DoomzdayzV
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I remember hiphopinfinity and that fat white fakkit Jay Seagraves. What a joke that site was.
COMPLEX MAGAZINE = THE NEW MAINSTREAM HIPHOPINFINITY
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Warning: this post contains my personal opinions and nothing else...
I personally don't like Complex. It's the commercialized version of Mass Appeal. I just don't see how they or their lists are helping the culture. Or how they are about the culture. But that's where hip-hop culture is now...whoever has money, control, power, and influence can buy into it is "in" the culture regardless of their contributions. To me, it just represents where hip-hop and hip-hop journalism is now...as a complete joke. I can't take them seriously. I bet if I went to their offices, it would probably be filled with majority white people with a few token black & spanish folks here and there (the ones that don't mop up floors or serve the employees food in the cafeteria). I'm not even saying that to be a dikk...but I feel if I went over to Complex and tried to get a job with my knowledge of hip-hop I would just get the
treatment.
Basically, how everything else is. How did it get to the point where our hip-hop culture has just been taken away from us? Where a DJ with years of experience writing about or dealing with hip-hop is basically given the cold shoulder to Travis from Wisconsin who recently graduated from Brown who's knowledge and history of hip-hop only extends to kazaa, limewire, and rapgenius?
This is why I can't get with hip-hop now other than the music. This is what Scarface was so angry about for years. You have people that have no business talking about hip-hop, no business being in the culture of hip-hop other than as a spectator/fan, and no business even talking about issues pertaining to hip-hop other than what THEY experience...dictating it. Please do NOT tell me about MY culture. Everytime I watch some interview with a rapper and see some indie dork (male or female) with thick glasses interviewing them who has NO understanding of what hip-hop culture is or the music (without googling it first)...I just cringe.
This is what hip-hop is now.
I personally don't like Complex. It's the commercialized version of Mass Appeal. I just don't see how they or their lists are helping the culture. Or how they are about the culture. But that's where hip-hop culture is now...whoever has money, control, power, and influence can buy into it is "in" the culture regardless of their contributions. To me, it just represents where hip-hop and hip-hop journalism is now...as a complete joke. I can't take them seriously. I bet if I went to their offices, it would probably be filled with majority white people with a few token black & spanish folks here and there (the ones that don't mop up floors or serve the employees food in the cafeteria). I'm not even saying that to be a dikk...but I feel if I went over to Complex and tried to get a job with my knowledge of hip-hop I would just get the
treatment.Basically, how everything else is. How did it get to the point where our hip-hop culture has just been taken away from us? Where a DJ with years of experience writing about or dealing with hip-hop is basically given the cold shoulder to Travis from Wisconsin who recently graduated from Brown who's knowledge and history of hip-hop only extends to kazaa, limewire, and rapgenius?
This is why I can't get with hip-hop now other than the music. This is what Scarface was so angry about for years. You have people that have no business talking about hip-hop, no business being in the culture of hip-hop other than as a spectator/fan, and no business even talking about issues pertaining to hip-hop other than what THEY experience...dictating it. Please do NOT tell me about MY culture. Everytime I watch some interview with a rapper and see some indie dork (male or female) with thick glasses interviewing them who has NO understanding of what hip-hop culture is or the music (without googling it first)...I just cringe.
This is what hip-hop is now.
GetInTheTruck
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Hiphopinfinity 
That's where sage Francis was considered top 5
fukk that place.
That's where sage Francis was considered top 5
fukk that place.
SpacelySprockets
Veteran
Complex, Fader, Pitchfork, Elliott Wilson, and Peter Rosenberg can all suck a big fat cock
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I knew my OG Art would know about HipHopInfinity. I remember they would always have those wack nerd list. And champion anything underground and shyt on everything mainstream, even though it was far more quality
HipHopInfinity is what happens when people who aren't intune with the culture are given a voice
HipHopInfinity is what happens when people who aren't intune with the culture are given a voice
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
Oh, this is great feedback.
Literally, I read that last complex rating list.
then, it dawned on me.
I was like,...
I seen shyt exactly like this before.
It was different, but it was the same propaganda agenda style of cultural take over based writing.
