First off, next week is shaping up to be a big week in the city with releases coming from Shareefa, Lil' Boosie and Gucci Mane's long-anticipated "Hard to Kill" album. I'm looking forward to each one of these albums. Even Boosie says that his album is real strong top to bottom (18 of 'em) with no reason to skip through any tracks.

Check in with me next week for my interviews with Shareefa and Lil Boosie.
BEEF!! Did anybody catch the "Queen of the South" battle between Trina, Jacki-O, and Khia. It went down on BET's "Beef: The Series" and it's developing into a nice little catfight. In case you missed it you know BET will run it some ALOT more though. It's like everybody wants a piece of Khia these days? I know she's from Florida but now in Atlanta so she's gotta hold it down. But you know what they say, "If you have people talking about then you must be doing something right."

This weekend, Tom Joyner and "The Skyshow" will be in town doing it up real big at The Atlanta Civic Center on Saturday, Oct. 21st at 8 p.m. Those performing include Cameo, JoJo (Mary Jane Girls), Switch and Kindred. Real heads might recognize some serious sampling that has been done in the game from all of these cats (except Kindred).

I really do try to be as objective as possible, despite what some might think. Yes sir, I love the south but I do try to look at things with a certain amount of obectivity when it comes to this thing called hip hop.

With that said, I have to admit that a great deal of the music coming out of all the regions is bordering on monotony. Real talk, I don't know if it's the beats, the lyrics or what? But the game needs a serious shot in the arm right now.

Are we stuck on punchlines too much? What happened to hip hop commentary on not just one song, but how about the whole album. It means NOTHING if you talk about Hurricane Katrinavictims on one song and the next 15 you're talking about moving bricks for guap. That's just real. The public is a smart public, believe it or not.

Do you remember when it was all good to pick up a Public Enemy, Hank Shocklee -produced disc and never know whether you would get "911 is a Joke," "Hollywood Burn," "Fight The Power" or "Welcome To The Terrordome"... even though the subject matter was different it was all relevant to the people listening. That awareness helped prevent us from being duped, and right now we're being duped as a country (played like a fucking piano as King Tee, Cube etc. would say) by you know who.

Sad part is, all the weight pushing and gloc totin' will make it easy for this flame we call rap to be stomped out when that time comes (there probably will come a time, don't know when -- but there will be an attempt made one day to shut this money maker down, too many cats eatin' ya feel)

But some of the negativity carries no weight. Yeah it's real life and it's what's happening in these streets but why advertise -- let the outsiders come figure out what's going on, why air out our dirty laundry for the world to hear.

And we wonder why we keep getting caught up. There used to be a time when trappin' was done on the low, now everybody want's to speak on it.

That's almost like getting on the field and yelling out, "Yo!!! We running a sweep to the left side!" And wondering why you got gang-tackled on the left side. Wake up, pimpin'!

My bad err'body I just felt like ventin' today...Must be the Tribe in the deck.

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