I just figured this was kinda amusing. I buy lots of CDs and certain e-taillers toss in goodies with orders for CDs like Undergroundhiphop often gets bonus discs to go with albums as a promo deals. Sometimes they’re pretty cool like a instrumental version of the album or a sampler disc put together of a few B-sides that the artists compiled to for the store.

Anyhow, I bought 7L & Esoteric’s A Brand New Dope, a crazy hot album that is rather experimental from one of Indie hip hop’s most successful long running groups. Anyhow I was stoked it came with a bonus disc labeled "Dope Not Hype" featuring a few alternate mixes of tracks and some older material from 7L & Eso.

I popped the damn thing in it wouldn’t read, so I tried my CD player, then another then my G5 again. I must have missed it but Toast opens. Its fucking blank! Like CD-R blank!

I sent a sarcastic "Can I get a replacement?" e-mail to UGHH.

I just figured that was kinda interesting. I’ve bought an double disc album only to get two of the same disc before or an album that had a glitch in the mastering but nothing quite like this. Heh… Ah well.

UGHH - acronyms ftw

UGHH = undergroundhiphop.com = the store. I wrote that at like 3:30 AM.

im not blind, i know what it means. i was poking fun at its obvious similarity to the onomatopoeia "ugh".

Ah, I never read it as such. That’s funny I never really saw it that way.

That’s cos you’re too busy listening to crazy hot tunes.

Apparently no one else here says "That shit is crazy hot" or "that shit is fire". I’m betting me saying the album is off the hook or is completely ill would be lost here too

At least "completely ill" is grammatically correct.

Oh, kids these days, eh? Eh?

No, I understand all those terms. It’s just funny to hear someone say it in what I perceived as a serious tone.

But that’s probably because I live right next to Philly and I’m down with all the hip lingo.

Yeah, I say all those things seriously. I don’t exactly speak in incorrect english, but I do use some hip hopisms.

I think the problem is that most of us consider hip hopisms to be hilarious.
I, personally, have a hard time taking them seriously because the type of people that I’ve met in real-life that use them are jokes. We’re talking the "I wear a stupid hat that obscures my vision and have a bad tendancy to walk into poles" types, or the "I’m a scrawny former geek that says his hip-hopisms far too loudly and makes outrageous hand gestures while doing so" types.

Other than those types of people, hip-hopisms are generally used to make fun of "hip-hop culture", so I get a chuckle out of them.

I admit! I’m guilty of making fun of hip-hopism!

Lame hand gestures ftw!

It’s just too damn fun.

[quote author=“Whaleman”]I admit! I’m guilty of making fun of hip-hopism!

Lame hand gestures ftw!

It’s just too damn fun.

Nut worry, Greg. I be nut playa-hatin’, I make fun of all ‘dem n***a’s. I diss geek "culture", emo "culture" and a bunch of other "pseudo-cultures" too… Fo shizzo.

I try and stay away from being overly hip hop just for the reason everyone is pointing out. I firmly stand by you can love hip hop without being retarded, write like you’re dyslexic, and whatever else.

Some of it bleeds through as I’m liable to say things like, "I twisted that kid" when playing a videogame. I think there’d be a big let down if anyone from bork ever met me when I they saw I was wearing the same name brand prefaded jeans every one else is, some surf brand or college t-shirt, pooka shells. There was a time when my Jordans, somewhat baggy jeans and backwards hats had people pegging me for liking rap music but those days are past.

One of these days I’ll have to post some of my newer music works to maintain my "Greg thinks he’s something he’s not" image going.