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“You try to get your money up well it’s time too/ Cause every other cat on the block is on the grind too/ Lookin’ to catch your ass slippin’ right behind you/ Catchin’ you makin’ bacon and lay you down like the swine flu/ Damn, somebody pass me a face mask/ ‘Cause I ain’t tryin’ to catch a late pass from your fake ass.”

Bun B blacks out on the Clipse-Kanye collabo.

This reminds me, DJ Wonder and I were at the radio station the other day, talkin’ about the gift and the curse of this song. Kanye’s verse sounds like an old freestyle from a Tapemasters Inc. mixtape and the beat Khalil did, sounds like a vintage ‘Ye track. I need that instrumental like yesterday.

Props: OnSmash

“We ain’t go to Venezuela to feed the monkeys.”

Apparently MTV was pre-taped and this is Ricky’s true victory speech live from St. Martin where he’s apparently vacationing with his Carol City conglomerate.

I got two questions:

1) Do real gangstas rock pink Air Yeezy’s? 

2) Three #1 albums in a row is a great accomplishment, but is 158 K really somethin’ to brag about?

Sometimes, Yellow Nigga just gets confused.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

My former fellow light-skinded XXL blogger is ready to share after the jump.

1. A Town feat. T.I., Young Dro & Sean Paul & Lonnie Mac

13. Gotta Get It feat. B.G., Juvenile and Soulja Slim

DJ Busy advises that you can pre-order the album @ gangstagrillz.com

The Boss does his victory lap at a sneaker shop. Ha! I see you Sha. It was a tough job reporting from Miami but somebody had to do it. Smh.

Here’s a match made in hell. La Flare throws his vocals over BEP’s “Boom Boom Pow”. I expect to hear about five more of these “remixes” by week’s end.

Props: X

Update: Guess I was right about those remixes. And their, official too!

Every other site that I go—I see the same posts. Ha! And a lot of them are stocked with plenty of Wu-connected content lately. As a close witness to RZA’s masterplan powerfully penetrating the mainstream in the early 90′s, it’s with a heavy heart I try to remain as positive as I can about the state of Shaolin in 2009. But it’s so hard. The catalogue is so classic, anything released in the last few years fails badly in comparison. Oh well. Time will tell.

In the meantime, I’m waxing nostalgic admiring legacy over an article in Wax Poetics that Diggers Union discovered. GZA, The Clan’s Capo recalls his super second album and drops plenty of gems. Here’s one. Peace God!

“4th Chamber”—Crazy, crazy song. If I ever do a rock album, not saying I would, but if I did, it would have to be on that kind of vibe. It would musically have to sound like “Rock Box” from Run DMC. Making “4th Chamber” was crazy because I didn’t have a rhyme ready for that one. That’s why I went last on it [laughs]. Plus, Ghost killed it with his verse so I knew I had to come correct.

This is one of three songs that crowds always go crazy for when we do a Wu show. As soon as they hear the [imitates opening guitar sound] they just explode. It’s not even a GZA song to me—it’s a Wu-Tang song. And Ghost’s verse is [just] incredible to me. He delivered so well. I don’t know if you saw the video, I directed that too. This song, the guest verses, the video, the crowd response, all turned out perfect for this one.

A few lil birdies told me Kanye’s boo has been upgraded from Smooth magazine status to an upcoming Elle inside-the-book portfolio and a Complex cover. That’s right, my son NCB who slutted out Aubrey and got Cassie to flash her ass, is sure to soon deliver the goodness to get you geeks out of your post Tahiry doldrums. Get your cocoa butter, busters!