Corporate Thugs, Y’all Need Hugs
This is just getting weird:
That’s right, in the wee hours of Friday night at Love, the Northeast club which hosted Gilbert Arenas’ million-dollar 25th birthday party last year, the deejay played a new cut by Jay-Z. The hip-hop icon actually cut it Friday and had it downloaded for a party hosted by LeBron James at the club that night. [Deshawn] Stevenson was told that the lyrics just eviscerated him — in his own town.
Then teammate Damon Jones, who last did something to collect an NBA paycheck two years ago, took the microphone and talked junk about Stevenson.
Caron Butler, the only Wizard present, left because “he felt I was being disrespected,” Stevenson said.
Leave it to this pair of insecure board room gangsters to turn a somewhat friendly rivalry malicious. The Wizards are boycotting Love, as am I. It’s not like I own nice enough shoes to get into that joint anyway. Cue “Go Somewhere“.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
this will surely end in a murder.
April 27th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Wow, this is retarded. Jay-Z’s just sad. “Insecure board room gangsters” is right. No homo on that weird looking tree-dick dangling above their heads though.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
So if you’re successful, you’re an insecure boardroom gangster, while if you’re a junkie like Wayne or a dumbass like Beanie Sigel, constantly going to jail for one stupid crime or another, you’re just a “great rapper,” a genuine troubled artist. I’ve been a Jay hater for a long time, but I applaud his career moves.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
A friend and I got turned away from MCCXXIII in Dupont Circle, where we were trying to see this free De La Soul show, because we were wearing sneakers. This, despite the fact that my friend was rocking the Gil Zeros. I mean, come on, sneakers are the Official Footgear of Hip Hop.
As far as this “feud” goes, all I gotta say is the Wizards aren’t looking at you dudes, they’re looking past you. Although today was kind of heartbreaking. Where’s the love?
April 27th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
“Leave it to this pair of insecure board room gangsters to turn a somewhat friendly rivalry malicious.”
This rivalry became malicious when Haywood tried to spear Lebron James into the basket support and end his career. Believe that.
“As far as this “feud” goes, all I gotta say is the Wizards aren’t looking at you dudes, they’re looking past you. Although today was kind of heartbreaking. Where’s the love?”
Complete delusions of grandeur. The Wizards have been getting their ass kicked by the Cavaliers for going on three years now and it’s not gonna stop until Lebron James is either dead or completely crippled.
The only team in the East that has a shot at beating Lebron James in a seven games series is Boston and that’s because they have another true superstar on their roster. The rest are pretenders to throne.
And I’m including Detroit in that conversation as well.
April 27th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
“This rivalry became malicious when Haywood tried to spear Lebron James into the basket support and end his career. Believe that.”
A little dramatic, Doc?
April 27th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
“A little dramatic, Doc?”
Absolutely not. The Wizards seem resolved on the idea that since they can’t guard James or trade baskets with him that the only possible way to win this series is to severely injure him. I think Stevenson kufi slapping Lebron James in the first half of today’s game is a testament to that.
I’m just waiting for Gilbert Arenas to hire Jeff Gilooly before Game 5 and Nancy Kerrigan him into early retirement.
April 27th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
however malicious the feud is, there is no place for this: http://www.spinemagazine.com/music/april/jayz/blowthewhistle.mp3
hov does hyphy? no, no, no like destiny’s child.
April 27th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
This worse than I could even imagine. Doc you should be as embarrassed for your hero, squad and city as I am for my once favorite rapper. Win or not.
http://i31.tinypic.com/33m8s2d.jpg
April 27th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Anyone read the second page?
“DeShawn’s Got Soulja
LeBron’s Got Hova
Game 4 is off da hook
Now this column is ova”
At least the author treats this as absurdly as it truly is.
April 27th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Jay sure does seem to have a weird relationship with pro athletes, dosen’t he room with Larry Johnson(no homo?)
April 27th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
“This worse than I could even imagine. Doc you should be as embarrassed for your hero, squad and city as I am for my once favorite rapper. Win or not.”
Ouch, that’s gotta hurt. I’ve always been more of a Nas man myself but Hov Mobb-Deepin’ Stevenson and the Wiz AND eating up Short Dog on his own shit is just too hilarious. Not to be all ironic but that “ether” still has got to be burnin’ slow for y’all.
