33jones opens up regarding hip hop and 9/11:
All of this is my way of saying that, while I’m well aware of the impending release of what are proclaimed to be the biggest hip hop albums of the year…I can’t say that I’m the least bit interested in either of them. I don’t think I’d be all that excited about the prospect of seventeen more tracks from the lyrical mastermind behind Ayo Technology regardless of its release date, but under different circumstances I’d probably be running out to buy Kanye’s album.

As it is, though, I can’t get past what has to be one of the most arrogant marketing ploys by any artist (let alone two). And I’m aware of how ridiculous it would be to expect low key promotions from either Kanye or 50 Cent – they wouldn’t be what they are today if it wasn’t for their almost cartoonish levels of arrogance. Yet to build their promotions around "Hip Hop’s 9/11," as if their album releases were an event somehow comparable to this tragedy, is something I just can’t get behind.

At Hip Hop Logic:
Hip Hop Bloggers on 9/11