WHAT I LIKE SEEING THE MOST

What I Like Seeing the Most

October 15, 2022



When it comes to female rap there is one name that is shaking hip hop to its core, coming straight outta Memphis, its Gloria Hallelujah Woods, b.k.a., Glorilla! Glorilla took 2022 by storm with her Hit Kidd produced smash, “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)”. The infectious track had every one chanting “F R E E..” and “Let’s Gooooooooo”.

Big Glo caught viral attention, mainly in part due to her music video, which features her and friends, which people described them as “regular” and “ordinary” women. Meaning none of them look surgically enhanced like how many of our instagram feeds look today.

As her song was going viral, Glorilla and her associates faced many criticisms, mainly critiques concerning their looks. However, that only made Glo’s ascension that much more satisfying.

This is what I love seeing the most, the glow up! Specifically w/ Glorilla’s metoric rise. I loved seeing her get new teeth after being ridiculed, I loved seeing her receive star glam treatment, and I love seeing her performances rise. I remember when my boy was telling me how Glorilla had a show in the natti during that time, she only had F.N.F., so I didn’t expect much of the performance. I knew she was collecting them beginnning of fame club bags.

The Boy and Big Glo!

Then as time went on, she start proving herself , song after song. She made me a believer when she dropped that “Tomorrow” record and I’m talking before Cardi B hopped on it. When she started her verse with, “Looking good as hell today, just sent my n**** five attachments,” I said Oh yeah she hard foreal! Then I heard all the stuff she did with GlossUp, HitKidd, Slimeroni, Aleza, and K Carbon (its carbonnnnnn lmao). I knew I was listening to a bonafide star.

I love watching each step and being able to tell when the money hit (lol) and when she stepped into stardom completely. Seeing her Rolling Loud and BETHIPHOP awards performances let me know that she’s here to stay and with the recent release of her first EP, Glorilla may have been handpicked by God himself to takeover the reigns of female rap. I look forward to seeing her grow.

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AGE AND MUSIC

Age and Music

October 12, 2022

Two careers that a young black boy will always take an interest in are, Rapping and Athletics. Most people have done both feats and most haven’t made any professional stride in either category. Most of them starts young as well. I never wanted to be a professional athlete but please believe I love rapping with all my heart. I’ve been rapping since maybe 2000. I really started consistently writing raps in the 7th grade but I wrote my first rap way earlier, it was a rap about shoelaces lol. During that same week I wrote my first song called “Oreo Klondike Bar” lmao. I wrote it in the vein of RUNDMC’s My Adidas lol. If you know me my first song being about Oreos makes perfect sense lmao.

Fast forward as I get older with music around 18/19 I started locking in with my younger cousin Khalil, who was around 12/13 at the time. So basically I became his mentor and started getting his rapping chops right. When he started writing it was a struggle because he was so young so he didn’t have much experience in life, I was only a few years older, but those few years makes a difference.

Me and Khalil first and final tape together released in 2011, due to tragic events we could not complete the second one even though we worked on it. #LongLiveKhalil

When we would be writing together I told him “Cuz just focus on yo flow because nobody grown wanna hear you because you too young to talk about something relatable.” That’s when he would start going and start focusing on playing with how he said things rather than what he said. I can remember coaching him on saying the same part fifty different times lmao. Man those were great times, as time started to progress, he started digging deeper, and was starting to fight the reverse ageism against his lyrical content.

With the combination of him studying music on his own and me co-writing his verses, he started to understand himself as an artist. It got to a point where he would send me hooks and songs that I didn’t write his verse or anything, and I would be impressed like Damn cuz you wrote this?

For anyone who starts music young this is basically all our story not just Khalil’s. When you’re young making music, you’re either capping way too much or talking about some absolute bs. The younger you are you should just focused on sounding good, learning how to write, and studying music. Then when you’re older you’ll gain actual experience which you could translate into songs.

Its amazing as an artist to reach a point where you can take a situation or event in your life and write a song about that one specific thing and not get off topic, while rhyming and actual sounding dope. That’s why I’m so excited to see younger people get that spark to want to do music, but I hate the people that get into to waste time and not take it serious.

I don’t wanna hear no 14 year old talking about smoking opps, racks going crazy, and a whole bunch of dumb stuff we know you not doing, If your idiotic self is actually doing it then we got bigger problems then music because you’re heading down the path of destruction. Its getting real Dennis the Menace in this bih lmao ( but a 100 times worse).

