Why is Scratch playing Meth's Riddler song??????? Meth didn't even know the lyrics to that joint. Someone needs to explain the whole point of Verzuz to Scratch...
Keith Murray!!!!!!
RZA pops up....And Deck???? Dope!!!!.... Red/Meth #Verzuz
Scratch cutting up "Rock The Bells" like a mad man reminds me we need that LL Cool J Verzuz...Now....
Redman is SO good. Like 1st tier lyrical expertise.... #VERZUZ
"Cereal Killer" is such an underrated deep album cut on Blackout! #VERZUZ
Letting X's verse on 4,3,2,1 rock.....REAL...... #Verzuz.....
Redman's "Fuck You" is top 5 for him. That song gets your boy hype...."I'll Be Thaaaaat....."
Redman's "Tonight's Da Night" is insanely GOAT material... #verzuztv.....
“I’m sorry,” he says with a quiver in his voice. "But I just get so emotional thinking about the past. I’m so happy that people are finally paying attention to my work,"- My 2010 VIBE interview with Shock G. Rest In Power to hip-hop's UNSUNG music man. fatcapmagazine.blogspot.com/2010/12/shock-…
"By 1980, I started really getting into P-Funk. I was 16. At the same time. I had already lived in New York when Hip Hop was starting.I left NYC in ’78, so I was in that younger crowd of hip-hop fans.I was there for the DJ’s in the park at the jams."--Shock G
"When we first started D.U., we were trying to be like what Public Enemy, but P.E. was way better than us [laughs]. Me and my partner Kenny K were Stokely Carmichael fanatics. The way we were thinking was, 'We are going to have to bomb a courthouse one day [laughs]."--Shock G.
Ok. So I've seen a few of these type of posts from a few heads concerning ghostwriting when it comes to women emcees. And I want to set the record straight historically. Specifically on MC Lyte....
2) Now let's start off with the foundation of why male hip-hop heads always seem to jump head on into the SHE DOESN'T WRITE HER OWN RHYMES trope. Which is quite misogynistic and misses the point about the power dynamic between men/women that has existed in the hip-hop industry.
3) For much of the '80s and '90s hip-hop was controlled by male gatekeeping producers and label heads. In the early '80s women MC's were seen as a mere novelty. The likes of Sha Rock and Angie B were in aberration. These early women pioneers wrote their own rhymes.