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2678267, introspective albums like the ones you're talking about were anomalous
Posted by k_orr, Mon Mar-26-12 10:15 PM
>or something 'cause I remember that being the main appeal.
>The battle cuts were always a minor part of those dude's
>albums. Much more everyman shit/emotional.
>
>As for the other underground types, well I suppose I should
>clarify the term. I was like 17 in that era, so I'm talking
>about the kinds of shit that kids in high school in small
>towns would know about. The immediately appealing stuff. Not
>what the purists were into back then.

Arguably Pac, Face, and Cee Lo were really talking about something other than being a superman, but not raw like Slug or El-P.

Royal Flush did a song about domestic violence on his album, but El-P's stepfather factory was something totally different.

There's introspection and self examination, and then there's introspection. I think we've talked about a missing emotional component of hip hop for a while, but we can't ever nail it down, cause most rappers, under and overground do take a look at themselves.

But the, 'what has my life become' kinda raps, ...I dunno. Something about Prodigy or Jay Z doing it always seems to be couched in "coolness". Same with Nas.

Or I could just be projecting.