Am I the only one who thinks that hip hop's meaningful content has declined SO MUCH that it's basically all flash, cash and ****?
Mainstream rap hasn't been the same since Big and Pac died. Biggie was good and all, (and so was Jay Z), but 2pac really had something to say. Pac actually made a song that made **** cry (Dear Mama...nuff said).
These days, hip hop is somewhat synonymous with the young 27 year old person who caught a disease from an older, more powerful person. This "other" person is obviously the rich, white men who basically OWN hip hop.
I'd be willing to bet that the same people who run the bigwig companies are the same one's who hated on and doubted the future existance of rap in the eighties when folks like Kool G Rap, Run DMC, EPMD, UTFO, and Big Daddy Kane were holdin rap down. Now, they've got a stranglehold on rap, and basically control what goes over the airwaves.
Am I the only one who feels this way? Or is everybody too stuck on the club music (laffy taffy??) to see the bigger picture?
well in my opinion I think its different kinds of hip hop. You have your ludacris hip hop and then your common hip hop. Hip hop started from stories so i guess the people who are rapping now are telling stories of what they know, what they like and what impresses them. Some know struggle and others know money. Some people wanna do real talk and some people wanna talk about so n so from up the block. I like a mix of everything. People rap about different things. I think its harder to be a rapper than a singer though. I mean, studio can basically make any singer sound hot but you can't do to much to help a rapper. Alot of rappers out now use ghost rappers anyway because they just wanna be in the game so bad now that they dont even care if they can't write. My boyfriend is a ghost writer and some of the cats who wanna get sign will pay "good amounts" of money for a hot song. I guess to the people who think hip hop has lost its way because people back in the day were so meaningful (not saying rappers now arent) and that was the only kind of hip hop u know you would think its sad now. But I see little kids everyday dying to be 50 Cent, The Game, TI etc etc. Everyone thinks they can be a rapper...
when i think about hip hop today, that episode of Boondocks comes 2 mind when Gangstalicious was doin his song "I Got Shot" in concert...and them **** shot him on stage and the crowd thought he was still doin the song when he was really tryna get help..... yea- not rappin bout ****basically
