Think about the people you add to MySpace/Facebook/Twitter every day. Remember how girls responded to Method Man when they first saw him? Why do you think Def Jam made it such a point to sign him? What if Kimberly Jones never adopted Nelda (The Original Queen Bee)'s whole image and stayed herself? Would she have still gotten so much plastic surgery if she felt she was enough already? Think about Inga Marchand and how different her career would have been if we only focused on her bars and NOT her bras. What if Biggie was allowed to remain the grimy Brooklyn ex-drug dealer with the army jacket over the jeans and Timberlands rather than becoming the suited playa/Big Poppa/Frank White that Diddy turned him into? Nas' comments were overblown by the Hip Hop media and fans alike but I completely understood what he meant. Before no one knew what he looked like none of that ever came into play. Now it was about expanding on his image, the wallabees, the bathrobes over the clothes and the golden eagle bracelet. Of course, once Tony Starks face was revealed to the world his career changed immediately. Photo shoots and videos wouldn't be overpowered by his image because all that mattered was how he came off on that track he was on.
He remarked about how ill he thought Ghostface Killah was because all he had to do was just lay down his verses and that was it. In 1996, before Nas released his second album "It Was Written" he did an interview with The Source and he discussed how he wished he could just rhyme without all the other bullshit involved in the industry. I also thought about the whole superhero/supervillain dynamic when you never get to see their faces and you have to take them who they claim to be and judge them solely on their actions. I thought it was a dope idea because you had nothing to judge him on other than his lyrics or the consistency of his bars/verses throughout his career rather than other perimeter shit. Ghost kept his visage covered with either a stocking or a ski mask during the crew's earliest videos and press pictures because he had a case pending and because he thought it added to his mystique as an emcee.
Way back in the days when the Wu Tang Clan first hit the scene they featured an emcee named Ghostface Killah. I'll touch on everything else in my final post later on tonight. In any event, the final post on Poisonous Paragraphs will be made in 8 hours and I will move over to Bloggerhouse for good and leave the site up so people can read through it at their own leisure. After three years of 5 posts a week this blog is so saturated with posts of varying subjects & types (not to mention pictures & images) that it's a chore to search it even for me and I remember damn near everyone of my own posts.
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It's gotten the the point where I need to make it so I can be free to write on other projects or have the freedom to freelance. Poisonous Paragraphs was supposed to be my de facto writing resume, needless to say that the print medium all but died during the three year run of Poisonous Paragraphs so I had to come to grips with that fact and go on ahead doing my thing. Needless to say I did exactly what I wanted to do on this blog if not exactly with it.
Anyone who's had to block out time to read one of my long ass blogs can attest to that. Just a warning for people that go on blogs and don't want to read anything.You're on the wrong damn page, fam. The best part is that I don't have to wait for the article to come out, get edited, censored or get printed.as soon as I post the joint and press PUBLISH. I can write about any and all of the things that interest me in the fields of Hip Hop, film, sports, entertainment, etc.
When I write articles, I usually write about subjects that someone else has suggested for me to speak on.some I usually don't give a goddamn about. "The sole purpose of this blogsite for me to write about whatever the hell I want to at any time. While I had an idea of what I was going to do with this blog I had no damn idea it would become what it did. Back 12:37 AM January 1st, 2007 I made my first post on Poisonous Paragraphs.
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