Bring That Beat B@ck!!

320: Bring That Beat Back

It's P.E. What more do you need to know?

Bigg Russ

The Next 24 Volume IV...Mix CD Presented by Twix and New Era

320: The Next 24

Don't judge me. I haven't heard it but it's literally been shrinkwrapped since 2002...until now. Someone DL it and let me know how it sounds. LOL!

Bigg Russ

The Highest Form of Insult Is...

Kool Herc is sick and in need of surgery. The problem is, he doesn't have health insurance.

Here's a list of solutions:

• Jay-Z
• 50 Cent
• LL Cool J
• Def Jam
• Eminem
• Interscope
• Live Nation
• Jive Records
• Lil Wayne
• Baby
• Master P.
• Dr. Dre
• Will Smith
• Ludacris
• Puff Daddy/P. Diddy/Diddy/Sean Combs/Jack of all Trades, Master of None
• Russell Simmons
• Lyor Cohen
• Dame Dash
• Ice Cube
• EMI
• Sony
• Universal
• Warner Music Group
• E-40
• Salt-N-Pepa
• Snoop Dogg
• Guerilla Union
• Outkast
• Those mofos' who shot Biggie, Tupac, Freaky Tah and Jam Master Jay (If there was EVER a time to repent, it's now.)
• Jimmy Iovine
• Bert Padell
• Hot 97
• Funkmaster Flex
• DJ Khaled
• Ed Lover
• Viacom
• Sirius/XM
• Nas
• Kelis (C'mon. She's made more money off Nas' money than she did with R&B.)
• Violator Management
• Geffen Records
• Sylvia Robinson
• Queen Latifah
• The RZA
• The GZA
• Inspectah Deck
• Raekwon The Chef
• GhostFace Killer
• Method Man
• (U-God not listed on purpose)
• Rev. Run
• Cablevision
• The National Basketball Association
• Shaquille O'Neal (He still owes us for making OTHER athletes rap.)
• The Source
• Will.I.Am
• Wyclef Jean
• Dizzee Rascal
• MC Solaar
• Redman
• EPMD
• Vanilla Ice
• Ice-T
• Kid Frost
• Cypress Hill
• Gucci Mane (I'd only look at you 1/2 slanted after this.)
• Emmis Communications
• Clear Channel Communications, Inc.
• The Roots
• Fat Joe
• Cam'Ron
• Rick Ross
• An umpteen number of talentless, video 'women' (I kept that clean. Here's a hint: 'We don't love 'em though!')
• Soulja Boy
• KRS-One
• Nelly
• Teddy Riley
• Jermaine Dupri
• De La Soul
• John Singleton
• F. Gary Gray
• Bishop Don Magic Juan
• The Christopher Wallace Foundation
• Ciroc
• Patron
• Grey Goose
• Hennessy (Hell, they should donate a wing of their corporate offices to Kool Herc.)
• Remy Martin
• St. Ides
• Phat Farm
• Cross Colours (In spirit...)
• Lee
• Girbaud
• Nike
• Addidas
• Fila
• Dr. Jay's
• VIM
• 125th Street (From Broadway to Park Avenue.)

If I haven't made my point perfectly clear, PLEASE let me know and I'll do my best to provide more solutions.

Consider me a hypocrite but I find it EXTREMELY offensive to ask the FANS of hip hop to donate to Kool Herc's bills when we haven't been made privy to what ails him. And since the REAL fans have been 'donating' to hip hop for years via mis-managed contracts (Hey, it ain't MY fault if you were so hard up on 'getting a deal' that YOU didn't read your contract.), bad music, unsolved murders, contradictory messages, false feuds and other such nonsense I don't feel we should ante up ONE MORE RED CENT until those who've eaten for YEARS off US put their bling where their mouths are.

Kool Herc, get well soon. You're in my prayers.

Thanks for reading...

Bigg Russ

It's been a long time...

I should'na left you. I'll be back soon...

Bigg Russ

News. (Not) News.

I've been thinking.

This is what I've been thinking:

• Am I the only one not surprised to hear about a male flight attendant exiting his job... sliding down some rubber... through the back door?

