Lex Diamonds

A Terrible Hip Hop Critic. But I know my stuff.

[Lex Diamonds @312_kiri]

I feel like people say this because they don’t actually listen to music. They don’t listen to albums because A Reece isn’t this backpack lyrical miracle rapper people make him out to be. He doesn’t overcomplicate his bars but he’s technical enough to keep you entertained.

[SA HIP HOP 247 🌍 @sahiphop247]

Seemah speaks on A-Reece & Slimes. Do you think A Reece makes music just for his fans or for hip hop fans in general? 👀

[Cheo Hodari Coker @cheo_coker]

Yup. From one of my many conversations with Busta over the years..

You’re doing cyphers, getting more confidence and you end up at Westinghouse High School. At the same time, there's this kid, Christopher Wallace, who's also starting to rhyme. And another kid named Shawn Carter is also getting a little reputation. Were you in actual battles together?

Well, I never saw B.I.G. rhyme at school. His name was buzzing as an MC for sure. I never actually saw Hov rhyme at school, outside of the little battle me and him had in the lunchroom. It was definitely clear that he was on because he had one or two videos circulating that he was doing with Jaz-O, “The Originators.”

Hov and B.I.G. were both super charismatic dudes, just in different ways. Hov was more laid back, but still had this big iconic charisma about him because Hov was getting money in the street. B.I.G. was a little more on the rugged side. Hov was already kinda looking like he was bossed up. Hov was clean. His Tommy Hilfiger game was crazy. And he used to come to school with the big Gucci length chain that Kane wore on the Long Live the Kane album. Hov had one of them shits in school.

Hov was smart, he did his thing with class but when he was walking through the hallways you know he just seemed like he was on his boss, cool shit. You never saw Hov perspire. He wasn't like the dude playing sports, he just was on some “Imma be fresh to death and handle my business in school and then when I'm not at school I'm getting to the money.” It’s a testament to what he exemplifies today.

Hov was already on the “Hawaiian Sophie” speed rap thing and you hadn't quite mastered the style yet?

Yeah, that's the truth. I was pretty much just getting my feet wet with it. And he had the edge that day. And it actually was a good experience for me because I'm so competitive that it turned me into the speed rap God that I am now.

Whereas Big you never really encountered in school, rhyming-wise.

We blew tree in school, and Big definitely moved with the goons in school. I didn't see Big rhyme until he was done with high school. When me and Big did “Buncha N-ggas,” that was Big’s very first step out on record. I thought wow, finally the bro found his way. And when I really knew it was real—one day me and Big had to go to Bert Padell’s office. He was going there to get a check, as was I, and he needed a ride back to Brooklyn. I was with my man and the car was so small there wasn't any real space in the back seat. Big ended up getting in the back seat. And it was the funniest thing to look at with him back there. New York City streets were super screwed up so we hitting all type of potholes.

When Big got in his crib he told me to come pull up. So I come in the crib and see Ms. Wallace. And this is right before Ready to Die came out. And Biggie had a double cassette deck, a JVC boombox, and he was dubbing his cassette, his whole album on Memorexes.

He had this line, just like a drug spot, waiting to get copies of his album. And I was looking at him. This is during the era when the bootleg n-ggas was around and we used to try to beat them up, and Big was the first person that I ever saw do this. He was giving his album away for free. I was completely confused by this. I said, “What are you doing? And why you doing this? Like you ain’t trying to make no money?”

And he said, "Yo Bus, look. If every n-gga in the hood is playing my shit and I gave it to them? First of all, they gonna want to bang my shit because they got it from me personally. So they gonna be that much more enthused. Now Imma have the whole hood playing my shit and the n-gga that's gone look crazy is the one that's not playing it. And turn the perception of how big my stuff is, into the stuff that makes everyone feel like something wrong with them if they don't got it."

I said this guy’s brain is something that I've never seen or heard before. That was one of the most genius marketing and promotion campaign mindsets that I've ever seen and have ever seen in my life to this day in the whole history of this culture.....

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[Kicko @infamousbxdon]

I’ll never forget how niggas said E40 rap like jello be spilling out of his mouth

[OLA ⏳ @A_kinola02]

I beg you to try this with your new manager in Madrid

[NationOnline @NationOnlineMw]

Today's Front Page
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[Bayer 04 Leverkusen @bayer04_en]

Why are England worried about the Miami heat? Thought that was a basketball team?

[GODBODY @well_frass]

A nigga that owe me $350 at that Jay z concert

[ye @kanyewest]

I’m not working on a new album yet …

[Titus Ame @AmeTitus]

OFFICIAL: Alejandro Garnacho joins Nyasa Big Bullets from Chelsea in a deal worth over MWK 180 million.
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[dre. @anthrtime]

couldn’t have been a more perfect collab on “groovy tony / eddie kane”

[dre. @anthrtime]

while we’re on the topic of schoolboy q’s blank face lp, this truly remains one of the greatest outros in music of all time.

[Lex Diamonds @312_kiri]

Go and listen to Harlem World and No Way Out again. I think you’re genuinely speaking from a place of ignorance 😭

[Randyn @RanWithThePlan]

No he wasn’t. Mase had a monotone flow with party anthems and Diddy hype. That’s it. He was never a better RAPPER than Jim.

[Jeff Weiss @Passionweiss]

Biggie & Jay-Z performing "Get Money" at Ralph McDaniels' birthday party (1996)

[Madrid Zone @theMadridZone]

🚨 BREAKING: After FIVE hours of debate, Paraguay’s Senate passed a majority vote motion condemning senator Celeste Amarilla’s racist remarks about Kylian Mbappé and rejecting all forms of racism & discrimination.

The Senate also said that Amarilla’s comments do NOT represent the position of the Paraguay National Chamber.

[Lex Diamonds @312_kiri]

@Flotee_ You should write a screenplay about this

[Lex Diamonds @312_kiri]

@Flotee_ If FIFA was “orchestrating” victories, don’t you think they’d make it possible for the most famous football player in the world to have an easy path to the finals?

[@IKK @IKK_Sem_O_Sem]

Mkulukuta Hip Hop Wafika Ku Zanzibar Kwanukhal Linya Hmmm🙌🏾. #highlightseveryone #viral

[Dru @Ndojo]

This is the most amount of words anyone has ever used to say nothing!

[highlydustedmusic @80sBank]

What are we even doing right now 😂

I Swear y'all forget.

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

The racist, dehumanising remarks against @KMbappe by Paraguayan Sen. Celeste Amarilla are despicable, regrettably not isolated.

States & sports organisations must prevent acts of racism & discrimination, and ensure independent and effective accountability. Social media must also prevent and address racial discrimination on their platforms.

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