DJ CHUCK T’s 10 GREATEST
PUBLICITY STUNTS
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Bow Wow Dissing Will Smith Can you believe this lil nigga had the nerve to get greasy on Will Smith? Even though Will Smith may not be your “favorite” rapper, you can’t deny the fact that he broke down a lot of doors and blazed the trail for hip-hop culture to take over the music industry and the film industry. Respect your elders, lil one. What you need to be worried about is Lil Romeo coming for your ass.
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Philly Rappers Getting Shot So Much Philly rappers love getting shot – just look at Beanie Sigel and Gillie Da Kid. When Beans got shot, he made a record about it the very next day. When Gillie got shot his publicist flooded half the music industry’s email boxes with “BREAKING NEWS” like she had naked pictures of Beyonce or something. When will rappers realize that getting shot does not make you gangsta?
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Lupe Fiasco’s Fake Album Leak Most down South niggas don’t know who Lupe Fiasco is, but he’s one of the up and coming Midwest emcees. Chances are, the only place you’ve heard of him was on Kanye West’s single “Touch The Sky.” He was well on his way to releasing a double plastic album when the full version of his critically acclaimed album leaked on the internet. It was the best thing that ever happened to him. It bought him some more time, let the fans hear his music and gain confidence, and gave the label more time to promote him. Leaking that album kept dude from being another label tax write-off. Good job Lupe!
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Jim Jones and Tru Life’s $50,000 Boxing Match No disrespect to Jimmy or Tru Life, but this has to be the biggest crock of shit of all time. When we first heard Cam’Ron diss the fuck out of Jay-Z we wondered how long Jigga would take to drop another “Takeover” and end the career of Killa Cam and the whole Dipset movement. But Jay-Z, saying he was “too big” to respond, did the only thing he could do: unleashed Tru Life on him, the Roc’s only rapper left with some type of hood credentials (Charlamagne the God left Memphis Bleek with a swollen eye and he wasn’t gonna do shit). After Tru Life dissed the fuck out of Dipset at a life show Jim Jones went on the radio and said he’d put up $50,000 to fight Tru Life one-on-one. We all know this shit ain’t happening, and even if it did, would anyone really care? This New York beef shit is so played out.
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Jay-Z’s “I Declare War” Concert This one had me heated for real. After months of niggas taking subliminal shots at Jigga, we thought President Carter was finally about to bust back. But when the concert finally came around, he dissed nobody! This nigga even went so far as to squash the beef with Nas and perform with him on stage. I’m all for people resolving their differences in peace, but damn, I wanted Hova to diss somebody bad! Foxy Brown Losing Her Hearing This one sounded like bullshit from the minute I heard it. I’ve never heard of someone losing their hearing and having a 90% chance of gaining it back after surgery. If that was the case then damn near every deaf person would be lined for miles to get that shit done. Did Jacki-O whip her ass so bad that she couldn’t hear afterwards? Looks like she was just trying to get the attention off of that beatdown she received. The CORE DJs Conference Call With Benzino, Funkmaster Flex, and Julia Beverly I must admit that I’m jealous of Benzino. He used this one to his advantage perfectly. Dude hopped on the call and went straight bananas. He was cursing people out left and right and didn’t give anyone a chance to say a word. The last thing on his mind was resolving the problems he had with Flex and JB; he was too worried about being a SUPER THUG. If you haven’t heard this call, you need to download it. It’s a classic. Cam’Ron Getting Shot, Blaming Jay-Z For The Shooting, Then Dissing Jay-Z Right Before His Album Dropped This one right here is self-explanatory. It was the perfect stunt! His album was average, but if it was a little better he would be triple platinum by now.
50 Cent and The Game’s Press Conference Now this one right here takes the cake. After months of feuding and even a shootout outside of Hot 97, 50 Cent and The Game met up in Harlem on the anniversary of Biggie Smallz’ death to squash their beef. Both of them vowed not to diss each other anymore and gave away some money to charity so we’d believe them. This truce lasted a few hours. The G-Unit crew was back on Shade 45 the next weekend dissing Game. The Game came back with a few diss tracks of his own, but he should’ve stopped while he was ahead. The G-Unit crew went on a world tour and forgot about him; meanwhile he dropped mixtape after mixtape and diss track after diss track. They’d finally had enough – you can peep the new G-Unit Radio 21 cover to see what I’m talking about. Game is wearing a G-String and is in a strip club. They even have a DVD out with him on the popular dating show “Change Of Heart” admitting that he frequents male strip clubs. The cover is a Photoshop fake, but the Change of Heart clips aren’t. Game should’ve just left well enough alone. Now his career is damn near over.
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These East Coast Rappers Will Do Just About Anything to Take The South Out of the #1 Spot In Hip-Hop Look at this list of Top 10 Publicity Stunts and tell me that there isn’t a pattern here. The East coast will do just about anything to take the attention off the South right now other than the obvious: MAKE HOT MUSIC. It’s a shame it had to come to this, but some niggas just can’t take being #2.
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