that if Volume 10 had just went ahead and let Ice Cube bite his style he could have been Mack 10 in Westside Connection. And that pretty much sums up my feelings on the piece. It's like every effort is being made to say he should have been a faux banger (faux life!!), and he let his fucking artistic integrity get in the way.

In fact that's a big problem I have with a lot of the revisionism in hip-hop. They can't even appreciate Hip-Hoppera for what it was. It's all about how problematic it was as the antithesis of success rap, without contextualizing why it was so important to have an antithesis to success rap. So they use the 'crossover' hit as an example of what shoulda woulda coulda, meanwhile the only way it was born was from an artist that was the antithesis of success rap.


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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." © Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."