Remember Bow Wow started young but no grown man wanted to hear him as a little boy. He was for little girls, as he aged he still had a female target audience, but his content grew and matured, proving my age and music point.

If you’re a young a preteen/teen don’t ever get discouraged from pursuing your genuine interest in rapping. Yes we have enough rappers and most are extremely trash and posisbly destructive to our community but I believe in people following their passion. Who cares if its a thousand rappers, its only one you! Invest in yourself, let time be your teacher, and grow, grow, grow!

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NOTHING LIKE A GOOD CAMEO

NOTHING LIKE A GOOD CAMEO

August 31, 2022

On this day, I was watching Latto’s video for her single, “It’s Givin”. It’s a standout track on her sophomore album, 777, and its produced by FNZ, JetsonMade, and Pooh Beatz. While I was watching the video, I saw several cameos from the likes of Angela Simmons, Chloe x Halle, Ella Mai, Flo Milli and more. That’s when I thought man its something about a good cameo that just make a video/film/track, etc hit harder. I believe its because of several things..

I.CAMEO SHOWS SUPPORT.

Cameo is defined as a small character part in a play or movie, played by a distinguished actor or a celebrity. Meaning that this is someone who doesn’t have to be apart of whatever their making a cameo in. Their role is minor and its probably free of charge, so its something about this project that is so respectable by the person making the cameo, that it makes the cameo worthwhile. I believe the audience can pick up on that and something goes off in their head like wow this person must believe in this things they’re in otherwise why are you here?

II.CAMEO CAN ALSO BE A SIGN OF RESPECT.

The main example of this are probably the Stan Lee cameos. Other than the fact he probably had a literal contract clause that required him to make a cameo in most Marvel movies, I’m sure most people would not be opposed to seeing a founding pillar of Marvel make an appearance for a few seconds. Stan Lee cameos were the living embodiment multiple years filled with sacrifice, failure, and triumph. You saw the movie’s vision as Stan Lee made his standard pop in. You think about the external things that I mentioned previously before you dive back into the deep comic world built by him and others.

A well placed cameo can take a simple video to moment in time. If you can create a moment and possibly create a timestamp in history then your piece of performative art accomplished everything it could be and more!


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THE MOVIE GAME

August 31, 2022

I was looking at the beautiful BAPE x MARVEL bapesta collabs and when I saw the Hulk sneaker, for some reason I thought about that atrocious HULK game that was released when the 2003 HULK movie dropped.

I started to think about why did every movie game totally sucked? I remember everytime a blockbuster was set to release, Lord behold a video game counterpart was release alongside it. One of the times I was scarred by the movie game was The Grinch. It was released on the Sega Dreamcast and served as a companion to Jim Carrey’s Grinch film (which was actually good). What hurted the most about The Grinch game is I didn’t even want the damn game! Here’s how I ended up getting it anyway.

This Game Sucked!!!

One day we was in Blockbuster and my mother was taking me and my brother to get video games for our Sega Dreamcast My favorite type of game has always been fighting games, so when I saw Street Fighter I was ecstatic! But my mother said, “Vonnie you always get those type of games, why don’t you try something different”, it was the worst advice she ever gave me lmao. I tried something different and what I got was an utter piece of s***. No effort was put into it at all, an obvious cash grab.

Unforturnately this wasn’t a one off, it had to be a reason the movie game stop being an essential extension of the blockbuster movie. I was on wikipedia the other day looking at MCU info and noticed the only video games made for the MCU was for the first two phases. None of the games were received well and they all suffered from clunky gameplay, average graphics, and a repetitiveness mechanic that would fry your brain if you let it lol.

TRASH!!!!!!

I’m glad someone got the memo and finally stopped making these horrendous games. However, I do wonder what was the breaking point? Excessive critical panning or low sales? It had to be commercial because we know if it makes money another one is getting made.

Do you remember any good movie games? Let me know in the comments or something!

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HOW RECENCY BIAS WILL AFFECT THE NEW KENDRICK RELEASE.

HOW RECENCY BIAS WILL AFFECT THE NEW KENDRICK RELEASE.

APRIL 18, 2022.

“Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers” 5.13. 22

I. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE…

It was a snowy day in Michigan. As expected during this time because we have 80 months of winter and 1 week of summer. Anywho, your mans was just scrolling down his time, when I see a press release posted on Elliott Wilson page. First thing I see was the “PgLang” header, I said “uh huh..” then I see a release date and an album title?!?! Oh its serious time! The one whom they call Kendrick Lamar is returning?

