The BET 2012 Hip Hop Awards Cyphers [Videos]

B-Easy October 10, 2012 8
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The True School Cypher
Talib Kweli, Jean Grae, Ab Soul, & Sarkodie

You know how every year BET has a foreign rapper in a cypher that sounds like he’s spitting but you’re not sure because it’s all in another language, Sarkodie is this year’s guy. Good verses and lines from everybody involved here but it feels like they just threw this group together at the last minute. This could have been prime position for the Black Hippy cypher I mentioned earlier.

One to Watch: I’m gonna go with Talib Kwei because he rapped about how he’s too intelligent for BET and don’t play his music (Props to Phonte). Plus he had that Frank Ocean/Chick-Fil-A line that I thought was so-so but the crowd liked.

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Young Barry White. The geek out of the bunch. He is also Jay-Z’s biggest fan. He looks like your cousin from the burbs. He is “Pro Black” (not anti-white, just “Pro Black”). Probably the wittiest out of the bunch. It is said that he got fired from the same job three times.

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  • http://twitter.com/SixHourErection Justin Walker

    We pretty much see eye to eye. The Iron Mic Cypher was my favorite one as well. Which I’m happy about because Childish Gambino was the #1 reason why I was looking forward to the cyphers this year. My second favorite one was the West Coast Cypher. And I, too, noticed how all the elders were sitting at the table. I wasn’t enthusiastic about the Ruff Ryders Cypher at all, so I wasn’t suprised that theirs was probably the weakest.

  • http://twitter.com/GQ_Blu Da PocketSquare Kang

    Where was Young Dro on the Grand Hustle cypher?

    • B-Easy
    • P-Body

      I feel you. Young Dro actually could spit. I fucked with Dro music in 06

    • Clay Davis

      WTF

    • B-Easy

      I just realized something, couldn’t they have thrown Killer Mike in the Grand Hustle cypher?

  • Smash

    DMX is really from Baltimore though

    • B-Easy

      The same way Ludacris was born in Chicago and Kanye was born in Atlanta. But you know DMX would have preferred to be hailed from Yonkers.

 
 
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