Crib Notes

Which came first, the BET Hip-Hop Awards or Atlanta’s steady flow of garbage-ass rap music?

The chicken-or-the-egg question occurred to me as I watched last night’s broadcast of the awards show, which should’ve been renamed the Gucci Mane Awards for the number of performances (3?) featuring the East Atlanta-bred MC.

It typified a night in which the show took every possible opportunity to reference Atlanta — which is odd considering the crowd is made up entirely of industry fucks (artists, publicists, label reps, promoters, radio heads, etc.) and almost zero fans. (more…)

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Dem Franchize Boyz, the Bankhead crew that helped turn “snap-trap rap” into an epithet, is coming back. How could a group both celebrated and derided as a one-hit wonder (actually, two-hit wonder) get a second shot at pop omniscience? “I Think They Like Me,” its breakthrough single, is certified platinum, and “Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It” is certified gold. Its debut album, On Top of Our Game, went gold, too.

So here comes Dem Franchize again with Da Point of No Return, which drops March 25 on Capitol Records. I like a decent “snap-trap” song as much as the next guy, but the album’s first single, “Talkin’ Out Da Side of Ya Neck!” is really annoying. You can hear it on the group’s MySpace page.

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