After so long since the Pulitzer Prize winning album DAMN. released, no one really knows what to expect from the TDE veteran. What I do know is this album is the MOST IMPORTANT RELEASE in his discography! Why? Ok here it is..

II. J. COLE’S STRONG CLAIM FOR NUMBER ONE!

Since the mid 2010s hip hop has held the trifecta of Drake, J.Cole, & Kendrick Lamar as the three headed monster of the greatest current mc,s. The number one spot has been constantly interchangeable based on the performances throughout the years from the big 3. Drizzy is always my favorite personal number one but I’d be. a lying fool if I don’t give Jermaine Cole his credit.

Now Jermaine has been running circles around people since about 2018. He’s the new school feature king, he’s been consistently releasing great albums, and he’s on fire as an executive. J. Cole took a strong lead to me when he strategically released the Dreamville compliation mixtape “D-DAY w/ DJ DRAMA” to coincide with his own festival and when he dropped that monster verse on BIA’s new single “LONDON”. Cole clearly made his claim for top position and Drizzy is always drizzy, where does that leave Kendrick?

III.AN ACTIVE KENDRICK?!?!!?

We got a preview of the innovation to come when K.Dot gave us the tractor trailer flow on Baby Keem records and we see the executive moves he making by breaking away from his home label to start his own enterprise. However we can’t act like those years of inactivity haven’t affected K.Dot in a negative way. Now a person with sense will argue that Kendrick’s quality is so top tier he doesn’t need to have the same output as his peers. That person would be right because Kendrick’s legacy is cemented and you cannot take away those classic albums but how can we honestly say he number one when Drizzy and even Cole kept their foot on the pedal, staying active and creating moments while K.Dot is chilling with his family getting his hair braided.

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So how will recency bias affect K.Dot now? If Kendrick new album meet people’s expectations let alone surpass it, people are gonna undoubtedly says he’s number one and no one is messing with him! Which will be an over-exaggeration because this one album no matter how good it is can’t put him over Cole and Drake, he been too inactive!! This album must be the beginning of a run! I mean a serious run! He gotta drop fire, Baby keem gotta follow up with fire, we need new PgLang artists to debut, and shorter gaps between Kendrick release! He has to go on a tear!

Now if the album is whack….that is literally the worst thing that can happen for him. Because people are going to act like Section.80 or To Pimp A Butterfly don’t exist then they’re going to act like it was blasphemous to compare him to Cole and Drizzy in the first place. Let’s get this clear no matter how whack this album is it cannot end K.Dot’s career! People still don’t have a Good Kid Maad City in their catalog.

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The BS starting already lmao

So that’s really it man, the album don’t release until May 13, 2022 so in the meantime prepare to see the wildest takes and even on release date prepare to see the most bs, good and bad, you ever seen. What are you expecting from this album? Do he need features? What about Production? Let me know how you feel beloved, thanks for reading!!

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"POP WAS THE KING OF NEW YORK, NOW I'M THE ONE IN CHARGE"

"POP WAS THE KING OF NEW YORK, NOW I'M THE ONE IN CHARGE"

February 18, 2022

The King of New York is one of the most controversial titles in hip hop. Even Nas once said “There's more shit than wanting to be this King of New York shit”. However its still one of the most coveted titles in hip hop because New York was once the mecca of hip hop (which we all know is Atlanta now). There has been many kings of NY, including but not limited to: B.I.G., Hov, 50, just to name a few but for a while that title went void and almost became meaningless. With Atlanta currently having their foot, hand, and Draco on the rap game’s neck, New York didn’t have a true hometown hero they could rally behind for the masses because most NY artists had to keep up with the modern sound to stay relevant.

I.YOU CANNOT SAY POP AND FORGET THE SMOKE!

Then came along the Canarsie MC, POP SMOKE. Pop had all the makings of a superstar and was clearly getting ready to be the undisputed king of NY Hip Hop due to being a pioneer of Brooklyn Drill + His aura that was reminiscent of Get Rich or Die Tryin’ 50. When Pop met his untimely demise it felt like once again the King of NY seat would be empty for a while. Lil TJay snuck in some hits, Kay Flock is leading the charge in the Bronx, but are they King of NY material? Who knows beloved. But there is one name that had the potential to take the throne and that is frequent Pop Smoke collaborator and fellow Brooklynite, Fivio Foreign.

