Common – “Stay Schemin (Remix/Drake Diss)”

say my name say my name. hahaha

I think Common’s album was fabricated to increase Common’s sales.

@cuteepye01
omg Common murdered drake ass. wow! Drake do look a little down syndromy

This is mildly entertaining, but Common made me laugh….poor drake….should be interesting to see how this plays out

The audio at the end made laugh. Common did get em on this one tho.

Seriously guys? Common’s verse was weak/gag-inducing. I’m a Common fan, but his whole verse felt like a cheap one-off in a 106 & Park freestyle battle….he rhymed amateur guy with Canada Dry and called his mom a bitch. Literally nothing relevant was said about Drake.

Here’s to hoping history forgets this ridiculously hollow beef.

i aint never ever been a drake fan (my girl is though) but for real common seems mad jealous , keeps calling him soft like he forgot he used to wear crochet pants. i duno its really sad to see a legend getting all girly over another mans shine i cant really respect common anymore.

The natural misappropriation of nascent hip hop culture by entertainment commerce, and hip hop’s subsequent assimilation of arguably toxic media projections have left the art form in a miasma of cultural disinheritance (yet again!) and outdated corporate protocols.

“Music and martial arts share the same principals”, and the litmus of a true MC has always been found, and will ever be found, in the competitive interchange that makes hip hop unique (and I would posit superior in it’s qualities of discernment) to all the world’s poetry as a verbal martial art form.

The commercial media, and the people therein, are not evil to a man, not per se, but are driven by a vary different set of priorities than the artists who drive sales. Business is business, after all.

But we should never (and I cannot) turn a blind eye to the real human tragedy that the culture of hip hop itself ails, as a whole to the degree that the majority follow the examples of a few, from a lack of insight, a lack of stern attention towards it’s own best interests, in that many of the youth adopt, as personal culture, those profit-driven projections of varying degrees of heedlessness… those ‘Joe Camal’ multi-media advertisements of a fabricated hip hop culture that is exclusively designed to sell consumer goods or reinforce a profitable stereotype. It definitely makes for the best parties, but you can’t build a nation in the club, not indefinitely.

Hip Hop’s greatest critical flaw today festers where the enjoyment of excesses has come to supplant the emphasis on mastery as the primary characteristic of a ‘rapstar’ (as opposed perhaps to a ‘real MC’), such that when children raised devoid of any first-hand link to native hip hop culture think “I want to be a rapper when I grow up”, they are expressing a desire for wealth, comfort and freedom, rather than the yearning to train hard, evolve one’s abilities and overcome any obstacle; to make a better world for themselves, those dear to them and the global community.

While this is understandable, we as a people can ill afford such a culturally degenerative situation to persist, given the fragility of our times. It is only by freeing one’s self through mastery that wealth, comfort and freedom can be chosen rather than bargained for.

This, as many of you have seen, is an example of hip hop as pure culture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an_STKm-524&feature=g-all

Drake is a great artist, and if he chooses to test his metal against a master, that can be admired despite how badly he may get worked. Two people can test each other through a contest of skills.

That is the game, and that is what makes it worthwhile.

too long; didn’t read.

CANADA DRY!!!!! hahaha i died laughing

for the artwork? to replace Drake’s name with “that hoe ass nigg%” ?

nothing but an extra diss to Drake

Im all for the battle, as long as it stays lyrical! Im not for the continued violence and destruction of the black man, even if both of them brothas is mixed!! =)

Long live real MC’s who aint neva scared to get in the ring and duke it out lyrically!

I can’t believe common didnt put a little more into it… I was hoping for a lot more. this was weak.

I hate drake but I can’t lie he has a way with words. If common wants to step into the arena he’ll have to way better. It was kinda pathetic esp the say my name part

I thought the Beyonce sample was hilarious, and while Common didn’t real shit on him that hard, he nails it on the head with the “make me catch a body like that”. That was the biggest front on Headlines and we all know Drake aint shootin no one. Common made his point well but it was no Ether.

^i lol’d

he went off on common though. agreed it was no ether, but thats arguably the best diss track of all time and that was the one of the biggest rap feuds of all time.

After reading just about all the comments Im still feeling common over Drake. Imma a fan of both ( a little more of a common fan tho). Common did beast the dish by remixing the original and making it sound shity. Dog if youre to dumb to realize that then take yo ass back to school. I do feel like common could have rhymed more tho. But he did say he was taking to long with that armature.

the line that got me like ‘damn’ was

“Youre a son of a bitch I imagine what youre dad is.”