delusion
1.
a. The act or process of deluding.
b. The state of being deluded.
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2. A false belief or opinion: labored under the delusion that success was at hand.
3. Psychiatry. A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness: delusions of persecution.
delusional
adj: suffering from or characterized by delusions
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Since most rappers and the listening public aren’t knows for their vast lexicons nor their ambitions to expand them by opening a dictionary, I’ve decided to do some teaching of my own. The above, obviously, outlines a delusion…more importantly, it gives you a better idea what being delusional truly is. The third definition is most definitely my favorite, and easily the most appropriate for the wonderful world of hip-hop.
50 Cent has definitely become delusional in recent years as his ego has grown to unfathomable proportions, just like his delusional fans who call him one of the G.O.A.T.’s. For one thing, at least 50 can make some good music.
The same cannot be said for Bow Wow. Not only has Jermaine Dupri‘s wet dream become mind-blowingly delusional, but he doesn’t even have a decent song or album to base his claims on. But this is less about his music than it is about him, or his career. In a recent issue of XXL Bow Wow had some rather disparaging remarks about Will Smith. Now I’ll ignore that the Fresh Prince, in his day or even now, is ten times the emcee that little doggie could ever hope to be. I’ll ignore that Big Willy is one of the guys who paved the way for rappers to get opportunities in Hollywood. This is what I won’t ignore: “But to me, honestly Will wasn’t like a real rapper. He was more like a gimmick. Then he zapped in to get a TV show, and it was on and poppin’. Then after that he was in Hollywood. So things came easy for him. With me, I’m a rapper. I ain’t with the whole colorful cornball type things. That’s just not my style.” Bow Wow Wow yippe yo yippe yay…
I’m sorry, did Lil’ fucking Bow Wow just call someone else a gimmick? The same guy who was a pre-packaged, pre-pubescent, ghost-written kiddie rapper named Lil’ Bow Wow who released albums called Beware of Dog and Doggy Bag call someone ELSE a gimmick? Did the little boy who was a link in Jermaine’s long chain of gimmick kiddie rappers just pretend like he was a legit rapper? Has he ignored that his album sales have plummeted with each year that passes? That couldn’t be the gimmick fading could it? Or maybe it is just that his music has become progressively worse? Did anyone even know that he dropped an album this year? Wanted? Only in the bargain bin…
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It keeps going though, hang on: “Will [Smith] can act, but he does more of those blockbuster Hollywood movies, which I wanna do. But also I wanna do it like Denzel-movies that really mean something. I feel like I can definitely be better than him.” If there is one thing I’ve learned it’s that doing roller skating movies is of the highest art and the surest footing to Academy hardware.
The icing on the cake: “The only real rappers out there right now are ME, Kanye, 50, and maybe Jay. But Jay ain’t in it like that no more.” I won’t even begin to start listing all the rappers he left out, that is obvious.
“The only real rappers out there right now are me”
“A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence.”
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Dear Bow Wow, you are a joke as a rapper. Anyone who isn’t a 13 year old girl thinks you are wack. You do not have the respect of your peers as an emcee. When was the last time your name was mentioned by ANYONE as one of the best emcees in the game? More importantly, show some fucking respect to your elders, to the people who paved the way for your unappreciative ass to have a career. Will Smith may have been the perpetrator of some god awful music in the mid-90’s, but the man went from a young rapper in Philly to one of the biggest stars in Hollywood…and a highly respected one. If your career ends up being 1/100th of his, you should be honored. Lose your yes men and take a step back into a reality you fucking punk.
To continue this tirade, why the fuck would XXL’s interviewer let that shit slide? Have some balls and put him on the spot, unless you actually believe what he is saying. He ain’t Suge, you don’t need to be afraid of offending him.
Speaking of XXL, the newest issue has the entire, recently expanded G-Unit camp on the cover. I can just hear all the people again, “Jimmy Iovine owns XXL,” “they are on Shady/Aftermath’s dick,” “they are just as bad as The Source for this.” Blah, blah, blah. Do the math, Shady/Aftermath/G-Unit has been huge in the last couple years, like it or not they have pretty much run this hip-hop shit. Naturally, the biggest artists get the covers of magazines. The goal of a magazine is to sell copies, putting the most popular artist(s) on the cover will do just that. This goes double for XXL when said artists will have nothing to do with your biggest competition. That is just called good business people…