II.VIRAL

Fivio may have seem like another notch on the belt which is drill rap but then he got the biggest feature on the critically acclaimed, DONDA album by Kanye West. The track “Off the Grid” which also features Playboi Carti, gives Fivio Foreign the most blatant headstart for a musical run, since 2chainz on “Mercy”. Once the beat switches to the signature Drill slider synth, Fivi goes off for probably 32+ bars of simple but effective lyrics.

That Fivi verse on Off the Grid put him on a whole new radar, next thing you know features everywhere! Also, most of the songs are being tailored to him so he can give that same crushing flow from ”Off the Grid”. Once he dropped “City of Gods” w/ Alicia Keys & Ye, he officially made his claim for the throne,

“Pop was the king of New York, Now I’m the n***** in charge”.

Ok! we all know you have to say it first before we believe it right?! So once he said that he officially placed himself under extreme scrutiny. At this point, we know Fivi is the best doing drill rap right now but what would he have to do to take that King of NY title? A Lot!! He has to have people wanna emulate him, his presence has to be everywhere, but most imporantly that first album has to be a classic!!!

Beyond this point is where I acquired new info for the article after its original written date.

III.B.I.B.L.E. TALK

Fivio Foreign dropped his debut studio album, B.I.B.L.E., April 8, 2022. Let me be the first to say the album is……NOT a classic. It starts off cool and he tries to step out on certain songs but it just don’t capture you like it should. Its definitely a strong debut I would say because he can only go up from here but now we have to ask, can he go up from here? Was “Off the Grid” just a moment? B.I.B.L.E. was apparently executive produced by Kanye but is it or me is it hard to see his(Ye) input on this? With all the hype around the album it felt like we should’ve been given way more.

While Fivi’s debut wasn’t bad its not a undisputed instant classic that it should’ve been for a person who claims to be “King of New York”. The throne is still up for grabs in my humble opinion. Who is worthy of it though? Will it be another new young up and comer or will Fivi make me eat my words and take the necessary steps to become the king he wants to be?

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WHAT IS SUPPORT?

WHAT IS SUPPORT?

February 3, 2022

Every entrepreneur comes to the point where they have to face their expectations on what is support and who should support come from right now. I’ve been an artist all my life but I’ve been a serious commercial artist meaning I am actively pursuing a career in all my artistic endeavors since about the latter half of 2015.

Since then I’ve encountered what we refer to as “fake support” a billion times. Today’s article won’t focus on what isn’t support but it will simply states what is support. There is only two ways I feel that truly supports an entrepreneur’s journey.

I.SHARING

This part is completely free. If you call yourself “supporting” an entrepreneur friend the easiest thing you can do is share their work. Keeping your praises to their inboxes and private messages does nothing for their business, if anything it may harm it because constant praise can inflate one’s ego! So here’s what you do beloved on any social platform take a post of their you genuinely like and put it on your page and TAG them!

If you on Twitter, retweet and tweet links, on IG post on story if you’re generous do. a page post, Facebook do the same thing as IG! If you’re on snapchat post it and provide the link as an attachment. Do this beloved and don’t keep telling them its fire they should know that already!

II.FINANCIAL COMPENSATION

As an entrepreneur I personally know that getting people that personally know you to buy something from you is like pulling teeth! They would spend they money on everything under the sun except your business/service and then will complain about your prices or ask for something for free. If you clean windows your personal relationships will surely to ask you to clean their windows for free or say “man I gotta get you to clean my windows” or everytime they see you they’ll say “hey man I’m still going to get them windows clean we gotta make it happen”.

Entrepreneurs are often spending their own money funding their businesses and their business do not run on lip service. So saying man “I see you with your jewelry line” is not supporting the jewelry line in any shape or form. Yeah you see me with my jewelry line, you ain’t blind beloved! So what is financial compensation simple!

To support your entrepreneur friend/family through financial compensation is to pay full price for the product/service without distraught or complaint. Simple its putting your money where your mouth is. When you do that you are showing the businessperson you care for them because you care enough to spend money on their dreams. Spending your own hard earned money with someone you know is the most genuine thing you can do because you’re putting food on their table.

And that ladies and gentlemen is how you show true support!!

