In addition to him now being the prime candidate for hiphop's gay rapper, that queer dressing ass n!gga is now a New Yorker. That n!gga prolly hang out in "The Village"--God knows he wouldn't have a hard time fitting in being that the village is faggot Mecca.

throw the towel (sobbing), throw the damn towel!! we will see how pathetically weak your society has become! WE GO!!!


i can't believe he/she said that shit:

"memorial day 2002, l.a. if you show up, whos your dick going in"
-atruhead

"i'm mad at you for the last two pics ... the bed pics. the 'this is what its like to be on top of me' pics"
-HersheyBit

B!tch..So when someone tells the truth about an artist you people dickride it's called "hating" now? Common is a sellout. He sould out the city that put him on the map and that he used to rep. He sold out his original fanbase. And most of all he old out his manhood--he's a b!tch now. Have you seen the guy lately. I'm ashamed that I used to put n!ggas out to his music.

throw the towel (sobbing), throw the damn towel!! we will see how pathetically weak your society has become! WE GO!!!


i can't believe he/she said that shit:

"memorial day 2002, l.a. if you show up, whos your dick going in"
-atruhead

"i'm mad at you for the last two pics ... the bed pics. the 'this is what its like to be on top of me' pics"
-HersheyBit

yo man wit ya name, I don't see how you callin' nobody gay.

git off my dick & tell ya bitch ta come here

>yo man wit ya name, I
>don't see how you callin'
>nobody gay.

>>>YOU kickin and screamin about somebody relocatin and YOU callin somebody ELSE a bitch...

nah sun...

>
>git off my dick & tell
>ya bitch ta come here
>

**buy some dick and give HIM my numba...



*Smuwah* Okaykisses :*

"Love is not what makes the world go 'round...Love is what makes the revolution worthwhile."
~Franklin P. Jones

"Here in God's creation....there is always a reason. I know that LOVE is there for us."
~Nature...India Arie

"How can they hold the loving that is LoveJonez?"
~Okp Naame on strapless bras


"We're the Playas, number one."
~D'Angelo '00


http://members.blackplanet.com/SensualiTee76/#

SensualiTee@hotmail.com

I thought u were the Bootenfellenworf..mofo tawkin bout Lay...sorry...

u are justified...I read the arrows wrong...

whoops...

carryon



*Smuwah* Okaykisses :*

"Love is not what makes the world go 'round...Love is what makes the revolution worthwhile."
~Franklin P. Jones

"Here in God's creation....there is always a reason. I know that LOVE is there for us."
~Nature...India Arie

"How can they hold the loving that is LoveJonez?"
~Okp Naame on strapless bras


"We're the Playas, number one."
~D'Angelo '00


http://members.blackplanet.com/SensualiTee76/#

SensualiTee@hotmail.com

Didn't Com say something like "niggas in the Chi give me the cold eye, I'ma bitch slap the next one, tell them the world is my section..."
Pop, please don't worry, the kid is still ill on the mic, he got ya'll-real niggas know he ain't on no eff Chicago, I'm gay now shit, he still reppin' ya'll. As far as his wears go, he's a bit over the E D G E, but fuck it, so is 'Dre, and I doubt either are doodoo chasers, and if they are so what...next time at his concert just wave ya hands in the air...to block his penis from entering ya mouth!

next time
>at his concert just wave
>ya hands in the air...to
>block his penis from entering
>ya mouth!

Hahahaha, that shit is comedy

----------------------------------
Hi

Boots can you settle a bet between friends?? Do you type then jerk-off wearing your official ?uestlove afro wig, or do you type with one hand, and then well... you know.

I dunno who the gay rapper maybe, but I think we all know who the gay poster is. Oh and if you wanna come through to Brooklyn, down by where Common lives we can first walk through the Fort Greene projects and you can call out fag niggas there too.

You so funny, keep posting you closet Roots fan.
peace
FXS
26+6=1

"Talking about a revolution sounds like a whisper." - Tracy Chapman

>Boots can you settle a bet
>between friends?? Do you type
>then jerk-off wearing your official
>?uestlove afro wig, or do
>you type with one hand,
>and then well... you know.
>

You and your "friend" must be a couple of hoe ass n!ggas to be worried about how I jerk off. Damn I aint know I was that important to you dickriding faggots.

>Oh and if
>you wanna come through to
>Brooklyn, down by where Common
>lives we can first walk
>through the Fort Greene projects
>and you can call out
>fag niggas there too.

Fukk you and fukk Fort Greene. Because Common stays down in Fort Green don't make him any less of a b!tch. Moreover, y'all brooklyn n!ggas is scared to come out to Queens.

>keep posting you
>closet Roots fan.
B!tch..I'm a fan of music not the artists.

I grew up in Queens, a stones throw away from the forties. I live in BK, Bed-Stuy now. BK is better. Leave BK alone. Queens heads still can't believe what a nice block I live on with a whole bunch of nice Black people.
Common is in a grassroots area that is experiencing a gentrificattion (I hope I spelled that right) crisis. Leave him alone. One more positive brotha in the hood can only help.

Besides if he's such a faggot, ain't you glad he's not in Chicago anymore?

You JUST figured out that you needed 1.21 jigowatts transfused through the flux capacitor to make time travel possible.

That's the only reason I can fathom why your just now posting about Common living in NY.

Well foreign friend let me bring you up to speed.
Common's been living in NY for a few YEARS now.
Common is not a nigga, he's an okayplayer artist.
Common is engaged to Erykah Badu, so he's not gay.

But what the fuck would you know, you named yourself after the new millennium slave.

"Jesus, what did you have for breakfast this morning carnation instant bitch?" (c) Eric - That 70's Show

I say we name BootenLeeFonsworth (correct spelling Bootney Farnsworth, don't know where the Lee comes from) Okayhater #1


"Your existence is about as hopeless as a rubber crutch"-Unknown


"So sayeth the sheppard!" "So sayeth the flock!"-Rev. Bubba Flabel and his followers (from Porky's Revenge)

"While rappers are flatter than a white girls butt!"-Poetic from the Gravediggaz (R.I.P)

I think the electric charge from the 1.21 jigowatts effected his brain.

"Jesus, what did you have for breakfast this morning carnation instant bitch?" (c) Eric - That 70's Show

also how did he sell us out when many cats here dont pay attention to concious and battle emcees.... he left cuz he wasnt crucial conflict or do or die or twista son!


I stagger in the gathering possessed by a patter-in
That be scatterin
Over the globe will my vocals be travellin
Unravellin my abdomen it's slime that's babblin
Grammatics that are masculine
I grab them in, verbally badgerin broads
I wish that Madelline, was back on Video LP
I went against all odds and got a even steven
Proceed to read and not believin everything I'm readin
-comm sense(ressurection)

>also how did he sell us
>out when many cats here
>dont pay attention to concious
>and battle emcees.... he left
>cuz he wasnt crucial conflict
>or do or die or
>twista son!

For real...even though madd heads support Com in the Chicago's underground scene. He never got the props he deserves. In many ways you could say Chicago sold out Com. But I do wish he did some colabs with more Chi emcees...I want to see a Capitol D and Com joint.



!sig!

"C'mon you a true thug? Man you get a group hug!
We embrace you, but we ain't scared to face you" - The Unspoken Heard

"One of a kind, I got divine chromosomes in me
My sperm will scramble the eggs in a women's ovaries" - Cannibus

"My mindstate's so big they'll add a star to the flag" - Rise

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
- Albert Einstein


What shall we think of a goverment to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses? A goverment that pretends to be Christian and crucifies a million Christ every day! - Henry David Thoreau

But c'mon dj - you gotta at least give credit to Twista. He got serious skills.

