Back For The Payback....

Sorry about the slacking in between the posts. Big ups to my man "LA Dave" Berman... LA Dave is officially my "Blog Consigliere" the Hagen to my Corleone... I'll be up on my grizz-lo from here on in...

Got back from a nice little Dirty South hiatus in Nueva Jork. Friends and fam, home cooking, and everything good looking. For all that I love about the Big Rotten Apple I do have to say that NYC needs to get its weight up and start playing some more home grown hip-hop. As someone caught on the wrong side of the Mason-Dixon line, this carpetbagger was looking for some good indigenous boom-bap when returning to the cradle of fuckin' civilization and found myself inundated with one to many instances of plantation rap being enjoyed by the masses.

I'm stuck here in Norf Kacks and I've been beat in the head with more "Lean With It, Rock With It" then an army of 80 year olds on the porch of a old folks home. Plus when out on Monday Night the music was provided by legendary Houston DJ/Producer Michael "5000" Watts of SwishaHouse fame. No direspect to Mr. Watts he's in essence Houston's Kid Capri, Funkmaster Flex, and Premiere all in one. I got mad love for H-Town (big ups to Ty, A.D., and Mookie Mook) I've been down with UGK 8 years before "Big Pimpin'". However next time I come home I need some homegrown hitters, no imports...

There was an old NYC ad campaign "New York, lets clean up New York", in 2006 I think we need to apply this to NYC hip-hop. You know why Houston is running things now and can get major airplay in NYC? Because they took care of their own bizness and supported their own an built this movement that everyone had to stand up and take notice. I keep hearing of this new crop of budding NYC talent. Can we get some more of that? Ghost just dropped another banger.... Support the god. To quote Ras Kass in his classic record "Sonset" -

"It takes classic material to make phat sh*t, not proof of a New York residence and an accent..."

NYC lets step our game up, we still got this. AF1's? New York. Lil' Wayne aka Mr. Maytag all BAPE'd out? New York. We still run this shit, but we're a decade into laying around on our collective asses resting on our fuckin' laurels like is a TempurPedic.....

Shouts to everyone that I crossed paths with when I was home.... SEAR GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!!!!!

-Mighty Drewpreme 3/29/06....

PS - They're trying to throw the death penalty and the god... They didn't even come at John Gotti with that bullshit... FREE KENNETH MCGRIFF!!!!! Thoughts and prayers as you go to trial next week!

Free Fat Nick???

When pressed for a statement in regards to the assassination of JFK Malcolm X responded that it was merely "the chickens coming home to roost". His intention of that remark as most will remember that the demise Marilyn Monroe's creep joint the cause and effect, the repercussions of American Imperialism had come back and claimed one of its own. (Gee Dub you listening?).

So fast forward 40 some odd years... I hope Black America and the hip-hop generation has its coops (and not coupes) ready. Enter Nicholas "Fat Nick" Minucci, or for legal purposes pulls a Puffy/Puffy Daddy/P. Diddy/Diddy name transformation to "Phat Nick" Minucci. For those who don't know ole Nicky Boy is on charge for a hate crime for N-bombing and Louieville Slugging three brothers who were creeping on a come up in Howard Beach, Queens NYC.

With these mitigating factors, Italian kid, in the infamous Howard Beach section of Queens (where a racially motivated attack almost 20 years ago racially polarized and already tense New Yawk City that was already grappling with so many other social ills that dominated that era), assaulting three unarmed bruhs and droppin' the N-Word like an NWA album, this automatically got labeled as a hate crime. But Nick-Nick ain't your average paisan. Blasting G-Unit out of his Caddy-lack on Twennie Toos, heavy on the wrist with his Rolex "his grandmaw laced him with", and some serious "bling-bling" on his neck Nicky couldn't be racist because basically "HE LOVES BLACK PEOPLE!!!!" Well needless to say most weren't impressed, and they hung hate charge on him like a balding Nazi who accidentally stumbled in to a synagogue. Poor Nick, sent off to Rikers where they had to isolate him for his own safety to keep him safe from the people he loves so much until he went up for trial which is coming around the bend...

So somewhere between sips of my morning Old English and my 2 for $2 Sausage McGriddles I read in my beloved NY Daily News that Fat/Phat Nick's lawyer drops a legal strategy that would have probably made the late great Johnnie Cochran stand up and take notice.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/401320p-339880c.html

For those too lazy to click the goddamn link I'll give you an excerpt...

