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Story Found on antimusic.com http://www.antimusic.com/sd/05/oct.shtml
Rap Hits The Wall The Sequel: We Must Purge The Rap World Of Paul Wall (Once And For All!!!)
Disclaimer: the opinions expressed are those of the author, not necessarily those of antiMUSIC, or the iconoclast entertainment group
He’s the kind of characterture you see in a Cohen Brother’s film during an odd moment where the movie is poking fun at Hillbillies. Or perhaps on a poster for what Crystal Meth abuse can do to your teeth. He is the modern day Vanilla Ice, period. He takes everything sacred about hip hop and prostitutes and generifies it until the lines become blurred by overexposure that record buyers are so used to seeing anyway with legitimate stars that once in a while like this one, they don’t even know they’re being duped. The same thing was pulled off with Ashley Simpson, a reality TV show moved 2 million copies of an awful, generic, over-produced pop piece of trash whose artifice she unmasked and backed-up by lip-synching on Saturday Night Live. In the case of PAUL WALL, Ashley has found her robotic male counterpart. Paul Wall is to hip hop everything Ashley Simpson is to pop music.
Sadly, this week- one of Billboard’s weakest for album sales all summer, where not a single debut album moved above 200,000, Paul Wall got the top spot for selling 176,000. A pathetic debut for any superstar rapper- plenty of emcees have had huge first-week debuts- Eminem, Kanye West, 50 Cent, Game, and so forth. Paul Wall’s record company would have you believe his claiming the number one slot puts him in the same category. How sadly they are mistaken. First of all, Paul Wall would have to had moved well above 176,000 units to be considered a legitimate part of the aforementioned class. What his management and label are counting on, however, is that you buy the idea that he’s in the class of Aftermath or Shady or G-Unit because he debuted at number one, despite the fact that if you read the fine print, and saw how many records he moved to get there, you would immediately dismiss him. Wall’s situation is similar to that of another washed-up movie star, martial arts action star Steven Seagal, who in 1996, had his first number one debut box office weekend in several films with ‘Fire Down Below’, despite the fact that the movie grossed only $6 million its first weekend, hardly blockbuster numbers. Still, because of the rules, they had to give him the number one slot, and of course, the press generically reported that he’d debuted atop the box office, and it made him look much bigger in commercial stature than he truly was for a moment. The same is true of PAUL WALL! Don’t be fooled, and whatever you do, PLEASE DO NOT GO OUT AND BUY THIS ALBUM! Its awful, it’s worse than Vanilla Ice’s first album- the one with Ice Ice Baby, which I only heard because my little brother blared it while working out.
Everyone’s been through that unfortunate experience- whether its your younger sister listening to Debbie Gibson, or your little brother in more recent times blasting Limp Bizkit. Or your parents turning up Neil Diamond. We’ve all been there, and Paul Wall is no exception. Is the record industry this desperate for new rap stars? Has Jay Z’s retirement left this much of a void, where a joke like Paul Wall can slip through and pull the wool over the eyes of the industry? There are many, many other viable underground emcees deserving of more attention than Paul Wall. Now, some have come to this dickhead’s defense by claiming that he ‘put in his dues’ so now it’s his turn. That is no different than the Democrats having to run Al Gore because he ‘put in his dues’, even though most insiders in his own political party will admit they didn’t want him for their candidate. Or the Republicans running Bob Dole in 1996 because he’d ‘put in the years’ even though they knew he had NO REMOTE CHANCE of beating Bill Clinton. If the rap industry feels a rap artist should get the spotlight because he put in his dues, give a genius like Lord Finness some air time! Or finally make Cormega the superstar he should have been 5 years ago. But not PAUL WALL, PLEASE NOT PAUL WALL!!! His name is so f**king dumb to begin with!
He’s the type of dude whose album name you see and repeat to yourself in disbelief; Perhaps similar to seeing ‘Diamond D and the Psychotic Neurotics’, except Diamond D could actually rap. Its time to put an end to this: this coming week- if my predictions are correct: Paul Wall’s album will take at least a 40-50% dive in sales, putting him at a more appropriate 8 or 9 on the Top 200 Album Chart, and so forth till he has peaked at 300,000 or 350,000 units, his label falsely declares his record a GOLD seller, because they shipped 500,000 copies, even though he didn’t sell nearly that. He has no staying power at all on his own, so ideally, we have an opportunity to put this clown back on the traveling freak show he came from. I mean seriously, this guy has about as much street credibility as Third Bass; I wish they could do a remake of ‘Pop Goes the Weazil’, and instead of beating Vanilla Ice down with a baseball bat, Search and company could give Paul Wall a good and proper beatdown. With the type of crap rap he spits, he surely has it coming. Until that dream comes true however, we have to keep up the protest- in the editorial columns and at the record stores until the scourge of Paul Wall is gone forever!
