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Even With His Pants On, Busta Rhymes Is Blessed
By Britney Bernstein
Friday, June 20, 2008
My name is Britney Bernstein and I love black people. I’m a big fan of the NBA, rap music, BET, and Barack Obama. In the interest of keeping things kosher watermelon on this website, I decided I should review an album by a black person since most of them have been on shitty white bands / singers. God, I hate Katy Perry and I haven’t listened to her album yet either.
Nevermind, I take it back. I’m a fan of black people like Mos Def and Michael Jackson, and I hate Barack Obama. My favorite players in the NBA are Luke Walton and Jordan Farmar. My favorite rapper is Robert Van Winkle and I love the Disney Channel.
As I was flipping through this month’s edition of my mysteriously free and never-ending subscription to Maxim Magazine, I read that Busta Rhymes released an album on Tuesday. I went on to the intarwebs and starting searching torrent sites for Blessed. Considering how easy it was to get Chinese Democracy, I was a little discouraged by not being able to find Blessed. On top of that, Maxim lied to me because Blessed isn’t being released until August or some bullshit. By the way, this album was supposed to be released in December ‘07, and the release date has been pushed back like 4 times.
A bunch of torrent sites, zip files, and read me files later, I almost wished I could hand $12 to Busta Rhymes himself to score a copy of Blessed. Finally, I was Blessed when God just handed it to me.
Now that Busta is hanging out with white people like Pharrell Williams and Linkin Park, his music is much better than it used to be.
Actually, the best part of the first track, We Made It featuring Linkin Park, is not the LP chorus, but the rhymes by Busta. Is that why they call him Busta Rhymes? Clever…
Kill Dem is a great one attacking Kanye West for saying George Bush doesn’t care about black people. Apparently Busta thinks Bush does, and he thinks we should kill all the democrats. John McCain needs a theme song…
Blown is one of my favorites because it features T-Pain and his auto-tuner. Busta rhymes about his bodyguard being shot and T-Pain lightens the mood by using that hot nail-scratching-on-the-chalkboard voice of his to talk about all the girls who have blown him while he records his music.
Don’t Touch Me is poised to be the next single. That means it’s good for those of you who don’t know. Okay fine. This is actually a great song and the remix has a lot of black people in it. Can someone tell me why they do that?
Decisions, decisions. I mean, the next track is called Decision. I’m pretty sure I’m hearing Mary J Blige, Jamie Foxx, John Legend, and Common. This is the most disappointing shit from a rapper since 50 Cent didn’t retire after Kanye beat his ass in record sales. Aayyyoooo!
Right Now is produced by Dr. Dre. I love him.
The next song… I’m not sure what it’s actually called because I can’t understand what the fuck he’s saying. It’s about sex– I got that much. Either it’s I’m Gonna Get Mine, I’ma Go & Get Mine, I really don’t know. If I can’t understand it, I don’t like it.
I thought I liked the next song, If, until I realized Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussycat Dolls was singing on the track. PCD recently got Britney Spears to shoot an appearance for their new video, but it got cut last minute, so I’m boycotting PCD and everything they touch. I can climb poles too…
Throw It Up features Ludacris and Lil’ Wayne. I wish they had something else to rap about other than “stank pussy” but I guess that’s why you gotta throw it up.
Sorry guys, but I can’t listen any more. I skimmed through the next three tracks, but I did figure out that they are about marijuana, voyeurism, and the gangsta lean.
The final track, If You Don’t Know Now You Know, is a sad showing from Busta. Who the fuck steals from a dead man? R.I.P.B.I.G
Final verdict: Blessed is okay, but I liked him better when he was on Pimp My Ride.
