Is It To-may-to or To-mah-to?

1.   Many things can happen with drinking and getting together. There can be an amiably intoxicated scene with lots of high fives and awkward hugs, but there could also be arguing. Lots of it. And smacked beer pong cups in peoples' faces.

   And there can be a myriad of reasons why the arguing fermented in the first place: a stray arm hanging limp over the beer pong table after a shot, a debated rule in beer pong and even how many times one person can call island cup (totally a hot topic). Teen drinking brings out even the most fiery debaters.

   But what about an argument about who's the better rapper: KiD CuDi or Bishop Lamont (notice the really cool, out-of-place capital letters)? Or how about KiD CuDi versus Wale? Can you even compare?

   I don't make the question out of hubristic pride for any rapper, but I bring it up because is it even possible to compare KiD CuDi to anyone but himself? 

   Nah, you just can't.

   To even compare CuDi to anyone is against the premise of why he even began rapping in the first place. Take for example "Man On The Moon (The Anthem)": "I'll play all my stuff for everybody and they'd give me feedback and they'd be like, 'yo, why your shit sound so different? Why it sound so different' like it's a bad thing. And I'd be like, 'why not?'"

   Besides the fact that "Man On The Moon (The Anthem)" could call out CuDi on being the most self-conscious rapper in the game, it also calls to attention to the fact that he's not in it to be Jeezy or Young Buck or Weezy. He's out there to be CuDi--as dumb as that sounds.

   And it works. It definitely works. 

   Now granted, I understand that every rapper out there does his own thing to make a name for himself. Everyone in life markets him/herself in his/her own way. You have to or else your product is going to look out-dated, superficial and unoriginal. 

   I also understand that CuDi's flow is--to say the least--different and that his music is most definitely eclectic in its roots. He's not going to be flowing like Jay anytime soon. 

   But that's what he wants: to be DIFFERENT. D-I-F-F-E-R-E-N-T. You can't compare his music to anything else that's out there because that's not why he created it in the first place. His uniqueness in regards to the rest of hip-hop is the key element to his success.

   It's also probably why my roommate this past year actually enjoyed listening to him (my ex-roommate doesn't necessarily "get down with" hip-hop, f.y.i.). 

   So to compare him to Bishop Lamont is not only incorrect but missing the point. 

   In the end it's all just day 'n' night (hooray for cliché conclusions).

2. Count me on the Wiz-Khalifa bandwagon. What up, Shittsburgh?

God Is Love,

Rev Rub