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I Should Have Learned To Rap! Who Has The Top Hip Hop Ride?
The ultimate status symbol, a rapper's car isn't just a means to get around--it's proof of his prosperity.

True enough, the 20 members of Forbes' debut list of Hip-Hop Cash Kings, whose combined 2006 earnings neared $350 million, own some of the rarest, most expensive rides on the planet.

Jay-Z, with earnings of $34 million in 2006, is a noted Mercedes-Benz buff. In his hit 1999 single "Big Pimpin'," he declared, "If I wasn't rappin' baby, I would still be ridin' Mercedes/Chromin', shinin', sippin'…"

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I Should Have Learned To Rap! Who Has The Top Hip Hop Ride?



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silverarrow2silverarrow2 - 8/31/2007 5:35:18 PM
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You don't learn IT! either you do or don't have it.
It's just that simple.

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maikoazumaikoazu - 9/1/2007 2:21:11 AM
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Wow indeed. I don't know how big the gas tank is in the Veyron, but to burn it off in "12 and a half minutes" you've only travel 52.62 miles. What good is speed when you can't go very far?

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TauronB2GTauronB2G - 8/31/2007 3:18:51 PM
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Notable article but they got that MB quote wrong. The person who said that line in that song was Pimp C from UGK who is also on the tack. He was the guy who wrecked his Bentley in Houston last year.
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Htay7500Htay7500 - 8/31/2007 3:53:31 PM
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"I smashed up the grey one, bought me a red..."


BlakuraBlakura - 9/1/2007 11:06:34 AM
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You took the words right out of my mouth.



damikcodamikco - 9/1/2007 7:17:08 PMView My AgentSpace
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True indead actuly Jay-z likes Bentlys which he has on the front cover of two of his album covers.


answeranswer - 8/31/2007 5:44:20 PMView My AgentSpace
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But what about Vanilla Ice?

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RupertRupert - 8/31/2007 10:04:09 PMView My AgentSpace
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I've lost mine...it might be under my bed...

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huu76huu76 - 9/1/2007 2:27:47 AM
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Who cares. Doesn't change the fact hiphop is responsible for the dumbing down of the West. What took the Roman Republic 500 years to do, rap did in 10. That is brining upon the decline of said civilization.

They should just do us all a favour and bust caps on each other. Last one standing gets one in the ass.

But yeah, rap won't put a man in space, and rap won't win you any wars. Although I did hear booty and basketball will. (maybe future wars will be just long drawn out disses of one another's bling). I can just see it now, 22s on an Abram.

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I95SPEEDINGTICKETSI95SPEEDINGTICKETS - 9/1/2007 8:13:33 AM
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huu76

I agree with you about the effects of Hip Hop

But last time i checked your President was not an avid Hip Hop listener and the whole world pretty much agrees that there is no Dumber President in the Recordable History.

I would like to hear your opinion on what created his Level of Stupidity.


cdokecdoke - 9/1/2007 2:28:23 PMView My AgentSpace
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Actually if you beleive I.Q. tests our "dumbest" President was...

Anyone?

John F. Kennedy.

Which really shouldn't surprise anyone if you think about it-as I recall his I.Q. was 119. The President with the highest recorded I.Q. score may surprise some people though:

Richard Nixon - he was actually a genius. The cutoff for the Stanford-Binet is 140. His I.Q. was 143.

Incidentally, I don't want to hear anyone who has about 1/3 of a brain to cite the "Lovenstein Instituite" I.Q. figures for presidents- that organization does not actually exist and the whole thing started out as a email joke...

The numbers above are actual recorded I.Q. scores.


njshiftnjshift - 9/1/2007 8:01:37 AM
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What a waste of an article.

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criminalmindedcriminalminded - 9/1/2007 8:05:16 AM
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Please take a look at yourself before you put blame on someone else. These rappers do no control any media outlet which produces, package, promote or distribute these songs.

The ones in voting majority, the owners of corporations are the one who allow these songs to be released.

Open your eyes and see who controls the outlets. If I am wrong please correct me.

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criminalmindedcriminalminded - 9/1/2007 8:11:53 AM
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Who controls media outlets not people who look like them, maybe the people who allow the music to come out are the same ones who start false wars and was money going to space. The same genius who spent billions trying to figure out how to get a pen to write in space while the Russians just used pencils...

