Chief Keef: "I grew up on G-Unit, Beanie, Freeway, Wayne, Dip Set, I only know 1 Pac and Big song"

[King Sun]

I started noticing the younger guys that was coming out in the early to the mid 200's giving saying who their favorite artist where and almost every mainstream artist would name pac or big and they probably never heard a song from them. I feel the labels were trying to eat of the influences and had every dude say that.

 

[Colilluminati]

My oldest is 8 she don't know who no rappers is besides Silento because he in Disney cac video they play on Disney .

 

[Hov]

I def cant name any more than a few Rakim or Slick Rick songs and never listened to their albums or cared to. I grew up on Pac and Biggie. How hard is that to understand? And I def didnt listen to a bunch of artists that died that year I was born, it just isnt natural for a kid to be super interested in sh!t thats not popping present day, esp in high school...

 

[Prince Mongo]

I'm sure that at the very least he's exaggeratng by sayin' "only one song", but I'm not shocked at all that he doesn't know their music like he does the artists he named.

Hey, at one point Melle Mel was the greatest MC around. How many of us have any clue as to why besides "The Message"? Chief Keef doesn't seem like a dude who watches documentaries or cares to learn about hip-hop's history... sad as that is, the generation of kids born in the 90s don't really care much about the 90s It's something that one has to consciously decide to be interested in, it's not a given. Pac and BIG were dead by the time he was 2, and while the nostalgia train has continued on since then, he was still a little kid when that was still going strong. Time is flyin', brehs. We don't even realize how fast it's going. These kids like Keef and Desiigner were barely in school when G-Unit was on top, brehs...

That wasn't a Melle Mel song, that was a Grandmaster Flash song, and that further proves your point. How many 80's babies really listen to shyt from the 80's? I was born literally a day after Chief Keef, but I listen to 90's music because I want to, not because I feel obligated to on some "respect hip hop" shyt. Y'all nikkas just need to realize that times change. nikkas complaining about young nikkas not bumping 90's rap is like a nikka in the 90's complaining about young nikkas not listening to disco or funk from the 70's. Or imagine in 2036, me getting mad because a kid born in 2015 doesn't know about Future or Kendrick Lamar

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

He's not wrong for saying that, but i don't hear any of those influences in his music, maybe 50

 

[Capitol]

No one I know gives a fukk about 99% of hip hop that they didn't grow up with.

 

[mobbinfms]

Aint no excuse, he grew up with the internet as well.
There was lil breh on here that made a thread about listening to Mobb Deep for the first
Breh damn near lost his mind
Aint no excuse

@GhettoNintendo
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/never-knew-the-infamous-by-mobb-deep-was-so-dope.141045/

 

[KravenMorehead™]

I hope nikkas don't act like he's shytting on it

 

[Newportbox]

I'm thankful I grew up during the golden age. Can't be mad at Keef though....... It is what it is.

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

While I respect the fact he kept it real that's not a good excuse. I wasn't alive when RUN Dmc first dropped but I know their music. I'm not saying he has to be their biggest fans but to only know one song is kinda nuts. I do respect the fact he ain't fronting tho

I was born in 86 and never felt the need or desire to listen to anybody before my time just for the sake of it. I listened to Rakim through discovery but not on some "oh I need to pay homage and become a student of the game" shyt. I think music is about discovery and no one should be compelled to listen to an artist from another time just to be more genuine. All the artists before my era were from my mother's time and that's the only reason I discovered them later on my own and appreciated them but I really didn't want to hear them over Hov' Nas and all the other artists that were big during my time. It didn't fit the wave we were all on at the time. Music is about a vibe a literal vibration and if it's not created from that time it will feel out of place.

 

[Art Barr]

Dude pac had dope albums coming out in the early 2000s that was doing numbers

there was no gateway that was acceptable as a parent in the mainstream to introduce pac.
in the early 2000's duke may have been barely ten and there was no semblence of hiphop as a cultural movement in any capacity like that.
especially where he keef is from.
when i was a kid you had four pillars to indulge in.
with my fam being from bmore i had exposure to hiphop and culture that frustrated non-cultural nikkaz.

so, i already know in keef's day and age with no number of gateways for hiphop.
none of those nikkaz in general from his area are bboys like that, in that age.
plus, chicago likes to be current and has no hiphop history outside of its cultural bboys or bgirls.
so, keef would never have gotten to listen or be a part of the culture or learn about the history like that.
keef would never in general have anyone to put him up on the culture like that.
to know the importance of past historically great artist or music.

i keep telling y'all,..it is only a few bboys and bgirls and a whole bunch of rap fans, who head faking.

keef would have come up in an area.
where it was straight gangsta non-culturally associated rap.
he was also never marketed as a bboy and that is also why the connection to kanye's remix.
was kanye trying to siphon the street aesthetic draw from keef and impose/steal chop's publishing for don't like.
whereas kanye is not associated with or a draw with street nikkaz in the chi in general.
he is taken as emo or a soft pop artist and may not have permeation to that realm in their personal listening at all.
y'all nikkaz not really in general from a place with real grassroots gangs.
so, you don't understand how a culture called hiphop that is non-violent and removed gangs from ny.
has no resonance in a town predominately fueled and directed solely by gangs.
chicago is completely in general removed from the culture of hiphop.
it is only a few of us real bboys/bgirls in the chi for real.
i know so cause i been there seeing it all for myself and i know hands on who gon keep it real, as far as the culture is concerned.

art barr

 

[King Sun]

Actually if you pac and big stans stop foaming at the mouth for a second this would explain why most of the kids coming out now are trash. Those get money rappers/laffy taffy cats required no skills just a catching hook and song.

 

[DANJ!]

That wasn't a Melle Mel song, that was a Grandmaster Flash song, and that further proves your point. How many 80's babies really listen to shyt from the 80's? I was born literally a day after Chief Keef, but I listen to 90's music because I want to, not because I feel obligated to on some "respect hip hop" shyt. Y'all nikkas just need to realize that times change. nikkas complaining about young nikkas not bumping 90's rap is like a nikka in the 90's complaining about young nikkas not listening to disco or funk from the 70's. Or imagine in 2036, me getting mad because a kid born in 2015 doesn't know about Future or Kendrick Lamar

Mel was the MC on the song, Flash is the DJ...

further proving the point. I shouldn't be surprised you don't know that, cause you're 20 years old. Of course, you could always read up on it, but not everyone does that.

 

[NvrCMyNut]

no gucci or any trap rappers

 

[The War Report]

Nothing wrong with that, dude was sperm when they came out

So? I was real little when Illmatic/The Infamous and managed to listen to both albums later on and came to appreciate them. There's no excuse for not revisiting the classics.