• And Montana Fishburne's daughter... Please. So NOW it's news that a Hollywood famous so-and-so's daughter decides to screw on camera? Sure, I get the fact that it's Morpheus' offspring and all (I was gonna type Furious Styles' offspring ... but didn't want to lose half of you) but it's not really news. The real news here is that she wants to pattern herself after Kim Kardasian. I hate to break it to Female Fishburne but K.K. (the sexy one) isn't really a porn star per se. She's an opportunist. (Albeit, not as opportunistic as Ray J ... but hey, when you're that untalented you gotta make up for it somehow.) F.F. (the one who's not keeping it on the downlow) should do her homework. Can she at least show love for a REAL porn star like Vanessa Del Rio, Angel Kelly or Tera Patrick? Where's the respect?!

• A-Rod hit his 600th homerun. So what? And I'm a Yankee fan. Yeah, I shouted it out on my Facebook status and all that... but let's be honest. Baseball is tainted. Kinda like F.F. There's no going back. Mind you, that's not to say that A-Rod's accomoplishments aren't grand in scale. I'm just sayin'... shoot me up witht the same enhancement drugs he used and I probably couldn't hit the ball to center field (LOL @ probably). 'Roids don't make you the Hulk, they enhance your natural ability. Still... sucks to know it'll forever be seen as 600*. The ONLY homerun dude we should pay attention to from this point on isn't in the MLB yet. Believe that.

• Guiliani's daughter getting arrested for shoplifting. Nothing newsworthy here either. A Guiliani committing a crime?! Fruit. Tree. Something like that. Sephora gets no props for not teaching her spoiled ass a lesson either.

• Isiah Thomas gets re-hired by the Knicks ... then turns the job down. That's not news. The news is that something actually GOOD happened for the Knicks. It won't help them get wins but at least they're just that much less a group of laughing stocks.

• On a more personal note, someone just told me they didn't know Tyler Perry was gay. NOT knowing Tyler Perry is gay IS news. I should've called Fox.

• 700 people are dead and 1000 missing in China. That's not news. Whenever anything happens in China, a massive amount of people die. No disrespect meant to those dead or missing and the families and friends of them all ... but real news would've been had they said, "This just in... 5 people have died from [INSERT RANDOM EARTH-BORN UPHEAVAL HERE]! This ISN'T the worst disaster to hit this country in decades..."

• Google offices raided by Korean police. KOREA. I'm shocked they let Google in there to begin with.

I think I might need to start thinking less.

Thanks for reading.

Bigg Russ

An Open Letter To All Rhyme Sayers...

1. Create an ALBUM for a change. I dare you. Your continued use of 'mixtapes' are killing hip hop (again). Challenge yourself and try to put together a collection of related material. Try telling a damn story. There are more to tell. Trust me.

2. Try to make songs YOU can carry - by yourself. Must EVERY track be "Your Song" ft. [insert hot rapper/MC of the moment]"?

3. Polish your stage show. I don't know about you but what I see is what I get. If I don't 'get' you, that means I don't 'see' you. In case you haven't heard, music doesn't sell as much as it used to. Understand that CD's are no more than promotional items now. If your show sucks, you won't last.

4. Stop believing your own hype. Most fans don't really care about how hot YOU think you are. ALWAYS assume you can get better. Every rapper has fallen off at one point or another. EVERY rapper. Humble pie. Eat some.

5. Take a gamble. Find that diamond-in-the-rough producer. Most of you are SO anxious to 'get on' that you hire the same damn producers all the time. You know what happens when you do that? You all sound exactly alike ... despite whatever 'difference' you think you're bringing to the game.

6. Study the ART. There is a very real, very DEEP foundation in hip hop and it would seem only a handful of you seem to 'understand' it. Take a hint from some poets as well. They can teach you to say a lot in a much smaller space & time.

Yeah, that's all I got right now. Most of you need a lot more help though. I'll be back. Trust.

As usually, thanks for reading.

~ Bigg Russ

Killa Sha ft. Biggie Smalls *UNRELEASED*

Step It Up (Produced by J.Force) featuring a virtual newcomer by the name of Biggie Smalls.

You heard it hear first! Shouts to my boy, DaSaga for the love!

R.I.P., Killa.

Check it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yji-Vi1JQY

Bigg Russ