"Jesus, what did you have for breakfast this morning carnation instant bitch?" (c) Eric - That 70's Show

i was more a fan when he was toungue twista freestylin on 106 jams and wgci back when i was in elemntry school
i dont like get it wet and listening to him
but i see where you are coming from
peace


I stagger in the gathering possessed by a patter-in
That be scatterin
Over the globe will my vocals be travellin
Unravellin my abdomen it's slime that's babblin
Grammatics that are masculine
I grab them in, verbally badgerin broads
I wish that Madelline, was back on Video LP
I went against all odds and got a even steven
Proceed to read and not believin everything I'm readin
-comm sense(ressurection)

>You JUST figured out that you
>needed 1.21 jigowatts transfused through
>the flux capacitor to make
>time travel possible.

Quit all that nerd talk n!gga. You aint clever.

>
>That's the only reason I can
>fathom why your just now
>posting about Common living in
>NY.

I don't live on this website like the rest of y'all. I post whenever and whatever I feel like at the moment. What difference would it have made if I posted this last year(when I wasn't active) or today?

>

>Well foreign friend let me bring
>you up to speed.
>Common's been living in NY for
>a few YEARS now.

B!tch I ain't no foreigner and I been know common sold out the chi to move to NY.


>Common is engaged to Erykah Badu,
>so he's not gay.

The same woman that turned both him and Andre into a couple of queers. Erykah must have some bomb pussy to be turning these grown men into b!tches.

>>You JUST figured out that you
>>needed 1.21 jigowatts transfused through
>>the flux capacitor to make
>>time travel possible.
>
>Quit all that nerd talk n!gga.
>You aint clever.
Ha! *clapping & cheering* I smell ignorance yes I do, I smell ignorance how 'bout you?!?

>I don't live on this website
>like the rest of y'all.
>I post whenever and whatever
>I feel like at the
>moment. What difference would it
>have made if I posted
>this last year(when I wasn't
>active) or today?
There would be NO difference. Either way your ass would still be late. You don't have to 'live' on this site for that.

>B!tch I ain't no foreigner and
>I been know common sold
>out the chi to move
>to NY.
Hard to tell.

>The same woman that turned both
>him and Andre into a
>couple of queers. Erykah must
>have some bomb pussy to
>be turning these grown men
>into b!tches.
Your young, close minded, and homophobic.

I'll pray for you tonight.


"Jesus, what did you have for breakfast this morning carnation instant bitch?" (c) Eric - That 70's Show

"I smell ignorance, yes I do, I smell ignorance, how 'bout you?"

LMAO...and co-sign. He don't know about future Mayor Goldie Wilson either!

Call me bird 'cause of my legs, but my ass don't sing/got a house arrest anklet, but it don't bling-bling - Boots Riley

lol. what's wrong with the village?

and wasn't he a 'fruity' dresser when he was in chicago?

by the Badu bug :)

Before the last joint, Like Water for Chocolate, Com used to rock your common (no pun intended) street gear. I actually bumped into Sun at that veggie spot on 87th (Chicago) and I really tripped off his 'fits b/c Sun was straight vintage (but in a strange way). I talked to him for a sec and he was really peace, but his style is definitely no longer representative of the common Chicagoan from the Southside. He reps in his rhymes, no doubt, but dude has gone thru a bugged-out transformation...and that's cool with me too, I just hope Sun doesn't end up taking it to Andre3000 heights...

"that veggie spot on 87th (Chicago)" Were exactly - off Stoney Island?

seem to have that effect on the men in her life.

Unless you're afraid of
homosexuals
blacks
whites,
latinos
jews
anglo saxons
asians
west africans
catholics
protestants
muslims
budhists
atheists
fat people
skinny people
children
elderly men and women
the poor
artists
musicians
If thats the case never go there!
:)

heterosexuals who like trendy shoes and eye wear. :)

i know you just want attention... but he came last year here to my old highschool, breakdanced, answered questions, broke down some of his raps, read some poetry from his book... watched some local performers and recently spoke at a college here. He gets paid for these but he still takes the time and does it.

also many of his songs he refers to the chi(only chi residents would know this sir)

respiration, 6th sense, the bizness, tekzilla... just to name a few
he still reps chicago in many of his rhymes is what im trying to say and his family is here(i met his mom)
get it right
peace


I stagger in the gathering possessed by a patter-in
That be scatterin
Over the globe will my vocals be travellin
Unravellin my abdomen it's slime that's babblin
Grammatics that are masculine
I grab them in, verbally badgerin broads
I wish that Madelline, was back on Video LP
I went against all odds and got a even steven
Proceed to read and not believin everything I'm readin
-comm sense(ressurection)

You still haven't made it clear about exactly *why* u think Common 'sold out'; what exactly is he doing wrong?

Just somebody else trying to get attention. This post is just a waste of space

I stagger in the gathering possessed by a patter-in
That be scatterin
Over the globe will my vocals be travellin
Unravellin my abdomen it's slime that's babblin
Grammatics that are masculine
I grab them in, verbally badgerin broads
I wish that Madelline, was back on Video LP
I went against all odds and got a even steven
Proceed to read and not believin everything I'm readin
-comm sense(ressurection)

why is moving to another city considered selling out? guess when he became known he signed a life contract to live in Chicago? nothing wrong with wanting to see other spots. if i had madd loot i prolly would bounce every three years just to see how life is in other areas. fuck...common can move to East BubbleFuck, Alaska...as long as he stays tru to self he aiight with me...


you cry, cry revolution, but yet you wan de solution,
but you more content with being a pollution
jump in the motion, and thats the notion...

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. -Henry David Thoreau

you know how many rock, soul and especially jazz artists relocated
damn what is he talkin about
peace

I stagger in the gathering possessed by a patter-in
That be scatterin
Over the globe will my vocals be travellin
Unravellin my abdomen it's slime that's babblin
Grammatics that are masculine
I grab them in, verbally badgerin broads
I wish that Madelline, was back on Video LP
I went against all odds and got a even steven
Proceed to read and not believin everything I'm readin
-comm sense(ressurection)

Common moving to NY was biness move. He lived in Chi for 3 albums that sold a few hundred thousand units. He went to NY and linked with De La,Roots,Black Star, and MCA records. He's almost platinum now. It was a biness move. He got down with Guru,Slick Rick, Beatnuts, Funk Flex, Pete Rock and a few other cats. It's called networking my friend. Here in Chi we don't have the vehicles to network with power people like a NY or a LA. For that matter we don't have the juice of an ATL. One day we will. I still got love for Common. I got love for NO I.D. and Dug Infinite too, but leaving them behind was Common's best move.

Peace
Sherron Shabazz

"Ima choke you in front of the poe-leece." -Bernie Mac

I stagger in the gathering possessed by a patter-in
That be scatterin
Over the globe will my vocals be travellin
Unravellin my abdomen it's slime that's babblin
Grammatics that are masculine
I grab them in, verbally badgerin broads
I wish that Madelline, was back on Video LP
I went against all odds and got a even steven
Proceed to read and not believin everything I'm readin
-comm sense(ressurection)

Is 'Hooked on Phonics" really THAT expensive, c'mon now.

So no matter how much I show you goons what a sellout Common is y'all still won't understand. If you fags would get y'all head up out Commons ass you'd understand what I'm saying.

