My Opinion Is The Only Thing That Matters by Young Valentino

Everybody put your drinks down/Noe the name/ know the difference/Throw ya guns up/It's gangsta...The opening statements in the Noe Headlights track. Exhaustingly average lyrics by an agonizingly average rapper- He sounds like Skillz, Mills, and Jay; he talks about "Noe the name/Know the difference" but with a flow and lyrics like that I don't know the difference and I'll most likely forget his name or mix him up with the other 3 names I just mentioned. I can't blame him for sounding the way he does and for obviously following the DipSet formula of gunz, champagne, and crack in the club, being that he's been put on by Jimmy Jones, but still!...This is another sad case of an average rapper being pushed by another above-average rapper who will most likely get a lot of spins, push in a lot of bullshit thru the airways, and fizzle out by the end of the year all for that fast buck paid for by the younger fans who don't know the difference between rap or someone just mumbling about guns and crack on a track...

What really gets me fired up about bullshit artists like this is that I know for sure that there are about 10 could-be great rappers for every 1 wack-average rapper that's being pushed by some big label or another rapper who has money to burn. And what's even worse is that we end up buying the album (or downloading it for free like I do) and we bump the shit out on the street like if it's really hot shit only because that's the only shit out there right now and the really, really good shit is buried underground because either labels don't want to sign shit that doesn't follow the formula that makes them that fast buck or artists are too insecure to sign someone that's hotter than they are.

I remember when that's all that rappers did and that was put on artists that were as hot or hotter than them: Remember Dre and Snoop? Fat Joe and Big Pun? Busta Rhymes and Rah Digga? BIG and Kim?...Well maybe not BIG and Kim but at least he saw her marketability and knew that the hood needed a rough bitch from BK to set it on the scene of the once gritty hip-hop era.
The only rappers I'll give credit to for putting on a genuilnely hot artist are TI for putting on Young Dro, Dr.Dre for putting on Slim, Slim and Dre for putting on 50, and 50 for putting on the 80% of G-Unit. Maybe I missed some but I know I didn't miss much.
I feel this generation of rap artists and fans alike mistaked hot shit for bullshit and that's why I still bump my shit from the early to mid 90's while waiting patiently for the real rap saviors...