DJ DollaMenu has finally released the “Doom Dolla” (MF Doom Tribute Album) exclusively on YouTube. He took 6 ‘Doom’ classics and and flipped them into ‘Dolla’ classics. With a view videos and snippets of the tracks lingering in the ethos since early this year, it’s exciting to finally hear the full work. A mindful and bar-heavy tribute from one of Charleston’s most prominent staples in the local hip hop scene.
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Big facts! Funding and the current status of small businesses staying a float are major factors. However, I don’t think that corporations are the only source for being able to afford to throw sizey festivals. Ideally, there must be a way to do it locally. I know the financial backing is thing, but with sponsors and enough small businesses behind it-it can happen. May take a few years to grow but we can start somewhere and I think that’s with the people, patrons, supporters, and those involved with the Charleston music scene. We don’t have enough people that view it like that. Unfortunately there’s more people in Charleston here to retire, vacay, and spend money-than there is people that actually care about what’s going on with the city. Curmudgeons.
I feel the community has grown alot, however there are so many pinnacle musicians and bands that are uprooting post Covid so it’s far from consistent enough to make a change how we need it.
ahhhhhh I just hate it. Too much potential in the city. Laid to waste by the Charleston debutante society and the money grubbing top hats of the city.
@Kaitheczar I can definitely feel what you’re saying: from the eyes of people sticking true to the essence of lyricism- people with ghostwriters can lay claim to being the best emcees. True. Very true. But how many actually claim to be the best? It’s one thing to put it in a bar in the spirit of competition and just the nature of the game and another thing to truly claim it. Kanye and Drake both use ghostwriters, yes, but they also have written a multitude of hits, bops, legendary tracks on their own. They have and exhibit, at a high level, every attribute of what it means to be an emcee or elite rapper. Will they ever be fully respected as that, probably not lol
listen, I’m not here to ‘Diddy bash’-but the homie is in a crappy situation. Slowly searing away like holding a lit cigarette to a piece of paper. The burn is active, and ashes are imminent for Sean Combs.
With the new information being unveiled about Diddy, a lot of things that were once confusing about the East/West beef of the 90’s are seeming to unfold a bit. I feel it is time for a lil discussion about the Tupac/Biggie/Puffy debacle of the 90’s. So publically, the beef with Pac and (Bad Boy) started based on regional differences, an alleged affair with Pac and Faith Evans, and issues with Diddy and Death Row. This ultimately led to the deaths of both Tupac and Biggie.
I loosely believe…
Tupac didn’t like Diddy. Pac was educating Biggie about how to obtain his intellectual properties from Bad Boy and how to run as an independent artist. When Biggie began to question Diddy about these things by leveraging himself as the breadwinner of Bad Boy. Diddy showed his true colors and also showed Biggie that he owned everything released under Bad Boy, down to the name. This created the divide between PAC and BiG-and calculated Misunderstandings turned it into a beef, that led to Tupac being shot 5 times at quad studios which turned the beef between them into a real live E vs W war. Diddy, in cahoots with Suge Knight, plotted to kill Tupac. Post-Tupac, Biggie had an awakening. He knew what was up with Diddy and where he was trying to take the BRAND of BIG. Biggie tried to redefine himself and take heed to the game Pac was putting on him about his publishing and masters and ownership. Making Puff put money and trust into other Bad Boy artists, but none were quite Biggie. Upon Biggies return and upcoming release, he made demands of Diddy in exchange for exposing his madness. Which ultimately led to his demise, covered under the guise of East coast west coast beef playing out. He recently attempted to shift this by giving back the publishing to Bad Boy artist in 2023. Now this looks like him trying to ‘cop a plea’ to save his name from the upcoming onslaught of drama that his now active on 2024.
and this is just ONE of the situations I think he had a direct had in due to his ‘ways’.
This is where I stop. Lol. what do you guys think about what’s going on?
