12:51, meet P. Alin the Drone

AHOY FRIENDS, and ahoy to everyone else. Greetings. Not long ago we posted a stupid post where we put MCs 12:51 and 12 O'Clock in a senseless "rap battle" to see who would "rule the twelve o'clock hour". 12:51 "won" and that was the end of that. Looking back, I realize that I had a lot more to say about these two guys (mainly their names, and mainly dumb shit).

First of all, the reason that I wrote about 12 O'Clock is that I respect him. I still like his shit from the Tales From The Hood soundtrack, and that shit came out in 1995. #Respect & #Salute. Put out some dope new shit and figure out a way to let people know.

Now for RacecaR. The reason I wrote about him is that I CURRENTLY LISTEN TO HIS MUSIC. He is regularly on spin with me, but it's usually because of his collaborations, which is fine. Keep up the collabos.


Okay, so now that we're done with that we have to remember that this is a humor blog, but sometimes we don't have anything funny to say so we just say dumb shit. It should be our motto: "Posting Dumb Shit". That's a dumb motto! We're fulfilling our destiny.  So in the light of turning this post from a straight up #respect post to something "dumb", we're going to answer the question "What's up with the name 12:51, anyway?".

So my first thought is how that name would look on a record.

Looks good. It's like a palindrome or some shit (that means it's the same forwards and backwards). I know that upside down it says "15:21" and the same with backwards, but maybe that's the magic. Maybe it's a code. Almost a palindrome. National Treasure shit!

"I get it!"

Now, as for the name RacecaR. That's a straight up palindrome.  I don't really understand why someone would be named that, but it is what it is.

R A C E C A R

Think different - Apple. So to take this a little further, I was thinking that 12:51 could be the palindrome rapper. He could just rap some palindromes and the people would love it (that's pretty easy right).

A BUT TUBA

AMEN ICY CINEMA

DO GEESE SEE GOD

OR

A SANTA AT NASA

Why not? And he could change his name again to reflect his palindrome status. Or just add an alias. Let's brainstorm an alias:

Palindrone - too straightforward

Pal (or Pally) - too grandpa

Dro - isn't there already a guy named that?

Rone - Uh, pass
Rome - okay, but too similar to Lil' Romeo

Palin - NO!!!

Alin Drone - Hmmmm.

P. Alin - Better

P. Alin the Drone - NAILED IT

Tell me that this won't sell in Chicago:

"thazz cool but some ppl will confuse P.Alin w P.Diddy" - YOU
"iz P.Alin Diddy's son??? #celebkidz" - trending

Of course P. Alin will be confused with P. Diddy. And OF COURSE people will think P. Diddy had a kid from Chicago named him P. Alin the Drone. Duh. It's marketing. Plus, I think people will figure out that 12:51 doesn't have anything to do with Diddy when they hear that he is talented at rapping.

IN CONCLUSION: Respect to 12:51 and 12 O'Clock. Go to their shows. Go buy their music. No Napster. No Limewire or whatever you use to steal from artists.

Line vs. Line: 12:51 vs. 12 O'Clock

Guard ya grill, knuckle up, it's Rap Battle Time! Today we're pitting two people that you've never heard of against each other only because they have similar rap names. Who shall rule the 12 O'Clock hour? We shall see. Let's meet our contenders:

THE CHAMPION (he had the name first)

12 O'Clock

Name: 12 O'Clock
Representing: Brooklyn
Affiliations: Cousin of Ol' Dirty Bastard, Wu Tang Clan
Known For: Appearing on several Wu albums including ODB's first solo, one of GZA's later albums, and a spot on Iron Flag.

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THE CHALLENGER

12:51

Name: 12:51

Previously known as: RacecaR (or maybe still is known as that, who knows?)

Representing: Chicago, France

Affiliations: Uh, underground stuff.

Known For: Not really known

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For this battle, we'll just put a random song from each guy up and then pass judgement. Just like the oplympics.

12 O'Clock VS 12:51

The first track comes from the challenger, 12:51.



Uh. Grab the steering wheel? 40 seconds of rapping? Then a lot of hyping up the crowd, followed by rapping that nobody could ever understand. Is it in French? This video will have to be rejected on the grounds that I can't understand four minutes of it. So let's find a real song by this guy even if it's by "Racecar" who is the same guy...

BORING! Guess what, 12:51, you lose (probably). This is too boring. This reminds me of other boring things like being bored in a hotel and even though the room has HBO it's just showing a boring DOCUMENTARY about something boring. Liven it up, 12:51. You basically handed this one to 12 O'Clock. That guy used to work with ODB, you remember ODB? He was crazy energetic on wax? 12 O'Clock might have picked some of that up, and if he even gets a little loud on his track he's going to kill your shit because of the energy. So withoug further ado, let's bring out the "champion" of people whose name has something to do with the hour between 12:00 and 1:00, 12 O'CLOCK!

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We'll choose "Love is Blood" from whatever this is!

That was okay. Which guy was 12 O'Clock? It was VERY important that we identify the "champion" so that we could judge the winner and we failed. It sounds like there are a couple of guys on "Love is Blood" so I guess we'll have to REJECT that track too! DAMMIT. How about we just slide into track number 2, "Pour My Liquor" that sounds good! Hopefully 12 O'Clock will be in it by himself.

Is that LV? We'll count this one. I'm sure it has more than one guy, but I'm pretty sure the first guy is 12 O'Clock (and even if it isn't we'll just base this contest on that guy - get better identifying yourself on trax 12 O'Clock).This track SUCKS too. It has mad energy, but fuck that chorus. Hit the streets, roll up something, pour out liquor. That's nothing new, in fact, it's PLAYED OUT. The lyrics?  If 12:51 was coming boring and talky, 12:00 is coming superficial and talking about shoes (which I hate - FUCK YOUR SHOES).

Let's just get to the verdict and end this shit:

IT'S A TIE! BOTH SONGS SUCK IT!

So WTF do we do now?
Sudden Death? YES: SUDDEN DEATH. A quick track vs. track, winner takes all.

Let's go. We'll start with the "champ", 12:00:

Terrible start! Good eventually! I picked that randomly! I liked it! Except for the crowd stuff. Plus, I think this song was from "Brooklyn Zu" and not 12:00 specifically. But it'll do.

  Okay, 12:51. Top that:



Beat Boxing! Nice touch! Good rapping, nicer touvh. You're clearly feeling the heat from the other guy, 12:51! Is this better than 12:00? It's very different! I like both of these songs. Tough Decision. Very tough.

THE WINNER:

RACECAR a.k.a. 12:51

A GUY FROM FRANCE! WHAT?

THE WINNER OF THE 12:00 HOUR!

CONGRATULATIONS!

What an honor? Why did he win? Well, I couldn't really find any tracks with 12:00 by himself, and I couldn't tell when 12:00 was rapping on his tracks. I had a good idea, but I wasn't 100% sure. If I don't know when you're rapping, you automatically lose. IDENTIFY YOURSELF OR DO SOLO TRACKS THAT ARE EASY TO FIND.

Plus 12:51 did a nice rain rap. Good job! Stop being boring.

Rap Battle Score 0/10

STAY TUNED: I JUST DISCOVERED ANOTHER RAPPER CLAIMING THE 12:00 HOUR, "Twelve A'Klok" from Louisiana!  Uh-oh, 12:51. You had better step your game up!

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