sorry so long, girl you touched a nerveprosechildOctober 2 2005, 17:43:42 UTC
I think I officially fell in love with hip hop when Outkast first came out. I'm from the south, so I could really feel their Southernplayalisticadillacmusic (lol) vibe/CD... and I was a real big GooDIE Mob fan until they came out with World Party... and OMG Biggie was my FAVE.. I was also feeling Common with "Like Water For Chocolate" and the Roots until they blew up... but hip hop has really let me down also and I don't really consider myself a fan anymore. I don't agree with the practice of making 4 radio songs and 10 songs from the heart, so I don't buy music. Lastly, I hate how commercial hip hop has become.. I hate it when watching MTV and some white kid from suburbia who drives a Lexus truck is listening to 50 Cent and singing along to "Oh you mad?/ I thought that you'd be happy I made it/I'm that cat by the bar toasting to the good life/I came out the hood,/now you tryin to pull me back, right" and they have no idea of the struggle.. of that feeling of accomplishment that he's talking about.. that feeling that, through hip hop, he brought his whole hood with him..
Re: sorry so long, girl you touched a nervefemenemopeeOctober 2 2005, 18:00:06 UTC
I hate it when watching MTV and some white kid from suburbia who drives a Lexus truck is listening to 50 Cent and singing along to "Oh you mad?/ I thought that you'd be happy I made it/I'm that cat by the bar toasting to the good life/I came out the hood,/now you tryin to pull me back, right" and they have no idea of the struggle.. of that feeling of accomplishment that he's talking about.. that feeling that, through hip hop, he brought his whole hood with him..
Even though I hate 50 cent to be damned...I agree with you. But it stems down to the mentality of our people...the 'get mines and I don't give a damn about anybody else' mentality. Some Black people are always looking for a hook-up and don't ever wanna be in support of all-things-black and buy someone's album. The white kids have money and have no qualms about spending it on things they like...even if they don't trully understand or relate to it. So who do the artists cater to? the ones that keep their pockets fatter. *sigh*
Sometimes I get stuck in the 80's and early 90's, but artists like Eric B and Rakim, LL Cool J, Slick Rick, Afika Bambataa, KRS-One, Monie Love, the Pharcyde, Big Daddy Kane, D-Nice, and soooo many more will do that to ya. Hip-hop may have been poor back then, but it was RICH in value.
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Even though I hate 50 cent to be damned...I agree with you. But it stems down to the mentality of our people...the 'get mines and I don't give a damn about anybody else' mentality. Some Black people are always looking for a hook-up and don't ever wanna be in support of all-things-black and buy someone's album. The white kids have money and have no qualms about spending it on things they like...even if they don't trully understand or relate to it. So who do the artists cater to? the ones that keep their pockets fatter. *sigh*
Sometimes I get stuck in the 80's and early 90's, but artists like Eric B and Rakim, LL Cool J, Slick Rick, Afika Bambataa, KRS-One, Monie Love, the Pharcyde, Big Daddy Kane, D-Nice, and soooo many more will do that to ya. Hip-hop may have been poor back then, but it was RICH in value.
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