Scribbler's 'Boo This Man' Moment of the Week (Part II): Kanye West

So who naturally to follow in the "Boo This Man" tradition that Consequence has now set than his former employer, Kanye West?  I'm sure that everyone has heard some of his recent rants.  On this post though, it's not about him "not f-----g with that Suit & Tie" by Justin Timberlake and his "big brother" Jay-Z.  I'm trying not to make this about his rant on The Angie Martinez Show and his issues with being No. 7 on MTV's 2012 "Hottest MC in the Game" list.  I feel like without outright dissing him, Yeezy slighted Kendrick Lamar by saying that Lil' Wayne should've been No. 1.  I mean really...Lil' Wayne didn't even have a year like his Young Money "understudies", Drake and Nicki Minaj, but I digress.  (Besides, I think Kanye is just saying that to mask his real outrage that he's not the top gun.)  We won't even get into his insistence that folks just don't want to show him love because of where he's at in life:

What happens with these type of things and the people that review it, when I come in and I have the pink Polo and the backpack, I'm checking all the boxes of that A Tribe Called Quest era and all that, so they want to champion it. They don't like Givenchy Kanye. They don't like Kanye in a kilt, they don't like Kanye in a relationship.

News flash: maybe you just didn't have as great of a year as you thought you did.  Maybe you need to realize that the list is called "Hottest MCs in the Game" and there were arguably 5-6 hotter rappers than you--including two artists you featured on your biggest hits of 2012, one being on your label.  Maybe you just need to quit being such a megalomaniac and allow someone else that's actually having a hot year to have their moment in the sun.  If you're really that dope, you'll be back on top in 2013.  Then again, you are the same dude that interrupted Taylor Swift's first experience in winning a major award.  Don't know what I was thinking...my mistake.  That's not why you deserve the cascade of boos anyway...

So only a person living under a rock doesn't know about his boo-lovin' status with Kim Kardashian--also his future baby mama and ex-wife of Brooklyn Nets power forward Kris Humphries.  In the song "Cold" from the G.O.O.D. Music Cruel Summer compilation album--an album he feels was unfairly held against him when MTV did their list--he took this stab at Kim's ex: "Lucky I ain't have Jay drop him from the team."  Yeah yeah yeah...it's a hot line, I suppose.  However, the line isn't my issue, but how he siced himself: "Ain't no bar -- ain't no bar of the past 12 months that's hotter than that bar. That's one bar -- I come from this battle rap, that's how I grew up in Chicago."  To that, I say with the utmost conviction...

First and foremost Yeezy, that one bar isn't even your hottest bar in the past 12 months, let alone the hottest bar in the entire rap game of the past year.  I could argue that "I threw suicides on the private jet/You know what that mean, I'm fly to death" or "Most rappers' taste level ain't at my waist level" from "Mercy" was much hotter than that.  Matter fact, let's up the ante...just pick any bar from your verse on "Clique" and I guarantee it's crushing a dig at a ball player.  That brings me to the real reason I'm getting my David Edwards on...

You had the nerve to sit there and say "I come from this battle rap, that's how I grew up in Chicago" in the same breath that you mentioned a dig at Kris Humphries.  Maybe I don't know enough about the guy, but is anyone else familiar with Kris Humphries' secret prowess as a lyricist?  Was he an extra on 8 Mile who somehow murdered Eminem in an off-camera battle and they cut the scene out to save face?  Someone please enlighten me.  Anyway, this reminds me of Jay-Z's jab at DeShawn Stevenson on behalf of LeBron James in "Playoff Freestyle".  Now y'all know I'm one of Jay's biggest fans, but when that went down, I thought, "Jay, you only go at certain rappers on wax.  Why are you throwing shots at a basketball player?" The only difference is that at least D.C. rapper Pro'Verb had the cojones to stand up in DeShawn's defense--and IMHO did a darn good job at it.  Now bringing it back to you, Mr. West...

I understand you're dating his ex-wife--who might I add is also the ex-wife of Underdogs' producer Damon Thomas and has dated Ray-J, Reggie Bush, Miles Austin, Nick Cannon and some French-Canadian model dude.  (The fact that you're dating the furthest thing from Mother Theresa and you know it is a reason why this diss is lame in and of itself.)  However, the only battle that dude would win against you is for a rebound or playing "HORSE".  I hope you didn't think you would earn more respect from the battle rap community by bigging up a bar that disses a non-rapper who has no Bed-Stuy rappers running to his defense and then saying how you come from a battle rap background.  I doubt that Jin and Serius Jones are tweeting each other saying, "Wow, Kanye really took it to Kris," or "Don't sleep...Kris got them bars, son."  Let's just call it what it was: you wanted to lyrically impress and defend the "honor" of your trophy girlfriend.  Either way, she and your Stans may be the only people that are impressed.

You're an amazing artist when you're on your game, you've made some memorable bangers for yourself and other artists, and I do appreciate the lane that you created for the producer/rapper that's actually good at both.  However, when it comes to some of these interviews and many things you say on wax or on stage though, I offer the following advice from Mrs. Scribbler: "N-gga have a seat!"  You wanna prove something...battle the current "Hottest MC in the Game" to whom you didn't wanna give much respect.  Maybe then the powers that be at MTV will reconsider your position...or worse, they'll drop you even lower just to see you throw another temper tantrum about it.