before all the sarcasm...yes, we're going to laugh as the rappers we grew up with start hitting 50+. age + hip hop = a paradox in a way, it just seems weird. now is it? no, people aren't going to die at 39, people shouldn't be forced to exit hip hop at 40 or some shyt, but it's a young genre, and albeit a lot of 80's pioneers are

, most of us didn't grow up under them so watching early heavyweights like dre, jay z, snoop, puff, etc get old is weird, it is what it is
stop taking the jokes so serious...come the fukk on, aint nuthin but a g thang/NWA dre is gracing an AARP magazine, that's wild