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this is … the remix

This joint is perfect.  “Dollar Bill Y’all” sample, DOPE bass line, simple hard spittin’.  Straight old time perfection.  This just started getting play in the A, I guess it’s been around New York for a minute.  Once upon a time Maino caught a charge on some weight/kidnapping shit, got locked up for a decade (yes, a decade), missed 2Pac, Biggie, Rodney King, OJ, and Seinfeld, spent a bunch of time in solitary and made himself into a MC.  Then he got out, kicked around for a few years, started running with Lil Kim and got some buzz little by little.

To me he’s a New York Shawty Lo (which is the highest praise I can give — and he’s on the Dey Know NYC remix).  He’s not trippin’ on some complex flow, he just go hard with swag.  And unlike every other rapper up there, he makes music that LADIES can feel.  You remember girls, NY?  They don’t download mixtapes and they don’t care if Saigon or Papoose is better.  They like to dance.  Y’all can talk all you want about how G Rap got a raw deal, but I never heard one beezy trippin’ on him.  Matter of fact, instead of bitching about how only “ringtone artists” make money these days, keep your girl in mind and see what happens.

Go back all through rap history, there ain’t a single big time rapper that didn’t get love from the girls.  The first rap superstar wasn’t “Ladies Love” for nothing.  Pac was the biggest rapper ever, and he still gets more love than all today’s NY rappers combined.  LL and Pac were just pretty boys?  Well Biggie was ugly as shit and he still had girls falling over for him.  Why was Tribe the only big time ”alternative” rap group ever?  Do you have any IDEA how much girls love Q-Tip?  The man has a license to print pussy.  Hi haters.  At some point you can kiss-kiss so much that you lose the fellas, which is like trying to be president without the white vote.  Just ask LL or Ja Rule.

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