

I got Lux winning that round by a hair of my beard

Overall thoughts

I got Loaded Lux winning the 1st round and the 3rd round…Hollow Da Don got the 2nd round…I felt Hollow rhymed stronger and outclassed Lux in the 2nd

Lux had more quotables in his first round than Hollow's whole battle, real talk

This battle is about preference. If you love technical rhymes and substance that make you think, you might pick Lux. If you want something simple with jokes and sarcasm, Hollow is your guy

The battle can go either way….I’m a supporter of both of these guys…I just favor Lux more…Hollow is cool, but Lux’s style is more my speed…I’m not gonna lie, tho…

…Hollow impressed the shit outta me throughout the battle…DAMN!!!

I wasn’t expecting that from the da don dininon

This battle was a classic example of a great back and forth between two great eMCees

Anybody who thinks Hollow won gets no hate from me…it’s not that serious…the battle was basically about preference and the clash of styles, and can pretty much go either way depending on what you like…but one thing’s for sure and two thing’s for certain…

…the battle was worth paying the 30 bucks

One up for Hip-Hop

Peace

Nah’Sun the Great @ www.nahsunblaze.com

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