Truth...that's what's missing. there's just an over saturation of hip-hop music that is no longer driven by truth. Instead we have have these artist that make hip-hop music just for the "sport of it" instead of for the art of it. Back in the day, hip-hop artist weren't rapping about how many "B**tches I F**ked" or "how much money i got". They were rapping about just random sh*t about what was on their mind and in their hearts instead of what was on their mind and in their dicks. It's harder to talk the truth and easy and cheap to lie.

Just my thoughts on the game now, what do you all think?

J Cole and now Lupe have delivered good/great rap albums on a major and I expect K Dot to follow sometime soon. A change is gonna come.

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>Back in
>the day, hip-hop artist weren't rapping about how many
>"B**tches I F**ked" or "how much money i got". They were
>rapping about just random sh*t about what was on their mind
>and in their hearts instead of what was on their mind and in
>their dicks. It's harder to talk the truth and easy and cheap
>to lie.

Rappers always rapped about how much money they got and how many girls they could get. The only difference is back then they didn't call them bitches and didn't go into as much detail in terms of how the sexual escapades went.

Busy Bee and Fab 5 Freddy definitely drank, got high, and had an orgy with those girls after Busy spelled his name out in dollar bills in "Wild Style".

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"Dressed up like an evil villain dressed up like a soccer dad"

Or if it's there I ain't hearing it.

Ghostface is keeping it there, but I miss the days when we had it a lot more.

Only Lil Wayne laughs at his own jokes.

I agree.. the whole game could use some levity.. people take themselves too seriously

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ever

he can actually really rap, and is hilarious to me

also:

danny brown
das racist
tyler the creator
lil b
action bronson

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Not coming at you, but black youth culture is always asked "what's wrong with you?", a lot of times unfairly. And we end up missing a lot of the greatness that's happening.

That being said, I miss fast dance tracks, and booty shake/call & response songs

Independent rap is great but we can't pretend that the rap presented to the masses ain't fucked up. It's still missing that balance from the late 80s/early 90s

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respect the gift.

What the rap game is missing now is exactly what you said, I agree with that and also heart, more honesty an humbleness.
I'm just sick of hearing the same old lines being recycled "going to the club" this "f*ck yo b*tch" that. If you are gonna say those rhymes at least come up with a different way of saying it or at least rap about something that serves a purpose that is going to benefit the fans!

Everything is so overt and thin, there's nothing to really grab onto with the music itself. And that makes it really easy to gravitate to other things first, and have them mean more than the music itself. It's like starting a conversation just to make a point, but not really listening to anything anyone has to say.

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Lots of folk just doing it for the check, don't need too much talent or skill especially most of the radio friendly music that's out now. I miss when folk was just hungry to be heard, had a message and a smooth beat.
I love those BET cyphers, but thats once a year. I miss good performances too.

With that said Kendrick is who I'm checking for as soon as his album drops

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"contemporary street rap" is finally being exposed as a flash-in-the-pan farce, as artists under that umbrella either moved on or moved out

the recent exploits of Waka Flocka Flame are but one example

sick of the boom bap backlash. it's been going strong since the late '90s and the rise of a strain of the genre that encouraged some wack trends... I think even Black Milk jokingly referenced this by bleeping out the term in one of his recent songs. it's one of the sounds you can clearly say belongs to hip-hop and hip-hop alone. it's like hard bop jazz. you can't erase it from the DNA, no matter how much the brass wants it gone.

I think we're slowly getting back to a time where artists just do what they want and put it together. which is wonderful. I've dropped change on more albums in the past couple of years than I have since the 1990s CD explosion, and getting way more replay value.

of course it ain't as "embraced" as much as the Bummer Doggs among us desperate to cling to something new, exciting and "relevant" but fuck them.

I like that I can sit through an album and not be like, "oh yeah, they're doing this shit because XYZ is doing this shit and they want that audience" now