Damn Dog!!! Let it go...man! Just accept thet fact that we 1.)Think you swallow balls! and 2. You're obvious hate of Com is unwarranted and totally pointless.

and i aint no fag.... but since you love the word then if thats what makes you happy

I stagger in the gathering possessed by a patter-in
That be scatterin
Over the globe will my vocals be travellin
Unravellin my abdomen it's slime that's babblin
Grammatics that are masculine
I grab them in, verbally badgerin broads
I wish that Madelline, was back on Video LP
I went against all odds and got a even steven
Proceed to read and not believin everything I'm readin
-comm sense(ressurection)

Dog, on some real shit, you are mad Jo (Philly term: on somedody's dick so hard you're gagging on that shit). First of all, how are you going to say that Common sold out Chicago? I'm not even from there and I know he reps Chi-Town on the regular? His relocation does not justify your comments either because people move all the time for various reasons and Com obviously needed to go to NY to handle his business as far as the industry is concerned. So, I wonder what your beef really is? Did you try to get his autograph and he dissed you or something? Did you want to be on the Spitkickers Tour? Imma need you to stop creating this innacurate notion of Com. I am also going to need you to stop hatin on the next man because he's trying to step his game up, and make himself international (versus confining himself to Chicago). Whether you like it or not, NY is the center of the industry and to make your mark, you have to hit it up. So, Imma need you to find some other talents besides felacio. Go write a rhyme or something.

In his own words, Common addresses this very question. Hear it for yourself:

HI: http://www.okayplayer.com/real/common/Com_leavechihi.ram

Lo: http://www.okayplayer.com/real/common/Com_leavechilo.ram

Okay, carry on.

I'm glad to hear this shit. I aing EVEN on that why he leave shit. Folks wanna be on that Crabs in a Barrel shit. He said it himself, "Let a N!&&a move where he tryin to move up to"

It seems like those in the Chi were the ones really hating. I aint biased either...on some 'THAT's my man shit'... I only got his last album. I couldn't care less about where he lives, I'm just glad that I heard this and know Bootenslee... dude and others like him can take their foots out of their mouths and shove it up their asses. lol.

D.

BKYLE is THE SHIT!!!

that little GEM is just one of THOUSANDS more.

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AIM:The4ourthVenom

Esco Erotica
fourth_venom@yahoo.com


I'm the man who supply who supply
who supply YOU

FINALLY SOMEONE WITH SENSE HAS RESPONDED TO THIS TOPIC

"let a nigga move where he wanna move up to/you don't like how i'm livin' well fuck you!"

com's wears might be suspect, but he'll eat your food every time.

peace,

ajax

I loves that shit right there BKyle!!! Nuff respect!!!






>In his own words, Common addresses
>this very question. Hear it
>for yourself:
>
>HI: http://www.okayplayer.com/real/common/Com_leavechihi.ram
>
>Lo: http://www.okayplayer.com/real/common/Com_leavechilo.ram
>
>Okay, carry on.

people don't understand this n!gga called BootenLee...i don't know you, but i know where you're comin from...

keep it real, that's what this culture is about....

you have your opinions, you come on this board and you tell it like it is....sometimes you go a little too far, trying to push people's buttons, but i know why you do it...

you know you can come on this board and go to the extreme with your opinion because there are a lot of people on here who blindly follow the "majority opinion"...aka - dickride... (be it the opinion/dick of an artist like ?uest or the opinion of a "regular Okayplayer" who's on the boards a lot)....there's some truth to what he says y'all and you know it....

common left chicago, the city that put him on....in hip hop culture that's wack....you rep the city that supported you when you weren't shit, when you were at the open mics, the city that went and bought your first album just 'cause you were from where they're from....

i don't agree with most of your opinions...i don't think common is gay, acting gay or even heading in that direction...i can understand the city of chicago's beef with common moving to new york, but guess what...that's his bidness and you and the rest of chi-town should have his back....he is your brethren and he's tryin to do his thing....don't close him in or he'll end up someone you aren't proud to have rep your city and he won't have no love for y'all neither....'cause anyone that really knows, knows that common reps chicago for life...no matter where he rests his head...

new york knows they can't claim him..he's from chicago.

so don't let the okayhaters keep you from doin your thang, but keep it real dogg cause when you don't, that's when you sound like a hater yourself....

hip hop isn't ever gonna be what it was...shit is universal now...so cats are gonna move around and change and experment with shit that none of us are gonna like if we expect it to be what it was.....we just gotta let it be what it's gonna be or it will die on the vine....

but your shit is hilarious....so fuck it, right?

you're just the mad poster....period.

kayper
kayper@kayper.com
drew@okayplayer.com

www.kayper.com (one day)

We walk the path forever. Why not walk
it together? - Me

"sometimes I write
with my eyes closed
so my heart
can recieve dictation" - LexM

Uh....It sounds to me like you're dickriding BootenLee,Kayper.

both sides can be spoken for...

Odyseuss = Ody (Odysseus, a great Greek warrior on an even greater journey) Seuess (Dr. Seuss, the great poet)

Bootenlee...

...You are saying that Common sold out by turning his back of his city, but aren't you selling out your city by turning your back on one of it's products???

I'm in Milwaukee and I will support Coo Coo Cal forever because he is a Milwaukeean (no matter where he lives), and I will forever support Arrested Development and Speech because they have Milwaukee roots. Don't turn your back on your city and the flowers that bloom in that city. Sometimes those flowers need to be picked and planted in other environments to have a better chance to grow...nahmean??? or did I get to metaphorical on you.

Peace, love, and "dickriding",

Okayplayer "dickrider",
Odyseuss

even philly's most wanted relocated to philly,
but they still get play and support here...

common will always represent chicago, even to
heads who aren't from there--he'll always be
chicago in my mind...

even richard wright moved to paris....

the reason com moved to brooklyn was cuz
1. chicago has never really shown love to the underground, ESPECIALLY the radio stations. the only exception to that is Mike Love N Diz. but even that is only two nights a week.

2. the costs for flying out to the east coast to record was getting astounding (most of the contiributing factors were residing on the east coast.

3.NY is the mecca of hip hop. so why not move therte? ya gotta go where the money and support are at nawmean?

but then again, you're to shallow minded to look past the end of ya nose to see what'z really goin on.

>chicago has never really shown love to the underground
please don't single out chicago. i mean, other than on college radio, does any city?

i don't think he sold for moving to brooklyn, because if i could live there for a few years i would. he's never stopped claiming chicago, so he's cool with me. still, i keep thinking of this line:

"sometimes i contemplate moving to a warmer place, then the lake and skyline, give me a warm embrace"...... (not that new york is warm, but what happened to chicago's warm embrace?).

************************************************
"you worship a head of lettuce?"-rog from "what's happening!"

I believe he is talking about Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline in downtown Chicago.

that's what i mean. why did the chicago skyline not keep him from moving this time?

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"you worship a head of lettuce?"-rog from "what's happening!"

