These, thanks to Twitter, it's harder than ever to get to work on time. A simple check of the timeline after you wake up in the morning runs the risk of getting sucked into a vortex that keeps you from getting out the door to the subway. How are you supposed to pick out what clothes to wear when there's a meme going around what clothes Drake has picked out to wear?
Leave aside the controversy surrounding the notion of "Black Twitter" for a moment. Anyone who has been using Twitter for the past few years ccan attest to the fact that Trending Topics often revolve about the rap world. If a major story about rap breaks, best believe it will become a Trending Topic. (Something that hasn't always been true for other news stories that were probably way more important than rap music.) That's why Rap Twitter is a thing unto itself.
Twitter is pretty fun (and harmful to one's career) everyday. But sometimes Rap Twitter just goes nuts. Those crazy days when it's like the world stops for a little while and everybody's just stuck on the what's-the-latest in rap? There's a scandal! Some new beef brewing! Someone made a fool of themself! Someone's dead. Instead of just throwing in their two cents, everyone and their mother ends up throwing in whole handfulls-of-coins-worth of opinions, jokes, gossip and slander about the day's topic. It's still all pretty much petty change. But if you add it all up, well then you have Twitter at its best. And worst.
Unfortunately, we can't offer any tips about staying out of Twitter's dangerous downward spiral in the morning. You're on your own in keeping yourself from getting fired. But we bring can bring you the 25 Craziest Days on Rap Twitter. Because the Internet has the attention span of a goldfish, and we're sure you'll want to revist all your favorites to remember all the "great" jokes you made.
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25. Joe Budden Gets Snuffed By Raekwon's Goons
24. Kid Cudi Tells Wale, "We Don't Fuck With You Musically"
23. #Things2ChainzWouldSay
22. Jay Z Responds To Followers For Hours
21. Gucci Mane Goes Off On Everyone
20. #UKnowUAceHood
19. Yung Berg Gets His Chain Snatched
18. 50 Cent Tweets A Stock Tip, Gets Richer
17. Kanye West Joins Twitter
Date: July 28, 2010
Kanye West has things to say. This, we know. But in an era when 'Ye was primarily known by most of the Western World for placing his foot firmly in his mouth post-Taylor Swift/VMAs, nobody could've seen the superstar taking to Twitter and thus, giving himself a streamlined outlet to put his foot in his own mouth. Since then, Kanye's Twitter has been a feed of minddump nonsense (that day he went on fashion critiques) to supremely high-profile sub-Tweets (that weekend Magna Carta...Holy Grail dropped out and 'Ye simply tweeted about Pacific Rim). Mind you, this is someone who once explained, and we quote:
"I DON'T HAVE A F*CKING TWITTER... WHY WOULD I USE TWITTER??? I ONLY BLOG 5 PERCENT OF WHAT I'M UP TO IN THE FIRST PLACE. I'M ACTUALLY SLOW DELIVERING CONTENT BECAUSE I'M TOO BUSY ACTUALLY BUSY BEING CREATIVE MOST OF THE TIME AND IF I'M NOT AND I'M JUST LAYING ON A BEACH I WOULDN'T TELL THE WORLD. EVERYTHING THAT TWITTER OFFERS I NEED LESS OF."
It goes without saying that, when Kanye did join Twitter in 2010, it gave everyone a bit of a jolt. Even more surprising were the sheepish and "aw shucks" demeanor of those tweets, his first one being: "Up early in the morning taking meetings in Silicone Valley." Which was followed by: "Lol I spelled Silicon wrong ( I guess I was still thinking about the other type of silicone ITS A PROCESS!! :)"
Kanye. Using emoticons. On Twitter. If that wasn't a moment for Rap Twitter—let alone social media, period—we don't want to know what is. —Foster Kamer