The Decade That Was: Hip Hop In Review

I'm a little late on this post. I thought I'd have it up a couple of days ago, but it is hard to make this kind of list.

It was an up and down decade for hip hop. It started up and stayed there for a few years and then the downloading age hit and threw hip hop into a downward spiral of irrelevance and bullshit in the middle of the decade(05-08). As of today it is getting back to where it was. In retrospect we never really realize how damn long a decade is. I mean 10 years ago we were worried about the Y2K crash and Puff, J.Lo & Shyne shot up the club. But since a decade is so long I am going to go year by year and give my opinion on the best 2-4 albums that year.

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What We Talking About? Government Bureaucrats?

“If there is one thing I can never understand is a person who will follow someone in the government, telling them how bad the government is, at the same time explaining how good their form of government happens to be.”

As the health care debate has been raging on and on and on, we constantly hear from the right wing about Government Bureaucrats getting in between you and your doctor. Or that they want to take Grandma’s walker, kick her in the shins and put her in front of the guy from Mortal Kombat telling you whether to finish her or not.

These people have lost their god damn minds. They just blatantly lie now, and it’s not even like a well-covered lie, I only need to type two words into google to prove their sheer stupidity. I mean at least be responsible enough to use Wikipedia. Don’t make it so easy.

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Before They Were Stars

"Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey"

So I found a bunch of hip hop/r&b artists pictures before they were big. Some of them are nice, some of them are awful, but everyone had their bad image phase.

1) Beyonce

What makes me particularly angry is the fact that I don't remember a girl looking like this in my high school

2) Diddy

Diddy was in the Math Club?

3) Lil Wayne

What the fuck is up with his hair.. It is like the pre Soul Glo treatment… May I remind you by the time Lil Wayne was whatever age this is, he was with Cash Money so why does dude look like he doesn’t have $2?

4) 50 Cent

CUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSS

5) Missy Elliot

I don't know where to start..

Looks like Queen Latifah and Whoopi Goldberg spawned an offspring.

6) Olivia (of G-Unit fame)

What in the blue hell is wrong with her eyebrows? Looks like she used the "^" character on the keyboard as a stencil.

7) Flavor Flav

How do you go from a normal looking Gary Coleman look-a-like to whatever Flav is today?

8) Fat Joe

Overweight Joseph should have hit the Stairmaster a long time ago. By the way does it look like his jacket is way too small? I mean dude would rip the coat in half if he tried to zip that shit.

9) Big Pun



Come to find out Big Pun wasn't always Big.. Fat Joe must of made him that way.. Besides the fact he has a unibrow, dude looks stylish for the day.

Maybe Al B. Sure! switched bodies with him?

10) Rihanna

One word... adorable.

11) Jay-Z

The first picture looks perfectly normal.. But in the second picture is that aluminum foil in his mouth?

12) Timbaland & T.I.

To be fair to them House Party with Kid 'N' Play just came out

13) Alicia Keys

So wholesome

14) Busta Rhymes

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Got my hair in check.

15) Ashanti & Ciara

[Usher] Ain't nothing like Good Ol' Ghetto [/Usher]

Also to Ashanti a lil' waxing of the eyebrows would be cool.. Somewhere in between your eyebrows and Olivia's would be cool.

16) Chris Brown

The reason he is smiling is because he just beat up the woman photographer

17) Eminem

Barry Manilow called he wants his fan back.

18) Jermaine Dupri

The freaks come out at night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously how did this guy end up with Janet Jackson?

19) Ice Cube

That yearbook page has to be soaked with Jheri Curl juice.

Also, what is with the collar up? What is he the Compton version of Tubbs from Miami Vice?

20) Ryan Leslie

Yooooooooooooo I know he is smart but dude looks over the top nerdy.

21) Lil' Jon

WHATTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!

I'm Speech-less.. How does the king of crunk go from that to

22) My personal favorite QuestLove from the Roots

This guy must have come from his mother's womb with an afro, a beard and razor bumps.

Can this season become a "Net Profit"?

At the beginning of every season, each team has a chance to make it to the playoffs, with that being said 20 games in; the Nets are out of the race with a 1-19 record.

In honor of the 8 teams from the Eastern Conference that will go to the playoffs I have come up with 8 ways the Nets could make money and boost fan morale in this otherwise disappointing season.

1) Free Nachos with every win

It’s simple with every win they give the entire crowd in attendance free nachos. Right now they are on pace to give out 4 free nights of nachos. But hopes and dreams may get you far, and nothing says success like quenching 19 nights of the agony of defeat than 1 night of free nachos.

2) Rebuilding Year
I mean face it the Nets have tremendous talent on their team Stephon Marbury, Jason K idd, Vince Carter, Richard Jefferson, Devin Harris, umm Rafer Alston, and Eduardo Najera. They should start freeing up cap space to get some real talent like Brian Scalabrine, Coby Karl, Kwame Brown and Darko Milicic

3) Free Jay-Z Concerts at Halftime

He owns 1. 47% of the Nets, I think he can give them some sort of a boost with 1.47% of a performance during halftime.

Not to mention he is the God MC so he may be able to resurrect them from basketball’s cemetery.

“You gotta pardon Jay, for selling out the Garden in a day” He should sell out the Izod center right?

4) Order T-shirts instead of Jerseys


I mean it’s not like they are using their jerseys anyway. Why waste the money on top of the line authentic apparel, when they could get these highly durable one wash and the numbers crack t-shirts? And to be honest nothing says basketball fundamentals than the shirts kids get in local youth leagues.

5) Hire Stephon Marbury as the new Commentator

Nothing says sad, desperate and mediocre entertainment like Marbury. Just watch his UStream Account. While he is at it, he could give the team his classic sneakers. I mean come on Steve & Barry’s produced better sneakers than Nike.

6) Make the team take the bus for road trips

Greyhound has $69 specials to anywhere in the country. So what if they wouldn’t make it to some games on time, it isn’t like they would have won anyways. So why waste the money on the plane.

7) Don’t play in the proposed Barclays Center

I’m not saying do not go to Brooklyn. But why construct a huge arena when it isn’t necessary? Put them in the nearest Brooklyn YMCA. They Nets look like the normal everyday Y patron. You know the guy who doesn’t really know how to play basketball but he is tall so he gets picked every time. Come to find out he couldn’t make a layup or dribble the ball.

And a drumroll please..

The 8th way the Nets can turn this season into a profit

8) Fire Interim Coach Tom Barrise and Hire Master P

Percy knows basketball. And to be honest I can’t think of anything that has been successful in terms of business in the past 5 years more than the New Jersey Nets and No Limit Records. Still not convinced? Look at Percy’s tv network Better Black Television (BBTV) that was created to go against Black Entertainment Television (BET). Never heard of it, Me also.