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Cheo

ILLIEN
ill o.g.
I been diggin XXL for the longest. I'm going to check out Wax Poetics tho...I peeped the website and it looks tight. I also dig Remix.
 

Cold Truth

IllMuzik Moderator
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 25
uh. i read what i can get my hands on, even the source.

what cracks me up is how benzino and eminem basically made xxl because of their beef..... way to go zino, way to give the comp your business. eminem wouldnt even do an interview for xxl until this whole thing popped off with "sauce". the editor for xxl irritates me with his gay little rhymes at the beginning of each issue... and sauce needs to get off the nutts of the "streets". i read bioth, but ironically, i cant stand either one.

i' m tired of one sided writing and a severelack of resources for hip hop cats like ourselves- not everyone has net access to get illmzik. the source recently did a production spread and "highlighted" like 0 up and coming producers- highlighted meaning two sentences about each of them. and then you have evil dee giving studio advice, what to get for budgets of $5000, $10,000 and $15,000. and his advice sucked- like he said the 8 outs will run you an extra $1000 on an mpc. and thats really all he recommended was an mpc, a triton and some mics. WAY TO GO. i could have written an in depth, 40 page article on what to get depending on your financial, skill, and focus levels... and i aint even close to being the most knowledgeable guy here.

so what does that tell me? that when we have the money (or if/when i start to do some business with my work) we should do an Illmuzik magazine. THAT would be the dopest thing out. i got writing/journalism skills, i could do that easily.

another thing is that these magazines are very one dimensional- the underground, unless its of the "lil flip" variety- gets absolutely zero space outside of a small section in each mag respectively. b-boys and graf heads get no press, there is no real coverage of shows or events, none of that. and i have never heard of wax poetics..... oh yeah and vibe sucks nutts as well. thats enough of me complaining for one day...
 

Guevara

BETTER THAN YESTERDAY
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 34
AS i SCRoLLED DoWN i NoTiCED NoBoDY SAiD ELEMENTAL, AND THEN i GET To DEUCE....LOL

i ALSo READ ELEMENTAL, iM ALSO PiCK UP A FADER, RoLLiNG SToNE, KiNG, iLL BASiCALLY READ ANYTHiNG, iM A JoURNALiST MAJoR S i PAY MoRE ATTENTioN THAN THE AVERAGE PERSoN.

BUT iF i HAD To CHoOSE BETWEEN XXL AND THE SoURCE, i GoTTA SAY XXL...AND EVEN THEY ARE SoMETiMES THE LESSER oF TWo EViLS.

<CoPY AND PASTE EVERYTHiNG TRUTH SAiD HERE>

CiTY BoY!!!
 

Craig Gantt

Microphone Violator
ill o.g.
I read XXL and Source, why? Because XXL actually has good info and its funny to see the new shit Benzino comes up wit to attack Shady Aftermath like Eminems a racist/homosexual or 50 cent's real name is "boo boo" or 50 neva went to jail he went to boot camp lol.
 

Freakwncy

IllMuzik Moderator
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 17
I read this months issue and Jungle is saying that 50 got the word "wanster" from him and his crew and that 50 didnt drink or even smoke the erbs we he knew him and they have 9th wonder, that wack producer saying he used Fruity Loops to make that new Jay Z beat....
 

Guevara

BETTER THAN YESTERDAY
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 34
50 DOESNT DRiNK oR SMoKE NoW.THATS THE TRUTH.

9TH iSNT REALLY WACK BUT iF "THREAT" MAKES iT FoR THE BLACK ALBUM, THEN i GoT HELLA HEAT FoR THE NEW NAS ALBUM.CiTY!!!
 

dj ShorTbuS

Cold Get Retarded
ill o.g.
wax poetics is def. dope. tons of diggin info to be found on there. i also read xlr8r and complex sometimes.
 

dacalion

Hands Of FIRE!
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 259
1. Music Tech
2. EQ
3. Home Recording

In that order...I don't read very much of xxl or source because they usually focus on what everybody is doing and nothing technical.

--duh cal yun
 
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