It was the fall of 2006. Americans were marking one year since the devastating hurricane-floods in the South, the unlikely St. Louis Cardinals stunned the baseball world by winning it all over the Detroit Cardinals, and Shawn Carter was laying the groundwork for an un-retirement by racing autos in beer commercials and, later, selling beef. Several months beforehand, Cam’ron had twice done the once-unthinkable in one swoop, releasing a sort of shitty album and targeting his former boss Jay-Z in an extended dis record that made suggestive remarks and accused Jay-Z of copying raps off of others. The then-retired rap music mogul ultimately crushed Cam with a surprisingly effective weapon, silence. The message was that the “Purple Haze” emcee did not rise to his level.
Flash forward to the fall-time, when Jay-Z is prepping his return. Following attacks by ascendant Killa protege Jim Jones, Jay-Z threw caution to the wind and recorded a response over the by-then acclaimed Jim Jones single “We Fly High” — an eyebrow-raising move that proved catastrophic when Jimmy hours later utterly buried Jay-Z by basically giggling and randomly commenting over S. Carter’s version, turning in some rhymes and a mothballed Juelz Santana verse and general trash-talking. Jay-Z went on to release some albums that sorta diminished his legacy while marrying Beyonce and befriending the guy from Coldplay and other celebs, elevating his net worth to nearly $1 billion.
Yet as he lies asleep on his solid gold bed, next to his megastar-model spouse, fingers aching from counting his riches, belly full of expensive hamburgers, you have to wonder if his eyes remain open, teeth grinding as his mind echoes with Jim Jones’ comments about Big Pun whacking him in the head with a Cristal bottle in a club all those years ago, and wondering if things could have turned out different.
Tags: Alex Olson, angry again, baaaalllllllinnn, Big Pun, blog heat, Cam'Ron, Destiny's Child members, Dipset, Eric Koston, Instagram!, Jay-Z, Jim Jones, Roc-A-Fella, skateparks, the 2000s, time travels
boil the ocean 
July 23, 2011 at 3:00 am |
Koston’s outburst was utterly ridiculous. How could two sentences that don’t even make sense grammatically possibly trigger him to spew forth that caps filled diatribe about how he is working for the “greater good”!?!
July 24, 2011 at 12:26 pm |
Have you ever heard the phrase “straw that broke the camel’s back?” I think this is probably the case here. Not to defend Koston though.. Koston always seemed like a brat himself and is now on the receiving end. Whatever… at least it was entertaining for a minute.
July 27, 2011 at 3:27 am
I’m sure that’s the case, but a sarcastic remark ridiculing Olson’s use of a double negative would have been far more effective than that rant.
July 23, 2011 at 2:45 pm |
Beef is when I see you,Guaranteed to be an ICU, check it.
July 23, 2011 at 5:50 pm |
A solid gold bed is hilarious, but sounds pretty uncomfortable. Can they make gold tempurpedic?
July 24, 2011 at 1:11 am |
“Yet as he lies asleep on his solid gold bed, next to his megastar-model spouse, fingers aching from counting his riches, belly full of expensive hamburgers…”
i’m fucking rolling over here.
July 24, 2011 at 5:20 pm |
expensive hamburgers kill it
red robin?
July 24, 2011 at 5:58 pm |
I may be a little naive but is this the first time a pro has spoken out publicly against The Party berrics ?
July 25, 2011 at 3:49 pm |
i would imagine solid gold would be quite malleable…similar to a slighty frozen waterbed.
July 27, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
Beyonce/ Fiancee/ Check my second LP/ I might bring her back/ That’s your girl, that’s your world/ Had the thing fuckin’ singin’ ’bout slingin’ crack
July 28, 2011 at 8:52 am |
shoulda asked Koston to change his shirt and hat…getting stale
July 28, 2011 at 12:50 pm |
What IF, as I’ve read someone else speculate, Koston’s rant wasn’t serious and those two are just laughing about all the commotion it generated.
What IF pros start building all sorts of rumors and beef, tabloid style, in an effort to stay relevant and vie for a spot on the radar.
July 30, 2011 at 2:12 pm |
“What If” wasn’t a very good video.
July 31, 2011 at 2:01 am |
Just watched/skipped through “This is Not A Test” this morning and was equally unimpressed.
July 31, 2011 at 4:47 pm |
I thought James Carig and Ronnie Creager had great sections in, “What if”. The 360 heel off the kicker to road ender from James Craig was a belter.
Morgan Smith and that Sewa Kroetkov had enjoyable sections in, “this is not a test”, and were worth a few watches.
August 3, 2011 at 4:49 pm |
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