Blessed
Available August 2008
1) We Made It (w/ Linkin Park)
2) Kill Dem (w/ Tosh)
3) Blown (w/ T-Pain)
4) Don’t Touch Me (Throw Da Water On Em)
5) Decision (w/ Mary J Blige, Jamie Foxx, John Legend & Common)
6) Right Now
7) I’m Go & Get Mine
8 ) If (w/ Nicole Scherzinger)
9) Throw It Up (w/ Lil’ Wayne & Ludacris)
10) G-Stroll
11) Let Me Show You
12) Hits 4 Days (w/ J. Holiday)
13) If You Don’t Know Now You Know (w/ Big Tigger)
the don’t touch me remix is fucking grrrrrrrrrrrreat. that’s all i need on my ipod for the next 3 days.
stealing from dead people is what virtually every genre of music is founded upon.
Hip hop is easily the most over rated music form available. Hip hop is to dance music what cock rock is to rock n roll. And lets face it : cock rock or 80’s rock or hair farmer rock or whatever you care to call it is very one dimensional(chix, cars, party) predictable and boring. Anything Motley Crue could excel at cannot be that artistic or demanding. Phony ass rebellion from washed up lushes.
The only rap artists I can stand is Public Enemy. Their music remains the high water mark for hip hop. Intelligent, funny, ironic, scary, great beats and the best voice in rap ever :Chuck D. Chuck is a hero and deserves nothing less than the Democratic VP nod, with Barry O. Well actually , he deserves better than that…is anything else even close??
Busta did make some great videos and is probably a cool guy. Any rap in the mainstream is pretty bad. Think about it, white tweens in podunk towns eat this pre-packaged rebellion up. And record companies dont find the cool ground breaking stuff-they bring the stuff most resembling a successful past project. Fiddy’s shit is as bad as Shania Twain. Please don’t shoot me , Fiddy you boring old millionaire. Quick – a staring contest : me and you….
Black culture has more to offer and should not be defined by the predictable formulaic and moronic direction hip hop seems to be going. Remember- a lot of what you hear and see in record stores was chosen by white people in suits.
If I loved hip hop, I wouldnt let those chosen rappers in my house . I’d support the real artists and pass on the crap/product on MTV.
Almost forgot–the reason that rappers cloud a track by getting 15 guys on one track is because it never seems good enough, so they keep adding shit until , defeated, they release the disconnected boring clusterfuck anyways.
trashing genres is silly. there’s good shit to be found in every single one of them. rap and country seem to be the popular genres with the most crap- and thus most folks i encounter like everything but that. but if you dig a little deeper than what’s on the radio (though shit, even some of what’s on the radio is fine), you’ll find some exceptions.
i personally think the most overrated form of music is somewhere in all that house and jungle shit. button clickers and knob twiddlers, copy & pasters. god i hate all that shit. or so i thought. even there i’ve found some substance. just had to machete a swath through the bullshit to get to it.
listen to johnny’s new mixtape:
http://www.antiquiet.com/features/mixtapes/2008/06/hip-hop-jams-to-rock-your-shit-1/
Yeah trashing genres probably isnt very cool, but tis hard to be optimistic about hip hop anymore. I want it to be better , y’know but maybe its because that music is not aimed at me ? Not sure….I’m sad that all I have is PE , a mixed tape with oddball shit and Beastie Boys. The only time I have enjoyed house dub or jungle type shit(I dont really know the difference) is live at a club thru a big system, and it rocked. At home, not so much…
Hey Skwerl–you awright! Im glad I havent alienated you…..yet. (kidding)
Billy Bob – you and Skwerl sound like a bunch of fags. You know you can get married here in California now, right?
Anyway, did anyone else notice that the picture on the album cover looks like the Notorious BIG?
hahaha bitch.
Are you jealous Britney…if that is your real name? Why is everybody so fond of using homosexual references?
So far , this forum or whatver it is seems pocked with knuckle dragging , damaged, homophobic trailer park refugees and if I wasnt recuperating from surgery, I would not be found on this embarrassing excuse for an intellectual exchange. So here’s my exit rant, and if you are offended , do some inventory.
A lot of people complain about Bush , but there are lots of other examples of why American culture is on the greased rail back to the cave. That’s exactly why I left ( dont say it, I dont miss you either, fucko ) , and things like this keep re-affirming why my choice was solid. Some of you guys are simply fucked. Dumb ass keyboard thumping under achievers with no language skills. Jay26, you’re a fucknut who needs counselling, btw, and Britney should be right behind you.
