BET Hip Hop Awards 2014 Cypher Part 4

This is where the Cyphers start gettin heated. Bringing in Vic Mensa, Snow Tha Product, King Los, Treach and David Banner.

Let's Start with Vic Mensa, a Chicago rapper who collaborates with Chance the Rapper. He starts his part with a mention of Mike Brown, something most rappers mention in this years cyphers and mentioning Romeo with his ICDC college commercials (if you didn't know what he was doing today). I was suprised that his verse wasn't as good as his usual material, but he wasn't bad.

From San Jose California, OH MY GAWD! We have the Mexican rapper Snow tha Product. To shed a little light on her style, she is at times a chopper (fast rapping) and was featured on So Dope by Tech N9ne featuring another chopper Twisted Insane. She starts rapping in English, than transcends to Spanish and the crowd goes crazy. Not many female Latino rappers get recognition, but she'll be damned if it's Joseline Hernandez (shots fired).

After her part, we get King Los, rapper from Baltimore formerly part of Bad Boy records (as far as now he is doing better than most former bay boy artists). His part was good, but I thought it was a bit unfair to put him after Snow Tha Product the way she ripped it.

Next, we get Hip Hop's OG himself Treach of Naught By Nature from New Jersey. You might know them for OPP or Hip Hop Hooray, but that's just a sample of their work. He brings in an old-school- type flow and brings in a Dancehall-type style with it, ending with a recommendation that Hip Hop needs a hip replacement.

*BTW, what the hell was that sound in the background of his verse?*

Finallly, we get David Banner from Mississippi. He was not the same rapper I knew when I use to watch BET's Rap City back around 2002-ish. Since then, he became more conscious with his lyrics (oh yeah, and he looks like a preacher too). He ends his part in spoken word about problems surrounding the black community mentioning recent tragic events like the Trayvon Martin & George Zimmerman situation and targeting white rappers that try to jump in on the culture, but keeps out of it when things like that go down.