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GRISELDA IS NEEDED FOR ONE SIMPLE REASON

GRISELDA IS NEEDED FOR ONE SIMPLE REASON

February 3, 2022

A. THEY MAKE EVERYONE WANNA RAP!!

That’s it beloved!! It was only a matter of time before I wrote about them Buffalo Boys. I can’t exactly recall when I get wind of the Griselda Empire but if I had to put a finger on it, it was probably during the Tana Talk 3 release era and I know the JBP (The Joe Budden Podcast) had a huge reason on why I came across them.

CONWAY THE MACHINE

WESTSIDE GUNN

I love Griselda because they circumvent all the bs that comes with rap and just stick with rapping!! Which is very rare in the music business. Griselda at its core is the 3 Man team of Westside Gunn, Conway the Machine, and Benny the Butcher. Conway is considered the most lyrical but Benny gets that title from a certain people too! Me personally I flip flop between who’s the most lyrical adept between the two but it don’t even matter!

Westside is known more as a curator than a rapper but he gets off too! He’s excellent at putting projects together and bridging the gap between the arts and the streets. Westside Gunn is definitely a person I would hang around because he’s immersed in the culture. We all know street people and a lot of us come from the hood but street stuff can be overbearing with people constantly trying to prove their “streetness” and just operating on a low frequency in general.

Griselda is street at its core but man they so different. its not low vibrations. When them boys rap they spit with that hunger and its sound like they care man, that’s so important! Everybody wanna eat but with how easier it is to get a quick lick in music a lot of people hop in the booth and say bs, not these boys, they on that Jadakiss vibe, EVERY VERSE MATTERS!!

At this point to say you don’t like Griselda is saying you don’t like hip hop! And if you don’t like hip hop kick rocks!! lmao. Man every time I listen to these boys I wanna open up Logic and press record! If I’m feeling like that any lyricist that cares HAS to feel like that! With that being said, for those who don’t know let me drop my favorite tracks below for yall to go purchase and stream! I’ll do ten off the top of my head, check it out:

GRISELDA STARTER KIT

  1. CRUISER WEIGHT COKE BY GRISELDA

  2. 97’ HOV BY BENNY THE BUTCHER

  3. 5 TO 50 BY BENNY THE BUTCHER

  4. ALLAH SENT ME BY WESTSIDE GUNN, CONWAY THE MACHINE, BENNY THE BUTCHER

  5. GEORGE BONDO BY WESTSIDE GUNN, CONWAY THE MACHINE, BENNY THE BUTCHER

  6. JOHNNY P’S CADDY BY BENNY THE BUTCHER, J.COLE

  7. RIGHT NOW BY WESTSIDE GUNN, JADAKISS , STOVEGODCOOKS

  8. HELL ON EARTH PT 2 BY WESTSIDE GUNN, CONWAY THE MACHINE, BENNY THE BUTCHER

  9. DR. BIRDS BY GRISELDA

  10. SUNDAY SCHOOL BY BENNY THE BUTCHER, JADAKISS, 38 SPESH

BENNY THE BUTCHER

WHY DOES WATER PUT OUT FIRE?!

WHY DOES WATER PUT OUT FIRE?!

January 31, 2022

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One day I was running water over the sink to put out some sage that was burning too vicious lol, (yeah burning sage to destroy them bad vibes beloved you know what it is), as I was running water I thought “Why does water put out fire?!” I don’t know the scientific answer to this but I felt like a deeper meaning was given to me in my head that day. Or maybe it wasn’t that deep and I’m boosting but who cares beloved. I thought about a certain point regarding this subject.

I. COOL HEAD BEATS A HOT HEAD.

Before I start, I recognize water can be. hot, that does defuse the following point just stay along for the ride, ok?! When I saw the water hit the sage it was somehow amazing for me just to see a fire that was burning so fiercely be decimated by water. It made me think this is what happens when we decide to let our cool thoughts take over our raging hot emotions.

When we are calm and cool we can make extremely better decisions. Whenever I had a burning rage it always led down the wrong path. Rage has gotten me into physicals fights, verbal onslaughts, and accidental injury to myself. You’re so consumed with the fire of your emotions you’re going every direction almost like a… flame. There isn’t a linear direction fire can go unless its projected thru a flamethrower or something similar so it can just go anywhere. Its akin to rage, I remember times being so mad I couldn’t stay still I had to do something: scream, punch a wall, punch a face, anything that would transmute my anger to a physical expression.

But when I decide to cool it I avoided a lot of tragic endings. Even the Bible says “Remember this, my dear brothers: Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.”

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