So I was sitting here, wallowing in the wake of my recent wave of self-induced Piltdown cretinism on this site, in fear that Brittany would finally lower the ax on me if I didn't write something in real, smart-person language, and a thought occurred to me. I haven't talked to ya'll about Vado yet. See, after Cam'ron had his falling out with The Diplomats (a.k.a. Dipset), most notably with co-founder Jim "We Fly High / No Lie / You Notice" Jones, he teamed up with Vado to start The U.N. Get it? Instead of Diplomats, they're the U.N. Well, the Diplomats have since mended things, as semantic justice would dictate, and both Cam and Vado are allegedly cool with them. The détente (double word score) has settled my tensions, and I've given Vado's debut mixtape, Slime Flu , a listen. "Wake Up" in particular stuck out to me as a track that's very honest and devoid of hip-hop posturing, hearkening back to a time when Illmatic mattered, when...