Just this time, it featured a corporation creating the agenda.
Instead of 'fard' and disgruntled emo fans looking for a false cultural movement.
To explain, their lack of understanding culturally, of hip hop and the rap industry.
That they deemed disenfranchisement.
Which lead to this corporate cultural takeover agenda of emo on rap.
Art Barr
Literally, I read that last complex rating list.
then, it dawned on me.
I was like,...
I seen shyt exactly like this before.
It was different, but it was the same propaganda agenda style of cultural take over based writing.
Just this time, it featured a corporation creating the agenda.
Instead of 'fard' and disgruntled emo fans looking for a false cultural movement.
To explain, their lack of understanding culturally, of hip hop and the rap industry.
That they deemed disenfranchisement.
Which lead to this corporate cultural takeover agenda of emo on rap.
Art Barr
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Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
Warning: this post contains my personal opinions and nothing else...
I personally don't like Complex. It's the commercialized version of Mass Appeal. I just don't see how they or their lists are helping the culture. Or how they are about the culture. But that's where hip-hop culture is now...whoever has money, control, power, and influence can buy into it is "in" the culture regardless of their contributions. To me, it just represents where hip-hop and hip-hop journalism is now...as a complete joke. I can't take them seriously. I bet if I went to their offices, it would probably be filled with majority white people with a few token black & spanish folks here and there (the ones that don't mop up floors or serve the employees food in the cafeteria). I'm not even saying that to be a dikk...but I feel if I went over to Complex and tried to get a job with my knowledge of hip-hop I would just get the
Basically, how everything else is. How did it get to the point where our hip-hop culture has just been taken away from us? Where a DJ with years of experience writing about or dealing with hip-hop is basically given the cold shoulder to Travis from Wisconsin who recently graduated from Brown who's knowledge and history of hip-hop only extends to kazaa, limewire, and rapgenius?
This is why I can't get with hip-hop now other than the music. This is what Scarface was so angry about for years. You have people that have no business talking about hip-hop, no business being in the culture of hip-hop other than as a spectator/fan, and no business even talking about issues pertaining to hip-hop other than what THEY experience...dictating it. Please do NOT tell me about MY culture. Everytime I watch some interview with a rapper and see some indie dork (male or female) with thick glasses interviewing them who has NO understanding of what hip-hop culture is or the music (without googling it first)...I just cringe.
This is what hip-hop is now.
prolific posting
Art Barr
GetInTheTruck
Member
yeah that was his name. I MAY be mistaken because it was a long time ago but I think hiphopinfinity was where the beef between a poster named willhigh started and he ended up going to a def jux concert and putting the beats on Vordul from Cannibal Ox my man did time for that shyt and everything because those fakkits pressed charges like bytches 
I felt bad for dude because I was actually cool with son and it fukked his life up for that particular moment in time.
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
Hip Hop til you drop!
LMAO yep.
I felt bad for dude because I was actually cool with son and it fukked his life up for that particular moment in time.
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Hiphopinfinity
That's where sage Francis was considered top 5
fukk that place.
I just had to google that and found the thread on philafava...
The top 5 rappers of 2003 by them:
1. Jay-Z
2. Nas
3. Illogic
4. Sage Francis
5. Eminem
http://philaflava.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=109894&highlight=
GetInTheTruck
Member
lmao are u nikkas serious
Complex list>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>the list I see on here
Complex list>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>the list I see on here
GetInTheTruck
Member
I just had to google that and found the thread on philafava...
The top 5 rappers of 2003 by them:
1. Jay-Z
2. Nas
3. Illogic
4. Sage Francis
5. Eminem
http://philaflava.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=109894&highlight=
Jay Z and DMX were like their most hated rappers back then. I posted there in like 2000 and got fed up with them fakkits and called it quits. They were literally making me furious. I was offended that people with those opinions on hip-hop actually existed in real life.
The only dude they used to sweat who I actually thought was nice was Sluggo. Atmopshere/ Rhymesayers did put out some dope music, I have to say. All that anticon shyt though?
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Real talk, I had to unfollow Complex on twitter because of all of their lists and other BS they felt warranted 100 posts a day.