Living in Canada is great, and Im not afraid to let people know when I am abroad where I live… Anybody out there need a Canadian flag patch before you go to Europe? It is actually ill advised to let people know you are American when you are abroad…that’s where you are now, my friends . Bush is only part of your problem and when hes not around to blame, then who’s fault is it that America is more of a polarised racist sewer than it ever has been. And you all eat it up and fight with each other and resist taking responsibility for your own culture. Youre all too busy blaming Bush and licking celebrities behinds and racking up credit cards . And making enemies abroad. You should be impeaching your president and telling your congressmen whats bothering you. I am politically active and I volunteer at schools . How many of you have volunteered in your communities?
But I am casting my pearls before swine and got sucked in when the pain meds kicked in….Ill see some of you fat asses at a Dennys someday with your impossibly fat TV addicted waddling offspring.. Read a book once in a while and fucking vote, will ya?? That’s why your daddy drinks , Jay26. Youre a loser.
I am jealous :(
we didn’t call anyone a fag. we just didn’t get all up in arms when someone else did.
but enlightenment is subjective.
homme knows that calling someone a name like faggot only works against the homophobic or insecure. they call him homophobic for using the word, but us smart folks can read between the lines.
tolerance and insight? sure, from each of us:
http://www.antiquiet.com/features/2008/05/tweens-gone-wild/
http://www.antiquiet.com/features/2008/04/that-other-unwinnable-war-were-still-blowing-billions-of-dollars-on/
http://www.antiquiet.com/features/2008/05/do-you-own-a-us-oil-company/
and please don’t mix up my views with britney’s or johnny’s. we are three different people with three entirely different sets of values and ethics.
The review was inherently racist. I have no idea if that was supposed to be some inside west coast joke that the rest of us won’t get, or what. But it was racist, and slightly offensive.
I haven’t heard this album yet. And by “yet”, I mean that I might never. But there’s a chance.
man how are people still offended by racism?
ok, that was kinda tongue-in-cheek. but i think there’s a big difference between racial hatred (unacceptable) and jokingly calling pharrell white. if you find chris rock ’slightly offensive’ i’m ok with that assessment.
it might take people a minute to get the hang of our sense of humor around here. or it might take us a minute to find the people that naturally get it. whatever.
as for the music, start with the don’t touch me remix. it’s gotta be one of the best hip-hop songs i’ve heard in a looooong time.
actually, she said you sounded like a fag. you and me. but i didn’t take offense at it because a) i’m not a crybaby and b) i know there’s a difference between calling someone a fag and being hateful towards gays.
i know these are sensitive times and all, but it’s not the words you use, it’s how you use them.
I doubt the author of the article was trying to be racist, but she did come off sounding fairly ignorant. I’m pretty sure that was supposed to be the joke, being ignorant about black culture (Busta wasn’t on Pimp My Ride, it was XZibit, anyone else catch that?). The problem is, it just wasn’t a very funny review.
I’m a fan of this site, don’t get me wrong, I just like to think for myself and I know that someone can’t deliver the goods 100% of the time. Very unfunny review.
…I’m a fan of black people like Mos Def and “Michael Jackson”
MJ you said? are Michael Jackson Black or White ? (or like his song “Black or White”!) :D :D LoLz)))
why is someone that doesn’t have an effing clue about hip-hop writing about one of bustas best albums?!?!?!?! I’m sorry to say but this ‘Britney Bernstein’ obviously is some stereotypical ignorant white girl that doesn’t have a clue about what shes talking about. Leave the reviewing to somebody with at least some general knowledge about hip-hop and the culture. Just go and do some reviews about some wack artists like ‘the pussy cat dolls’ because your retarded. Peacee
i’d reply, but i can’t stop laughing.
At JoeRose, Warplayer, Dre, etc.
If you can’t laugh at a good racist joke, then that means you don’t think racism IS a joke. And that makes you racist. Also you sound like fags. Just sayin’.
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