Everybody’s Nobody
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So I’m posting some stuff I would have posted a while ago, if I hadn’t just started this thing, but I’m playing catch up here. So for those of you who have yet to be put onto him, here he is- Kansas-bred XV. I love the thought behind his mixtape ‘Everybody’s Nobody.’ Big Sean, Wiz Khalifa, Colin Munroe, Harlem’s Cash, Ne-Yo & Lil Wayne all make appearances on the mixtape as well.
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“Home is where the heart is, so I never have to search. But now that everybody’s fly, nobody’s down to earth. And everybody twitters, and everybody blogs, but nobody’s saying shit, they just copy paste it all. That’s how one person’s opinion becomes everybody’s thought. When the blind leads the blind, then everyone gets lost.”
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“One day the world will stop moving, but we don’t abide by rules. And everything that we’re doing, they told us that we couldn’t do. And everyone said I was different, and all the other kids at school. I never really could pay attention, all I did was just move.”
In this interview with Hip Hop at Lunch, XtotheV lets us in on the thought process behind the title of his mixtape. Like he says, “there are so many egos” in the game, *cough* Kanye, but really, “Everybody’s nobody to somebody.” Nicely put.