Song of the year.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:10 am
This was better as a comment on Jay-Z’s depressing version of rap synergy than some faggy home-team defense bullshit.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:30 am
^Doc Zeus, master of winning with class.
April 28th, 2008 at 2:01 am
“^Doc Zeus, master of winning with class.”
Look, I fully acknowledge I’m completely insane when it comes to Cleveland sports teams (it comes with the territory of continually having my heart continually ripped out in new and horrific ways over the years…42 years and counting since we sniffed the promised land in ANY sport) but the Wizards decided they were gonna cheap shot their way into beating us and are still losing so I’m fully within my right as a sports fan to lose all sense of grace in victory over this.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:14 am
it’s playoff basketball, they are not cheap shots.
nba’s gotten soft over the last 15 years, a hard foul is a hard foul, you familiar with oakley,? mahorn? haywood ain’t got shit on them fam…
but don’t worry if the league has one player they’ll always protect it’s bron bron so he’ll stay getting the foul calls.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:40 am
DeShawn is soft, always has been (even with his 24/7 Freeway impersonation). If he wants to go at someone on the Cavs, then it should be someone who is on his level like Anderson Varejao.
This Le-Z relationship is no surprise based off the fact that Jay is not aging gracefully and wants to be associated with the young-uns like Bron, and obviously Bron grew up worshiping Jay.
But throughout all of this, what is the end-game? The Wizards will go out in five, the Cavs are battling for 3rd place in the conference, and Jay is still far removed from the peak of his career. I guess DeShawn might have won slightly by fooling people into thinking he and his teammates aren’t soft.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I’m just mad cause E-40 invented beefing with basketball players, and he did it right.
not only did Jigga jack a Bay Area legend’s beat, he jacked another Bay Area legend’s absurd inter-disciplinary beef. he’s getting way too much credit.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
oooooor…Jay is still making good music whether he peaked(yes) or not..and that freestyle was hardly a diss record…poked fun at the situation, referenced it for some basketball analogies, and continued rapping..if you wanna make inferences that “difference between a King and a Pawn” coulda been a diss but..cmon..give me he a line where he really dissed somebody..Lebron and Jay didnt make it serious..Deshawn didnt even make it serious when he invited Soulja boy out..Damon Jones’ shit talking and the media made it serious
April 28th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
doc – I could mostly care less about the wizards or the cavs (or the nba, generally, beyond the dubs) and, relative hardness (yup) of the league aside, that haywood cheap shot was bush league as hell. actually DeShawn Stevenson going at LeBron is on the same level of absurdity as Tony Yayo daring to talk shit about Ghostface. I just agree with noz that this Jay-Z thing is on some “board room gangster” nonsense that has nothing to do with the Cavs.
in the meantime I also want to know who gave Damon Jones, the Soulja Boy of the NBA, the green light to open his mouth. just cause he carried weed for both Shaq & LeBron doesn’t make it alright.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
“in the meantime I also want to know who gave Damon Jones, the Soulja Boy of the NBA, the green light to open his mouth. just cause he carried weed for both Shaq & LeBron doesn’t make it alright.”
Haha! Damon Jones is alright with me… other than the fact he’s sitting at the end of the bench at 4.5 million a year.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Well having listened to the freestyle, it’s awful… but that doesn’t make Jay an insecure boardroom gangster, just means he’s a washed-up rapper. It’s all just a ploy to ensure that LeBron will leave Cleveland and sign with his Nets. As for the Wizards, I pity you if you’re a fan of them. They’ll never win a thing as long as they have Arenas.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
To white music critics, there’s no greater sin than being “corporate,” though passing judgment on talentless minstrels is a comparable offense.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:04 am
The problem isn’t that he’s corporate. It’s that his art suffers as an effect of his corporate interests.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:53 am
that’s a long ass article for something i can’t even force myself to (pretend to) care about… (the washington post one)
May 1st, 2008 at 11:04 pm
This, despite the fact that my friend was rocking the Gil Zeros. I mean, come on, sneakers are the Official Footgear of Hip Hop.
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THATS PRECISELY why you are going to get turned away.
Gotta love the Hop.