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huu76huu76 - 9/1/2007 2:18:31 PM
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Speedingticket,
I never claimed Dubya was smart. I do know that I'd rather see kids look up to good people as opposed having goals in life that involves drugs, ass and shooting anyone who happens to disrespect you by saying "hello".

That is one thing I hope China accomplishes next year, beating the US men's basketball team to show the world you can outball someone and be intelligent.

criminal,
No rap, no crap for the media to sell. However, these guys have figured how to exploit generation "duh's" ignorance.
Liberal retards have something called "freedom of speech" that criminals and rappers explit to talk about whatever, from shooting cops to pedophilia because they claim it's "artistic".

Also, the Russians may have a pencil, but the US has that and a pen that can write in space. You can't erase the space-pen.
That's akin to saying the US may have landed probes on Mars, but the Russians can take pictures of it. It's a bit harder to actually do one than the other.

If rap disappeared, the world would still move on. If science disappeared, the rappers wouldn't have anything to pimp out amd eminem and all the kids overhere would have to go back to being a white.

That's funny, the top 20 thugs only earned $350 million last year? There's a Pizza chain in Ontario that has higher revenue than that. The company I work for takes in twice that and we can probably out think these guys in our sleep. Bling bling!

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cdokecdoke - 9/1/2007 2:33:04 PMView My AgentSpace
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"That's funny, the top 20 thugs only earned $350 million last year?"

I have to agree for 20 people that is so...mediocre. I know an alum of my department who made more than that last year...in fact he made about $100 million more than that.



RupertRupert - 9/1/2007 6:51:13 PMView My AgentSpace
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huu, I'm quite liberal, but I agree, I think rap music is a terrible influence on my generation.

It glamourises gun crime, it degrades women, it discourages interaction with people different from yourself, encourages drug usage and dealing (I'll be just like 50 cent if I deal crack!) and it encourages mistrust of the police and portrays being promiscuous as a positive attribute.
It also encourages young black men not to get regular jobs or work hard because then you're an oreo or whatever (black on outside white inside). Working hard is not a "white" thing!

The whole message is basically get a gun, deal some drugs get some money, buy a Cadillac and get some hookers!

BTW, I actually think Dubya is a lot smarter than we think, he just has a terrible accent and is a bad public speaker (which we British mock because to be a politician in Britain you have to be a very good public speaker and debater)


cdokecdoke - 9/1/2007 8:43:07 PMView My AgentSpace
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Rupert,

"I actually think Dubya is a lot smarter than we think, he just has a terrible accent and is a bad public speaker "

I agree completely. We know his SAT score was 1206- it is listed at the top of his Yale transcript. That roughly corresponds to an I.Q. of between 125 and 130.

He most certainly is not the most articulate of people though. One would think that his parents would have paid for effective elocution leasons, but apparently the reality is not quite so.


huu76huu76 - 9/1/2007 2:46:51 PM
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speedingticket,
By the way, the left always considers the right beneath them. Remember when they called Reagan unfit to lead because he was a crappy actor? Well, I didn't see Jimmy Carter outbluff and out maneuver the USSR.

Case in point, Dubya actually had higher grades than Kerry and wasn't that far behind Gore.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/06/07/yale_grades_portray_kerry_as_a_lackluster_student/
http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html
But the left would have you believe the two Democrats were geniuses.

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criminalmindedcriminalminded - 9/1/2007 7:09:51 PM
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Please tell me the great scientific world saving discoveries that came out of space exploration. Don't tell me any s... about the ability to live on other planets. Where I'm from we take care of our back yards before we worry about anyone else... we need to take care of this planet before we go and destroy another.
I don't agree with all the lyrics in most of the songs but your forefathers thought it important enough to freedom of speak.


criminalmindedcriminalminded - 9/1/2007 7:11:25 PM
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Please tell me the great scientific world saving discoveries that came out of space exploration. Don't tell me any s... about the ability to live on other planets. Where I'm from we take care of our back yards before we worry about anyone else... we need to take care of this planet before we go and destroy another.
I don't agree with all the lyrics in most of the songs but your forefathers thought it important enough to cherish freedom of speak.


