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....