XXL 2011 Freshman Class Cover

I love when these XXL cover come out, it's like the local rapper renaissance. The internet is flooding right now with local rappers no one has ever heard of saying they should've been on the cover over [insert rapper who made the cover]. It's sad, but it's funny as fuck lol.

Anyway, I'm fine with the cover this year with the exception of Lil Twist. I mean, not only doesn't he fit on the cover (he looks like he just Lil Mama'd this issue and jumped in the background), but he doesn't fit on this cover. He's the one with no buzz. Quick, name me one hot Lil Twist song. No, fuck that, just name me one Lil Twist song. You can't. Now, I won't say who should be on the cover, but Lil Twist definitely shouldn't.

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Kanye West - Looking For Trouble (feat. Pusha T, Big Sean, CyHi Da Prynce & J. Cole)

Okay, time to update the website, but first let's catch up with some of the heat from over the last week...starting with LAST week's G.O.O.D. Friday track.

Kanye West - Looking For Trouble (feat. Pusha T, Big Sean, CyHi Da Prynce & J. Cole)

Nice little ditty, but nothing too incredible. Of course, like everyone else, I would've preferred to just hear Kanye and J. Cole trading verses, but this was fine for a first collaboration. Oh, and again I failed to hear the greatness of CyHi Da Prynce. Maybe I'm not listening close enough or something, but he just seems average, like a new version of GLC.

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Kanye West: The "Runaway" Interview

MTV.com has up a 16 part interview with Kanye West after the premiere of "Runaway" (because putting all these 2-3 minutes videos in one would've been too easy). Obviously I'm too lazy to post all 16, but I did watch them, and now I present to you the most important ones.

Here Kanye says there could be 13 or 14 songs on the final product, but as of right now, iTunes has only 12 listed (11 songs and 1 bonus). Hopefully that changes because if he can afford to drop a new track every week, I know he can put more than 12 songs on this album. Make it happen Kanye!

This was probably the best news of the interview. The Kanye and Jay-Z EP Watch The Throne will now be a full-length album. No word on when it's going to drop, but don't look forward to it actually being done in a day lol.

Gotta love those G.O.O.D. Fridays!

Okay, so go ahead and skip to 1:55 on this video to hear where Kanye says he decided about a week ago that he'd become the best rapper of all-time. It'll never happen, but I'm not gonna down the man for striving to be the best.

Not sure why Lil Wayne was mentioned over Nas when the convo shifted to who he'd have to pass, or why CyHi Da Prince was mentioned in the new artist portion. Lil Wayne is good, but Kanye has been better than him for years now. He should be more focused on passing the likes of Nas, Scarface, and Andre 3000 than Lil Wayne. I like Weezy, but he's not even in the all-time great conversation. As far as CyHi goes, obviously Kanye is gonna hype his artist, but he doesn't even believe that CyHi is gonna be an all-time great. I mean, he isn't even good yet. When CyHi becomes good, then we can talk about him possibly becoming great. Until then, no mas.

And last, but not least, the portion that is probably gonna land Yeezy in some hot water. A little past a minute in he says Michael Jackson is arguably a bigger pop culture figure than Jesus Christ.

Wow. Let that breathe.

I see where he was trying (emphasis on "trying") to go with that, but it even got a rise out of me when he said it. Kanye has GOT to know better than to say some shit like that, because with all the thinking he's been doing, he should know people are gonna tweak it and say "Kanye said Michael Jackson was bigger than Jesus." That's not exactly what he said, but it's close enough to possibly get him in trouble.

Welp, if this becomes the big story of next week, remember you were warned.

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Kanye West - Take One For The Team (feat. Keri Hilson, Pusha T & CyHi Da Prynce)

G.O.O.D. Friday was delayed because Kanye is working and getting prepared for the album. This post was delayed because I was working and getting ready for Fuck Lil Wayne 3. See, it's practically the same thing.

Quick bit of news before we start, if you haven't heard already Kanye's 35 minute film "Runaway" will premiere simultaneously on MTV, BET, MTV2, MTV.com, BET.com, and VH1.com next Saturday October 23rd at 8pm! This should be interesting.

Kanye West - Take One For The Team (feat. Keri Hilson, Pusha T & CyHi Da Prynce)

I know Kanye said he was gonna use some of these G.O.O.D. Friday tracks on the album, and I really wouldn't mind if it was this one of them (Note: Unfortunately, I'm not being consulted). That first verse was ill as fuck...and true! I feel the same damn way! I hate looking at pics of people kids (in the belly or after birth) and I hate being in someone's funky crib and smelling like that shit when I leave. Especially when it's that weird fried grease smell, that's the worst.

As far as the rest of the song goes, the beat was dope, though I thought my speakers were shorting out when I first turned it on. Pusha did his thing, and do did Keri. I'm about tire of CyHi Da Prince already though. Did Kanye drop GLC from G.O.O.D. Music?? If not, then the wack rapper quota is filled and CyHi can move the hell on.

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