>RE: I never got the "hashtag rap" diss. Maybe overused but wasn't THAT
>gimmicky.

The gimmicky part was the problem, to me at least, It was sorta creative and fun at first, but eventually it devolved into an omnipresent crutch that was no longer witty. Like I recall some MCs #rapping entire 16+ bar verses. It didn't have that type of power. It had limited effectiveness and needed to be minimized.


>Our favorite rappers use to insert "iggity" or "fashizzle"
>into words and we gonna judge?

Well yea I mean - I dunno. I don't really consider those two things to be the same .. like at all. Hashtag rap was like an attempt at creating an actual lyrical device that became a gimmick BECAUSE it was overused by folks who didn't know what to do with it. "iggity" and "fashizzle" and the like were just slang terms sometimes thrown in to rhymes but not nearly as overused as hashtag rap was.

Thankfully #rap was shortlived.