![]() ![]() We have come to a point in the music business where these two entities need each other. “Blogs have, in some sense, become the new record stores where artists and fans meet. But please believe, I’m gonna rap over what I want to rap over when I want to rap over it,” says Skillz. Picture me stopping them from shining, like how ridiculous is that? A lot of these bloggers feel as though they have the power to dictate what we do as artists. ![]() What wasn’t fun was a certain blogger making it known that he wasn’t feeling the fact that Skillz had released his version of “Otis” in such a quick manner that it didn’t allow The Throne’s version to flourish. I mean it was fun to me,” he said with a grin. “Some people went out of their way to let me know how they felt, and some we’re feeling it. Some Hip-Hop fans took to the web and cried foul, even speaking to Skillz directly via his Twitter account. I mean why would they be thinking about me?” The fact that Skillz chose to rename the freestyle as “Yeah…So What (Otis Freestyle)” didn’t help either. I honestly believe that I’m the furthest thing from Jay and ‘Ye’s mind. According to Skillz, “I mean I can see how some people may have taken that freestyle as a diss, but it was far from it. The other “Otis” was a blazing barrage of punchlines, wordplay, and what some took as shots at two of Hip-Hop’s heavyweights. But isn’t that what we’re supposed to do? Inspire each other?” “I wasn’t too crazy about the actual song, though. “I did that because I was inspired I was inspired by their song. What followed next was an Internet frenzy that had sites and bloggers alike scratching their heads and listening. In less time than a day, Skillz had already written, recorded, and released via Twitter his own version of their song. Consider earlier this year when, less than 24 hours after Jay-Z and Kanye West – The Throne – he dropped his own “Otis,” a back and forth boasting session complete with a stripped down sample of Otis Redding ad-libbing over a soulful break in one of his songs. From his “Rap Up’s” to his web series, Hip Hop Confessions, he manages to keep people talking. But with a buzz anything is possible, I guess.”Ī buzz is something that Skillz hasn’t had a problem creating. Then I listened to their music, and it wasn’t that I couldn’t relate to it. You’d never see a Black rapper on TV shoveling dirt on a grave saying, ‘I’m sorry, Mama,’ because we don’t view our mothers that way…even if we did grow up in a crazy environment. You’ll never see that on a network, so the Internet is the perfect platform for something like that. ![]() I saw his video, and he hung himself at the end of it. “Black people accept a lot of things in music, but we don’t accept crazy. There will never be a Black Eminem, because Em is white,” Skillz says adamantly. That’s gotta be the dumbest statement ever. I read a writer say that he’s the Black Eminem. That’s the definition of a Odd Future! I went to YouTube and looked at his video, and it’s been viewed 27 million times! MTV could never play a video 27 million times! If that’s not a sign of the times, then I don’t know what is. “Yeah…yeah…that’s them, I wasn’t familiar with his music, but I watched him win a VMA, for a video that MTV couldn’t even play. “Like who’s that kid, Tyler The Creator? What’s the name of his group?’ he asks. ![]() He talks about technology and how the business has changed right before our eyes. “Music today is like this menu it’s a bunch of sh*t in front of me, but all of it isn’t good,” he says. Skillz settles into a secluded booth in the corner of the room and grabs a menu. The car stops, and he exits and scurries out of the rain into one of his favorite restaurants in New York, Red Rooster. Along the ride, Skillz has been blunt about the BET Cypher and his disappointment with some of what he witnessed. ![]()
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