Hip Hop Honors

Yo….

Ok.

Im from the Bronx, right…. And as long as I been upstate, as sure as I will eventually find my home somewhere below the mason-dixon line, I will forever be from the Bronx, and that NYC thang will always flow through my veins. You cant fault me for reppin hip hop from where it started, and that’s what will always be real to ME.

That being said, I watched the Dirty South Hip Hop Honors on VH1 tonight and it was a muthafucken party up in here LOL. When I first heard they were doing a southern version, I was like WTF??? Its no secret – I aint never really been a fan of southern hip hop (bar a few) – but there have been some real gems over the years. A lot of these performances brought back memories.

I remember me and my best friend at the time being up in the club doo doo browning all over the place, screaming “CAPRICORN!!!” til we were hoarse.

I remember when “Welcome to Atlanta” first hit the airwaves and wanting to go to the A soooooooooo damn bad to hit every spot JD called out in that song LOL.

Silkk the Shocker use to be a cutie, and although I still don’t think he should be rappin, he had a certain sound that you could identify on any track. That joint he did with Mya back in the day was HAWT!

Don’t even get me started on Mystikal. **smh** A bitch bout CRIED when he went to jail LOL.

I hated D4L with a passion, but I even jammed to their asses tonight!

Timbaland….. if somebody woulda gave him a Ricola before that interview, I wouldn’t have nothing bad to say bout him either and this is the one time – the ONE time – I saw Diddy and didn’t wanna push him down a flight of stairs.

They even had the “I Love College” dude up in the mix, with his black church socks. **smh** He was sooooo close LOL.

One question: where the hell was Outkast???? How you gonna have a Hip Hop Honors, Dirty South with no Outkast???? As much as I enjoyed the show, they lost all credibility with me for that. So they did a piece of a song of theirs…. Not. Good. Enough. #FAIL

And I would be perfectly fine to never hear another Rick Ross NOTHIN in my life, but the fact that my baby Nelly was present and accounted for is a fair enough trade off LOL.

So all in all, aside from the absence of Outkast, it was a really good show. I think a lot of the problem I have with southern hip hop is the way we’ve just been drowned in it over the last few years, but then again, it aint they fault if everybody else fell back…. Or off.

East coast…. West coast…. Canada (LOL) get your weight up.