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lawofthejungle
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Joined: 25 Nov 2007
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Location: talkin to my employees on the corners.
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 Posted: 01/01/08 - 23:41 Post subject:
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What direction do you believe hip hop has taken in the past couple of years? Many people complain about how the South and the West killed hip-hop. To me Nas is the greatest lyricsologist ever, or at least in the top 5. Nas stated in the source magazine,
"When I say hip-hop is dead I was trying to grab their attention to the epecial art form that's so important to us in our future, It had nothing to do with what a guy's doing in the South or in the West. There is a place for all that. When you play Soulja Boy in the club, that's my shit. But because I'm a New Yorker, I'm affected with what is happening in New York. That's just me as a fan. It makes you wake up and say...wheres the love for this s***?"
Now you hear many people stating that Lil Wayne is the "greatest rapper alive". I believe that Lil Wayne has some nasty punchlines, but I wouldn't call him the greatest rapper alive. As Nas says there is a time and place for his type of music, and its called the club, but what really gets to me is that the type of music created by Soulja Boy and Lil Wayne and 50 cent is what people see all hip-hop as! There are many rappers who choose not to get killed by the radio that stay true to the "old school" rhymes. These are the people who normally believe in the acronym of rap being R.A.P (Retards Attempting Poetry). But look at The Roots, Cypress hill, Dj Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Saigon, Chino XL, Scarface, Lupe Fiasco (and by measure...his partner Kanye West to an extent), and The Pharcydes! I could go on... Some of these guys really have a flow and rap about things not bounded by the stereotypes of hip-hop. To tell you the truth nothing is wrong with rap nowadays, it just gets played out over the media, it's just new styles...that's all it is.
Anybody with a REAL view of hip-hop...tell me what you think about some of these people...or of the direction rap is being taken.
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Odus
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Joined: 06 Oct 2007
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Location: The 4th Dimension
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Posted: 01/02/08 - 07:02 Post subject: Hip-Hop fans reply!
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I believe it has gone downwards since the late 80's - early 90's. It is now a vain attempt of "look at me, i was in the ghetto but now im rich and im a pimpin mofo". Theres no depth to "hip hop", or should i say rap. Its a load of pretty boys getting a record deal and giving them a bad boy image to play out to what the fans want. They claim they want to stop gangland wars yet on their artwork in their albums they are wielding guns and all their songs are "smoke dat mofo".
It aint hip hop, its rap.
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crzymazy
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Joined: 05 Jan 2008
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Posted: 01/05/08 - 21:28 Post subject:
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heh
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Lord Voldemort
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Joined: 24 Nov 2007
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Location: Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
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Posted: 01/14/08 - 16:11 Post subject:
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Lupe Fiasco is the best. No doubt. I love when he says:
'Catch me I'm ballin!
Catch me I'm ballin!
Catch me like Spalding
Catch me like Raulings'
Only Lupe Fiasco and Chris Brown is on my Ipod 
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cleansheet
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Joined: 02 Jan 2008
Posts: 28
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Posted: 01/14/08 - 23:50 Post subject:
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Yea after pac and biggie died it was a wrap for hip hop.
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partyfoul
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Joined: 08 May 2008
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Posted: 05/08/08 - 18:56 Post subject:
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depends seems like there are 2 types club rap and thug rap
t pain and etc are club
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