Hip hop over the past few years has been all about the new dudes coming into town. Most of them have came and went. This year has been thrusted with new dudes thanks to the now infamous XXL's Freshman 10 cover from late last year (by the way that 'class' has like a 40% success rate). And because of all this attention old rappers no likey. It came to a point where all these dudes sounded like those grumpy old men who sits on a stoop all day, drink beer and play dominos or cards or chess. They were all talk and no action, if there was action there was no re-action to their actions. But these past few days old rappers are back with two major hip hop releases this week Raekwon (feat Ghostface Killah) Only Built For Cuban Links II and Jay-Z's Blueprint 3. Im happy for these dudes especially Rae cause he does not have the same machine as Jay-Z has behind him, I mean we all know that Jay was going to do well even though BP3 is Kingdom Come part 2 aka very dissappointing. Raekwon is getting numbers because of his skill, the respect that real heads have for him and that is extremely commendable regardless if your an old head or a freshmen.
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