It is official. Rap is ****.

:smt107 Lil' Kim's '**** Truth' Gets 5 Mic Rating In October Issue Of The Source By Houston Williams Date: 9/7/2005 4:57 pm Brooklyn rapper Lil’ Kim will hold the unique distinction of being the first female to ever get a 5-mic rating from The Source magazine. The **** Truth, the rapper’s fourth solo album, will be bestowed with the prestigious honor in the October issue of the magazine. “I think it just does great for the evolution of women,” Lil’ Kim told AllHipHop.com. “I thinks it's gonna be great for women now too.” With her latest offering, Lil’ Kim said she’ll help change the pessimistic attitudes for females in Hip-Hop. “Some women probably feel like, ‘I'm not even gonna try to get five mics, I know I ain't getting five mics,’” Lil’ Kim said. “So women [will] be like, ‘Now I know I can get five mics.’” The **** Truth release date has also been changed. The album was originally slated to hit stores September 13, but will now hit stores September 27. Lil’ Kim, once a member of Notorious B.I.G.’s Junior Mafia rap group, was sentenced to 366 days in federal prison for lying to a federal grand jury about her knowledge of a 2001 broad daylight shoot out in front of Hot 97’s offices in New York. The rapper will report to a Connecticut prison on September 19 to start serving her prison term. La Bella Mafia, Kim’s last album, got four and a half mics from the Source, known as the “Hip-Hop Bible.” The 5 best albums of all time: 1) The **** Truth 2) Illmatic 3) Fear of a Black Planet 4) Straight Outta Compton 5) Ready To Die

I talked briefly on this today w/ my literatureoflove teacher. He was saying how hip hop only talks about what goin on in really talks about what's goin on in the hood and all the other aspects of urban life that we know. He actually made a good point which supports my opinion which is, that's what we see in the media and that's what's pop. The popular hiphop and rap is all about making money and doing whatever it takes to do that. The reason for this is the amount of people who will actually listen to rapper's like common and talib kweli. People who will check out the underground and find some artists who are rapping about solutions and not just problems. Even some who are stating the problems that we don't see. Hiphop is so much more than people make it, it's just that they don't know anything but what they see and what's put in front of them. How about you all try to look for some real hiphop? BTW source has been on some bull. Their a commercial magazine so what you expect?