When any classic record dropped.
You knew it was a classic,as soon as it dropped.
Classics are and will forever be like that.
Off the first spin, you know it is a classic.
Wu-tang, for instance was so prolific.
I remember in late 92, when the shyt came on hpk.
I still have the tape and its original broadcast.
I still remember waiting a whole year for the twelve inch.
Back then, culturally you knew artist were relevant and skilled in that early part of the nineties.
To the point you knew the record would be crazy or a classic off one single
alone.
Now, the rappers nowadays are all offkey, and technically inferior and dated.
To the point,...finesse with mike smooth sounds like it is forty years in the future lyrically.
Not to mention, how he up'd skill on the awakening.
Also,...
Back then the rise in skill level was also a distinct attraction for an established culturally relevant artist.
So, on the second joint...
You always checked and immediately noticed how dope the skills had gotten.
Now, this Gen of rapper never improves and never champions the culture.
So, you get inferior skilled submissions, with no upside and no further attraction to their draw.
Back then, every emcee improved.
Especially, rae and gf,..who on the original incarnation of the 36, were both offkey and close to the weak link in the clan.
Except they both up'd skill to unseen levels way beyond anyone could have ever thought.
Plus,brought covert slang into rap which pretty much has been decyphered and become standard speak, for rap as a whole on obfcl.
Back then,...
You had no real idea or ability to decipher wu as clearly as you do now.
Ater twenty years of reference.
Plus, the entire industry biting their content and scope after obfcl.
Which also,...allowed the new school way of thought to allow the content.
Which before then was given a negative because of old school way of thought principles after cowboys death.
When, ot came to drugs.
Which is also,..why early southern artist and west coast artist.
Suffered from backlash culturally, as well.
For not adhere'n to the issues of drug and the monumental death of cowboy.
Of which mobb deep provided and got over first, with a bit of negative scrutiny.
Then, obfcl totally by way of intrigue to slang, content,mystique and production.
Allowed the soothing of the lines to allow more dopeboi content and characters to be accepted from a cultural standpoint.
Which then, gave way to sellout jiggy rappers with street content.
Which was all from coc/yaggfu/umc's being labeled the first Wu tang biters.
Where even,...jay arose from.
In his seeking put big l to improve as well.
Who floated the line of credible artist.
Which was added onto the line of nas biters.
Before wu's impact globally.
Only one male rapper and one female rapper were given passes all together, at that exact time.
Fat Joe, and Lauren for lifting nas.
Both were on two sides of the spectrum.
One was the highest selling artist in a group, soon to be the highest selling in all of music as a solo, in Lauren.
The other was the somehow ghostwritten accepted draw of fat joe from ditc.
Besides that, any other artist found out to have culturally damning situations.
before those five artist, was pretty much irrelevemt culturally and a non-draw because of it.
Biz is/still one of the few first exceptions.
Yet, his style of music was so profound and part of a profound collective.
Nobody ever raised or compared biz's situation to fat joe's.
When ideally they are one in the same.
Except, fat joe never had biz's natural mic presence or ability to sell a record to the point you never minded.
So outside of a few situations.
If you were not culturally relevant,mindfull or respectful.
You would not be given the props at all.
Let alone build a career that would draw past your first project.
After hammer and ice were thwarted.
If rap would have kept its cultural connection, as artists and bboys/bgirls artistically.
Rap could have re-righted itself and owned its own real cultural grassroots platinum status.
To the point mad never had to make a sellout iww type of record.
Nas would have went double off the strength of culturally relevance, quality of record and skills.
With no commercial damning record.
Which should have taken a hit like miss Jones did for the original don't take it personal.
Yet, az's sugarhill offered the first debut high selling credible lyricist rnb collab.
Which, probably influenced nas's cover of if I ruled the world with a deploy whodini drop and Lauren.
Nas could have just dropped another large pro, based single with sample hook.
Plus still sold,...platinum.
Devoid of the addition of Leo Burnett's hip hop fueled global marketing run.
Plus, rap would have created its own real sales spike era.
Without payola or sellout jiggy acts preying on the emotional loss of big.
To the point,...
Even if all the sellout shyt occurred.
The culture if left unscathed and link to rap.
Would have easily rebounded from this current time as well.
Yet, since commercial jiggy-ism, culture thievery and a revenue cash grab all occurred at the same time.
From a concerted effort with industry support.
It eliminated the culture from using the protection mechanism to put everything back into balance.
Since that was disturbed, it made everything go awry.
Plus allowed for toy nikkas and sellout's bytchassness.
To become the prevalent ideal connected to rap.
Which now acted devoid of hip hop.
Rap is now just pretty much rnb without any cultural connection.
Which means it will fall prey to what the cultureless rnb draw did.
Which is fakkitry/house/disco pagan-fruitbooty garbage.
Which rap and the culture of hip hop was the anti-thesis of.
As far back as herc vs hollywood.
Which is why Hollywood is never credited with being the godfather or originator of this culture.
As he and his parties had no culture.
Whereas herc provided a dancehall/roots/ tribal connection to people socially devoid of commercial highpoat bullshyt.
Now, there really is no way to re-right rap as a draw.
As it has been sucks into rnb.
Which was a business model it was firmly juxtaposed from in creation and inception.
rap was made so,...
As a business it would he backed by a culture.
To prevent the bullshyt that occurred and poisoned the music industry and the world in the first place.
Which was disco fakkitry and malicious business practices.
That ruined the cultural and artistic submissions and integrity of people from impoverished beginnings.
Art Barr
way
. and then theres always a few tapes out there where a producer may have knocked most of the beats out and got his chit off.
is this advancing the culture and artform to such a degree that I may pontificate about it 10 years from now" silly ass muh'fukkas be talking about...either I thought shyt was dope and I bumped it, or I wasn't digging it and I didn't too much pay it any attention...never gave too much of a shyt about wu-tang...but like when Snoop or Bone or Kast hit the scene, it was just dope shyt that I enjoyed without any care in the world on if fukking Wish Bone was advancing the technical aspects of rapping in the way that Rakim had years prior...far as if the current generation is letting nostaglia stand in the way of appreciating current stuff...nope, not really...that's mainly just messegeboard nerd fodder...most people enjoy shyt the same way I enjoyed it back in the day...it's only when young cats on here and listen to all these cliche jaded ass nikkas cry get on their rap game Al Bundy shyt that they start overthinking shyt...
Exxxxactly...
