I can't figure out what's more irksome the exploitation of most rappers by the industry (magazine, record label, radio station, etc) or the programmed and conditioned ignorance they display in the interviews they do.

In an interview with another one of these WOCC magazines -aka as XXL magazine. Here is yet another example of a idiot turned rapper talking dat RAH RAH shit. Read it and tell me if you can spot the rah-rah dialogue.

XXL Interview- Rob Ross (a.k.a. Black Rob, and known to his Spanish Harlem people as "Robbie-O") is agitated. Seems his scheduled tour & set up by his record label to promote his long delayed debut album, Life Story is conflicting with his court-ordered meeting with his parole officer. Sitting on a bar stool in the cocktail lounge of Justin's, the restaurant owned by Rob's Bad Boy Records boss, hip-hop mogul Sean "Puffy" Combs, Rob shakes his head in disgust. “YŌ, They never tell my P.O. shit”, he seethes, taking a drag of a cigarette. “I been up north a couple of times, and I don't want to go back for some punk shit”. Black Rob (or "B-Rob" as he often calls himself when speaking in the third person), the man behind the infectious, anthem "Whoa!" (btw I like this song) is in a peculiar position. He is forced to walk the precarious line between inmate and rap-star-on-the-rise on a daily basis. He has spent more than half of his life going in and out of jail, mostly for burglary, and all he has to do to land back inside is violate his parole. Thus, he can't celebrate his new success with typical rap star trappings. Rob can't floss in a flashy car (in New York State it is illegal for parolees to operate a vehicle), buy the home in the New Jersey suburbs he desperately wants (he can't relocate out of state), or travel without permission from his P.O. Rob, 31, looks longingly at a Porsche parked outside the restaurant. “Sometimes I do three to four shows a week, you know? I'm startin' to see real money, car money. But I can't buy no car (He shrugs). So I'm just stashin' my money away. When I get off parole, I'ma go wild”.

Bust it, lets stop here .. I thought this interview was to promote his long delayed album.When and where does he mention his album and try to push it? He tryin' to impress us with the fact that he has been locked down ..gimme a phuckin break with that RAH RAH. He busy tryin to big up the prison industrial complex. He thinks real $$$$, is car money... Rob in case you aint heard the shit u talkin' is that "Butta", that shit melts away.When you gettin' real money you will be talkin' about 'Gunz' that's real estate money, commercial property and bonds the stuff that appreciates over time. Dag Baby Boy do we have to send Ving Rhames to your house to lay it down like he did in Baby Boy?

Then Check the way the W.O.C.C. magazine masquerading as a magazine of hip hop reinforces the rah rah "forced to walk the precarious line between inmate and rap star on the rise on a daily basis" ...whoa - spare me the nonsense man. Most rappers ain't former inmates but many of them feel they need some sort of case to make their lyrics authentic. Many are force feeding us the rah rah.

Dis Baby Boy is complaining cause they aint tell his p.o. nuthin ..yo Rob can't you talk English, if so why cant you call your own p.o?

Maybe he will change over night like Mase another former Bad Boy, but I doubt it. Maybe Mase walked away from the industry cause he got tired of being around this rah rah. I know that its tiring and nauseating, even when its authentic!-Nuff Said

Released: November 2001

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