So...gotta jock to get respect these days??

Smoove03 wrote: if anyone had anything against me they would let me know. a majority of us here are men so lets act like it

Won't happen.

sorry to hear that. wont hold me back any, but i got love for all yall so i aint trippin (no homo)

classic wrote:I agree but i will take it one step futher

People on this site have a very narrow perspective on what hip hop is suppose to sound like. Most cats on this site are from the east coast sampleing school of things.

This is fine, but people need to realise that there is more then one form of hip hop out their. Thats why i dont even bother to post in the showcase anymore..

i agree.
seems like a lot of people here feel like this, so it'll b easy to improve things.

I like this thread! So let me share my two cents, or pence, etc.. depending on where ya from..
Hip-hop is almost dead. Most of the rappers that are just getting on the scene are too young to remember what real hip-hop was like. A 20 year old's first knowledge of hip-hop doesn't know anything about the cold crush brothers, D.S.T, Spoonie G, Busy Bee, etc. They think and believe Tupac and biggie are hip-hop. They see 'gangsta's' like old school cats see b-boys. Most think they are gangsta's because they smoke weed like Snoop. They don't know the difference between a gangster (al capone) and a gang-banger (street punk). I don't understand why anyone that doesn't live in a third world country has it so bad. There are programs from underage non-graduates to get job skills that cost nothing. Young women can get free food and cheap shelter for their kids. We have low cost medication, and free clothes that are given away, but yet, they feel the need to sell dope so they can be like the rappers that are not living that life. Everyone wants to brag about how hard life is.. that's their excuse. I can understand if most of these guys drank from the same water the goats pissed in. I can understand if there were NO jobs available, but most people feel like their too good to take a Mc Donalds job. It's just a stepping stone..get the job, and look for a better one while your working. I had to mention that to get to my point....
When you have a generation that is raised on TV/Radio, they end up doing what they see/hear. They don't want anything different from what they already know. Gangsta rap is almost 20 years old, but it's easy to make, and it''s negative... and who doesn't like negativity? It's on the news everyday. We all like a good story about how such and such is broke. Negativity=good. Different=bad. Why? because this new generation only knows negative. Sure, they hear roots, common, slum v, etc every blue moon, but 50 cent is in rotation 6 times every hour on every radio station. Lil john wants folks to tear the club up, and the radio plays it more. Black eye peas wants more love, and they play it less.
This is exactly why I do things differntly. I hope most of you enjoy my work, but honestly, I could give a sh!t less, and you should feel the same way too. Don't create music to make me happy.. make YOU happy. Create your own and constantly improve on self. That is hip-hop. Don't wear a doo-rag and a cap just because you seen it on a video and don't emulate another producer just because his sound is pleasing to peoples ears.. If your trying to be him, then who are you? Ask yourself that. (I don't mean that to you directly.. you know what I mean).

^ Damn,you were on point with that.I feel the same jsut maybe didn't express it as well as you.Took me awhile to read it though.

Commercially hip hop is dead.

There no longer any substance. Commercially hip hop is essentailly POP music. In my opinion.

But on the underground mix tape scene things are different. I think when it comes to radio and money hip hop in its purest form is compromised for that almighty dollar.

And most grimey spittin aint for the radio to begin with. I think there is alot of creativity on the mix tape scene. Where dudes aren't restricted by the FCC regs-. So you don't get to hear that grit.

I'm from Jerz and I live in Mass right now. The radio stations up here are garbage they play the same damn thing over and over.

But when I was in Jerz I kept up on all the latest street grime mix tapes. Where most sparks fly. You get to see emcees get gritty.

Me personally I think lil john is trying to move this pop hip hop back to the party scene. But I don't think hip hop was about just party either. It was about battlin as well.

People don't like "hip hop". They like pop. White people make up over 70% of purchases of this pop hip hop. Its the watered down version of the real thing.

Look at Canibus. Dude is serious with spittn. But he aint built for the pop scene.

And many of those who pay for pop hip hop can't understand and cant relate to real street grit.

They can relate to chicks and expensive cars and jewely. Those are things most people have. But, stick ups hood politics and being rodney kinged is something they dont wanna hear. Cuz they can't relate.

Enough of my ramblin I can go on and on. Hopefully someone would understand what I'm saying.


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