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Topic subjectBecause writing your own shit was a cornerstone of hip hop
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12862037, Because writing your own shit was a cornerstone of hip hop
Posted by PoppaGeorge, Thu Jul-23-15 02:39 PM
>This should of been deaded in hip hop a long time ago. If the
>greatest singers of our time can have people writing for them
>why can't rappers?

That's always been a thing in hip hop. You weren't genuine unless you wrote your own shit, good or bad. I'll respect a shitty lyricist over a cat with ghostwriters 'cause the shit lyricist did it himself, that's really him/her on the record, that person's heart poured into the record, not the next nigga's interpretation of who you are.


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"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the peace when we were getting laid out?
Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? Where is the peace then?
They don't want to call for peace then.