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'..yes, my nigga, you're blessed, my nigga..

take advantage, do your best, my nigga

Don't stress, you was granted everything inside this planet

anything you imagine, you possess, my nigga

you reject these niggas, that neglect your respect

for the progress, of a baby step, my nigga/..'

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“Shit, ain’t nobody realer than me in this game. Definitely not Jeezy, so I am about to show you all that.”

”..a lot of guys wrote me off, Jeezy included. He really wrote me off. I am about to show that nigga what it really is. I am about to open that nigga’s eyes up and show that nigga that I mean motherfucking business. He wrote a nigga off, but I am definitely about to show that nigga that I mean business. And show that nigga who the realest nigga in it. That’s what I am on now.”

Was Jeezy supportive of you doing your own thing? Fuck no. Anything he tells you, it’s going to be fake. I am going to give you the real. He gonna give you the sugarcoated version. That’s the difference between me and him. He gonna give you the sugarcoated shit, I am going to give you the real. At first, when that whole split happened, I was being political about it. I was thinking, ‘Man, I don’t want to fuck up my relationship.’ But fuck that shit, my nigga. I’m feeding the whole city. That nigga don’t do shit for me. I am going to point a nigga out when he bogus and he was bogus for not owing up to his business relationship and doing what he was supposed to do business-wise. Like I said, I never needed the nigga to do nothing for me, but do what you said what you were gonna do. You don’t hold true to your word, I don’t respect you. So I don’t respect no nigga that don’t hold true to his word. All that shit you rapping; I don’t respect none of that shit.

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- gangstas the media loves.

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"..this is your moment, and every single minute you spend

tryna hold on to it, 'cause you may never get it again

so while you're in it, make sure you as much s**t as you can//.."

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"..Yeah, so in summation, I don't know who y'all racing..

I'm already at the finish line, with the flag waving//.."

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"..the game can't go by just following the leaders/

you gotta be better than the ones that precede ya//.."

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The difference between classic music and the music of today is certainly in the skill level. In the days of dynamic music you couldn’t just go in the studio (or home) and make the same shit as Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder or Prince! In fact, you STILL cant! It took years of practice (The Beatles) and access to special equipment that required extensive training to use. Real orchestras instead of VSTs, an actual drummer in place of someone else’s actual drumming, and occasionally a person who could legitimately sing! The technology we have now removes all imaginable limits on creativity, but in the name of declining (*not by much) IQ scores and attention spans - an entire generation of musicians and listeners with low standards has been born, making music thats easy to remember (and forget) and extremely easy to create! In the music business we have now suffered from decades of people catering to moneyless non-consumers like children and critics, and an entire community of creatives and executives scratching their heads and wondering where all the good music went. We collectively saw the money and said fuck this, I’m not learning how to play shit! We got the money/power and gave our friends and relatives jobs! We blew the money and blamed everyone and every thing except for the unqualified man-in-the-mirror and convinced ourselves that we were still the reservation-only restaurant and not a McDonalds kiosk. It killed the business, and out of its body grew the Multi-Million $ Independent Label - from Master P to Macklemore, and a million new expressions of creativity and ways to monetize. The truth is music business, if you haven’t realized the hidden success factor that makes Adele, Taylor Swift, Bruno or Frank resonate - its the FN MUSIC! The SONGS have to be GOOD! Not the same genre, or tempo, or look (*music doesn’t have a look), or even the same appeal to the same demographic - but the same FEELING when you hear it, the one that lasts for fuckin forever. The People get it (look at who’s selling the most these days!) The only music execs and critics should be people who have accomplished something in the field of music that deems them qualified and worthy - and even those people should step down if and when the day comes that they start thinking our success comes more from marketing and research than the actual product itself. It all boils down to the support of the consumer and the corporate vendor (ads) - The money comes from Ads and Sales guys! No one has to buy anything anymore! Any and all sales in this day and age are from the support of someone who cares about the artist - the more effort you put into your product and content, the more engaged your audience will be. The people I’m talking about are largely dumb as fuck and won’t make it to the bottom of this very short essay - but this isn’t for them…its for YOU! Who and whatever you are, you’re a part of this! You are the person that settles for mediocrity or doesn’t - that feels the need to constantly express their unsolicited opinion or spend that time improving yourself - that bragged about the hit song you wrote in 15 minutes or took however long you needed to make the best music you could make. You are a soldier in the war for Dope vs Money - this goes way beyond music, and way into real life - we all need to refocus and we’re all going to have to pick a side as the gap between those who are in pursuit of money, and those who are in the pursuit of dopeness quickly grows from something you trip over to something you fall into. ps I personally plan to fly over.

by James Fauntleroy. (via fauntleroy)

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..anticipating the color way, noice.

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Without education where do you get your scruples to make a decent decision to have an opinion?

- Pharrell

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..game on, welcome February.

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LMAO

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'...i bring static like when two baby mommas meet; the pump make you jump even make quantum leap...' #RAPCITYSBEST

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Don't talk it, do it. Real n***as don't come with a preamble.

/Phonte

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click for the zoom ins!...awww riiiiiiii....

Signing out,

Daryl Turner (Nicey Most Likely)

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'...white tee, a bathing ape...' #BAPExMARVEL

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#JHENIGMA -> Article coming soon! Exclusively on #FIRSTPLACENICEGUY!

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| @nomalice757 & @pusha_T | happy 10-year anniversary, to a great album from arguably one of the greatest rap duos of all time ... #LORDWILLIN