I’ve mostly avoided discussing the odd statements by XXL Editor-In-Chief Elliott Wilson that are apparently pointed at bloggers but I have to agree with Hashim Warren that he does seem to be losing it.  Though Hashim mentions that many folks who’ve written for XXL have or had blogs, the reality is that it’s the upstarts who have only had blogs that are making editors nervous because they don’t seem to be holding themselves in check when discussing editors like the insiders do.  Which is interesting because the insiders are the ones with the real dirt.

In Elliott’s October editorial he really seems to have lost track of what Ego Trip was accomplishing due to his own ego trip.  Here’s a bit of silliness:
"This month, I simply did it again. Going toe-to-toe with the CEO of Gangsta Music, Suge Knight. Actually, I didn’t do it. A fellow dinosaur did the honors."

And that dinosaur got shut down.  Nevertheless, Elliott’s clearly a bad ass:
"This one’s dedicated to you inferior f*cks and jealous b*tches who envy me. To the anonymous assholes hunched over your keyboards writing erroneous sh*t to get a rise out of YN: You’re beneath me. You wanna know why I ain’t gotta answer n*ggas?"

You don’t have to answer?  Then why do you keep writing about these "n*ggas"?

"I’m ready for a blogger geek burial."  Is that a threat?

"Plus, I’m rich, pricks. And I kept my integrity. There’s no one better than me."

Right.  Sounds like somebody’s off his meds. 

"Minus the bullsh*t, life is great."

On that we can agree.