91. "RE: I agree with everything you said" In response to In response to 89
>but I fail to see how all that changes my original point.
You said money makes people fall off.
Pretty much spelt it out for you with the Nas example.
Nas of 2008 had much more money than Nas of 94
Despite the god awful albums, there was not a drop off in LYRICAL skills.
If you can't draw the obvious conclusions, I don't know what to tell you. There's literally nothing I can say to make you understand how bullshit your argument is.
Skillz != good songs/albums =! commercial success
Skillz = Skillz, period. You can fall off skill wize and still make good albums, or still have commercial success...or not.
The fact that most lessonites can't even begin to contemplate some very *basic* shit like this, is why we can't ever have any good conversations about hip hop anymore.