""keepin' it real" was the worst thing to happen to rap"
because everybody did everything BUT keep it real
music is entertainment rap music was party and entertainment music all of a sudden, it wasn't fun to party no more? 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? it's like, what were the tenants of keepin' it real? stay true to yourself? 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? 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
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
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
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