If You Didn't Know.......

I'm a soldier, these shoulder's hold up so much, they won't budge,

i'll never fall or fold up,

i'm a soldier,

even if my collar bone's crush or crumble,

I will never slip or stumble,

i'm a soldier,

these shoulder's hold up so much, they won't budge,

i'll never fall or fold up,

i'm a soldier,

even if my collar bone's crush or crumble,

I will never stumble...
-Eminem "I'ma Solider"

Did Social Media Kill The Diss Record?

I love this convo......about these soft ass present day rappers...

Is Jay So Far Beyond Hip Hop......If You On The Court Then Ball!!!!!

Industry heavyweight Steve Stoute was recently quoted in an upcoming interview, his thoughts towards Jay-Z & Lil Wayne. Steve expressed the following.

‘For Jay-Z to do ANYTHING that resembles moving backwards right now would be insane. And a Jay-Z beef is moving backwards. Jay is SO MUCH bigger than rap at this point. He’s a movement. And THAT’S where his head is at. That’s where his focus is. And NO ONE is on his level, even worthy of him battling with. No one. So you probably won’t see that happen.’

See I get the level that Jay is on. I get the financial status, mega mogul position and all that but aside from all the big business man talk is the fact that Jay still RAPS! Just like Jordan was for the majority of his career "bigger" then the NBA, he still played the game. He ain't have to check Iverson but he did and he got crossed. How would he sound saying I'm too big to guard you? Jay and Wayne, while on different "levels" still occupy much of the same space in regards to the listening public. Now am I saying Jay needs to drop a Dj P Cutta beef mixtape worth of content? No, of course not, but as a participant of the game I'd like to see him address this. It one thing if the idea is that you're too good to compete with but if you're "bigger" then the field you operate in then perhaps you do need to leave.

Jay-Z Vs Dmx.......The Legend of "The Battle"

Ski Beatz, Sauce Money, and the Ruff Ryders' co-founder Waah Dean tell some lesser known facts about the Bronx battle on a pooltable between the Roc-A-Fella honcho and Darkman X.

At some point in the mid-early '90s, at a small, smoke-filled pool hall in the Bronx, a Brooklyn-based emcee named Jay-Z battled an up-and-comer from Yonkers known as DMX. X, who cabbed in to town from Baltimore just for the event, stated in his 2003 autobiography that he had no original intentions of getting involved that night. He was there as a witness, who’d only enter the fray if absolutely necessary. And, soon enough, it was. “The people knew that were the top dogs of our crews,” he wrote, “and they wanted us to go at it and after a few more rounds, I just couldn’t stand to the side anymore. It was time to hold down the fam.”

To this day, details of the battle between Jay (who was an affiliate repping Original Flavor at the time) and DMX (who stood alongside an Uptown-based group called the Harlem Knights) remain murky. So HipHopDX caught up with three people who were in attendance—Original Flavor member Ski (n/k/a Ski Beatz), Jay-Z/Original Flavor associate Sauce Money, and Ruff Ryders co-founder Waah Dean—to learn more about what went down that night. Each of the three admitted that many of the specifics have faded from memory, but that they’d recall what they could.

Waah Dean: We did [the battle] on neutral grounds. Instead of doing it in Brooklyn or Yonkers, we did it in the Bronx.

Ski Beatz: When I rolled up, I was with Dame Dash, Tone Hooker, Jay-Z, and I think some of Dame’s people from Harlem—his crew called The Best Out. That was the name of his crew, from Harlem. I think Dame set [the battle] up. It was like a Brooklyn-Uptown/Harlem kind of thing. So we all met at the pool hall, in the Bronx.

Waah Dean: We heard some things about Jay-Z from Brooklyn, and from Dame, and we’d bump heads with their people every now and again. The word was out that we had these guys that was doing similar things—traveling to different areas and [battling]—so we knew in a matter of time we was gonna be in a place where somebody was gonna make the phone call, and say, ‘Yeah, we got this guy standing here, and they all wanna be here…’ and that happened. So we knew what was up. We didn’t really look for anybody, we just dealt with the situation as it was there. We knew [DMX] was one of the best, one of the greatest, so we wasn’t worried about no artist coming after him.

Sauce Money: Everybody who battled, I think it was myself, there might’ve been a girl—we had a girl, her name was Roughness—and T-Strong, and Jay. We had to get on top of the pool tables, so whoever’s battling, they’re standing on the pool table, going at it.

Waah Dean: There was no room in the building to stand at, so the only way to do it was to stand on the pool tables so everybody could see.

Sauce Money: The pool table was like a boxing ring. We were standing on opposite sides of the pool table going back-and-forth. While we were rapping, niggas were pulling out guns—all kinds of crazy shit.

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GrindTime!!!! E.Ness vs Iron Solomonhip

Always good to get a lol street battle raps out there. Damn Ness......Da Band was a long time ago huh?

Yo, another insane battle......Regilious Word Play + Lyrics

Old School, New School..............

Sparked by Joe Budden displeasure with his seeding in a recent Vibe Hip Hop rating/tournament, Budden decides to voice his opinion and call out Method Man as an MC that he would destroy literally in a one on one battle.



Joe Budden w/ Ed Lover on Power 105 pt1
Joe Budden w/ Ed Lover on Power 105 pt2


First off I don't consider Method Man/Wu Tang "Old School" but due to the varying age of people who read this there may be some of you that never heard of 36 Chambers. Um, Joe is a lyrical beast but I dont put anything past Meth. It could go either way in my opinion, but I'm not going to lie. I ride with the Wu.

Meth's Reply To Joe on Power 105


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