And yes, you are absolutely right. I don’t know where the hell this debate came from which is why I brought it up.

I hope you can expand on this topic by submitting your take in our FRESHH Symposium. Old School Scholar is the home for your place to speak.

Peace!

Best rapper alive to you which is fine by us. You only know as far as your experience, research, and knowledge, but he is not the best end all be all rapper alive. However it is a great sales pitch by Wayne to stir up press. It was the same tactic used by LL Cool J when he released I'm Bad in 1988, and he had groupies like yourself back then eating it up. That is what made both of them a superstar in their days. But LL Cool J is better than Wayne to this day and in works.

It is not a matter whether he dropped out of school. It is a matter of not opening your mouth about something before you check your facts. Old School Scholar will not post about the Hip Hop culture if we were not experienced about it. We live it. You will never hear us talk about modifying a racing import, implementing hybrid fuels, and alloy frames because we know nothing about the subject. We do not live it. Many great millionaires dropped out of school but still got educated. In other words get educated so you will not have to put your foot in your mouth.

Finally, we do not hate Lil Wayne. We dislike what he represents. A fabrication of mainstream marketing and glam images. This is not keepin' it street. This is not Hip Hop. If Lil Wayne is real why not go head to head, lyric for lyric against another emcee. He just is not an emcee. Lyric and flow-wise, he could not hold Talib Kweli's jock, Black Thought, or Charlie 2Na on the mic. Lyricism is an artform and a craft. Point blank.

Peace, and thank you for your passion.

Ok, I’m let ya’ll digest on that for a moment because you’re re-assessing the heirarchy of your favorites as your reading this.

My only issue with this article is that the author did not expand upon how this confusion came about or – and more importantly, how this fraud continues to be perpetrated. I’m going to assume that the author & I are within the same age demographic and I’m going to further suppose he’s got his history from living it & loving it. Those prefaces in place I stand incredulous at his assertion that freestylist are misguided.

Nonetheless, an excellent article that further explores the boundaries of some thing that was just a fad when I was a kid…

Can't Stop, Won't Stop!

Today’s Kung Fu films are shot with an epic feel laced with Shakespearean drama and tragedies like Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Of course we have the spoofing of Stephen Chow with his classics Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer which I truly advise people to watch with an open mind.

Q Ball has truly encouraged me and the crew to enjoy all of these films, and we are glad we did!

Thanks for reading, cousin!