Speaking Of Bricks...

Speaking of bricks (last blog post), I just took a look at the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and I see Soulja Boy's fuckery... "Crank That" has moved all the way up to #14. Man, I REALLY can't wait until this example of how NOT to rap (& speak I mean damn what is this nigga even saying?? He sounds like Lil Darryl and shit lol) drops his debut Souljaboytellem.com so I can get another great his laugh. Shit aint like it used to be when all you need was a "hot" song out to sell records, NOPE now you actually have to have some sort of talent or your career is over before it starts. Just this year we've had a string of potential and confirmed one-hit wonders such as Shop Boyz, Huey, Hurricane Chris, MIMS, Yung Berg, Cupid, Jason Fox (if they actually played his record, thank goodness they don't lol) and the aforementioned Soulja Boy. That's a lot for 8 months, I mean we haven't seen this amount of one-hit wonders since the early 90's!

You can possibly add 3 more names to that list, but I'm a little more optimistic about them for some reason. Those few lucky men are Sean Kingston, Rich Boy, and Plies. Sean Kingston obviously (or not so obviously if you've only heard Beautiful Girls or that god-awful shit he did on the Make Me Better beat) has some talent so I'm not completely ready to put him down for the count. As it looks right now, he certainly has the statistics of a potential one-hit wonder (#1 single in the country, 74,700 records sold in his first week in stores), but with a little grooming and growth he at least has a chance to beat the odds. Right now I'd say he's around 50/50.

Rich Boy's "Throw Some D's" had one hit wonder written all over it, then his self-titled debut album dropped and flopped within its first month in stores BUT with his relationship with Polow Da Don he might have a little more time in the game than expected. Polow is producing hits left and right & he's no stranger to one-hit wonderdom (I made that up, like it?? lol) with Jim Crow a few years ago, maybe he'll steer Rich's rap career better than his own. Not to mention Rich has been added to Rocawear's "I Will Not Lose" campaign alongside Ciara which might prove to be a good sign (hell doing clothing campaigns worked for T.I. back when his career was in the gutter in like 2002). Rich Boy is gonna need someone to help him out with his speech because people not knowing what the hell he's saying is a problem (see Soulja Boy's "Crank That").

Then there's Plies. Oh boy! Plies, Plies, Plies lol. Mr. Fort Myers...or should I say "Pakistan" (that's a joke in itself for all my Florida people who have actually been there lol) is difficult because unlike Sean Kingston or Rich Boy he's doesn't have a huge smash "hit" record (yet). I mean "Shawty" is doing good but it has yet to crack the top 10 and MTV is JUST premiering it on TRL today (Aug. 9). Plies is also rather old for the rap game (31 years of age), but his look isn't old (well it is, but you know what I mean lol) so he's gonna be able to connect with that desperate-for-the-next-it-guy-to-profess-my-love-to

-for-the-next-three-months-until-his-hit-single-plays-out teenage girls. The main thing holding him back is surprisingly enough not his astonishingly ignorant content or his flip, flops from street nigga to acceptable nigga (depending on who's interviewing him of course lol), but his rather rap flow. Plies has a bad habit of trying to fit too many words into a bar too often to be taken seriously by real hip-hop fans (the people who really determine if you have a career or not).

Who really knows what the future holds because talented people have fallen off before and less talented people (::cough:: Chris Brown, Pretty Ricky, etc. ::cough:: lol) have stayed around longer than some of us expected and vice versa. I guess we're just going to have to wait and see, but I seem to have a habit of being right about these kinds of things.