>now these alternative versions not only had the curse words
>removed...but they had the lyrics changed that changed the
>entire premise of the songs....The one I specificlly remember
>was Dope man...where parts of the chorus where changed to say
>DON'T BE the Dopeman.... The whole idea of the so-called
>gangster rap being an exposse of the bad part of life...a
>deterant so to speak wasn't just an intangible concept...the
>songs were changed to have lyrics that EXPLICITLY were
>deterants....DON'T be the dopeman....DON'T smoke weed... DON'T
>kill people...

That def wasn't Niggaz4Life NWA I remember. They may have started positive, but let's not kid ourselves at NWA not being the poster child for nihilistic hip-hop, a choice they made on their own.

Id argue the opposite; they made those changes to get ON the radio...when they realized they didn't have to get on the radio, and were more popular when they went full retard....


>Once that type of music got a chance to get widespread
>exposure on major labels... Those explicit deterant elements
>were gone.... The negative things in the music became flat out
>exploitive entertainment....

See above, it was always exploitative. The whole corpo-conspiracy that gets trotted out here when it comes to the 'death' of hip-hop, but back in the days where alot of big acts were still not on major labels they were still fucked up as hell. Ghetto Boys, etc.



>You don't see how Hip hop fans can have discerning opinions?
>You don't see how hip hop fans can have opinions have make
>judgement on things?
>
>those are human traits....

Hypocritical traits.

There hasn't been a musical argument based on morality in the Lesson for years, and the music has been as bloody as it's ever been.

Yet suddenly everyone is whipping out the tissue paper for Chief Keef.