Naw man i mean chicago as a whole. the whole scene out here (unless it'z the die hard ones) is just nonsupportive. you have the occasional venue that will support the underground like subterrenean, joes night club on weed st. but that's as far as it goes. HOB does NOT and has publicly stated it has no interest in an act unless they have some kind of rapport behind em. other than the busta rhymes and the jill scotts, they want no part of it. why is it a person is able to call joes, or subterrenean, offer to open for an act with a 20 or 30 minute set for free or damn near free and it happens, but you call HOB and they shit on you? cuz it'z about money, simple and plain. that is why it is so hard to make it out here in chicago, unless you know people in high places, AND it just so happens that they are out of state. now i realize that chicago hasn't really blown up on the scene yet (keyword being YET). why do you think com, da brat, do or die, and any other act from chicago (besides r.kelly) have gotten up N left chicago? cuz there is no support out here!!! why do you think the boycott happened in the 1st place? the only thing we had goin for us was 106 jamz, and how many years ago was it that they shut down? mufuggaz think com left just cuz? come on now get real, the man had to make some moves if he was gonna get fed, and obviously it wasn't happening out here. i give him his props for doin what he had to do. he STILL reps chicago in his writing, and he still does what com does. most of the shyt he says only chicago heads would know about. anyway that's vearing off of what the subject was. the point i'm trying to get at is, chicago doesn't support they own like other cities show support. i've been to many shows with underground talent and i've seen some dope emcees but the crowd just stands there KNOWIN that they feel the music but don't want to move to it cuz they afraid someone might be lookin. and the only time they DO move is when they hear some commercial jointz bein thrown on the tables. i've seen it in other cities too, but chicago is the WORST. i live here so i know what they hell it'z like in the clubs. anyway, i've spoken my piece, if anyone wants to discuss this further, feel free. i'm always down for a debate.

peace

hey, i'm not disagreeing. i feel you 110%. i've seen how cats act out here at shows, etc. you've got to fight them to get them to move. i think the sad fact is that we have hip hop heads out here, but 80% of the people in our city are into WGCI & 106.3 and that's it, OR they are into nuthin' but that thug-thug-thug crap. i hate to say it but i think the youth in chicago, (i can't speak for any other town) has a twisted sense of what music is. maybe i'm wrong, but i'm tired of arguing with inner city teens about what's dope and what ain't so dope. maybe that's my age starting to show. i don't blame common for moving, but as long as he keeps reppin' for the true heads still in chicago, he's cool with me.

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"you worship a head of lettuce?"-rog from "what's happening!"

i think i know the reasdon. to put it blatantly, chicago youth are SPOON FED their music. they don't seek out for the good shyt cuz it'z to much work.

to tell ya the truth, i'd rather spend my last 20 buckz on a good cd and a bite to eat than anything else. people fail to realize that these so called artists had to start somewhere, and that somewhere is in the underground. many of em think that they just popped out of no where and got signed. they don't even realize the hard work and dedication it takes to make it!!! then ya got ignorent people like the originator of this post who doesn't know a fuckin thing about what'z goin on, speaking on some ole "Common sold out" type shyt. how can anyone speak on something they know nothing about, nawmean? well i'd like to keep goin with this but i have to get back to work. peace N blessingz.

Peace and blessings OKP. Yo why is it that we cats from chicago gotta show so much disregard for each other? This is the exact thinking that prevents chicago from leaving the mark on the hip-hop landscape that it should. How could u possibly say common sold out the chi?....i'm str8 out of chicago and i cant think of another mc that holds up the light for the chi like common. He has ALWAYS big upped the chi...put chicago talent on (malik yusef, chante savage, mad production) he came to columbia and did a show in the damn parking lot off wabash...he just recently was here doin a panel discussion with monique charidine...not only as a chicagoan but as an artist i am proud of common for reaching outside of chicago. Although i love my city, lets face it shit there just aren't the resources here for artist that there are in NY. If you tryin to be on the come up, u gotta make that move. Least for rye now until artist LIKE common and da brat start using their labels as vehicles to draw the attention towards chicago...which in turn brings money into the picture, which in turn eleviates the need for chicago artist to have to leave just get put on. The world is a lot bigger than chicago. I have lived both here and on the each coast. two totally different experiences, and i actually apprecaite the chi more having lived there. It's not like common said he was never comin back this mug. He just had to make moves for a minute. As far as him sayin he is a new yorker now i dont know if that is true or not but if it is i am disappointed...i would be interested to hear from him wut he meant by that. And yo son as far as your comments about common being gay u r just ignorant yo. Wut the hell does that have to do with his lyrical ability? And the fact that the man has style does not predetermine that he is gay. But lets say common is gay....WHO GIVES A FUCK! aint like he is tryin to get up with ure ignorant ass dawg i think common got better taste then that. So to wrap it up stop hatin that man. I'm not sayin common is perfect, but i know that being from chicago, the people here are really proud of where they are from. We have to fight for every bit of respect we got. Most people haven't even been here and wanna talk about my city. But we know wut is like goin to the festivals in the fall. The taste in the summer. Just chillin by the lake. Goin to the underground sets where the real hot shit is. Chicago is an incredible city that i wish more people had a chance to experience. But with the shit infested words flowin out of your mouth, there should be little motivation for people to want to experince that. Since u so worried about people sellin out chicago, try bein a better rep yourself patna. GETYAMINDRYE yo damn..........one

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he played at the House of Blues despite the hiphop boycott.

I guess I sold Chicago out to, because I went to the concert. I support all my undergroud Chicago artist. Watch-out for Rec Center, Profound and Juice!!

no, you just don't support underground Chicago hiphop, you hypocrite

Explain yourself!!! Would I have not been supporting Common by not going, or is Common no longer Chicago Hip-Hop.

>Explain yourself!!! Would I have
>not been supporting Common by
>not going, or is Common
>no longer Chicago Hip-Hop.

Chicago Hip Hop seemed to be pretty unified in their boycott. Common wanted nothing to do with the boycott. so ask yourself, is Common Chicago hip hop?

You keep Common's name in your mouth all day every day.

Why do you care where he moves? Get a life.

Thoughtfully yours,

Spirit Equality

If you really loved me, you'd check out http://www.mp3.com/spirit_equality

Spirit Equality will be rocking a 20 minute set as part of an underground hip-hop showcase @ Metro Cafe (on 14th St and Church St NW, b/t P and Q), FEBRUARY 28th...last day of February, baby, ring out Black History Month with a bang...cover price unknown...well worth any price asked :-) (likely $5-7)

Misc. Flux will be having their record release show (for their debut CD "Dead In Dreams") @ STATE OF THE UNION (1357 U street NW, DC) on FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2002...doors-9pm, show-10pm....$5 cover...$10 CD's for sale...21+ (please bring photo ID, open mind, and body (or bodies) ready to move)

If you believe in avant garde music with soul, peep out http://www.miscflux.com

2002: The Underground Strikes Back

Abolitionist Movement representing...

And you're always on my dick since I started posting here. Weren't you the same n!gga from DC that claim he'd fukk me up if I was ever supposed to go out there?
You'd get bodied trying to step to me. Hoe nigga.

Hey BootenLeeFascist, quit hating on gay people, or me and my gay housemate are gonna have to find you and beat you with a dildo.

What the hell are you talking about? Com's lived in New York for a couple years now? I'm from Chicago. He hasn't sold me out; the hip hop scene in Chicago not condusive to an artist like Com so he split. God bless him.

chicago is wack as all hell.. i mean the place is dreadful..
_________________

"If you lose five dollars you can get that shit back. but if you lose ten minutes.. son, you can kiss that shit good bye."
-Officer Lenny Thomas

>chicago is wack as all hell..
> i mean the place
>is dreadful..