ICONICON - 9/1/2007 3:29:33 PM
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Wast of an article - who cares?

BTW-The misogynistic rapppers better enjoy it while it lasts.
The Execs at the record companies know that they have invested in a very short term game...there is practically zilch in catalogue sales (previously released albums)which is where they and the artists make alot of their money over a long period of time.

Especially compared with classic rock acts, country music, pop etc.

Their act is way past old and according to sales trends it is going down fast. So I hope they enjoy their bling and "things" now...

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CLK63BlackSeriesCLK63BlackSeries - 9/2/2007 3:32:43 AMView My AgentSpace
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rap is here to stay bitch... get used to the fact!


huu76huu76 - 9/1/2007 9:04:32 PM
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Criminalmind,
Hey Snoop, where are you from, the United Hoods of Blametheman? HipHop saves all you need is crack, so don't worry about ruining our planet.

Pacemakers world saving enough for you?

You ever heard of satellites? Those neat little things that tell us when and how severe hurricanes are?
This link sums it up nicely though.
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9811/02/space.medical/index.html
GPS is a result of space exploration as well. I guess if you can't get it in an Escalade, it doesn't matter.
Name 1 "benefit" that came from the hiphop industry. The artists can't even save a neighbourhood even though they're selling $2000 suits made by little kids.

ICON,
For real? That's good to hear, hopefully we'll be rid of this garbage before it ruins another generation.

Rupert,
Yeah, I'm fascinated that in the UK, actors and tv personalities are more often judged on skill than looks which is refreshing.

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criminalmindedcriminalminded - 9/2/2007 6:00:35 PM
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Man you are so lost you need a GPS to find your soul. We don't most of these technologies. We were finding looking at maps and asking directions. Oh I forgot we are to busy rushing to do nothing and not living and loving. We gotta hurry and get yours this Capitalist System got us not even looking to the clouds and dreaming of a better time.

HIP HOP is not the same thing as Rap Music. This is HIP HOP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iiu3eViGvi8 and his form of expression is Rappin'

The conservatives always make the issues seem start forward and it is always someone else fault for things not going well. Conservatives, you are equally to blame for any problems USA has. Be a man and stand up for your short comings.





huu76huu76 - 9/1/2007 9:10:41 PM
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Criminalmind,
Freedom of speech I'm sure was never intended to condone the killing of upholder of the rule of law, nor the exploitation of children.
However, this is exactly what the hiphop industry has weaseled out inorder to make a buck to buy something which obviously is making up for something else that's lacking (integrity or intelligence, take your pick).

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I95SPEEDINGTICKETSI95SPEEDINGTICKETS - 9/2/2007 7:43:58 AM
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"Killing of the upholder of the rule of law" ?

I hope you are not reffering to the "Police"

The current sentiments that the African American Populace have towards the USA Law Enforcement Services were much more Vicious before the advent of Hip-Hop. It is a result of the Brutal way the whole group were treated and the new generation decided not to tolorate it. Granted they did not have a Cohesive & Well Planned method of dealing with the problems, but it sure got the Attention of the Authorities.


cdokecdoke - 9/2/2007 11:32:39 AMView My AgentSpace
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I will simply say this- about a year ago I had a conversation with a psychologist friend of mine and he informed me that the occupational group with the largest incidence of psychological problems is law enforcement. He said that about 75% have massive mental problems usually stemming from control issues. The profile of the persons attracted to the field are those who desire control over other people- a particularly sick problem in my opinion.

He went on to state that in certain large cities police officers take a personality test and must fit into a specific group- and that that group also happens to be the one that has a propensity for producing men who beat their wives.

I grew up in a small town, and so never saw any of this- nobody could get away with it, but I have seen police officers in the city and what he said fits exactly into what I have seen of some of them.

That is not to say that all have problems, incidentally.


AnthonyAnthony - 9/1/2007 10:37:00 PM
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Rap music isn't going anywhere. It's a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry, that has made many Caucasian men very rich as well.

