Kareem "Biggs" Burke on the Rap Radar Podcast

[tuckgod]

TBA and American Gangster?

How the hell you gon pick those corporate "Shawn Carter" albums over Vol 1 and 2 and then act like people who liked them better just "cant relate" to the realness.

Nah breh,cant let you write Vol 1 and 2 off as Jay trying to sell to people who cant relate,when that's the exact reason I don't like TBA like that,and I like American Gangster but we know what it was at this point with Jay....Meanwhile Vol 1 and 2 got Jay spitting that game,spitting that real shyt....Reminding me of the classic shyt we grew up too out in the bay...aint too many albums comin outta NY like those,which is why Jay the goat to me outta NY...those albums was definitely for the streets more than those albums you holding up there....you must just be use to grimy NY shyt,Vol 1 and 2 is that player shyt.

Aint shyt to relate to on TBA or American gangster,those albums is just Jay rapping...matter of fact TBA is Jay mostly asking for acceptance of people who aint even really fans,pleading his case for his legacy....that album wasn't for core Jay fans

vol 1 and 2>>>TBA American Gangster

Some of you too focused on the flossy,lighter aspects of Vol 1 and 2,Im turning the tables,im accusing all of yall shytting on that album of being blind to the realness.....You don't throw the baby out with the placenta.

I'll read all that next time I'm extremely bored

 

[re'up]

TBA and American Gangster?

How the hell you gon pick those corporate "Shawn Carter" albums over Vol 1 and 2 and then act like people who liked them better just "cant relate" to the realness.

Nah breh,cant let you write Vol 1 and 2 off as Jay trying to sell to people who cant relate,when that's the exact reason I don't like TBA like that,and I like American Gangster but we know what it was at this point with Jay....Meanwhile Vol 1 and 2 got Jay spitting that game,spitting that real shyt....Reminding me of the classic shyt we grew up too out in the bay...aint too many albums comin outta NY like those,which is why Jay the goat to me outta NY...those albums was definitely for the streets more than those albums you holding up there....you must just be use to grimy NY shyt,Vol 1 and 2 is that player shyt.

Aint shyt to relate to on TBA or American gangster,those albums is just Jay rapping...matter of fact TBA is Jay mostly asking for acceptance of people who aint even really fans,pleading his case for his legacy....that album wasn't for core Jay fans

vol 1 and 2>>>TBA American Gangster

Some of you too focused on the flossy,lighter aspects of Vol 1 and 2,Im turning the tables,im accusing all of yall shytting on that album of being blind to the realness.....You don't throw the baby out with the placenta.

lol I am glad you said that, because I thought the exact same thing.....Honestly, 'The Blueprint' and TBA are the beginning of Jays evolvement from a street hustler to a corporate one....His first 4-5 albums are easily the rawest, in terms of sheer content.....

'Vol. 1' is a hustlers memoir and a thesis, 'Where I'm From', 'Streets Is Watching', 'You Must Love Me', (which can can be uncomfortably raw for me, STILL) 'Lucky Me', 'Intro/A Million And One', 'City Is Mine'....

 

[Still Benefited]

I'll read all that next time I'm extremely bored

Okay,I made you look like a fool in the first paragraph,so you wont need to read the whole thing when you get around to it

 

[re'up]

I'm how he tried to throw that together.....All the 'street' talking points and I was like yeah I'm with you, until he said 'The Black Album' and 'American Gangster' lol that was audacious as fukk.

 

[Still Benefited]

lol I am glad you said that, because I thought the exact same thing.....Honestly, 'The Blueprint' and TBA are the beginning of Jays evolvement from a street hustler to a corporate one....His first 4-5 albums are easily the rawest, in terms of sheer content.....

'Vol. 1' is a hustlers memoir and a thesis, 'Where I'm From', 'Streets Is Watching', 'You Must Love Me', (which can can be uncomfortably raw for me, STILL) 'Lucky Me', 'Intro/A Million And One', 'City Is Mine'....

Don't see how people can see it any other way,but he aint the only one....It either gotta be brainwashing or a different approach to listening to music....I can tell by the albums he named he only picking em because those albums are less commercial or pop in terms of sound...But in terms of content?if you don't get that soft shyt outta here comparing it to Vol 1 and 2 talking about this "cloth" shyt...TBA and AG might be Jay pandering at his finest,which just tells you Jay knows the formula to make critics eat his shyt up cuz he delivers everytime.

Theres a reason he couldn't make that authentic street shyt no more even if he wanted to though...Outside of the east coast,I think listeners are used to a album that don't neccesarily sound "grimy" or "hard" by way of sound,but when the content is that gutter shyt we can see it....Lets not forget a lot of these nikkas are the same ones who thought iWW and LAD were pop abominations based on the sound...So that's why I say maybe its just a different approach to hearing music.

