lol...I got nothing but love for Bizzy...great rapper and part of a legendary group...but "legit tough guy"
common sense, considering a huge portion of this board is filled with random people not only pretending to be Black, but have never got in a fight in their life..
but, we gonna act like Tyson wasn't gettin taxed like these rappers, fighters and entertainers have been, and do now..?i think Tyson is one of the coolest folks i ever met, but lets keep it a hunnid..
His clear implication was that most rappers back in the day were legitimate certified tough guys...not even holding on to that 90% figure in stone...but the stance the rap game was chock full of hardened no nonsense hard hitters that he's making there is vintage nostalgic glory days revisionist old n!gga rhetoric...sure you had some legit tough guys in the business, but you had just as many 2pacs and Dr. Dres out there too...playing a role because that was the trend of the moment in hip hop at the time....as a general rule "legit tough guys" don't end up in the entertainment industry (well not as performers and acts, there's plenty behind the scenes)...it's not in the make up of most "legit tough guys" (in the street context Mike is using it) personality wise to be entertainers....there are exceptions, but usually rappers may have "legit tough guys" backing them, protecting them, etc...but very rarely are they those dudes themselves...again, this has been said by countless ACTUAL TOUGH GUYS from that era before Mike said otherwise in this podcast...how it compares to today was none of my concern...I just had to comment on the clearyou CLEARLY lack common sense to even make the statements ur making in the first place...of course him saying 90% wasnt accurate and it wasnt even MEANT TO BE...he's basically making a statement that majority of rappers then were tougher than the majority of rappers now....and no..we not talkin bout Joe Blow from down the block with no record deal recording out of his basement...we talkin bout nikkas who was KNOWN...and even then...society ALONE makes his statement hold true in that regard as well..u basically just runnin ya mouth g...for no reason...dismissing everything he's sayin as nostalgia when he's had interactions with rappers of the past to present and u have interactions with NEITHER....
in that statement as it's the main point and title of the thread
that's a killer right there
yup..
imo. I think the huge difference is back then.. you could be a cat like Cube from LA(this is just a instance.. nothing against Cube).. you in NWA.. blah, blah, blah.. then. you get beat up on up Sunset in broad daylight- its not that big a deal.. you still a legend.. made great music.. blah, blah, blah..
that kinda shyt would end a rappers career, now.. Cam gets punched in the eye, all of a sudden people think his career over.. cats think he marshmallow soft.. blah, blah, blah..
all that kinda shyt stems from the whole, "we didnt have that back in my day" mentality.. when in reality- we did.. alot of them cats, were just as fake, get tin extorted, wanna be tough guys if not worse than some of these folks now.. its just we have more access to their lives now..
I'd love to, talking hip hop with Mike would be ill...what's he gonna do, Mitch Green me for disagreeing with cut and dry glory days nostalgia? I'd take my chances
, gotta love Tyson man