manguino
Pressure Makes Diamonds
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 7
What are New York niggaz so hot about? What's the problem? The problem is as plain as the nose on your face. New York Gangsta Rap is boring. It's bullshit, and it's all but played out. Even your man 50 is the most R&B song singingest, party rapper in the history of the game. So what's the problem? Why you niggaz hatin'? What's so wack about the Dirty South? Maybe it's the same thing that I was saying about New York Gangsta Rap 15 years ago. Was I right?
They think the South shit is wack. I thought that their shit was wack. Let me explain. In the beginning, in order to rap, you had to be able to rap. Example: Mele Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Big Daddy Kane, Kool G. Rap & Rakim. You get the point. There came a point that with Gangsta Rap, it was more based on the image of the gangsta than on the quality of the rap (Biggie & Pac not included).
As Gangsta Rap became more popular, New York Hip-Hop, like Tribe Called Quest & De La Soul became obsolete. It was considered to be too soft. Then the up and coming rappers, instead of stepping up on their rap game, jumped on the gangsta bandwagon, not concentrating on the quality of their rhyme, more than the hardening of their image. At that point, New York Rap became bullshit. The songs were good, but the game was bullshit.
What's that quote, "Art imitates Life", or vice versa? Every nigga, and even some of the broads, in every ghetto lived to be hard. The sales went through the roof. America ate it all up, and the ghettos paid for it. I might have been mistaken in my last post regarding the statistics of whether teen pregnancies are up or down (point made AreSuu), but I am not mistaken on the fact that Gangsta Rap has a negative impact on the Black Community. Almost 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers (New York Times). In the words of Snoop Dogg, "we don't love dem ho's".
Then something funny happened. Little towns in the South & Midwest started doing their own flavor of Hip-Hop. Master P in New Orleans, Nelly in St. Louis, and so on... Not the greatest rappers ever heard, but they were doing their own thing. And, in the midst of all that, New York Gangsta Rap stayed the same. Kill this, sell that, fuck them. Then came the dirty south. Still, I considered it rap, but they called it Krunk. Slow paced, lyrically juvenile , highly effective. Mostly club, mostly dance & a whole lotta fun. Kinda reminds me of traditional Hip-Hop. The vibe I mean.
The shit caught fire. As of right now, it's the hottest shit in the clubs. Hotter than J. Even hotter than 50. But the people don't care. They just partying their ass off. There’s a new sheriff in town, and his name is T.I.. New York niggas straight hate it. They complain that the southern cats can't spit. But compared to the pioneers, they can't spit either. So what's all the fuckin' hate about? New niggaz forgot about us, and NOW NIGGAAZ ARE ABOUT TO FORGET ABOUT THEM. Case in point. Other than the east-coast power houses like G-Unit, sales are way down. New York Rap is in the fuckin' toilet.
So, I'm going to tell you niggaz, like you niggaz told me a long time ago, stop cryin’ nigga. You’re finished.
That shit hurts, right?
http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=952864&mesg_id=952864&page=
They think the South shit is wack. I thought that their shit was wack. Let me explain. In the beginning, in order to rap, you had to be able to rap. Example: Mele Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Big Daddy Kane, Kool G. Rap & Rakim. You get the point. There came a point that with Gangsta Rap, it was more based on the image of the gangsta than on the quality of the rap (Biggie & Pac not included).
As Gangsta Rap became more popular, New York Hip-Hop, like Tribe Called Quest & De La Soul became obsolete. It was considered to be too soft. Then the up and coming rappers, instead of stepping up on their rap game, jumped on the gangsta bandwagon, not concentrating on the quality of their rhyme, more than the hardening of their image. At that point, New York Rap became bullshit. The songs were good, but the game was bullshit.
What's that quote, "Art imitates Life", or vice versa? Every nigga, and even some of the broads, in every ghetto lived to be hard. The sales went through the roof. America ate it all up, and the ghettos paid for it. I might have been mistaken in my last post regarding the statistics of whether teen pregnancies are up or down (point made AreSuu), but I am not mistaken on the fact that Gangsta Rap has a negative impact on the Black Community. Almost 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers (New York Times). In the words of Snoop Dogg, "we don't love dem ho's".
Then something funny happened. Little towns in the South & Midwest started doing their own flavor of Hip-Hop. Master P in New Orleans, Nelly in St. Louis, and so on... Not the greatest rappers ever heard, but they were doing their own thing. And, in the midst of all that, New York Gangsta Rap stayed the same. Kill this, sell that, fuck them. Then came the dirty south. Still, I considered it rap, but they called it Krunk. Slow paced, lyrically juvenile , highly effective. Mostly club, mostly dance & a whole lotta fun. Kinda reminds me of traditional Hip-Hop. The vibe I mean.
The shit caught fire. As of right now, it's the hottest shit in the clubs. Hotter than J. Even hotter than 50. But the people don't care. They just partying their ass off. There’s a new sheriff in town, and his name is T.I.. New York niggas straight hate it. They complain that the southern cats can't spit. But compared to the pioneers, they can't spit either. So what's all the fuckin' hate about? New niggaz forgot about us, and NOW NIGGAAZ ARE ABOUT TO FORGET ABOUT THEM. Case in point. Other than the east-coast power houses like G-Unit, sales are way down. New York Rap is in the fuckin' toilet.
So, I'm going to tell you niggaz, like you niggaz told me a long time ago, stop cryin’ nigga. You’re finished.
That shit hurts, right?
http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=952864&mesg_id=952864&page=
