As fans of indie hip hop it's always annoying to read the biases of the mainstream music media, as they fawn over talentless lyrics from commercially-driven, major-label-selected rappers but ignore all of the true talent that's out there. So imagine our delight when we read an article from Spin Magazine, with their writer jumping on Wiz Khalifa's dick instead of the usual NY/LA/Atlanta crowd.
That is, until we got to the end of the piece and read the hate he saved for one Mac Miller. Grayson Currin describes the crowd as "surprisingly interested", and goes on to hate on his beats, rhymes, and just about everything else about him - even the fact that he hasn't finished college. WTF?
Read a selection of the bullshit:
"But opener Mac Miller, a 19-year-old Khalifa protg also from Pittsburgh, possessed none of the headliner's effortless energy. Instead, Miller huffed and puffed after he finished a short a cappella verse, attempting to play it cool by assuring the surprisingly interested crowd he needed to take a second to set the mood.
Pulling from his four mixtapes, including the recent Best Day Ever, Miller sounded like an amateur who'd won a talent competition more than someone who'd earned a direct support slot on one of the year's biggest hip-hop tours. Miller's beats are flimsy, his rhymes elementary, the sort of clich windmill you'd expect from a scrawny white kid who seems to subsist only on weed, cereal, and cartoons.
About halfway through his set, Miller asked if anyone in the audience was currently in college. With a smirk bigger than his talent, he told the crowd that he'd tried school, but he just wasn't cut out for that business.
Unless, two years from now, Miller wants to be everyone's favorite forgotten rapper, he might consider taking a more academic approach to music. It's always better to graduate than drop out."
Never mind that Grayson Currin sounds like an amateur who got free media passes to a concert and was annoyed that he had to sit through some white kid rapping as he waited for the headline act, someone he only found about recently... he must have been so irritated to listen to Mac pleasing the crowd as he sat, deep in thought, wondering how he'd not known about Wiz - after all, he devoutly scours every media mailer from ALL the major labels...
Fuck Grayson Currin and his Johnny-come-lately hatin' ass.
Read the entire puff piece here:
That's fucking bullshit racism is what it is. I like Wiz and shit but damn, his best lyrics aren't what you hear on the radio, and Chris Webby and Cam Meekins lyrics are way more complex. This media retard just doesn't understand what white rappers got.
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