Co-creator of a small site called 2DopeBoyz.com — you may have heard of it — Meka has been scribing professionally for several years, with his work appearing everywhere from BET to XXL. When the LA native isn’t causing trouble in the streets of New York, he’s enjoying life as a part-time quasi-DJ. If you take anything he says here too seriously, that's a you problem.
Malcolm
There’s far less shepherds than sheep today.
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Everybody’s nobody, word to XV.
We “grind,” “hustle” and “aspire” to be something that ultimately is a carbon copy of an existing format, all while deriding the very thing we try “not to be.” We strive to “stand out,” become “individualists” and other such irreverent bullshit in a society reared on conforms, yet end up acting, sounding and essentially becoming the very thing we supposedly “ride” against.
Master puppeteers who dangle just out of reach of the cameras manufacture the “gangsters” now. They are no longer bred, cultivated or sown from the seeds of despair, of oppression, repression and depression found in the despondent streets of urban decay. Today’s thug is as gully as what a hotlink, viral video or cheaply constructed musical massacre says they are. Threats and barbs are traded freely, weakening and ultimately invalidating the price of unconventionality. Nobody fears repercussion because let’s face it, a FlipCam and 140 characters will make anybody seem like they’re the front-runner of the Shower Posse.
Nobody ever acknowledges what happened to the leader of the Shower Posse, though…
We dick ride, cock hop and knob shine the latest Johnny Come-Lately who can put together a couple words, quickly decreeing that they’ll be the “next up,” and will turn against him even quicker because they’ve outgrown that box of “critical acclaim” fake fans love to place them in. They foolishly attempt to please everyone out of naïveté, unaware that it is impossible to do so until the dregs come out to play. You ever wonder why a rapper (or anybody) “changes” and stops giving three shits about you? Take a look in the reflecting pool and see the culprit.
Quit trying to convince the world that you’re a part of the “greater good” with gaudy prose, pseudo-intellectual Twitter “wisdom” and garish shock tactics for the 85% who are suckers for that shit. The loudest ones in the room are always the meekest. Get it? Forget it.
I’m talking too much. Or maybe, I’m not talking enough.
Is it even necessary for me to comment ? Well written. I need to read more articles like this. Keep going.
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Super ifonmrative writing; keep it up.
agreed so many shity bloggers on this site this was refreshing
Simply restating the same shit that’s been said before, only with more self-ritousness. We, as the consumers, have the right to follow and dismiss who the fuck we want and the artist has the right to be a fag or a gangster or whatever the fuck he’s claiming to be. Let these fuck faces follow blindly so that others (including you) can have something to clown those idiots with.
…actually, it’s “self-righteousness” but point taken.
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WeTHEY dick ride, cock hop and knob shine the latest Johnny Come-Lately who can put together a couple words, quickly decreeing that they’ll be the “next up,” and will turn against him even quicker because they’ve outgrown that box of “critical acclaim” fake fans love to place them in.”^ fixed & co-shizzle
* daps Meka *
lol @ XXL. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Where would you be without the hypocrisy? Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Better yet go ahead. It’s not like anyone will realize it. “The dumb are mostly intrigued by the drum”
agreed. an article like this on XXL? LOL.
XXL is no different from any of us in that there are many sides to us. Just because you write for and get paid by a corporate entity doesn’t mean you don’t have the right to call things as you see it. In fact I think it provides BALANCE.
If you are a criminal does that mean you are banned from ever doing a good deed? Was Pac fake because he talked about money, clothes and hoes as well as upliftment and empowerment?
Not to mention, we all on this site. If you find it to be so wack and a domain solely for inauthentic sellout culture, who are you exactly?
I’m just sayin…
you did your thing with this one my dude..
No, you haven’t said enough.. continue on. This is what I come here to read. Well done, Meka. This is the type of thinking we need to express publicly.
i believe it’s ‘more quickly’ not ‘quicker’
quicker is an adjective…
just saying
it’s like well vs. good
bravo some one finally gets it
This was ill.
I feel like someone specific inspired this. Care to fill us in?
IMO, Wiz was the next big thing, Taylor gang or Die, then when he’s prepping his major release, he’s sold out and dead, now it’s Odd Future, Golf Wang or whatever they say.
when “on to the next one” goes terribly wrong…
testing