Ahh, I see your point and I agree. Maybe you're more like me. The reality and talent is more important than any specific style of hip hop.
You go "newer" hip hop then you gotta include ATCQ and LOTNS. Definitely... pre '97 stuff. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XBIajxETI5w&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XBIajxETI5w&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d_Lw72JggSE&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d_Lw72JggSE&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object> Trust me, I still loosely follow the scene. Some recent acts are still solid enough for me to have hope that the real will rise again. But the money drives it so much now... until its really hard for someone to stay true to the real deal. I just come from the era of Hip-Hop's birth, when the only "hooks" you heard were a loop of some sampled record, or a DJ tearing it up on a mixture of scratched and sampled beats, quotes and snippets of other records, even from their own group's catalog. When people started grunting as a signature sound, or having a different Pop/R&B singer on every other track... it just faded into a hodge podge of so much same same. I like some songs out now. But I just realize that "hip-hop" in it's essence is a memory. To dig and dig underground to find the real... well, it used to all be the real. That's what I meant. It is now buried under layers and layers of commercialized, interest group and focus group targeted fluff and façade. Pop quiz: Since I referred to '97 as the year it all really went downhill... What major events happened that year, or just before that year?
Exactly. Otherwise it's just being pretentious saying Talib Kweli is better than Tupac because of the whole backpacker vs. gangster issue. Both are talented, and deem respect, in their own way.
Big got murdered? 7 months after Pac got murdered. Also Ma$e released "The Harlem LP" which sold over 270,000 copies in its first week. After he was claimed to be the second coming of BIG. We all know what happened after that. Here's one for you IROC. Who use to battle Snoop Dogg in high school?
Ras Kass? or was it Kurupt? Or both... during the same time frame. Who released an album on Skyywalker records in 1989 before switching it up to a rock/rap and now even country/rock sound?
Right. Damn I thought I had you. You know your Hip Hop. It's interesting that it's reported that Dr. Dre didn't like Snoop's lyrics the first time he heard them.
Another hint... he may have change his style to prevent being compared to Vanilla Ice. Sorta devilish if you ask me.
Rakim Album Comin Out,Dr Dre should be comin soon, Raekwon album was fire, Slaughtehouse was Fire too but the problem is the bs trend "Hip Hop" and autotune is wats dominating the Radio..Kids who become fans of hip hop are forced to go with what other kids like..Most my friends dont even know who Rakim and Raekwon are..lol
Now come on. I gave you three hints. 2 very specific ones. Which Prince song did P.E. sample the first song of the Fear of a Black Planet Album, "Brothers Gonna Work It Out" ? No. De La Soul was never on Uncle Luke's failed, copyright infringing record label. Hee hee. Look back at my hints.
I never paid attention Skyywalker Records and the controversy with Roy Orbison's song "pretty woman". I know he changed the record label name to "Luke records" because of the George Lewis lawsuit. Ahhh.. I'm going to take one last stab at it. MC Shy D?
Mojoe from San Antonio <object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PdQL1UrRoaI&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PdQL1UrRoaI&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object> H.I.S.D. from Houston <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zPGUSdh6thA&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zPGUSdh6thA&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
All I know is the first time I heard 50 Cent's "In Da Club" I knew the rap game was dead. When I discovered that people actually liked the song I knew decent taste in music was dead too.
