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13 Jul 2005

      Thought you guys might like this - its from  tinymixtapes.com.    I
wonder what thrashynobbacunt thinks of this.  Almost enough to make
him stop teaching music at the local middle school and come out of
semi-retirement. ;

Headline: Nas Pays Neptunes $2 Million for a Beat, Hungry People in Africa

So we've all splurged on a purchase or two before, right? Maybe you
paid a little too much for
that really kickass piece of nose jewelry because the barbell with the
emerald in it was just the
right color to enhance your eyes. Or perhaps you bid a little too high
on that guitar on Ebay, the
one that looks just like the one that the guy in that one band plays.
I'll admit to once buying a
pound of coffee for $30 because I just had to know what $30 a pound
coffee tasted like and, fuck
it, I was having a bad week. It tasted pretty good, FYI. Not that it's
any of YB.

But when it comes to art, is there really such a thing as splurging?
Shouldn't the artist do
whatever it takes to create whatever it is that they have wrapped up
inside themselves that's just
itching to get out? Even if it costs the artist a sizable amount of
cash? For an answer to that
question, look no further than the recent shenanigans of that lovable
NYC hip-hopper Nas. Nasty
Nas has been hard at work on his next album, allegedly called Nasdaq
Dow Jones, and has been
searching high and low for the right beats to compliment his mad
rhymes. The word on the street
has it that Nas got into a bidding war with Puffity Duffity Daddy over
what is supposed to be the
Holy Grail of beats, a beat by uber-producers the Neptunes. The final
bid? $2 million smackers.
Nas paid $2 million dollars for a drum track. But it's all about the
art, right? Busta Rhymes, a
man noted for understatement, had this to say about the beat:

"Those drums man, Those drums are fire! If Nas is gonna rap to this
beat, it's going to be over.
This will be the biggest hit in the history of hip-hop!"

The question now is what this moment could mean in the grand scheme of
hip-hop. Is this the zenith
of the Neptunes' career? Could this be the long heralded end of Nas'
tumultuous career? If the
song is a colossal failure, P. Diddy will have dodged a very large
bullet. Not that he hasn't
before. Either way, these events are the makings of a great segment
for Michael Ian Black or Mo
Rocca to riff on in the inevitable I Love the '00s

OT: 2 million USD paid for a beat

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