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VARIETY. I think the guys now who are big would still have been big in a different era, they just would have been forced to talk about other things. Actually, i've seen many rappers say it before. They rap the way they rap because that's what the people who are buying CD's want to hear, that "other" community. If sales weren't so skewed towards that "other" community that is so thrilled to hear about rappers killing each other, demoralizing women, and drug dealing, i really think that most of the current big rappers who show so much skill (TI, Wayne, 50 cent, Kanye West...) would be rapping about something meaningful.
You really don't need skill anymore to get a record deal. All you need is popularity through Myspace and Youtube. This is how Soulja Boy did it, and most recently another group called Hotstylz. Hotstylz made a video called "Lookin Ass Ni--a" on myspace, and then posted this video on youtube. NSFW <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tup4qd8URZ8&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tup4qd8URZ8&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> ^This video became popular and now they're on MTV/BET with their own music video featuring Yung Joc. Lookin Boy <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UvmfruWKdik&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UvmfruWKdik&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
No, I know you're a big fan of their's and they're probably underappreciated, they get lumped into a category of being political instead of just being a great act, their first album was groundbreaking and the second a classic (in the hip hop world). but there is plenty of life after Public Enemy
The hip-hop community is just so big now, it has become diluted in a sense. For every one good rapper you have one hundred who are not good but commercially successful and you have one hundred more waiting to get in. Then again good is an opinion. What I consider to be good somebody else might consider it to be mediocre.
rap died with biggie and pac. hip hop is still alive... jay-z is on the edge, but common, talib kweli, mos def, lupe fiasco still have what it takes.
why? Did it seem childish before or after you were finished posting? If you don't like rap just don't post in a thread about it, we don't need your input.
i think we forgot to ask... when was rap alive to begin with? Scene from scary movie 3. Mahalik: I heard Jamal from 90th street watched that tape last week and this mornin' he woke up dead! CJ: How the hell do you wake up dead? Mahalik: Cause' you're alive when you go to sleep. CJ: So you're telling me you can go to bed dead and wake up alive? Mahalik: You can't go to bed dead! That **** would've been redundant. CJ: No it would'nt cause' you can go to bed and not be dead, and you can die and not be in the bed. Mahalik: But you are in the bed. That's how you wake up dead in the first place fool! CJ: Damn! that's some quantum **** right there man! You should be teaching classes!
There are some good rappers, but they don't get much publicity. Rakim, Cormega, Jurassic 5, Aceyalone, Talib Kweli to name a few.
Damn u Julio-R. I'd been trying to forget that STUPID, STUPID STUPID "Looking- ass N*gga" song. I never thought anything could be worse than Soulja boy but oh no, I was so wrong.
Are you kidding? Because, rap is REAL. the American Idol crowd doesnt wanna hear about growin up in the projects.