I agree. Real music fans should be forewarned. In this free world, anyone can produce anything and it be called "artistic". Artistic my ass, Screw politically correctness. When we have shit like 'laffy taffy- my hump, in the top 5, its hard to imagine not smashing in the brains of some music exec pushing money to the local radio station because the schmuck works for interscope on the side. (payola) Screw-em all. I can't even remember what was popular 2 years ago. But I can remember what was popular in 1978. Hint! no talent these days.
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amen
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It's true what they were saying about wanting you to beilive that his album is popular. After it's 1st week it feel the fuck off. They were so many people talking about how he overtook the infamous Kanye West at the #1 spot. They failed to mention that that was only for one week, and after that his sales sunk.
Truth be told I never bought his album, but from the songs I've heard his music is garbage.
After six weeks he's at #41 on the billboard charts.
It's not that his music is bad (not saying it's good either) it's just I ain't feeling him. You may, but I'm not.
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Paul Wall sucks now, but im feelin the songs he did with Chamillionaire on "Get it Correct" (i think thats what the album was called). his new song with Bun B & Mike Jones is coo too
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Why does Paul Wall get the bad rep, but The ying yang twins get a free pass. If ur gonna go after weak Emcees, attack them all.
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Paul Wall sucks now, but im feelin the songs he did with Chamillionaire on "Get it Correct" (i think thats what the album was called). his new song with Bun B & Mike Jones is coo too
The only thing different between Paul Wall then and now is that he cusses and has a major backing. And it's Get Your Mind Correct.
People just try to find reasons to hate on the dude.
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I don't understand why ppl hate on Paul Wall, Mike Jones, and alot of artists that are blowing up now... they wouldn't get all these guest appearances and appear on famous ppls tracks if they were really as bad as ppl say they are now when they simply put out good work, and not on ppl like T.I. who trys to get himself known for claiming to be the king of the south when he was only rapping for a year and got ripped in many battles before he released his first 2 flop albums then he cries and starts a beef with lil flip because he was turned down from doing a game over remix with him and having his crew write his urban legend album while he was in jail... a bunch of BS if you ask me
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Paul Wall sucks now, but im feelin the songs he did with Chamillionaire on "Get it Correct" (i think thats what the album was called). his new song with Bun B & Mike Jones is coo too
The only thing different between Paul Wall then and now is that he cusses and has a major backing. And it's Get Your Mind Correct.
People just try to find reasons to hate on the dude.
lol yeah right. he had a whole different style on that album. his voice, delivery, flow, etc were all good. now he does that same flow (ex: "say cheese and show my fronts, with my carrots than bugs bunnys lunch"). and every song is about candy paint, bein posted up on the block, and his grills
listen to "The Other Day" and tell me that he sounds the same as he did on "Sittin Sidewayz"
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Are you seriously gonna try to put me on game here? LOL. Paul Wall has always talked about riding, macking and money. Sorry guy, his voice, flow and delivery is NOT different.
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Sittin SIdewayz 8)
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Are you seriously gonna try to put me on game here? LOL. Paul Wall has always talked about riding, macking and money. Sorry guy, his voice, flow and delivery is NOT different.
sure
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I never really liked him too much....not much talent IMO
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hes an interseting character ( if only cuz hes white ) but dude has flows and hes a cool ass dude at that....plus that vid with mike jones & bun b is fire
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Why is this homo going out of his way to discredit Paul Wall? He's nothin close to a vanilla ice. Paul Wall is the streets. He's an example of a white dude who "acts black" where its really not an act. Its funny to me cause usually the only people discreditin him is corny ass gay ass white nerds.
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I like Paul Wall. People just hate too much.
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Let me Say that Pall Wall's Album Is probably the Best album Out of Huston this year IMO I can listen to that shit all the way through Remember this is a westcoast web site so Peoples opinions are different had he had the proper promotion like they gave wack ass mike jones(who had 3 hot ass songs on his album ) then he would have made it and sold more units why do you think he gets more placements on other peoples albums than Mike Jones whose really nowhere to be seen these days he's not even on paul Wall's album that video is old as fuck anyway that song was on an old Paul Wall Album too Where's slim thugggaaa at these days off the radar Its all Pall Wall & Bun B reppin houston and Paul Wall's Album Is the Shit his Flow sounds nothing like anyone elese from his Clique Recognize