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610looper610looper - 9/2/2007 12:50:59 AM
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Let's see, rap is about drugs, guns and denegrating women, country is about being an alcoholic and beating on your wife/girlfriend and non-running cars in the front yard on cinder blocks, rock and roll is about drug addicts and getting that ultimate high then committing suicide...what's left to exploit

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cdokecdoke - 9/2/2007 12:49:53 PMView My AgentSpace
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Just a note- Will Smith was never accepted to MIT.

Smith himself denied this in a Reader's Digest interview stating, "My mother, who worked for the School Board of Philadelphia, had a friend who was the admissions officer at MIT. I had pretty high SAT scores and they needed black kids, so I probably could have gotten in. But I had no intention of going to college." There is also a Wired interview where he stated that he never applied to MIT.

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huu76huu76 - 9/2/2007 4:44:30 AM
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CLK,
When did racism come into this? Touchy aren't we?
You may be confusing R&B w/ Hiphop.

I don't know what Will Smith's genre is but I'm sure hardly anyone considers him either rap or hiphop. You think "Miami" and MIB is rap?
He is however a good role model. As are the likes of Cuba, Grant Hill and Colin Powell. Note how none are in the above industry (even Ice Cube is out).

Can you name 1 socalled rap "artist" (I use the term loosely) who doesn't endorse any of the aforementioned behaviours and that's still in the industry?

The industry by the way probably looks more profitable than it really is, a product of all the hype and rented cars.

Did I mention it's also managed to waterdown the English language? Hey, why use words you can't pronouce when it's so much easier to make up your own right?

610,
You should listen to more country. George Strait craps more integrity and respect than the entire hiphop industry.

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I95SPEEDINGTICKETSI95SPEEDINGTICKETS - 9/2/2007 7:33:56 AM
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Just a few Names that came to mind.

Talib Kweli
Common
Pharoahe Monch
Nas (New Direction)
Lil Brother
Consequence

Ill let you know of the rest when you are ready.


CLK63BlackSeriesCLK63BlackSeries - 9/2/2007 2:20:33 PMView My AgentSpace
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There you go... finally some back-up... and you took the names right out of my mouth.

Talib Kweli
Common
Pharoahe Monch
Nas (New Direction)
Lil Brother
Consequence

thats all good stuff!


CLK63BlackSeriesCLK63BlackSeries - 9/2/2007 2:37:02 PMView My AgentSpace
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LOL... so just because I like rap you assume that I dont like or listen to country. I listen to tons of country, including george strait, tim mcgraw, kenny chesney, keith anderson, billy currington, and allen jackson, just to name a very few. I also listen to techno, r&b, rock, punk, emo, screamo, punjabi, hindi, spanish, arabic, chinese, and german music. what is your point? that one genre or artist is better than the next? just because allen jackson represent your "average" white man, doesn't make him a better singer crapping more integrity and respect than the entire hiphop industry. just take a look at these lyrics from alan jackson's chattahoochee:

"Way down yonder on the Chattahoochee
It gets hotter than a hoochie coochie"

what gives him the right to talk about a hoochie coochie over any other rapper? (i'm not saying that either of them should, just trying to point out that both genres do)

and this...

"Well we fooged up the windows in my old chevy
I was willing but she wasn't ready"

In my native culture, these lines from the song would be so vulgar that the government wouldn't allow for the cd to be released to the public!





huu76huu76 - 9/2/2007 5:05:12 AM
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The music industry is worth $14 billion. I believe most rap is nolonger associated with Sony, BMG, EMI, Universal or TWarner because the latest fad to go along with their own fashion line and entourage is to have your own record label.

2+ billion is multi-billion. 350million isn't. You might be able to get two if you add in clothing sales from all those deprived middle class white kids and tier-2 Asians who can totally relate to how "The Man" suppresses them and keeps them down.

They should really rename HipHop to Selling-Out.

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huu76huu76 - 9/5/2007 12:13:41 AM
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I see my posting of lyrics by Nas and Lloyd Banks was censored. Must've been preaching too many positive things.

Where would we be without satire? Check out the movie "Kickin' It Old School" if you ever get a chance, there's a classic line.

"Rap used to be about having fun. Now it seems to be about putting wheels on your car and slapping women."







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kurtismackurtismac - 9/7/2007 3:25:43 AM
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well an interesting debate guys keep it up..and keep it clean!

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