Nicholas (Fat Nick) Minucci is gonna throw down with a hip-hop defense when he goes to trial next month on his hate crime assault charge stemming from a baseball bat attack in Howard Beach, Queens, last June 29.

"Wearing a bright orange jumpsuit and white sneakers in a beige cinder-block visitor's room in the Eugene J. Grogan Correctional Facility in Rockland County, Minucci declared Saturday he was "looking forward to going to trial because I'm gonna prove everybody wrong. I'm no racist. This was no hate crime."

So what's his defense?

"After the three African-Americans tried to rob me, I tracked them down with two friends," Minucci said. "And when I approached them I said to the main guy, Glenn Moore, 'What up, n---a?' I didn't say 'n---er' with an 'er.' But 'n---a' with an 'a' at the end.

"There's a very big difference in the hip-hop world that I come from between 'n---a,' which is a greeting and 'n---er,' which is racist. 'What up, n---a?' is like saying, 'What's up, pal?'"

Well damnit to hell!!! Kris "Mr. I AM HIP-HOP!" Parker called it! "What goes around comes around I figure, Now we got white kids callin' themselves n*ggas!" Move over Nastradamus, your prophet pass has been revoked!!!!

Has our own defense of the beloved N-Word comeback to haunt us like Brother Malcolm's proverbial chickens??? I mean many of us have gone to bed at night comfortable with the exorbitant use of the word as an "insider privledge" which in some circles has extended to our Boriqua brethren and even a few lucky white guys. But I ask you this. What is the real social impact of this defense if it is tactfully employed and absolves Mr. Minucci from the federal charge of hate crime to simple misdemeanor assault???

Well if you ask ole 'Preme here I think its the chickens coming home to roost, and to expand on Malcolm's statement "Being an old farm boy, chickens coming home never made me sad, in fact it made me glad..." So I'd like to thank the current hip-hop generation for this. You've officially done it. You've taken the power away from the word. Thanks for disenfranchising the word that has crippled a people for hundreds of years. I thank you. I praise you for potentially changing the face of relations in this country, albeit completely unconsciously. I wanna thank the modern day minstrels of rap, and all the plantation pimpin' that dominates our airwaves and imagery. Shouts to Damon Wayans who wanted to name his clothing line "NIGGA". Shout out to all the real muhfuckin' niggas out there for keeping it so muhfuckin' real. Just remember the precedent this sets if successful, and don't get mad when that loophole becomes law....

Mighty Drewpreme, 3/20/06.

Happy Born Asia Minor (Mighty Healthy Consortium)!!!!
Free Kenneth McGriff
FISHSCALE IN STORES!!!!!

F*ckin Sopranos...

I'm sure that CNNSI.com's Peter King will jerk off to how amazing tonight's episode was, but once again David Chase and is already hitting us with filler on America's Favorite Goombah family. First Carmela and Adrianne last week and now this whole "convention purgatory"? I mean honestly are we already stuck with dream sequences and innane fantasy stories and its only episode 2???? I've never seen such a show get accolades for such incomplete storytelling... The people over at Hatian Box Office better get this story fixed or they can "git momo" in regards to this series. I mean really... Can they finish something they started? If they wanna impress me tell me where the Ruski hitman dude is? Will he emerge triumphantly from the Jersey Pine Barrens and catch wreck???? Pardon me for preferring more linear storylines but yeesh... Get it right...

Oh yeah Fuck Stephon Marbury.

Mike Check 1... 2....

Its working... Its working...
Party people if you're ready to rock let me hear you scream...
If you really really came to party, then let me hear every body...
Say "WE CAME TO PARTY!!!"

Consider this the test run of the world to come. Not that my opinion is anymore important that anyone else's, but I think I have the power to articulate what you want to say or here but can't for the following reasons...

1. Don't have the time.
2. Don't have the vocabulary.
3. A fuckin' idiot.
4. Who gives a fuck at this point. If you're at the fourth option then there is too many options, and thats whats wrong with people today. Too many coddled kids with so much shit to choose from they think they're entitled to complain.

So welcome to "No Singles, No Shorts" a blog by Mighty Drewpreme. I'll explain the title later, and if you already know what its from then you're a step ahead of the game. These opinions are mine, and mine only and if you don't agree thats one of the last fuckin' rights you have in this country. But in regards to what you say you're better off getting partial pussy because I could really give half a fuck. No one's safe. They should have never gave this n*gga money....

Shouts to the crew. You know who you are, and you'll be mentioned at some point as this thing gains steam and momentum.

Three Strikes.

Mighty Drewpreme, 3/13/2006