Records that sound "fun" or "light" just because of the beat,can still be rawer/harder than some of the grimest SOUNDING shyt you can think of....some folks are easily fooled and some aint

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Vol 1 for people who cant relate

*Listens to "You Must Love Me", "Streets Is Watchin", "Where I'm From"*

Oh yea, thats some friendly accessible ass music

 

[THE K-MAN]

Damn it gotta burn knowing the guy you taught how to rap and count bars is doing what he doing and you on the train with a plasic bag with ah half eaten hero in it and a tropical fantasy peach mango flavor


Bleek and Ty ty running dusse
Emory VP running business
Biggs just touched down got a fukking clothing line waiting on him

And Dehaaven still on his Mac book trying to edit his expose of Jay with the right hov songs in the back ground to get the mood right



And jaz o ..... Is on the 3 train getting off on Atlantic Ave looking up and seeing the Barclays

that visualization

 

[THE K-MAN]

Just

 

[KG1]

Jay employs a federal informant at Roc Nation Sports, has to be more than that

Who are you referring to?

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

Who are you referring to?

Desiree Perez, the wife of OG Juan.

But multiple sources told the Daily News that A-Rod’s last chance for a dignified exit ended when he turned to Desiree Perez, a Manhattan nightclub manager with a lengthy criminal record and close links to hip-hop mogul Jay Z.

While Perez is not an employee, officer or agent of Jay Z’s new agency, Roc Nation Sports, sources say she is a major behind-the-scenes influence.

“She’s directly involved with the athletes,” one baseball insider said. “She has a lot of power.”

Perez is also a convicted felon, with a long and wild history as a DEA cooperating witness and then a fugitive. She wore wires to meet with major cocaine traffickers, according to federal court transcripts obtained by the Daily News.
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Court records obtained by The News show Perez was part of a massive cocaine distribution case in 1994. Following her arrest, she became a key government cooperator, going undercover to help the DEA build successful cases against major traffickers in Puerto Rico and Colombia.

Cooperation with the feds won her supervised release, but she went on the lam and then served nine months in prison.
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Babe Ruthless: A-Rod's shady lady

 

[mson]

Who are you referring to?

OG Juans girl.

 

[REdefinition]

Desiree Perez, the wife of OG Juan.

But multiple sources told the Daily News that A-Rod’s last chance for a dignified exit ended when he turned to Desiree Perez, a Manhattan nightclub manager with a lengthy criminal record and close links to hip-hop mogul Jay Z.

While Perez is not an employee, officer or agent of Jay Z’s new agency, Roc Nation Sports, sources say she is a major behind-the-scenes influence.

“She’s directly involved with the athletes,” one baseball insider said. “She has a lot of power.”

Perez is also a convicted felon, with a long and wild history as a DEA cooperating witness and then a fugitive. She wore wires to meet with major cocaine traffickers, according to federal court transcripts obtained by the Daily News.
...
Court records obtained by The News show Perez was part of a massive cocaine distribution case in 1994. Following her arrest, she became a key government cooperator, going undercover to help the DEA build successful cases against major traffickers in Puerto Rico and Colombia.

Cooperation with the feds won her supervised release, but she went on the lam and then served nine months in prison.
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Babe Ruthless: A-Rod's shady lady

Was hoping Biggs would shed some light on this. I bet no one is brave enough to actually address this with Jay-Z. Dame is the only one who somewhat spoke on it.

 

[Paradise50]

Was hoping Biggs would shed some light on this. I bet no one is brave enough to actually address this with Jay-Z. Dame is the only one who somewhat spoke on it.

What Dame say?

 

[mson]

What Dame say?

55:38



7:28

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

no comment on De...some street dudes never get out. Jaz was offered a low level contract back in the day when the roc was super low level with no numbers to ask for more at the time. jaz turned it down cause jaz put on jay. and jaz was in the game for a minute so it THought he deserved more. didnt understand this was a by ya self business move. start low, end up high. imagine jaz right now working with rocnation making that paper. tisk tisk tisk.

some nikkas can never see the long game... and it wasn't when they were low.. it was after jay just sold 5 million... so he should have seen where this was going somewhat... damn sure higher than his career ever been


Young Guru: Jay tried to give Jaz a deal. But when he was trying to give him a deal, they were just starting Roc-A-Fella. They gave him a $300,000 deal and Jaz laughed at it. They couldn’t afford to give you a major deal, so Jaz went with a major company. It’s not Jay’s fault.

Jay is like, ‘We offered you a deal, that’s how much we could afford to give you. $300,000 was a lot for you back then, you didn’t roll with it. You fukked up. It’s not my fault. What do you want me to do?’





who in the fukk was offering jaz-o 300k in 98-99... and that's your man... so you know he gonna hold you down with more once you on the team.... and you still said fukk it



reminds me of dame... jay offered him and biggs the roc and he'd leave... just give me reasonable doubt... biggs said yes.... dame said no.. so jay took the president position and had control of the roc anyway


again, not thinking of the long game... now dame out here peddling bullshyt.. acting like he's done with rap music when really his dame label just failed and nobody wanna fukk with him... biggs still cool with jay and getting money with him... and dame sitting on the outside looking dumb






pride cometh before the fall