Joell Ortiz is the future, but he should be the present.

September 4, 2009, 1:44 am
Filed under: Music, My Opinion > Yours

Attention Hip Hop: Joell Ortiz.

Now, as I was on the L train today, I decided that I wanted to make a blog on my website. As I fucked with my iPod touch and looked through almost every single album I had on there, I stumbled upon something. Now, I’m an avid music listener. I have everything from ‘The Josh Guru Project’ to ‘Britney Spears’ to ‘Slaughterhouse’ to ‘Jay-Z’ and ‘Drake’. So as I was looking through it and clicking on random songs I haven’t listened too, I realized something. I hadn’t listened to Joell Ortiz’s debut album ‘The Brick: Bodega Chronicles’ in a while. So as I was playing the songs, I also realized another thing. Joell Ortiz is the best rapper out there right now. Yeah. And I also thought of a few questions too.. like Why the fuck isn’t he a multi-platinum artist right now?, Why would Dr. Dre slip up on that?, How isn’t he mainstream? and finally Why don’t other people know this?

Now, I could easily write on about how Joell Ortiz is the best rapper out there, or I could try to prove it to you in my horrible writing skills (89 average in English, Mr. Keaney wadup?). Now, there are several reasons why I think Joell Ortiz should smash up hip hop..

His rhymes are fuckin’ amazing. Yup. I said it. I was listening to some SlaughterHouse rhymes and this dude rips up everyone. I could easily take some from ‘Onslaught’, the first SlaughterHouse song that was released (as the super group) where he says ‘It’s J-O-E double would I never take/Whoever feels like they could give me my first one than set a date/I’ll be there like a young Mike Jack/Hip Hop prayed to God and brought Pun right back’. And that’s how Onslaught ended. That alone shows you that he’s a Monster.
He can bring New York back. Don’t all you fucking ‘Hip-Hop Heads’ want New York to be back? Isn’t that what people like DJ Kay Slay, 50 Cent, Nas, Jay-Z want? Why don’t you put some faith into this kid and give him a beat or something and watch how he rips it up. I guarantee if he was given a push or some fucking assistance to get a good beat, he’d write a smash. There’s fucking major label pushes in Gucci Mane and Max B (who’s dumbasses both got jailtime now.. Max B got 75 years today exactly.) and you’re telling me you can’t invest in a Major Label deal for Joell Ortiz? Sure Dre let him go, but according to Joell he wanted to dip from there (probably cause he’d end up lookin like a dick ‘ala Bishop Lamont). You give him a push he’ll be a monster. He’s from Cooper Projects, around the area where I grew up, and trust me he isn’t lying.
He’s a cool guy and He loves making music. I personally don’t know him. But a few of the people I grew up with do. And from what I’ve heard he’s a pretty dope person. I mean I saw him a shitload of times on Joe Budden TV and he seems like he’s cool. But I don’t know him so I wouldn’t be able to say. But most importantly he LOVES what he does. He has so much fun doing what he does. You can tell through the microphone that he spits his verses on. The DJ Kay Slay Freestyle that Slaughterhouse did themselves you could HEAR that he’s having mad fun as he’s doing what he does.

So Lemme sum it up:

He’s an amazing lyricist.
He’s real New York.
He loves what he does. And he’s cool.

Isn’t that all you need with an artist? So if anyone sees this, spread the word. Joell Ortiz is the future, but he should be the present. All I wanna see is ‘Free Agent’ come out, or maybe his fucking debut album come out. YAOWA!

Some Heat For You:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B6k4sbkuX8 -> Hip Hop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDbkebLz7h8&feature=related -> Brooklyn Bullshit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJDKBeMK4Kw -> Letter To Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY81-KSnuyc&feature=related -> Memories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLUW6RmbQXY&feature=related -> Move On

Appreciate it.

-The Lonely Stoner.