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which do you prefer?
rap which brags about having a shitload of cash, jewelry, fans, sales, cars, houses, etc etc particularly bragging about having made it as a rapper and from music as opposed to hustla rap/mob music which is about hustlin and makin money, but not necessarily blingin or ballin, rather it is as much about being broke and struggling as having a shitload of cash as a result of hustlin. It can be music about pimpin, working at mcdonalds, robbing/gang banging, drug dealing etc etc Both styles are about making money, but only one is rather realistic based upon realistic means of making money which a lot of people can relate to in their lifestyles. Bling rap is just a bunch of fronting and bullshitting, soft dudes flossing how much cash they made of MTV and the rap top40 shit, where as a lot of hustla rap is underground and about the real on the grind shit.. when I am out on the rail through watts I can relate to some yay area mob-music like e-40 much more than some Gucci Mane bullshit..
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I genuinely don't care. I'm all about (1) charisma/personality, (2) beats.
Honestly. I love Game. He's all personality. Dichotomy. Weird rapster fanboy. It's great. And Wayne. Big time personality. TI, heading to prison but remorseful. Ghost is fucking big time weird. DOOM is even weirder. Ya dig what I'm getting at?
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yeah. That must be it. Douche.
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he's right. TI is trash, the worst shit i've ever heard. gucci mane is garbage,game is mediocre at best, wayne sucks 90% of the time
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my sentiments exactly, but then again, I am not into bling rap. I don't care if you have shitload of money, what does that got to do with me? I can relate to music about making money however (as opposed to music simply about having it), particularly in situations of having none in the first place ![]()
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thats that hot shit right there playboy.. holla! these dudes should battle on this shit and get mad hyphy with it! popeye's got that two fo one son..nuthin beats chicken nigga fuck tha rest..
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blah blah not very good either. Stop it with this shit, ok? |
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I hate both that shits.
I like "conscious" rap. is that not what they used to call it? or as PE used to describe themselves, "hardcore" I like that too.
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I like Gucci Mane. Whatever.
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first and foremost lets examine the Top Tamale of Mob Music, e-40: "now you might not know or understand what I'm talkin about unless you seen it lived it or done it.." quarterbacking How is this music conscious? Well aside from tunes of his latest album like "Pray For Me" and the 90s hitish cut "Things'll Never Change" hustla rap/mob music has a most definite conscious streak in the context of revealing the underside of the block. This music addresses some of the major problems of what text books call "urban/inner city" dynamics, problems that in a very real and tangible way negatively (and positively) affect literally millions of people. I like many deal constantly with police abuse and brutality.. it is a daily thing, we want to hear it in the story tellin about our communities, our daily grind.. "The el roys, they don't play, pull a nigga over three times in one day, make you get down on yo knees like you finnin to pray, beat yo ass up and leave you naked in an ally way.." (Married to the Ave) and look at tunes like "Zoom" "I seen it in a dream, a big white home, looked like a office building An old school Brougham with a sunroof ceiling Thug living, sixty-four ounce of drinkin thinkin "How could I come up, and purchase me a Lincoln?" Drug dealin, leelin and dealin tryin to make a million Blood spillin, driveby walk up to that nigga peel him Back then I was blind, penetentiary chance at jail Livin off my gahl for hella long she worked at Taco Bell And if the heater ain't workin and it's freezin cold We open up the oven and turn on the stove Survival, granddaddy's appreciation revival church of pentacostal, we raised money by givin car washes" "I hope I Don't Go Back" "And just think, I used to sit the bench I remember gettin chased by the cops, had to get my stomach pumped full of a quarter ounce of rocks, late afternoon Po-po waitin for me outside of Vallejo Kaiser Permanente emergency room with glocks, ready to Rodney King me to death Somehow I managed to make my escape through the back of the cafeteria by the vending machine department quickly Found myself runnin through the Friendship Apartment Complex over there by the railroad tracks, around the corner from the People's Continuation High School Somewhere off in Lofas, behind Je-nai's Liquor ooh" these are realistic stories as much as any 'eastcoast' styles, just out here we live different stories. but we want to hear our own lives in our music, we want "music y'all can relate to, when its sunny ride by slide by get at a honey, I know these streets like I know my dick, I can tell you, the nigga thats about to get jacked and that nigga that pulled the lick I got this bitch on lock!" and in regards to street advice, the kids on these streets NEED TO HEAR ABOUT THIS SHIT! period. out on the blocks, some folks are sloppy and get caught slippin way to often, and instead of hearing a bunch of gangsta rappers glorify the violence, or a bunch of bling rappers completely ignoringreal life, some rappers are using a popular medium to promote a different kind of conscious, to "be about it or without it" Sometimes conscious music is music that gives you realist advice to work within your own circumstances. You have to be realistic sometimes.. I can't convince a youth to stop serving that yay on the corner, but he is gonna, I at least want him to be smart about that shit, because I don't want to see that youth in jail or worse dead or killing somebody else's kids because of being sloppy. These kids need to hear shit like "Beware of your surroundings, gotta hand pick all yo homies, gotta watch out on these phones cuz them folks might be tapin.." or "when yo spider sense tells you somethin is up, then I suggest you go with yo gut, don't ignore your first mind, always pay attention to that voice inside always be alert always be aware always lookin over yo shoulder, always be alert of them rollers.." now Rob, when I am passing through watts or south central or even just south gate on foot, that shit is the best advice I could get. RZA may be putting out some super conscious shit when he says, "A Day to God is a Thousand Years.." but on the real, folks out there will try to snatch your chain if you let em get all up in your ear on the street. As e-40 said, "Can't be a punk about yo hustle" I take the Garveyite UNIA and Panthers format of realist/street approach to social justice and community awareness/reform. It takes time to get neighborhoods to change bad and degenerative habits, so it takes baby steps to get shit accomplished. Realistic approaches are absolutely necessary, so again, if kids are gonna do them things, they need to do it right and once we all trust each other, perhaps we can increase our dialogue.
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I find that a lot of modern country and rap seems to encourage their target demographics to make poor lifestyle choices.
Henry Rollins' letter to Toby Keith I think is pretty pertinent. I like Grandmaster Flash. . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4o8TeqKhgY |
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I don't feel you need to pick one "kind" of rap and stick to it. I'm just as prone to listen to Golden Era conscious hip hop as I am to listen to any other hip hop. Nobody says "you have to stick to one."
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hipster rap opinion timelime:
1980-2001: rap is garbage,it isn't even music they just use loops from other peoples records and all they do is talk 2001-2007: i only like underground, the mainstream is so generic and the lyrics are materialistic and offensive to women, i like rappers who have their own sound and talk about something important,like atmosphere,mf doom and aesop rock 2008-????: i hate that underground backpacker shit, it's so pretentious and only appeals to hipsters. i like rappers like lil' wayne and gucci mane, they got so much swagger and such wordplay, they rhyme about unpretentious subjects like strippers and cars, i walked through a lower income neighbourhood recently and nobody bothered me because i'm clearly in touch with da streetz |
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Are you suggesting that hipsters never liked Public Enemy, NWA or the Beastie Boys?
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things went rapidly downhill the minute dr dre stopped dressing like a cast member from Space 1999.
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