Fuck the source

[Jay ay Beee]

I am way mad about this - thanks to Gatewon fo this - Letter from West coast artist X - Raided
" I feel that we should have gotten 3 or 3 1/2 mics. If the writer of the review felt we deserved 3 1/2, the editors should have given us 3 1/2. The review says the lyrics were "tight" and "clear" (thanks to the Verbal Technician) and that I am a strong "lyricist" What they said about it about being all about "killing, money, and women"... These are the same people who gave Jay-Z 4 1/2 mics for "Hard Knock Life" which is all about "mo money, mo cash, mo hoes" Obviosly they have never listened to DMX, who is as violent as X Raided ever was. DMX got 4 mics for an album that has lyrics such as "if you got a daughter older than 15 I' ma rape her/take her right there in front of you" and "my dick is bloody cause I fucked a corpse" That's 4 mic material?

These are the same people who gave Rass Kas 3 mics and Xibit 3 1/2 mics for their 1998 albums... These are the same people who gave Silk the Shocker and C Murder 4 mics each on their 1999 albums . These are the same people who gave Biggie 5 mics but didn't even bother to acknowledge 2 Pacs Makaveli album (which is an undeniable classic).

On the X Raided album there are Gangsta tracks, songs about women, battle raps, and political tracks. It is not and never intended to be a commercial album (which is what the source expects everyone to create) This is a street album, created by a WEST coast street cat. Aint no baggy jeans, backpacks, Queensbridge accents, puff daddy remix, Jay-Z cameo or 212 area code. That alone cost me a mic and a half.

So, basically the source aint feeling me and I aint feeling them. The Roots got 4 mics for an album that should have got 5 and Juvenile got 4 for an album that should have got 3. There is now way Juvenile and The Roots could be considered equals! But, unless you spend a million dollars in advertising in the Source they will screw your review. Ask Master P. No Limit spends millions yearly in the Source, and as a result no artist on No Limit has ever been given less than 3 1/2 mics. I declare war in 2000" - X Raided
Fuck the source

[Mr_Loc]

Just what I been sayin all along.
Much props to X-Raided, fuck the source

[NobodyButMe]

the source is obvously a east coast biased magazine, and does little to further hip hop as a whole. i fully agree with x-raided because of their ridiculous mic rating system, they gave both dre albums 4.5 mics, and decided later, after the fact, that both deserved 5 mics (probably because of the reaction that both albums got). they gave the biggie album 5 mics, which, was obviously rigged because of his death. the reason they didn't review makaveli was because death row never sent them a copy to review. they also gave bad azz personal business a 3.5, mack 10 based on a true story 4 mics, bone thugs art of war 4 mics and they gave BEANIE SIEGEL 4.5 mics. now tell me, do you know ANYONE who owns the beanie siegel album? what kind of shit is that? i wouldn't even think about buying that album, yet they give it 4.5 mics, calling it a classic. i don't know one person who owns it. whatever. the source is dickriding the same artists (rocafella, badboy, downsouth bounce shit) and giving the true hip hop artists shit. they gave stankonia 4 mics. they have not given even ONE outkast album 5 mics, and each one of those albums are incredible. fuck the source....i just stopped picking up their magazine. they should just come out and admit that they are funded by bad boy, no limit, cash money, and roc-a-fella.

[RAPQUAKE]

"...Aint no baggy jeans.."
wats rong wid baggy jeans??? so thats supposed to b eastcoast or sumn?!
yea fuck tha source

[Smooth]

yeah i stoped getting the source 3 months ago... to much commercial bullshit

peace

[Don Seer]

i only ever buy it when theres something i want

e.g. last one i bought had suga free & kokane, before that was xzibit and before that was nate dogg and before that nwa

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

It actually does matter what they give artists...Because if some minor hip hop fan reads the magazine and they see a bad reveiw they wont buy the album and the album wont sell as much as it should've sold...


PS Smooth, make another post to become a G...JK, LOL

[Jay ay Beee]

On this note in Warren Gs thank yous in the Regulate booklet he says Fuck the Source
Why did he say that?

[Mr_Loc]

Warren said that because they had an interview with him before the album dropped, and apparently he was real high and was saying that he was the man behind death row etc.
then when he sobered up i guess he realized what he had said and begged them to take the interview out. they didnt, he got slapped by suge

[cremedelaclem]

but he thanked them in 'i want it all' booklet....

so i guess its all good now...

[Jay ay Beee]

For real thanks for that
Also I've always wondered what the involvement was that Warren had with the Row - He never signed did he?

[Don Rizzle]

i just read the good bits in the shop, what annoys me is that they have more adverts than content!

[Jay ay Beee]

For real that's where they get their money from
Every issue I've got has at least 6 cash money adverts in
Jus loads of ugly guys with fucked up teeth staring at you LOL