You can't even get a descent bowl of lobster newberg out there, and that wind whippin in off the lake...

all yall deep dish pizza yall eatin thank us for that too... and whats that have to do with him anyway...
cuz its windy is that a serious complaint, chicago is a city of culture.... culture you will never achieve
peace

I stagger in the gathering possessed by a patter-in
That be scatterin
Over the globe will my vocals be travellin
Unravellin my abdomen it's slime that's babblin
Grammatics that are masculine
I grab them in, verbally badgerin broads
I wish that Madelline, was back on Video LP
I went against all odds and got a even steven
Proceed to read and not believin everything I'm readin
-comm sense(ressurection)

>all yall deep dish pizza yall
>eatin thank us for that
>too

Ya know, your right... I apologize for my malicious remarks,
I never realized what a great contribution Chicago has made to us
folks in the Tri-State area by creating the deep dish pizza.

>chicago is a city of culture.... culture you
>will never achieve

LOL! I got New York right around the way so I'm sure I'm not missing much.

Don't ever disrespect my city!!!

>Don't ever disrespect my city!!!

Your city... You act as though your the fuckin mayor of the place. Calm ya narrow ass down, Clitoris, it was a quote from the movie Citizen Kane.

So don't get all salty over a city you don't own.

Chicago hands down is one of the dopest cities the US has to offer.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
whateva man!!

sexy fees and the summer, luh that shit....

but i won't stand by and let some muthafucka disrespect my city. chicago is one of the dopest cities. niggas come on a weekend visit and think they know how we do it. i'm from here and i'm still amazed at all the shit there is to do here. so fuck you!



new sig...
http://members.blackplanet.com/illkec/#

did fat joe sell out the BX by moving to Jersey?

No. Nas sold out the bridge by becoming Esco.

I got 20 ways to tell you 'Shut the fuck up'
19 of 'em are 24 bars long
The other one goes 'SHUT THE FUCK UP!'
--Aesop Rock

Cats don't really fall off
They just get uninspired
--Blueprint

>No. Nas sold out the
>bridge by becoming Esco.
>

You fukking Idiot. So I guess Biggie sold out brooklyn by becoming "Frank White" huh? You dumbass okayplyer muthaphuckas never seize to amaze me with your stupidity and dickrider tendencies.

>You fukking Idiot. So I guess
>Biggie sold out brooklyn by
>becoming "Frank White" huh? You
>dumbass okayplyer muthaphuckas never seize
>to amaze me with your
>stupidity and dickrider tendencies.

Hey moron...I was saying that your precious Nas SOLD OUT. Get it? SOLD OUT.


I got 20 ways to tell you 'Shut the fuck up'
19 of 'em are 24 bars long
The other one goes 'SHUT THE FUCK UP!'
--Aesop Rock

Cats don't really fall off
They just get uninspired
--Blueprint

i agree...he's still a great artist..but everything else you said i agree with..but as long as the music is good who cares

dayum u close to the house
77 & indiana

"Jesus, what did you have for breakfast this morning carnation instant bitch?" (c) Eric - That 70's Show

I stagger in the gathering possessed by a patter-in
That be scatterin
Over the globe will my vocals be travellin
Unravellin my abdomen it's slime that's babblin
Grammatics that are masculine
I grab them in, verbally badgerin broads
I wish that Madelline, was back on Video LP
I went against all odds and got a even steven
Proceed to read and not believin everything I'm readin
-comm sense(ressurection)

74th & racine......

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"you worship a head of lettuce?"-rog from "what's happening!"

First and foremost you ignorant tierra hugging mutha-fuckaz
Whether or not common is gay isn't fucking relevant to the fire that this man spits from his mouth whenever he sets any mic a blaze. Secondly who cares where he lives at he doesn't deny where he comes from the world is his universe...he could hae packed his shit up and moved to spain or even north dakota what would that really change...for all yall that were bothered by any of these facts or gay ass rumors..Yall are some SIMPLE OKAYFAKER COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE MUTHAFUCKAS

PEACE

Shut the fukk up and stop the goddamn crying.

You should come to Forte Green too. With that foul mouth of yours you would fit right in with the brothas who like to politic in front of the Bodegas about the WTC and Afghanistan.

>You should come to Forte Green
>too. With that foul
>mouth of yours you would
>fit right in with the
>brothas who like to politic
>in front of the Bodegas
>about the WTC and Afghanistan.
>
Fukk Fort Greene. and fukk you too hoe.
What does me comming to fort green have to do with Common selling out his city?

he said he was a New yorker now and he kept bigging up Brooklyn and didnt even rep for Chitown. He seems like a dickrider anyways and just look at how he switched his whole persona from backpacker to hippy. I dont know why you people think he's so good, I used to listen to him now after them past 2 albums he irritates me.

>seems like a dickrider anyways
>and just look at how
>he switched his whole persona
>from backpacker to hippy.

Huh? I think that shit was a natural progression. Most of them Ummah, Soul Quarian type niggas made that switch- it would seem.

If you made positive lyrics back in the day, and want to make 'em now you have really three choices for outlets: Gospel, hat "Hippy" ish, and LL's favorite; love/booty jawns...

Ya'll know this to be true- so why you hatingpeace...

The FundaMentalz...Language Arts
Marietta (ATL), GA.

"And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor,-all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked,-who is good? Not that men are ignorant, -what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."
W.E.B. Dubois

Not that many people see a big difference between backpackers and hippies.
Why isn't a person allowed to change his/her style, just as you have changed your preference for his music?

I ain't gon' kill y'all nigs, I ain't that fool. But, I will stomp the shit out of you, I ain't that cool.- Royce

younguns ice-grillin'me/yo, you not feelin' me/fine, it costs you nothin'/pay me no mind-Jay

don't get too close, because ya might get shot-PMD

you call yourselves God/can you make it rain?/can you tell me now what I'm thinkin' in my brain?-Kool Keith

i might lick one 'tato chip, put it back in the bag, shake it up. whoever get the chip get the chip.-Meth

y'all niggas pray to Hot Rods, and not God/while Versace play your bitches like Yahtzee.-Dave a.k.a. Trugoy

FIRST OF ALL COMMON IS A GROWN ASS MAN, HE DON'T HAVE TO EXPAIN
TO ANYONE WHY HE MOVED TO NY! AND GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT BEFORE
GO ON CALLIN' SOMONE A FAGGOT. YOUR JUST MAD THAT HIS SKILLZ
HAVE GOTTEN BETTER AND THAT HE HAS A GOOD WOMAN LIKE MS. BADU
BY HIS SIDE.

DON'T HATE ON THE MAN
ISAAC D

WTF!!! I can't believe you went there...

this dude come out trying to be like D'angelo
give me a break
Badu must got some "flip a nigga upside down pussy."
next thing he will be walking aroound in wigs and shit

Uhhhhhh....yeah..right ..whatever.

"Your existence is as hopeless as a rubber crutch"-Unknown

and you definitely just sold out by calling another black man a nigga.

<shakes her head...>

"Let a Ni**a move where he wanna' move up to... you don't like how I'm livin' well fuck oo..."
AbE"Canofwormsanyone??"SpiGG-NiCe!!!
"Not from the P.J's yet I still got somethin' to say..."- Plug1
"I learned at least this by my experiments. That if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put something behind and will pass an invisible boundary."
--Henry David Thoreau
"Pay more dues than S.A.G. Actors..."- Big Daddy Kane

This guy is a fucking idiot. He gives most hip hop heads a bad name with his stupid ass saing he's "prolly" a faggot. Hey man take your uneducatied ass to a grammar class. Second say that to his face. Maybe if he is gay he'll rape your little bitch ass like a bull. If he's not he'll do it for the fun or watching you cry to your mom. Why is it every time a rapper tries to say something of value he is called soft. I guess that's what's wrong with the culture you'd rather stay pinned sdown were you are then soar to higher levels. Yo man stay a thug I guess that's all you'll ever be. In ten years when your still thuggin' at Macdonalds remember to super size my drink.

