It used to be an unspoken rule in hip hop that you HAD to be authentic. You couldn’t talk about anything if you hadn’t lived it. But now, it seems as if “image” is worth more than the truth. If you have the flash (cars, jewelry, the clothes and the hoes), nothing else matters.

Everyone seems to have sold kilos and no one was just a regular Joe Schmo before their rap careers took off, or before they got down with a team that co-signed that they were the next big thing in the game. It’s more acceptable nowadays to lie to everyone — your team, your fans and to yourself — than to actually stay true to yourself. Now, while rappers lying about their pasts is nothing new in hip hop (remember Vanilla Ice & his homemade thuggish bio?), it’s becoming more prevalent.
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Any event that starts with “I’m still gettin’ manney, still doing my thang” cannot be taken seriously. But you should still watch this for the T.I. cameo.