For All My Real Rappers

like M. Descartes


What do you think rapper 50 Cent and boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. built their friendship on? According to Mayweather it's the fact that "real recognize real." If you're real, then you definitely don't front. Look at 50 and Floyd, they back they shit up over and over: Mayweather continues to prove himself the best hit-and-run pussy fighter and 50 keeps on writing the most uncreative and insubstantial verses. Both men, however, maintain their "real"-ity because no matter what public perception of their products might be, 50 and Floyd get they stacks, and no I'm not talking about the new OS X feature.

We don't quite got our cake, guap, weight, and shine on 50's level yet, but we try very hard to keep things moving, and we feel that at this point we're pretty damn real. Read our most recent posts. We're calling motherfuckers out. We know that as far as Philly goes "we the best"-- we raise the bar every time we write a post-- and we're not going to front about it. Check out the revised "T.P.O. Endorses" list in the sidebar. But let me give you another example of how we don't front.





Sure we've been able to dance a whole song without spilling it, but we also openly admit to spilling it, especially during songs by The Rapture, LCD SS and The Hives. Right now we're spilling it one out of every three songs. Sometimes it's just a drop here or there, other times, well, it's like Riffs taught us, you just have to make your own slip spot. We're doing what it takes to improve though. I'm doing four extra biceps curls a week so that I can keep my arms upraised longer, keep my drink above traffic. CJR did some assisted pull ups this week. We hope to spill it only once every four songs by the Making Time this weekend, and we're not stopping there. We won't stop until we dance the whole night without spilling it. And we won't stop there either, because 1. we can't and 2. this song isn't just about dancing without spilling it, it's a metaphor. Dancing a song without spilling it isn't easy, just like life, but if you make up you're mind, put some time in and learn to fall in line with life's rhythms, then there's no limit for you, soldier.