The Great DOA Debate

Reality is real has a new blogger.I’ve known him for awhile through online. I’ve handed him several beatings on FIFA on Xbox live through the years. He told me before the site was up he wanted to be down, and based off our conversations, I figured he had to be. When he told me what he wanted to write about as his first topic, while I disagreed with his opinion, I figured fuck it. I don’t get upset with people who disagree with me, I think it’s makes for great conversations. So, to be fair, I’ve decided to go first on the whole Jay Z DOA thing, and I’ll let him conclude it

Brillyance:

Jay Z is hip hop’s gate keeper. He tells everybody what’s in, and what’s not. While, you don’t have to(and shouldn’t) live your whole live based off Jay’s words, he’s been the ultimate trend-setter and trend-killer in the world of hip hop. Cristal may be doing fine, but after Jay said fuck it, Cristal mentions on hip hop tracks plummeted to all time lows. Remember the throw back jersey trend? Well, while I’m still trying to get an official Randall Cunningham jersey, half of you muthafuckas wouldn’t be caught dead in one after Jay said it wasn’t cool. Grown and sexy???? Jay probably wouldn’t land on most chicks “sexy” list, but he blew “grown and sexy” up. THIS is what Jay does.

Look at what’s happen to the game in Jay’s absence. Sure, he dropped “American Gangster” not too long ago, but that was a concept album…the last real Jay album was “Kingdom Come”, and that dropped 2006. Skinny jeans, Big Ass Chains, goons, auto tune…WTF? That’s what happens when Jay isn’t around. Skyzoo said that sometimes you don’t get what your favorite artist is saying until like 5 years later, now I know why Jay said he “Can’t leave rap alone, the game needs me (him)”.  The mainstream rap world is filled with a bunch of animals, and Jay is the zoo keeper. He can’t retire, because these idiots will set the rap game on fire…in a negative way. These rappers don’t appreciate shit, so Hov has to come back and show them what the fuck is up, nobody else will. Kanye has a major influence, but he doesn’t have the heart to take it to somebody lyrically when necessary. He doesn’t have enough “boss” inside of him to make moves behind the scenes to put somebody in their place either. Wayne is too focused on….who knows what, and what people don’t realize is, if it wasn’t for Jay, 50 would run everybody into the ground, and laugh all the way to the bank as the house that Kool Herc built burns to the ground. Whether young garbage rappers like it or not, Jay Z is the gravitational force that keeps hip hop from spiraling out of it’s orbit and crashing into something else. Look at it, muthafuckas already trying to turn hip hop into something completely different and Jay has only been gone for almost 3 years. DOA was extremely necessary, as is Hov’s next album.

You can’t possibly side against Hov, cuz if you do, look who your standing with! The Jim Joneses, the Webstars. I could hear Webstar and Ron Browz in the radio interview shaking. They were shook…they were seriously shook. “No Hov, please don’t take our gimmicks away….I don’t mean to argue you with you,  I know your the boss,I’m sorry, I apologize, but please don’t kill my career that never started,” They don’t want shit to be exposed for what it is…not by Hov…cuz what Hov said, goes. Had it been Talib Kweli or somebody…it’d be nothing. Royce Da 5’9 said “Autotune sounds weak as a bitch” like last year….no interviews about it. Nobody addressed it. When Jay speaks…people listen. Jay speaks on it, Jeezy follows behind, Wyclef makes a song about Autotunes…it’s obvious, and you know what? I love it. Jay said what real music lovers were thinking, and those that just want something trendy…Jay will give them another trend, and they’ll be happy. Everybody wins.

Jay does this because he has to.I’m pretty sure as soon as a decent candidate to fill his shoes steps up, Jay will bow out gracefully, and travel the world smashing Beyonce’s (and several other chick’s) walls down. Do you really think Jay want’s to do a bunch of performances? A lot of rappers love performing because they get to travel and meet their fans…Jay can afford to travel whenever the fuck he feels like it.  He can’t be doing it for money. Rumor has it he buys alot of his own CDs, then when you figure in the money he’s not making because he’s focused on rap….he’s basically losing money. He does it because he loves Hip Hop…and he doesn’t want these mungkees [(C) Rick Ross} fucking the game up.

Reflective Space Timz:

What it be like world, I’m in da building! Props to my nigga Brillyance 1 time but he talkin out his ass with that lie about Fifa….. shameful.

1st.  I’m from Brooklyn and I am Jay Z fan.

2nd.  I stay blazed.
Now I say all that to say this, Jay z’s DOA (Death of the Auto tune) track has a lot of up sides. Hot production (by No ID), Jigga trying to sound like he still means it….  I support the anti skinny jeans movement, even the stop jocking T-pain movement as well, but I just don’t feel like this track right here cuts it. It feels 50 cent like, its about damn time Jigga came with something real sounding. I mean honestly this is the first time I heard a Jay track and was like “old man go sit down somewhere”.

WHAT IS HIP HOP ABOUT?? This thing we call Hip Hop and claim to love was built on individuals doing as they please how they please. Even though I fucks with Jigga Hip Hop is not fashion or white girl cheerleading where one individual gets to dictate everything.  No disrespect but contradicting yourself by saying too much singing in the game and then singing on the track seems real 50 like.  Kanye and T – pain changed the trajectory of the whole game (some say for the better, some say the worse) with their recent efforts and lead the followers into this current stage. Look at groups like Wu Tang, A Tribe Called Quest, Pharcyde, OUTKAST all the way up to the present. What do they have in common? Not giving a Fuck about what people think music should sound like. They just did what they do and look what comes of that, why everybody gotta fit in and do what old man Hov says?

What does it make you if you need another nigga to tell you what to listen to? What does it make you if another nigga tells you what to live like and be like? Well if isnt your biological daddy, you’re a dick rider, (Lil Wayne literally)  simple as that.  Maybe I need to come to terms with the fact that 92% of all humans are programmed to be followers but I cant buy into the notion that there is one nigga in a chair somewhere telling grown men how to act.

I was having a conversation with my nigga A Bizzles the 14th and he was like “Yo Space Timz, you cant keep waiting for reasonable doubt Jay to come back”. That made me reflect introspectively, was I being too critical of the kid just cuz I know he could went way harder on that track? Maybe I’m just the only nigga who realizes that Jay been getting away with the same subject matter for 14 years ( ie: Being too rich to kill you himself but then threatening to prolly do it himself yadda yadda much richer than you yadda yadda insert biggie line…..hook ). Maybe I’m crazy but didn’t another old rapper come back sounding exactly the same as he did when he “retired” with the geriatric sounding “crack a bottle” elderly man anthem?

In my eyes there are alot of candidates out there who could “take over the game”, but in this era of instant everything and oversaturation we need the music to be be as UNRESTRICTED and DIVERSE as possible.  The garbage out there like Jim Jones, Webstar, and all others will always have a market to pander to called idiots. Dumbasses with weak brains need music too!! East Side, 1 time.

P.s. There are dozens of better rappers the Fake I mean Drake, STOP MEAT RIDING everything you get force fed!