Disrespectful views at Tha Kang, T.I.? Nah, Ms. Banks you're out of line. Yeah Harris' Aussie ain't that dope but neither are you. I just saw you at Coachella and I wasn't impressed. You got the look, the swag, the tough talk but where are the tunes? "212" is alright but that's where it stops. According to Jay-Z's old board rules: You have no right to diss Tip. Look in the mirror and ask yourself: How many classic albums have you created? Are you on anyone's top 10 MCs list? Do you have any hardware on your walls, ma? Cliff is right. Keep him out of the girlfight. You're heavy in these tweets, but I hope you're finding time to create music that backs up your buzz. Or you'll soon be begone like Kreayshawn. You young ladies today bore me. *Turns up Mia X CD* No Limit forever!
The best things in life are free, but hopping on Hov's press conference stage uninvited is gon cost cha. Whatcha did was wrong! ⎯B.DotBreakthrough: Nature "Banned From TV"
Friday, July 03 2009 7:03 PM EST | Posted by: B.Dot | Posted in: True Story
The year? 1998. The song? “Banned From TV”. The verse? Jermain Baxter’s. A year after being a part of the hip-hop collective The Firm, Nature found himself pitted with more rappers (Big Pun, Cam’Ron, Styles P, and Jadakiss) on N.O.R.E.’s self titled debut album. Anchored by Swizz Beatz gorgeous horns, Nat kicked things off and made a name for himself with unapologetic lines, “Kick street tales, choking niggas like I’m Spreewell.” With a documentary in tow, Nate spoke to Rap Radar about his mean 16.
The original record was only supposed to be me and N.O.R.E. Swizz started playing a whole bunch of beats [and] he played the one that’s “Banned From T.V.” now. I fell in love with it from the first time I heard it. The original record was only supposed to be me and N.O.R.E. Next time I heard my verse, I hear all these other guys on it. I wanted to change my verse at the time ’cause I didn’t know all those guys was going to be on it. But by that time, it was already mixed so I couldn’t do nothing.
I ain’t really say, “Oh, I’m a write this for people to remember for years.” I felt the beat so strong as soon as I heard it. I always kinda wanted to be one of the first to put [topics] in a musical form and I think at the time no one was doing that. I would incorporate currents events [or] whatever.
We shot a video for it [too]. That was like the first time we had all those guys together. Everybody at the same time was like, “Yo!”, especially Pun, cause he came directly behind me. He was like, “Man, I had to play the verse over and over again!” And I felt that was a good look. Pun was one of the illest.— As Told To Brian “B.Dot” Miller
“Banned From TV”
Previously: Freeway “1-900-Hustler”
such a dope feature. This site just keeps getting better.
Banned From TV is one of illest tracks I ever heard, I still play that joint and it’s funny too because Nature part is the only one I memorized!
this track shows skill not like some of todays rappers
this track was the bomb and the album as a whole rather decent and it shows some collabs will gell and remain timeless…everybody’s verse was hard …the Lox(Jadakiss & Styles P kill it back and forth.)
Banned from T.V was one of the best songs out at the time. It’s also the most memorable because it had some of the best rappers of the time together on one track. The beat was sick.Nature’s rhyme set the tone. That opening killed it.I still bump this song in my car and always throw it back to his part.