Is there a way of getting promoted from weed carrier?
That is definitely a good idea for any rapper. There is definitely a leap you can take from being a weed carrier for another rapper to being a weed owner, a guy who owns weed and has his own weed carriers. But there are lots of guys who never make that jump, and there even serial weed carriers like Consequence. He started off as a weed carrier for Tribe, and then he was passed to Kanye, and now he’s with no one. But he’s still a weed carrier. An independent weed carrier if you will.
Is an independent weed carrier the same thing as a Minor League Rapper?
The difference is that a minor league rapper might have aspirations, or they might be the independent version of a major league rapper. A minor league rapper might have minor league weed carriers to carry their minor league weed, whereas a major league rapper’s weed carrier is still a weed carrier. It’s nobler to be a minor league rapper.
Okay, I’m just going to ask you your opinion of various stuff, if that’s alright.
Okay.
Oh the fake Ghostface? The blog guy. I don’t read it too often, and I guess he doesn’t update it too often. But when I first saw it, I thought it was amusing. I think it’s hard to write in someone else’s voice for too long.
Real Ghostface.
On the one hand, he’s a legend, but on the other hand it seems like his career’s starting to run out of steam. I think he’s had 8 or 9 solo albums, and his deal with Def Jam has finally wound up. It’s interesting to see what he does now to extend his career. I think he’s coming out with a thing that’s not just a rap album but is also a comic book and a t-shirt or something. A lot of those guys are making expensive boxsets, where they only make a couple of thousand but they can charge more, they can get $50 per.
Pitchfork.
I’ve been reading Pitchfork for a million years, since like 1999. It’s a much better site now than it was 5 years ago, or even ten or fifteen years ago. It’s not so easy to criticise now. It’s a huge operation, if you looked into it, you’d probably find they have like 100 people writing it. This is not a knock, but I think they can have good writers, but still have sketchy coverage. I think it’s difficult for someone from outside of hip hop to write about hip hop well.
Riff Raff.
I can’t help but be amused. I can’t help but think he’s this secret, brilliant genius, not just at making pretty good rap songs but also at marketing himself. I post at least one Riff Raff video a week, if not two or three. It’s difficult to see how he finds the time. Is he really living the lifestyle he portrays in those videos? He remains an enigma.
What about when he claimed James Franco’s character from Spring Breakers was based on him when it’s not based on him?
My opinion is that it was based on him. I think that movie was made by Disney or somebody, and they’re pretty liable if you base a character on someone. I think he had a pretty good case to sue, so they had to find some other guy who looks like him and claim it’s based on that guy. I don’t know if Riff Raff capitalised on that, other than tossing a few disses.
So why should people buy your book?
People should buy it if they want to read a lot of hilarious stories about hilarious figures, not just in hip hop but major figures in general, especially from the internet. It’s stuff they would not read anywhere else, on the internet or elsewhere. I’m doing a kind of criticism no one else is doing.
Well yeah, because you say things and talk about things that no one else would be able to.
That’s the idea.
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