Memphis Bleek
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When Jay-Z famously spit, “Bleek could be one hit away his whole career/As long as I’m alive, he’s a millionaire,” on Kanye West’s “Diamonds (Remix)” it didn’t really do his homie Memphis Bleek any favors career-wise. While the fellow Brooklyn rapper has continued to work hard at his craft—despite not really needing to considering his big homie’s billionaire status—he’s still getting curved when it comes to a joint project with Mr. Carter.
Bleek admitted so during a quick interview with TMZ.
“I’m on that boat, too. I wish,” said Bleek about seeking another collab, whether it be a song or even an EP project. The “Is That Your Chick” rapper is realistic about landing that Hov collab, though. “I don’t think so,” Bleek told TMZ. “Hov too far gone, man! I was supposed to try this when he had $100 million, not a billion. When you got a billion, it’s hard to get you in the booth. Only his wife can do it.”
Beyonce and Jay-Z did drop the critically acclaimed Everything Is Love Project in 2018. But besides the occasional guest verses, it’s been crickets on a Jigga album since 2017’s 4:44 (not counting his essentially riding shotgun on Jay Electronica’s A Written Testimony in 2020). Nevertheless, Bleek isn’t giving up.
“I’m trying,” added Bleek. “I sending joints. I get shot down like a clay pigeon. Something going to stick one day. If we can drop an EP together come on now.”
Will Bleek and Jay-Z be able to close that “Coming of Age” trilogy? He wants y’all to hold your breath, but Jay-Z is notoriously frugal when it comes to his collaborations. For example, 2 Chainz is another artist who has been petitioning for a collab with Jay-Z to no avail.
But don’t let the lack of joint material let you think Bleek and Jay-Z ain’t still cool. He’s a perennial Roc Nation brunch attendee and Jay-Z was there at Bleek’s wedding back in 2014. See Bleek’s interview with TMZ below.
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Barbra Streisand was born in Brooklyn, so this story kind of makes sense. The film and music icon recently took to Twitter to criticize Donald Trump supporters, and she ended her missive with a quote from Memphis Bleek.
On Tuesday (June 7), Streisand took to Twitter to chastise anyone from the “Trump Cult” who is thinking of acting up since an indictment is seemingly imminent in the classified documents case the Department of Justice is investigating.
“Trump is going to be indicted for stealing classified documents. He is going crazy with his tweets urging his cult to “FIGHT,” read the first part of her tweet from what we’re just going to assume is her official account since Phony Stark ruined blue check verifications when he let anyone who wanted one just pay for it.
Anyway, Hip-Hop heads caught whiplash after reading the tail end of her message: “We remember what happened on January 6th. “The strong are quiet, the weak start riots.” – Rapper Memphis Bleek”
Yeah, Babs being a Bleek fan wasn’t on our bingo card either. The line she quoted is from Jay-Z’s “1-900-Hustler,” which features Beanie Sigel, Freeway and Memphis Bleek spittin’ bars about how to properly get your hustle on—and we’ll leave it at that—over searing production from Bink.
Of course, word got back to Bleek, and he was with it.
Yeah, Barbara Joan “Barbra” Streisand, who graduated from Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn, is gang gang.
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