I love Pete Rock to death.....
I grew up on him..hands down the most talented deejay i ever heard on commercial radio
and one of my favorite producers...T.R.O.Y is a TOP 5 CLASSIC
ever since i first heard him spin and blow my mind as a deejay on WBLS new york with the in control rap show back in 1989
but in all honesty.....OLDER GODS like Pete Rock need to FALL BACK on trying to critique this generation without looking at our own flaws as Older Heads
he did this same shyt last year by coming at Young Dolph with his "cocaine inspired raps"
when in reality...
some of the finest "COKE RAP' my ears ever indulged in i first heard PETE ROCK play on his radio shows.... real talk
Pete Rock did a whole show featuring CORMEGA before he started his "conscious pro farrakhan walk" ..back when Mega was trying to validate himself as Queensbridge REAL DRUG DEALER TURNED RAPPER as opposed to Nas and others...
Yo I need stacks of green either rap or cracks to fiends
It's mad trife I seen indictments trap my team
Yo deep thoughts supreme courts decievin' me
Trapped in the belly like the beast was conceiving me
Thug status yo son I'm above average
When it's time for you to die does love matter?
You ain't sharing nothing payin' that and on bail weighing nothing on scale
nikka you stay frontin'
this was one of MANY PRO COCAINE ..PRO DRUG RAPS...whatever you call it that PETE ROCK "promoted" from a contradictive basis....
i also remember if i can find the cassette tape i recorded back in 95 where Pete and Marley threw shots at Bad Boy for promoting "Versache Rap"....
saying BIG and Puff was acting too rich for hip hop and destroyuing the culture...
which was bullshyt....the real deal was HOT 97 was giving more attention and support to commercial rap via bad boy and def jam as opposed to the more underground indys that pete rock..marley and evil dee and others at hot 97 was promoting.......
which was bullshyt...because lots of Pete's music was just as morally corrupt and pro crack.........
him and stretch armstrong on hot 97 were pushing the NORE's..ROYAL FLUSH...CHILDREN OF THE CORN..THE LOX...
So i ain't Trying to hear this shyt Pete's talking about....we use to talk on twitter DM...then after that young dolph situatin he blocked me cause i simply disagreed with the OG....
now i do agree that the SYNTHETIC ...OPIATE PILL LEAN dranking shyt is getting out of hand..and yes RAP of today does play a part...
but like WAKA was saying...the OG's were not saints either.....
and what WAKA was criticizing about OG's was mostly thier BAD BUSINESS DECISIONS...
they NEVER EMPOWERED THE NEW YOUNGER ARTISTS..cause they were to busy being ENSLAVED BY THE MAJOR LABELS.....
so how can u hate on the YOUNG for empowering themselves..even if it means via illegal measures
in this capitilist society it's BY ANY MEANS NECCESARY
But it's just like i told him what CHUCK D said....
"it's not the music...it's more so you....YOU ARE GETTING OLD"