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Friday, March 27, 2009

Blue Magic....




Your Favorite Trappers Favorite Trapper
written by 4 Bars

I say: T.I., Young Jeezy, The Clipse, Rick Ross, you say? Southern? Popular? How bout “Dope Boy”? They are either “you’re favorite rappers’ favorite rapper” or “your favorite trappers’ favorite trapper”. And in the spirit of Just K’s first annual awards show I wanna know who’s the best trap rapper?

I’m not necessarily asking who the best rapper is, but who was the best at talking about them “birds” them “thangs” or “slangin that weight”? I definitely think credit has to go to T.I. for the publicizing of the term and idea of a “Dope Boy”, mainly because he put out a song called, well, “Dope Boyz”. But Young Jeezy definitely took it to the next level with his Snowman antics. As much as I totally disagree with everything Rick Ross raps/says/does/is about, I’d have to say that actually donning the name of one of the most notable ACTUAL drug dealers on the west coast and maintaining this as his image puts him in the running. The Clipse have forever been the “kings of the coke flow” and continue to come straight out the kitchen wit it.

Before I announce my winner for “Trap Rapper of the Game” Honorable mention must go to the Yayo man himself Killa Cam “Yayo” was one of my favorite joints and Cam continues to bless songs like “Make Da Trap Say Ay” with “dope” verses. Speaking of which, honorable mention also goes to Gucci Mane who went from the Trap House to the Big House and is now back in the rap game. He will certainly add significant “weight”.

And the winner is:….Young Jeezy!!! YEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHH, the fact is T.I. opened up the door but Jeezy broke that mofo down. There has never been a trap rapper who built as successful of a career as Jeezy, especially since OFFICER RICKKEEYYYYY will be irrelevant pretty soon.

In all seriousness though, this is the only way I can write about these rappers without stepping up on my soapbox. Truth be told, I hate rappers rapping about selling drugs. I REALLY hate the ones who don’t do it anymore but have their fans believing that they’re holding they’ve got their city on lock because all the fiends know they got “that work”. Sorry to put a damper on your Friday and/or this fairly comical/sarcastic post, but in the words of Mr. Andre Benjamin, “this shit here must STOP!”

4 comments:

Mr. Hutson said...

I gotta go with the clipse for most consistent, but that dude Jeezy did go the hardest with it. The slow flow with very few similes/metaphors, the hard delivery, the aliases, and the ad-libs.

Only issue I had was his first and second CDs sounded exactly the same. Your favorite trapper's favorite trapper. lol.

Jay couldn't get an honorable mention for dope boy, though?

JusWritin' said...

That's exactly what i said to Bars, i wanted to know if Hov fit in that category but i think he started to evolve too soon and his music wasn't knee deep in the trap anymore.

alot of past tense drug hustling by
Vol. 2 lol

Mr. Hutson said...

Ha. That retrospective hustling ain't where it's @.

Stuprint said...

Yeah man, Hov never claimed to simultaneously trap and rap and he evolved, especially since by the time I heard him, It was volume 2. The southern cats have taken this ish to a WHOLE nother level, haha.