LOL...true...what DO thugs do when they turn 40, after all? Ignorant mofos...

"Out of all the people I've met, who told the truth? Time did..." Common, "The Truth"

BootenleeFonzworth is a straight up clown. Talking about "I don't live on the board, like the rest of you dickriders." All I see on this board is this booboohead posting shit-talking messages on this website everyday. ALWAYS trying to get some attention.

Bitch can't write a post without using the following words:
"d!ckrider" "f*ggot" and "h*e-n%gga" or some variation of it. By his limited vocabulary you can tell he doesn't know shit.

Eventually you learn to tune him out as the rest of us had. He's like the little kid who stand in front of the television set. Don't worry, one day all the hate's gonna bite him in the ass.

What a miserable f*ck he must be.

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The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool.
-Almost Famous

What ya gonna do? Exactly what I thought- Nothin'/In the sport of Frontin'/you the undisputed champion/i'm in a class you can't be in/ my words are flesh like Jesus the Aquarian...
-Talib

>Eventually you learn to tune him
>out as the rest of
>us had.

Unfortunately bruh, at a hundred strong, I don't think many people have learned to tune him out.
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Hi

Whatever helps Com and his career is cool with me. But how come no one ever bitches about Da' Brat moving to ATL.....or did I miss it in an earlier post (I didn't read all of them)? How come no one ever bitches about Beenie Sigel blowing up with Rocafella in New York? Just don't understand.

too many chicago niggaz got a new york complex. some think new yorkers think they are better than cats from other cities. others want to be new yorkers because that's where the culture stemmed from and they hear all the glorified stories of new yorkers and the boroughs and blah, blah, blah. they want to be new yorkers or hate on new york cuz that's probably the most famous city on the earth. we've always been known as second city; right behind new york and that buggz niggaz out here! it used to bug me. cuz new yorkers love their city sooo much that it used to come across as conceit. what i realized is that my city is dope; for real. we ain't got brooklyn; we got englewood. there ain't no manhattan; we got the downtown area. no stapleton projects; we got stateway gardens. we got the lake, hyde park, the wild hundreds, wrigley field, a gang of all kinds of clubs, fine women of all cultures, north side, west side, and the best skyline on the face of the earth. this complex spills over into why chicago is so mixed up musically. when nwa came out niggaz was jockin' compton. that's crazy! ain't no crips/bloods where i'm from. this state of mind has got to go! then we can be put on the map. embrace where we from and put it on wax. second city come first.......

we're two different cities. new york is dope and they've got certain things that make them dope. the same for the chi. we got things that make chicago a raw city to live in. philly does too. so does houston. and on, and on, and on. even if com did disown chicago (which he didn't), i'mma still rep my city. chicago is dope with or without common.

anyway.....

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"you worship a head of lettuce?"-rog from "what's happening!"

but you forgot the manor.

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HAHAHAHAH!!!

Okay, I have been looking @ this post since it started and a lot of things have been said. I am not one to post i like look on from a distance. I read and go on because I usually have no time to say what I want but for this I'mma say something.

I am from Chi, actually North Suburbs North Chicago/Waukegan area. Being from the burbs I don't know all the things that go on in the city and I may never know since I have now relocated. But forever and a day no matta where I am, I am a Chicagoan forreal for life. When I was in Chi I went to everything I could find that support real hip-hop and I am sure that I missed a lot of things. Chicago is not the Mecca for music, all that live there know this as they have stated in previous posts. Most people that I know that are Commoners were a little mad cause he left. But when you really look at it and think about it moving was his best move. I am sure Com loves Chi will foreva love Chi and will foreva rep Chi, but he wants all heads to feel him. Those in the Chi, those in NY, those in Cali and all of the places in between. And there are many many many places that he hasn't even really hit (country Mississppi being one, dunno why I cnme here I need to re-evaluate that). We all know that the East Coast is the place. We know this we do not deny this. CHI IS THE ISH but the East Coast is the place to be. You have to realize what Com may have realized "Hey Chi ain't it ain't gonna be it. I need to be in a place where I can come up and be heard forreal" If he had to move he just had to move. I am not gonna hate the man because he left Chi. Everybody gotta go somewhere to grow and expand. Com just decided that NY is where he needed to accomplish that.

Boot... what's up dear!!
All I’m gonna say to you is that you hating. Most people hate at one time or another in their life. If this how you feel you gotta get your 15 minutes of fame get it and get on. I'm not hating you. You have an opinion. Every idiot has a right to an opinion even if it has no merit and is pointless, know that!!

My question is.... Why you mad that Com sold Chi out? You, apparently, are not from Chi so why do you care? (An explanation without expletives will suffice). If you like his music like it and carry on. If you hate it carry on. State your grievances and move on bruh. Now you can call me a dickrider if you want to that's cool cause I LOVE DICK :o :7 :o(LOL LOL and COM’s I'd like to ride:o }> :o but it belongs elsewhere but that something that we ain't even talking bout right now :D ;-)) did I say that out loud??!?!?!?!?!?!?:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o ANYWAY

I have to say if you really think about ain't no spot all that wonderful for hip-hop music. Most artists do betta over seas than they do here. And that is what we should be mad bout. Be mad that there is no support anywhere in the US let alone Chi. Most people only wanna hear the average azz music. That is what we need to trying to change and discussing rather than some one selling out a city because they moved to another to betta themselves. We need to be more active in showing others what music really is rather that if someone is hittin or gettin in from the back. I feel for those that are up and coming in little towns and cities that don't even have the want or desire to hear some thing other than Ja Rule, DMX, Fabulous etc.

So how bout you get on that and get off Com and get off Chi because neither one have done a damn thing to you. And if he has done something to you deary this is what you do
GET OVA IT.

If Chi has done something to this is what you do. Find a real Chi town sis or brotha (whichever is your preference and is willing to deal with you) and have them show you Chi and all it has to offer cause it will knock your socks off.
***Side note***
Just don't go in the winter cause it's damn cold and only real folks can handle it. Yeah I just said you weren't real but you'll get ova it. ;-)

Make that your new anthem say it now
"I'll get ova it!" "I'll get ova it!" "I'll get ova it!" "I'll get ova it!" "I'll get ova it!"


I guess I have said my piece I'm out.
ONE
:7

Hey b!tch. I ain't even read past the first paragraph of that long ass essay you typed to me.

>Hey b!tch. I ain't even read
>past the first paragraph of
>that long ass essay you
>typed to me.

I should have known since you used 2 expletives in your 1 measly sentence, something I asked you not to do.

It's cool though. I figure a person, as you sometimes seem to be, would read everything in a post that you put your entire heart and soul into.

Have a nice day.

>>Hey b!tch. I ain't even read
>>past the first paragraph of
>>that long ass essay you
>>typed to me.

Makes me laugh, it does. The poor soul.

I got 20 ways to tell you 'Shut the fuck up'
19 of 'em are 24 bars long
The other one goes 'SHUT THE FUCK UP!'
--Aesop Rock

Cats don't really fall off
They just get uninspired
--Blueprint

bootenlee whatever.....I'm gonna come correct with you....im not gonna argue n' swear.

