Blumpkin Reading Material: This is not a game

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

This is not a game

If you think Coolio gets no respect, how about 50 Cent in Africa?

Skip ahead to about 1:40, or just rock out for a minute.

For the full story, MTV style, and the followup, where you realize your parents only want to help you.

Chain snatching in hip hop has reached epidemic levels. The big problem is that the chains don't mean what they used to.

We've come a long way from Mr. T and his chains that took an hour a day to put on. As he said, he wore them to remember the chains of his ancestors- something makes me think that T-Pain isn't trying to honor Grandpappy with that necklace.

More importantly, though, we should use this space to help rappers find their lost chains.

Rapper Yung Berg has a really cool Transformers chain. It doesn't transform into anything, but it is pink.

Unfortunately, it now belongs to this guy.

Juelz Santana is also looking for his chain- it is supposedly in England somewhere.

Lil' Boosie at least protected his, and when someone came up in his house trying to jack his chain, Boosie gave homeboy a lil' beatdown. And then after that, put a $30,000 hit out on the guy because he was trying to sue Boosie for battery!

As Boosie puts it though,

"Yeah, we had to whoop a nigga ass for like a hour straight,” Boosie told XXLmag.com. “It was just usual shit. You know how niggas be gettin out of line? It was just some…recreation.”

But how are you going to keep your hands off something like this?

Now, most of the time when you get your chain snatched, you just get your feelings hurt a little bit. But how about my man Waka Flocka Flame, an up-and-coming rapper out of the ATL, who was recently shot twice for not giving up his chains? And, in true bad-ass Cam'ron style, he drove his bleeding self to the hospital. Cam'ron gets extra points because they shot both of his arms.