Try to dig deep in your memory’s archives to 2004 when Mos Def was preparing to drop The New Danger and he had all kinds of promotional buzz after he had a controversial track over Jay’s (actually, Kanye and the Doors’) Takeover beat, a track called The Rape Over. He was taking shots at pretty much any and every wack entity in the music industry, but most notably Lyor Cohen, who we refer to as the tall Israeli. Once he found out Mos was throwing dirt on his name, he had the track pulled from the album.
Now, in 2007… where people are advocating for right of speech via album (sales)… and where Jay-Z claims he stands behind Nas’ Nigger album title, do you think Jay has Ether pulled from his miserable excuse of a Greatest Hits album? Seeing as it was and should be on the track list. Given, those aren’t Nas’ greatest songs, but I guess those are his hits. Why wouldn’t Ether be on there though. Not only is it a great song, musically, lyrically, whatever whatever, but it damn near saved and resurrected his doodoo excuse of a career (which was an opportunity he then wasted on the albums that followed-I dare you to say no). Can’t they just re-re-release Illmatic instead of a GH album? (more…)
This kinda talk is only reserved for the bosses
Which means I only get it from the ground
Which means you get it when I’m around
Rich niggas, black Bar Mitzvahs… mazel tov
It’s a celebration bitches! L’chaim
I wish for you a hundred years of success, but it’s my time
If only this could end like Death of a Dynasty. Anyway, this whole post was sponsored by the kindfolk over at NahRight.
After everyone from Cassidy, Joell Ortiz, Kanye West, Milk D, AZ, Styles P, Ludacris, to Tupac Shakur, raising from the dead, redid the I Get Money track, and thus murked 50 Cent‘s verse, the homie Belize remixed it on the I Get Welfare tip. I thought I’d go in and finished what he started and redo the two last verses.
Also, after all this talk about 50 Cent persuading the real money makers like Jay-Z and P. Diddy to jump on the supposed “billionaire” remix, that might or might not feature a verse from Kanye West, I thought I’d make my own Billionaire remix, featuring our favorite tall Israelis… Lyor Cohen, Jimmy Iovine & Doug Morris. I’ll save that for later because it’s turning out to be pretty tough to rhyme something with matza… plus when you re-read it, shit’s depressing. Tall Israelis are indeed running this rap shit. But that’s for later, for now I give you the I don’t Get Money remix… (more…)
