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Topic subjectRE: Not at all. Just reg dudes that dressed on some diff shit.
Topic URLhttp://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2832564&mesg_id=2832929
2832929, RE: Not at all. Just reg dudes that dressed on some diff shit.
Posted by Bombastic, Thu Aug-15-13 01:18 PM
>>>>and style deficient.
>>>>
>>>>They sold their whole shit on being nerds from their first
>>>>video & fit the bill more than some dudes like T.D.E.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Their first video was about being atypical to what was
>being
>>>sold as the hip hop norm.
>>>
>>yeah, they were the outcast/fringe/'nerds' not fitting the
>>b-boy school role.
>
>Nah. They were just regular cats. Simple everyday dudes,
>talking about everyday shit. Not nerds. Dressed different, but
>niggaz in NYC dressed different at the time. Shit wasn't as
>formulaic as it now.
>
but now if they step out of that 'formulaic' realm they're nerds?

uh-uh, ya buggin(c)Bitties

>>give it a name but they were nerds, at least much more so
>than
>>Kendrick/Q/Jay-Rock/Ab-Soul
>>>
>>>>Now if we're talking Drake, well that dude's a Canadian
>>>>child-actor, I don't even know *what* that shit is called.
>
>>>>I'd have probably went more for douchebag or cornball then
>>a
>>>>true nerd.
>>>>
>>>>But yeah De La, Pharcyde, some of Hiero, Eminem, Zev Love
>>X,
>>>>Kweli, and others would qualify if this subject actually
>>>>mattered.
>>>>
>>>
>>>De La. No.
>>>
>>>Pharcyde. Yeah.
>>>
>>>Only Del in Hiero is a nerd.
>>>
>>eh, that seemingly endless '3rd Eye Vision' sounds like a
>nerd
>>convention only
>
>Just regular dudes too. Just not typical West Coast/Oakland
>rappers. Regular cats that rapped about and got bitches, liked
>money, were smart, and did regular shit.
>
>Lol @ "Third Eye Vision" being nerd rap.
>
Jesus, it is.

>>>Eminem is just white dude. Not a nerd.
>>>
>>an awkward, angry, whiny-voiced white kid who got his lunch
>>money stolen every day.
>
>And he was just a white dude that wanted to rap. So a white
>dude who was poor that hung out with black dudes.
>
uh-huh
>
>>>Zev Love X is just a reg 5% cat.
>>>
>>http://24.media.tumblr.com/9b778ce90c6f3f31458dbc9e77fb03d1/tumblr_mf54h5xDMx1s0e16vo1_500.jpg
>>
>
>He looks just like any other regular cat around the same time.
>What he got glasses on?
>
Gas Face Given, I Beg To Differ.
>
>>>Kweli. Sure.
>>>
>>>>The irony of us being on a site created by one of the
>>>>unabashedly biggest & best nerds of his generation while a
>>>>cavalcade of chumps (or at least a much higher percentage
>>of
>>>>socially-challenged luckless lames than the national
>>>average)
>>>>in this forum play out their Homecoming King fantasy
>behind
>>>a
>>>>keyboard while co-signing the new batch of bitter
>ramblings
>>>>from the Vin-Rock of Brand Nubian because they don't dig
>>the
>>>>current crop of rappers is just too rich for my blood.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Most hip hop heads or fans of anything (movies, sports,
>>>sneakers) "nerd out" on those very things they're fan of.
>>>Doesn't make them a nerd though.
>>>
>>>I know niggaz that "nerd out" on some Polo, couldn't call
>>them
>>>nerds though.
>>
>>none of that has anything to do with what I said there.
>
>No it's completely relevant, because you're trying to draw
>some kind of connection between us being on Okp and pointing
>out that what Lord Jamar said had some truth in it.
>
Uh, there's some genuine gumps on this site, my dude.

Quite a bit actually, which makes the posturing in this post all the more hilarious.

It's higher probability of it on OKP than amongst the GP & probably higher in this forum than in OKS or GD.

>Rappers, Athletes, everybody can nerd out on certain shit.
>Doesn't make them nerds though.
>