Just givin my thought on your thought...zeen

there iz a point and time in life where a person finds thereselves, if they find music, a wife, girl, or something they believe strong in.

you do know what your talkin about but don't dog common's life choices and what he does. Just through his music he's expanded and has done wonders for different people....includin me....so call me gay...if you want....but the main question iz.....

WHO ARE YOU.......ANSWER ME THIS....AND ASK YOURSELF THE SAME QUESTION..... :) kinda crazy "stay alive bredren!"

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"Now about this Tek-zilla?...
Sounds familiar...(?)
Don't make me have to go in yore go-r-ill-a...
For my skrilla...
Ah skribbled that pillar...
Over the O.K. Villa...

Now just wait 'till ah get my hands on that shh@..
If ah feel it you can have it..
If it's trash ah'ma have to wreqk yore habitat..
Blaqk.."--Aq'niq, (from the upcoming single, "teK-Mart")


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"internalizing
hope not to
reach is pitiful"--Aq'niq, (excerpt from the poem entitled, "Forgiving Tek")

This fuckin' guy laughs at someone for dedicating a whole post to him cuz he hated him...didn't he do that with Common?

This fuckin' guy says that no matter how much he's showed us about Common being a sellout, we still dickride...what the fuck has he showed us anyway besides the fact that if his best friend moved away, he'd hate him for life.

This fuckin' guy, while responding to a post about him being stupid and spelling things wrong and him making grammatical errors and such, does ALL OF THE ABOVE in his retaliation.

This fuckin' guy...is gonna respond to this post with something even more stupid and ignorant than before...watch.

Check my first sig, fucker. It applies to you.

I got 20 ways to tell you 'Shut the fuck up'
19 of 'em are 24 bars long
The other one goes 'SHUT THE FUCK UP!'
--Aesop Rock

Cats don't really fall off
They just get uninspired
--Blueprint

yall niggas need to quit wit all dis bullshit on the real. Look im from the chi and i dont feel like he sold us out. Com moved to ny to expand his music and good thing he did cuz if he didnt lwfc wouldnt have happened. This nigga is one of the dopest emcees and if he felt makin a move would help his music then whats wrong wit that? It dont matter where he stay at as long as he keep bringin that hot shit im straight. And to yall niggas talkin bout him dressin funky and shit yall need to learn what it means to find yourselfs and express it. I think its coo that he can just be himself and not worry bout what stupid asses niggas like yall have to say. if yall wanna jump on the band wagon and keep dressin in ya rocawear or enyce like ever other motherfucka then yall do that but what yall dont know is that when u find yourself yall will be much happier!!!

knowledge of self, determination-blackstar

one love-true chi-town playa for real

Com reps HIPHOP. He already explained his move. New label and all those dealings... What about GangStarr? They from Boston. Primo is from Texas...TEXAS!! Drop all this shit. Peace.

HUSSA

Yo, a lot of you cats really need to grow up and expand your mindstates. First off if you're not from the Chi you really should'nt give a fuck if Common sold out or not, and if you are from the Chi and think he has, then you dont know what the hell you are talking about.

How has he sold out? Cause he moved? Big deal!!!!!! I dont hear him on tracks reppin brooklyn, he still reps the chi, and does a lot of underground grassroots shit here. In fact he was here 3 weeks ago, at Malcom X college for a politcal rally to free falsely incarcerated inmates. He's always around, just because you dont know that hes here doing things for the people of the city he's from and loves doesnt mean he isnt.

Common didnt move because he doesnt love chicago, his home and its residents. He moved to help is career. Chicago doesnt have a music industry, a film industry, a fashion industry, it has no entertainment industry of any form other than clubs, and what metropolis doesnt have those. Chicago is not self sustaining when it comes to the music industry, all we do is buy other peoples shit, we dont create any music that becomes nationally or even internationally known on a large scale because THERE IS NO INDUSTRY. There are no major record lables here, there are no major hip hop artists here. There are very few venues here to put on hip hop shows at, and for those that are available most are 21+, which eleminates a large fan base. Basically if you are a hip hop artist living and working in Chicago, trying to make it, you are living and working in ISOLATION, which makes becoming successful extrememly difficult. Then theres the typical chicago mindstate of Hate, and jealously, that crabs in a barrel bullshit which unfortunately many here fall victim to. There are not that many underground heads here, compared to the numbers that hail allegience to the mainstream, and a lot of people here have that mad rapper mindstate as well. Cats wont cheer and support their underground acts who often open for big names at venues around the city, but as soon as lets say Ludacris steps on stage its nothing but love for him.

Chicago does not support our own, we would rather diss them, and hate on them because that is the mindstate of a great deal of people here, "fuck you and yours, i want mine" "fuck this cat on stage, i got tracks too, and no one wants to hear my shit" "fuck these south side underground cats" "fuck these westside thugs" "fuck these northside white boys" No one cares how good the music is, or the talent the group and originality they posses, cats just hate for any reason they can. All this bullshit makes it extremely difficult to make it comming out of the Chi, cause everyone even your own are trying to stop you because they want a piece.

Common stayed here for three of his four albums, and as soon as he bounced to NY to work on the last, cats got upset! What for? Cats wanna call him gay cause he dressed eclectic, vintage and trendy? Im from the chi, and those gay cats in boys town and those lesbians in andersonville dont dress like that, they dress in a typical "chicago way" so what the fuck are you talking about. You cats are too fucking closed minded, thinking someone has to fit in this mold of how you think they should be or of how you think a city and its people are? Let people be themselves, no one has to fit in shit for you, motherfuckers are individuals and they will express themselves as such. Stop selecting commmon as the torch carrier for the city, you are putting a tremendous ammount of expectations on one man simply because hes from the chi and he made it. I dont see you cats tripping about the brat and twista sellin out, wtf is the double standard about, the're both from the chi, and handle their business in other places. One moment you wanna diss Com, calling him a sell out, but half you cats bitching probably dont even support your own underground artists you rep this shit everyday all day and still live here. What about No I.D, Juice, Prime Maridian (who have been around forever and are still doing shit) the Molemen, Prime, Kwel, typical Cats, All Natural, the family tree, Kwazi, QUALO, Usual Suspects, the Outfitters, Mass Hysteria???????????? Why dont you stop bitching about Common, and divert all that energy toward something productive like supporting your own, and developing an industry so cats can get on here instead of having to leave. Cats gotta eat, and unfortunately Chicago is starving their own.

I love my city, and my people, no disrespect meant, ,thats just how I see it, as a Chicagoin, as well as someone deeply rooted in the industry, both here, and in NY.

Peace and Blessings

Yo, a lot of you cats really need to grow up and expand your mindstates. First off if you're not from the Chi you really should'nt give a f@$k if Common sold out or not, and if you are from the Chi and think he has, then you dont know what the hell you are talking about.

How has he sold out? Cause he moved? Big deal!!!!!! I dont hear him on tracks reppin brooklyn, he still reps the chi, and does a lot of underground grassroots ish here. In fact he was here 3 weeks ago, at Malcom X college for a politcal rally to free falsely incarcerated prisoners. He's always around, just because you dont know that hes here doing things for the people of the city he's from and loves doesnt mean he isnt.

