This is Shyne. You know, Shyne.
C'mon, this Shyne.
The hottest thing to come out of Belize since wheat, Shyne was supposed to help the gap between the pre-Biggie and post-Biggie eras. Something along the lines of similar flows and similar delivery. If we've learned anything in hip-hop, being compared to legends by anybody other than the legends themselves will not and cannot end well. For the record, these groups/people are untouchable (i.e. the kiss of death). In no particular order (and off the top of my head):
Wu-Tang Clan
Biggie/Tupac
NWA
Eminem
Public Enemy
A Tribe Called Quest
Kanye West
Missy Elliot
Lauryn Hill
If you're an upcoming artist and someone in your crew/posse/management team name-drops one of these artists, good luck. Anyways, the hip-hop scene was nevertheless an unlikely career choice from the son of the current Prime Minister of Belize, but his career choice nevertheless.
There were a few roadblocks along Shyne's path to getting his shine on:
1) This.
2) This guy.
3) The track record for Beliezean rappers.
Needless to say, incarceration and two lukewarm albums later, Shyne's fallen on hard times...which brings us to these tweets from the ORIGINAL SHYNE.
You got to love his reasoning for disliking/hating/shittin' on good kid, m.A.A.d city. The "expected Doggystyle or The Chronic" bit was brilliant. If you're expecting greatness or a game-changer (which every Kendrick fan was expecting, to be fair) and if it falls short of this astronomical expectation, it's "trash". It's like saying "I was expecting 10 of the fluffiest, most divine pancakes on the planet. I only got 8 of these pancakes and they were amazing, but not the best. Eff this breakfast, it's wack. Where's my Honey Bunches of Oats at?". Not everything can be Ready to Die, Shyne. You should know this.
But hey! He's inspired by greatness! It makes him work harder! AND LOOK, HE DOESN'T HATE K-DOT. IT'S ALL COOL. He then ends the tweet with a Twitterverse equivalent of a kick to the shin when no one's looking after Mom and Dad forces you to apologize to your sibling; the quinessential parting shot.
Few expected Kendrick to respond. But you know who did respond? That dude who's ugiler than a motherfucker:
Stylized Hs notwithstanding, tHere was no way he was letting this slide, and didn't take the subtweet route.
He didn't say he was trash. He didn't say he was broke.
He said that he "ain't eatin(g)". The "hot verse since '01" bit was basically Q throwing another haymaker while his opponent was already KO'd. It was overkill.
/twitterether
