>because everybody did everything BUT keep it real
>

lots of people kept it real, but to different things-to themselves, their imagination, their pursuits of free Subway sandwiches, getting out of the bad neighborhoods they lived in, etc.


>music is entertainment

that's a pretty broad stroke, and incorrect, because the first music ever made was created to send messages


>rap music was party and entertainment music

still is


>all of a sudden, it wasn't fun to party no more?

still is


>you had to be street certified and have a glock and be ready
>to fight
>and kill and hold down the block at a moments notice?

yeah


>it's like, what were the tenants of keepin' it real?
>stay true to yourself?

that's "tenets" not "tenants," unless you're talking about people who reside in real keeps


>half of these mcs were boring
>all they did was buy timbs and smoke weed all day and talk to
>chicken head bitches
>how exciting was that?

if you like to buy Timbs, smoke weed all day and talk to chicken head bitches? I'd say very exciting


>rap wasn't even that fully on jiggy mode
>to be tryin' to keep shit real
>i don'† know about you
>but if i'm from the projects
>i really don't want to hear about project shit
>i want to escape
>take me to a better reality
>

there's always been a means to find that stuff without even trying hard, but some folks like to make fucked up decisions and hearing music about making fucked up decisions comforts people


>i don't know when or how
>but a shift occured to wear rap had to be autobiographical
>instead of fun
>and that put a different type of pressure on artists
>not a good pressure i may add
>

you're making an argument about the different ways niggas lie-nobody was partying nonstop either

>i think keep it real was pushback from ny area mcs against the
>west coast gangsta rap
>to reclaim some attention and shine, but it went horribly
>awry
>
>

it's the other way around