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...Or should I say we have to blame good music with the wrong content for getting us down that rabbit hole.
The same artists that were talking about keeping it real, gun toting, street/hood certified, shiny suit hating, etc. were the same artists either making that music and dissing others who copied them but made it wack; for example:
M.O.P., they made great music, but all they did was talk about being hardcore, will kill you, them yelling on every song was their motto, and them screaming they were from the grungiest part of NYC and you could get hurt if you came to their block; but since they made good music, so we ignored what they did was what they and others said made others wack (but I'm still a fan).
Biggie, he was the rapper all claimed was going to be the next Big Daddy Kane or the next Scarface but he wasn't really lyrical, he talked about drugs and being from the hood, talked about guns every other verse, he had a big money behind him financially, he did the most commercial/sell out songs ever, the shiny suit stuff and about making tons of money; but NYC loved him and quickly people fell into that trap of liking what they disliked about other rappers doing the same thing.
2Pac, talked about women called them bitches and hoes but then make a song about black women should be respected, he wasn't lyrical at all, he had a simple but likable rhyme flow, he talked about guns, liquor, and smoking all day, talked about how hard he was and how he hated the govt and cops; but everyone loved him and his music.
Ice Cube, another emcee who flipped back & forth between being hardcore and doing commercial songs, talked about black power then doing the most hoodish songs, yeah he had flow & rhymes and then started doing movies as well, but eventually getting dissed by Common put his career in retrospective and after than it seemed like his whole rap career became more comical and him wearing two hats and switching between both when the wind blew (I liked his first two albums and the first Westside Connection album).
Mobb Deep, this is where me being a fan and knowing they are the most oxymoronic of artists of what I usually tell people I don't like or listen to, they talk about being hood, having guns, smoking weed all day, & will kill you and the cops, watch your step or will get hurt and don't come to their old projects, they don't like hoes & bitches but love the women but they don't rhyme or preach anything positive unless it's about making money. I love Havoc & Prodigy music all day but yeah it's what I would diss in a second if somebody else came in trying to copy their style.
These are some great examples of what I think made others capitalize on hip-hop without music good music cause we had respect for artists that so called kept it real.
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--------- "We in here talking about later career Prince records & your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak
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