Common didnt move because he doesnt love chicago, his home and its residents, he moved to help is career. Chicago doesnt have a music industry, a film industry, a fashion industry, it has no entertainment industry of any form other than clubs, and what metropolis doesnt have those. Chicago is not self sustaining when it comes to the music industry, all we do is buy other peoples sh!t, we dont create any music that becomes nationally or even internationally known on a large scale because THERE IS NO INDUSTRY. There are no major record lables here, there are no major hip hop artists here. There are very few venues here to put on hip hop shows at, and for those that are available most are 21+, which eleminates a large fan base. Basically if you are a hip hop artist living and working in Chicago, trying to make it, you are living and working in ISOLATION, which makes becoming successful extrememly difficult. Then theres the typical chicago mindstate of Hate, and jealously, that crabs in a barrel bullsh!t which unfortunately many here fall victim to. There are not that many underground heads here, compared to the numbers that hail allegience to the mainstream, and a lot of people here have that mad rapper mindstate as well. Cats wont cheer and support their underground acts who often open for big names at venues around the city, but as soon as lets say Ludacris steps on stage its nothing but love for him.

Chicago does not support our own, we would rather diss them, and hate on them because that is the mindstate of a great deal of people here, "f@$k you and yours, i want mine" "f#$k this cat on stage, i got tracks too, and no one wants to hear my sh!t" "f*$k these south side underground cats" "f!@k these westside thugs" "f$%k these northside white boys" No one cares how good the music is, or the talent the group and originality they posses, cats just hate for any reason they can. All this bullsh!t makes it extremely difficult to make it comming out of the Chi, cause everyone even your own are trying to stop you because they want a piece.

Common stayed here for three of his four albums, and as soon as he bounced to NY to work on the last, cats got upset! What for? Cats wanna call him gay cause he dressed eclectic, vintage and trendy? Im from the chi, and those gay cats in boys town and those lesbians in andersonville dont dress like that, they dress in a typical "chicago way" so what the f*$k are you talking about. You cats are too damn closed minded, thinking someone has to fit in this mold of how you think they should be or how you think a city and its people are? Let people be themselves, no one has to fit in sh!t for you, people are individuals and they will express themselves as such. Stop selecting Commmon as the torch carrier for the city, you are putting a tremendous ammount of expectations on one man simply because hes from the chi and he made it. I dont see you cats tripping about the brat and twista sellin out, wtf is the double standard about, the're both from the chi, and handle their business in other places. One moment you wanna diss Com, calling him a sell out, but half you cats trippin probably dont even support your own underground artists you rep this sh!t everyday all day and still live here. What about No I.D, Juice, Prime Maridian (who have been around forever and are still doing sh!t) the Molemen, Prime, Kwel, typical Cats, All Natural, the family tree, Kwazi, QUALO, Usual Suspects, the Outfitters, Mass Hysteria???????????? Why dont you stop b!tching about Common, and divert all that energy toward something productive like supporting your own, and developing an industry so cats can get on here, instead of having to leave. Cats gotta eat, and unfortunately Chicago is starving their own.

I love my city, and my people, no disrespect meant, ,thats just how I see it, as a Chicagoin, as well as someone deeply rooted in the industry, both here, and in NY.

Peace and Blessings

What's the deal with this Brotha Common Selling out!?!? Everytime that this nigga gets on the MIC device he's always reppin' the SOUTH SIDE of CHICAGO!?!?! He's a Wild Hundreds type cat!??! He just so happened to be a very deep brotha. NO BODY can deny that son got mad skills. He just so happens to Be Talib Kweli's favorite Emcee as well. How can anyone say this cat sold out!?! And he's NOT the gay rapper.............if there is such a thing!?!Remember what Brotha ? said about the "gay rapper rumors" DO YOU WANT MORE!!??!!? Common said "There's rumors of gay emcees/ just don't come around me with it/see you still rockin' hickies don't let me find out he did it./ Got my eyes on the tiger/my eyes on the prize/ my eyes on the thighs of Mary J. Blige/ imagining how good the cat must be./ Stop eating meat lost weight, but I STILL rap Husky!/
He's dissin any gay emcee OR rumors that may be out there so give the nigga his credit as a dope emcee. The only thing that I hope COMMON sells out is a Future concert!

OH one more thing from "Nag Champa" Referring to this "Common being a sell out to where he's from and repping NYC" issue.
Aiight he said " who request HOTT shit I freeze, and tell them from where I was rose/ we ALWAYS said COLD/ hold your horses and your carriages/ this never went GOLD nigga rocks show careless. So with that and MANY other references to where he's from. I think that Common just sheds a little different light to what people expect from the Mid-West. Okay let's face it.......it's pretty safe to say that anyone that's down with the OKAYPLAYER crew doesn't like ol' pop CORNY sounding Nelly, the St. Lunatics nor would they consider Coo Coo Cal an Open Mic Type/Battling Emcee(s). With all the rest of that Mid-Western RAP(it's NOT hip-hop)thing going on it's good to see a COLD/HOTT lyricist(take your pick from your USA region) repping the MID-WEST like what!?!? Another thing...let's not forget where HIP-HOP got it's start! It all spawned from NYC. He grew up listening to people rock them kinda sets in music and that's what he followed, effectively carving his own mark in the Rock/ Foundation of HIP-HOP. Until mid/late 90's heads got on this East Coast/West Coast/Dirty South/Mid West kick. Go to a party nowadays and you'll either here ONE "Coast" of music or what not. But go to an OL' Skool Hip-Hop party and no matter where you're from heads vibe to that ol' skool type flava that which is PREDOMINANTLY on the east coast. Let the Deejay Spin "Scenario" and it's CURTAINS! BUT it's loved by all.... things are SO not that way anymore Hip-Hop isn't just Hip-Hop there's no more YO! MTv Raps (don't we all miss that show)it's this whole "what's your Coast thing" But just keeping everything relative........COMMON said by RAKIM he was inspired where was RAKIM from!?! Okay.....player there's your answer. BUT COMMON reps where he's from with pride and dignity

Isn't dude from Baltimore? Nobody accused cat of selling out

In the immortal words of the almighty Rakim,

It ain't where you're from, It's where ya at.

Who cares if Com left the Chi. I'm a producer in DC, and I plan on getting out of this area ASAP. An artist gets stereotyped depending om where he is from. Here, they expect my music to sound like some dumb go-go, or a weak down south gangata beat. But, it sounds more NY-State-Of-Mind music. I love my home, and won't make any attempt to hide where I'm from, but if I gotta go, I gotta go. Com's heart is still in the Chi, and that's what matters most. Besides, for everyone in the Chitown area, how many people bought, not bootlegged, his albums? Check the soundscan numbers and see just how much support your hometown boy really got compared to other markets. Personally, I picked up all his work, and applauded his move.

And please, quit with the gay shit, will you? Who really cares? Is an artist's work really any more or less relevant depending om his sexual orientation? I thought not. Dead that dumb crap, and let music be music.

one,
spenzalii

Do it from the heart, not from the wallet

Damn you state facts about what a fag ass n!gga Common is and some hoe ban you.

so now you're just fonsworth?


I stagger in the gathering possessed by a patter-in
That be scatterin
Over the globe will my vocals be travellin
Unravellin my abdomen it's slime that's babblin
Grammatics that are masculine
I grab them in, verbally badgerin broads
I wish that Madelline, was back on Video LP
I went against all odds and got a even steven
Proceed to read and not believin everything I'm readin
-comm sense(ressurection)

>Damn you state facts about what
>a fag ass n!gga Common
>is and some hoe ban
>you.

Sorry...thought you said "facts."


I got 20 ways to tell you 'Shut the fuck up'
19 of 'em are 24 bars long
The other one goes 'SHUT THE FUCK UP!'
--Aesop Rock

Cats don't really fall off
They just get uninspired
--Blueprint

What else can you rap about but money, sex, murder or pimping?
--Ja Rule in Newsweek magazine