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Don Trip - Letter to my Son
Bless put me up on this video from Don Trip, a rapper signed to Cool and Dre's Epidemic Music label, who breaks down his child custody battle over the beat from Lil Wayne's Murder This.
The fact that I only heard about this song via word of mouth from a friend shows how out of touch I am with the current rap echo chamber (or perhaps it says more about how good music often gets lost in the noise generated by the mainstream blogosphere's spaghetti-against-the-wall approach to posting music, but I digress), as the video's amassed 300,000 hits, been retweeted by just about every rapper with an iPhone and linked to by more than a few of the corporate sponsored weblogs out there. In any event, though Trip is unlikely to impress anyone with intricate wordplay ("This is what I get for going raw when I piped her / Thinking that I loved her when I shouldn't even liked her"), he more than makes up for it with raw emotion. It's reminiscent of the stuff Game was putting out before he started getting tatted up with Butterflies.
11/18/2010 6:45:50 PM posted by Fresh