>or should I say, Andre 3ooo's promise
>for those of you that don't know what I'm talking about, at
>the 95 Source Awards OutKast won the award for Best New Group
>this caused an indoors shitstorm which resulted in Dre saying
>"The South got something to say"
>having said that, it's become painfully obvious that there has
>been a lot of wasted potential as far as The South running
>shit for the past 1o years or so, in fact you could say
>everything they started has been put in reverse to a degree
>(live instruments over sampling/synths, innovative flows,
>heady but easily relatable subject matter)
>even artists are scared to say it because everytime you ask
>one of them about newer artists from their region (except
>Scarface, dude will tell you in a heartbeat as a whole these
>new niggas ain't doing it) all they can say is 'I'm glad
>they're successful' which seems like an attempt to not step on
>someone's toes or hurt future business relations
>so while rappers are more successful now than ever, there's
>not much in the way of innovation
>(also there are no more groups, just loose collectives that
>rotate members in and out and whoever the public latches onto
>will make his own collective and the cycle contiues for as
>long as non-rapping niggers can stand it)
>but there's no need to because the key is sounding just like
>everyone else while giving off enuff of yourself so nobody
>buys the other guy's record by mistake (which even that
>wouldn't be such a bad thing because these niggers are all
>over one another's albums now)

But ok.