I’d like to welcome you, the readers, to FSD and Rhymefest’s latest project, one we’ve been diligently working on over the past few weeks: The Great Debaters.
These series of debates will open up the forums and allow your favorite rappers to stand on their respective soap boxes and battle, debate style, with the one and only El Che over topics ranging from race, hip hop, sex, religion, politics and much, much more. This first segment was a spur of the moment phone conversation that quickly turned into a debate, so this week it will be typed, but going forward you can look for these debates to stream via podcast or come in video format.
The first installment of our Great Debaters series takes us down to ATL to debate with Killer Kill from Adamsville. Bang, bang, bang.
I. Haterville. Economics or just Hate?
AB: So Mike, you were at the Ozone Awards a few weeks ago in Houston, right?
KM: Of course I was, I’m from the soooooouth.
AB: Okay, well you know that Chicago is referred to, by some, as “Haterville”, and a lot of people claim we don’t support our artists here. However, in the South, it seems like there’s a lot of unity and camaraderie – at least that’s the way it’s perceived in the media. But at the Ozone Awards it seems like chaos with all the fights and what not
KM: In the south, there’s always going to be internal squarmishes. Shit, it goes back years and years – Master P and Pimp C was beefin’. 10 years ago Suave House and Rap-A-Lot was beefin’. But in the South it appears we are able to rebound from our beef quicker – we get off that bullshit a lot quicker and get back to making money quicker, and it usually don’t take a death. We have gangs in the South, be we aren’t as married to the principle of gangs like in Chicago. See down here, we tend to call racism what it is, so we tend to self-segregate. If you put a bunch of us Southerners in Chicago, we probably ain’t gonna seek out Lake Shore Drive – if we comfortable in our neighborhood we gonna stay there. We ain’t gonna go out and try to mingle without our people, so our problems have to be worked out a little quicker.
AB: Fest, what are your thoughts on the unity in the South versus up here?
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