hiphoplives

This shit has gotten out of hand. I mean at first it was the novelty of the whole thing. If such and such had beef with their former hype man, not only could you read about it on the blogs, you could actually see YouTube clips of the offended parties telling their side of the story. Then MC’s started getting a little to in love with seeing themselves on the computer. Pretty soon, a day didn’t go by without another MC trying to get there name in the headlines by releasing a straight to YouTube diss video. The worst of these is the alleged confrontation caught on tape. It’s always some grainy video shot from a distance where you can’t tell who it is, but there’s always a circle around some guy getting sucker punched. We’ve seen Saigon vs Prodigy, Max B. vs Jimmy Jones, Papoose vs. Everybody. I mean some of these guys have more YouTube videos than actually song releases (I’m lookin at you Biggavel).

But I can’t help it, everytime I see one linked on a message board I always click on it. I can’t help myself. It’s like I know that it won’t be worth my time. I know I won’t see anything that enriches my life at all. I know that once it’s done in fact, I’ll swear off beef videos for good. But as soon as I see one, damn it, I watch it again. “Oh shit, Frenchy Montana has something bad to say about Freeky Zeeky, what could it be?” That’s why internet beef is this week’s Guilty Pleasure.

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