Yeah. I'm quoting myself.
Happy Independence Day. #IndieRap
social media man
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
i think what bothers me the most is watching other hip hop artists just afraid to compete
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
can't beat em, join em. or join in singing their praises simply because they refuse to go away
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
these old niggas swallowing up all these new producers and artists like a pyramid scheme. make em serve their purpose
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
not so much that these old niggas still got it, they just buy and pay for niggas that do to make shit with them.
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
how we let a genre made by people who had next to nothing, turn into something you can only do if you have way too much
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
man get out there and compete.
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
salute to people out there making art on a shoe string budget because they want to, not because the corporations want them to
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
social media man…
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
watching rappers i think rap better than this guy going out of their way to tell you how great he is
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
get out there and compete man.
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
rappers out here trying to get a long gang it.
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
im not saying this shit is wack. it's just there. jerry bruckheimer rap. big budget and crazy trailers, 'just there' results.
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
is no one else out there willing to compete? or you just gonna applaud every contract for millz he signs like that has anything to do w/ art
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
we aint talked since me n dream threw Nas under the bus RT @double0music: @fwmj Tell the OTHER jay to get out the illuminati and drop…
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
@double0music and even still, can't beat em join em. jay e came out lambasting all the materialism and these clowns, then enlisted asap
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
i guess what sucks is all the rappers with actual ability are old. the thing most present on their minds is making a buck #billsisineffect
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
again. i'm not saying this album is wack. it just sound like a 45 year old man trying to rap like lil reese over trap app beats
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
i wish there were channels/lanes for new artists to come up without some old cat that refuses to go away finding a way to get paid off em
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
plz, i beg you. if you rap or you make music or you contribute to someone that does, get out there and compete for self.
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
don't stack bricks for someone else's castle. stack them for yours. yours might never be as big as theirs, but it'll be YOUR castle
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
all these 'real' niggas still doing songs with rick ross
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
you'd think there's one rapper and one r&b singer out there and 6 producers that work for the both of them and that's all of black music.
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
all my favourite rappers probably at home on the couch smoking weed and playing xbox . broke and not competing.
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
anyone see World War Z and groan real loud at the climax of the movie when Brat Pitt cracks open a Pepsi can?
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
that's what a lot of niggas rap music sound like today. straight product placement.
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
fuck #newrules, we need #newblood. and not just blood transfusions
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
RT @punchdouble: @fwmj All the hungry/capable cats end up signed to be shelved. See when Jay took over Def Jam.
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
niggas always wanna have jokes about 'struggle' rappers, but act like all rap music wasnt some struggle shit when it started.
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
niggas out here talkin bout jay changed the game. changed it for who, but anyone already in a similar position?
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
you still out here signing P&D deals for 5,000 units. these symbolic victories for hip hop that do nothing for you
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
these cats tell you to watch the throne and you stopped watching what you was doin.
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
even tho i only liked like 3 of his songs ever, i miss 50 cent being competitive. he'd at least challenge and agitate other artists
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
can we over throw these old gate keeper rap niggas like egyptians throwing morsi out?
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
nigga compare himself to jordan long enough, you stop takin shots yourself. you just dishin the rock back to him.
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
had a convo with some friends the other day. is a recording artist an artist if they have 30 co-writers on a song? or simply an avatar
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
niggas out here on some sharon apple macross plus shit. just performing assembly line music
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
i feel crazy right now
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
megan's mom in town. sober 4th for me -_- RT @justblaze: @fwmj you may be drunk. Go home.
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
i hope 1,001 tumblr rappers struggle rap all over these beats.
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
.@charlesexsavior i mean swallowing up new producers with relatively boundary pushing styles whole
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
so again i ask, how was all that exploration of duality for you?
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
man. also. if you dope and got some good shit goin for yourself, don't be so quick to seek the validation of some old head gate keeper
— FWMJ (@fwmj) July 4, 2013
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Rap got messed up when rappers got happy selling 16’s for a few hundred dollars (having no shame about who they are getting affiliated with), and producers got happy selling computer beats for a couple hundred (having no shame about who they are getting affiliated with). That’s why there will never be another “Gangstarr” or “Public Enemy” or “Brand Nubian” or “De La Soul” or “Tribe Called Quest” what ever happen to a straight up artist projects,straight up tracks made with real passion and with real substance, with no guest features, no ghost writers…..those days are gone thats why old school rap survives among so many of us.
We have no one to blame, but us. Jay Z told us along time ago “Fuck the art, l’m about making money”. So we can’t complain now when he set the blueprint for these new rappers, and we didn’t say shit. We ran with it and called him the greatest MC not knowing the game will end up like this.
i called him nothing.
I was talking in general.