It has, and it makes me wonder about our past artists. We only got a glimpse into Biggie's life, Tupac's life, Big L's life, through their music and their interviews. "Those gold Master P ceilings were just a figment of our imagination..." a lot of the mystique and the imagery of hip-hop in its golden era, and even more recently, has been a lie. Its not as luxurious as they make it seem, they aren't as truthful as they seem, and its disappointing. Who are the artists who have about the same level of authenticity as both publically and privately? Drake? Kendrick Lamar? Jay-Z? Kanye West? Its mostly the artists who we criticise, they are almost too real, and we can see the cracks in their personality, their flaws. And that's not what we want, that's not the image that hip-hop has held since the advent of its popularity. We have the FakeWatchBusta telling us that these watches and the jewelry isn't real, we have WorldStar showing us that our rappers aren't invincible, and we have Twitter showing us just how petty, how pathetic they are when they're not in front of a camera or behind the mic. It changed everything for me, and I know it has for a lot of others. Its a lot harder to hold up the facade when we can all see right through you.
