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• BIGGIE SMALLS REACT TO BACK TO BACK DRAKE FULL

Hello Drake? Are you there? We are still waiting for you to holla back. Drake an artist of young money, cash money, whatever money was or is between Birdman and Lil Wayne, got dragged into it and the shots started being fired from Mr Me Too (Clipse and Pharrell), to interviews in magazines, to Don’t Fuck With me (Drake), Exodus 23:1 (Clipse)… several other songs in between to Infrared, Duppy freestyle, culminating in the story of Adidon. I’m not interested in going back that far but if you follow hip-hop you’ll know and if not go Google. It goes right back to the days of Clipse fronted by duo Pusha T and Malice (Now No Malice) his brother, and Lil Wayne and started off with fashion… if you can believe it. This beef between Pusha T and Drake reminds me of those days when respect was at stake, MCs were great and the battles were greater. It is still hard not to listen to it without my jaw hitting the floor every time. In beefs of this type, it’s all or nothing and Tupac went for everything even Biggie’s future brethren. In Hit Em Off, ’Pac was angry and bothered and hurt and pissed and he put all that in the lyrics of the song which led some critics to say this was childish but that’s a matter of opinion. Listen, I’m a Tupac fan for life, but I can also acknowledge Biggie was a better lyricist- at least now I can J, and Tupac a better rapper/MC he controlled the stage and the crowd in a way Biggie couldn’t, but Big’s songs were more lyrical in flow whilst Tupac’s were more poetic… we could do this all day, but let’s move on to the issue at hand Rap, Hip-Hop and beef.

BIGGIE SMALLS REACT TO BACK TO BACK DRAKE FULL

The greatest, and in my opinion, most legendary rap beef songs is still “Hit Em Off”, Tupac’s full body at Biggie Smalls and everyone associated with him. They went from being the best of friends to the worst of enemies, they fought their battles in lyrics of their songs and, if you believe the rumours, gunshots. There is beef and then there is Tupac and Biggie type beef. In the world of hip-hop, no beef was harder fought than that between Tupac and Biggie.

All that said, I live for a good hip-hop beef, when contemporaries battled for the title of the greatest and respect, because it meant something. Tupac, KRS-One, Biz Markie, the late great Craig Mark, Naughty by Nature, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Rage, Onyx, Wu-Tang, Clipse even, NWA… these are artists I grew up with, from an era when talent was all about rhymes, and battles were fought through the lyrics of their songs. I love hip hop, the hard and realness of it, the grime, the curses, and the passion. And I thought Nice for what was a version of what of the type of music that Diddy n’em popularized in the early 00’s.

His voice is not appealing, his sound is repetitive, he is nothing new and reminds me of someone from back in the day. I am skeptical of new music, all kinds of new music the only song of Drake’s I listened too before now was Nice For What. Music stopped being about talent in the early 00’s or some such time when Justin Timberlake became a solo artist and everyone thought him the next coming of R&B, even worse, was the arrival of Taylor Swift and her ilk on the scene weak guitar playing and sappy lyrics. I am of a particular time when it comes to music the 90’s hip-hop, rap, R&B era when the talent was real and the music was significant.