On the nature of hipping and hopping.

This started in my open letter to Mr. Cent, and will be continued here today.

Hip-Hop SUCKS right now, and yes, I just capitalized like a d-bag to emphasize my point. The problem is that everything sucks, and who are these clowns in the game right now? Soldja-boy? Bow-Wow? Kill me, f'real. These guys are horrible. To quote Talib Kweli, there's mad talented cats underground, but you gotta dig deeper and deeper these days to find them. Common and Kweli both dropped great albums these past couple years, but as far as major releases, it has been horrid. Hip-Hop is dead was great but fell out of the public consciousness as soon as it came up.

And can we just all collectively admit 2 things? 1) Jay-z's latest album sucked 2) Kanye's latest album sucked just as bad. Everyone felt really bad that Kingdom Come sucked, and it did, so they were like, "oh wow, American Gangster is GREAT! He's back!" No. You are all idiots who want to get back on the train. Both albums had 2 good songs. He should take the combined total of four good songs and release an EP called, "Sorry, and let me save you about 20 bucks." And as far as Kanye goes, Graduation was lame...LAME!!! Capitalized and with multiple exclamation points for douchey emphasis! Ever since Rolling Stone gave The College Dropout a mere three and a half stars, they have felt the need to rim his ass from the moment the review dropped. They messed up, and Late Registration may have been stylistically a better album than College Dropout, but save four or five tracks, Graduation is a waste of time and energy for both the artist and his fanbase.

All of my faith is currently placed in Lupe Fiasco, who, to quote my buddy Norton, is "Fresher than the lettuce at Wegman's." It's true, he's smart, almost too smart, and I wonder if that will be his downfall. He's not gangsta, he's barely street, but he's real, and I hope people respect that. 50 cent, G-Unit, sooooooo many rappers are just horrible right now. 50 Cent should have quit when he started his beef with Kanye - seriously 50, who are you that you're trying to start beef with anyone at this point? We all know you left the hood for Connecticut, and I know you probably got a mansion full of guns, and that's your reality now, but it's boring.

Although for all the shit I am talking right now, I must remember this - when Biggie and Tupac first made waves in the mid-90's, I thought their music was crap. I didn't understand why everyone flipped over Illmatic. Jay-z...who's that? I used to ask. I thought rap was just lacking a "c" at the beginning, but 10 years later, really, what did I know? Nothing, as I maintain that Illmatic is not just one of the greatest rap albums, but one of the single greatest albums period...so in 10 years will I be like, "Oh shit, remember that classic Chamillionaire album?" No, because in 10 years I'll still be saying, "God, can you believe Illmatic is 20 years old now? That's so awesome...but yeah, Chamillionaire, I'll take fries with that. Thanks."

-Jobimoto out.
"I got so many rhymes I don't think I'm too sane/life is parallel to hell but I must maintain "