We All Reppin’ Fake 2 The Grave
This video has been circulating around the net of Akon backhanding a fan off a stage at one of his recent performances.
Most people watch that video and say “OMG!” and all that jazz over him slapping the woman. There’s another video that shows him helping her back on stage, though. So its clearly an accident. But I watched the video and thought something totally different. Which was.. how and the hell does this guy still pack a crowd after its been announced that he’s as fake as a three dollar bill?
Source: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0416081akon1.html
For that matter, how is Rick Ross still relevent after we all found out he’s just as fake?
In the 90s the world seemed a lot less forgiving, to me at least. Don’t we all remember Millie Vanilli and Vanilla Ice? Whats changed so much since then that we can suddenly accept being lied to by major artists and keep them in the spotlight? Now we got a hundred million rappers claiming they’re “keeping it real” .. but we still all jam fake people’s music? Sounds a bit hypocritical to me.
The other night Pizon and I were discussing how stories really make artists in the music industry shine more than their actual music ability. In order to be a good entertainer, you have to have the background to play the part. Eminem was a trailer trash kid who couldn’t fit in and had a drug dependant mother. Kanye was the producer who nobody would give a chance to so he put up his own money and with the little help of a near fatal car crash became an overnight celebrity (no pun intended). 50 Cent was the hustler who got shot nine times and bounced back. Its all these over-dramatic stories of the underdogs that America falls in love with more than the actual music nowadays. So why shouldn’t that work in the opposite? If your story is fabricated in order to make you look like an underdog.. you should very well be black balled for that. Am I wrong?
“TV went real, music went fake” – Joe Budden
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