In other words... "I wanna go home to the hood so I apologized"
WARNGING! COLIN POWELL ALERT
no it's bout industry clout. like jay z said on "dear summer" "For the record, I put a couple careers on hold
You could be next kid
Keep entering the danger zone"
everybody from round here no los was doin his thang in the streets. he wasn't no kingpin but he had the whips, the jewelry and cash b4 he sold a record. he was funding bowen homes day b4 he sold a record. But, we he converted to industry his old small pockets ain't and don't mean shyt to ngz who've went multi platinum, to ngz whose music help carry the city for years. Like dj's were finna turn their backs on the nga (ti) who help keep atl hype when Stl and Texas were flirting with takn the throne away from Atlanta. Ti has too many hits that was the soundtrack for latenites in the city for many years. Ti has been pretty consistent over the past few years with good selln albums and radio play for some local small time cat to fade him. Ya'll remember what Pac said Puffy told him? don't go to war until u got your money right........Pac didn't start dissn them cats until after he got with Death Row, shyt he didn't come at them until after he sold a few milli, he didn't say their names on All Eyes On Me, he strategized and did that on "hit em up" off the "how do u want it" maxi single. U can have all this clout in bowen homes, u can be a real street nga, but if somebody comes through with more money and connections than u, your own people will sell u out. That's a big reason los couldn't win. We all know Gucci Mayne is a fool, who will bust his gun, but less than a week after his ti diss track came out, he was on the radio apologizing calln it a misunderstanding........... fkn fool, 1 he's in ti's town where ti help carry the city for years and u haven't. so number 1 u (gucci) was gonna get semi blackballed from the radio, number 2 Gucci had just signed to Atlantic...............dummy that's the label ti on and has made millions for, u (gucci) almost got your contract trashed.
personally i kinda wanted lo to fade ti, because ti is a fake, he wasn't no dope boy, nobody on bankhead, simpson, the west side seem to really no dude. i met him back in the days he was on the kris kros shyt when his mom was managing him. Then the gun charges pretty much disappearing sound a little flaky. But, i didn't want ti to be destroyed because real or fake, he's been doing a lot of community work for years---before he was ordered to do community service. The gift and the curse......The gift---him and his uncle have built nearly 100 homes for low income families, he usually talks decent on tv and radio....the curse--he was one of the guys who really got all these ngz down here on the want to be a dope boy shyt, he was 1 of the ngz who got these ngz wantn to be trap stars----so just when the thug shyt was slightly dying down, this embracing the trap shyt came out and took blacks back another 10 years.
jay z "takeover" "don't make me expose u to the people that don't know u" with all the rumors about lo in atl, it's probably best that he just makes rap songs and not get in all the beef, there's just too many rumors going around that seem to possibly hold some truth.
props to them both for ending this shyt and hopefully it's over, no metaphor disses or quick jabs, over. peace