Naa what I'm sayin?

It's said that hip-hop is a great uniting force.

True.....

What unites some hip hop artists, regardless of their level of fame, their age, race or sex, is an amazing ability to say so much in interviews...while saying absolutely nothing in interviews.

"Yeah, you know, man, it's like, we're on the come-up, doin' what we do, and not to take away from what tip anyone else is on, but, you know what I'm saying, it's like, we're on the rise. And our sound is like what you hear out there, you know, but at the same time, yo, different from what you hear out there, it's our own thing, you know what I'm saying, and we've been out here hustlin', gettin' ourselves heard, becoming, you know, known, and you know, we're just on the level. Naa'I mean?"

What. The Fuck. Are you talking about? Would it kill you to say something substantial? Tell a story? Talk about something specific? A really cool fan you met? A homie who inspired you? A time when a studio rejected you, only to regret it later? Na' meen? Na'what I'm sayin?

But the best, the very best, is when, after saying that big, long explanation about nothing, the dude will be like, "Yo, so you're gonna let us read the story before it comes out, right?"

Hahahaha. Why? So you can add a few more "ya know what I'm sayin's" in there? It's as though people have been coached by the same media advisors that tell sports stars how to be interviewed. "You know, they're a great team. We just made it into the endzone more than they did, and they weren't able to score as much as us."