Kairi Irving
Here Comes A New Challenger
Rap needs a masculine vibe without the gangster facade, more rappers will end up dead if gangsta rap comes back into the forefront of mainstream rap.
Hip Hop Needs More Artists Like Gangstarr
- Thread starter I Really Mean It
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Cryptocurrency Scarface
Coinbased
They produced countless classics I don’t know a single just average Gangstarr Album, they all have such replay value.
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mortuus est
Veteran
Rap is an art, you can't own no loops
It's how you hook 'em up and the rhyme style, troop
So don't even think you could say someone bit
Off of your weak beat, come on, you need to quit
It's how you hook 'em up and the rhyme style, troop
So don't even think you could say someone bit
Off of your weak beat, come on, you need to quit
I Really Mean It
Veteran
Do NOT smoke a blunt and listen to this track.
Your mind will wander......
Smoked so many Ls to this.
Counter Racist Male
Retired poster and occasional lurker
"Land is power so give me 40 acres, let's see how far I can take ya,,,,original, invicible, that's how I'm lookin at it, I use my rhymes like a glock automatic, any means necessary I'm goin all, out before the rains bring the nuclear fallout...So let me ask you is it too late??? AYO, WHO'S GONNA TAKE THE WEIGHT?!!!??!!"
Like, this shyt was really gettin pumped on the radio in my city at the time....
WE, US, the streets used to dictate to radio and video what fed the masses. The powers that be didn't realize how powerful that socially conscious code was in the music at a time where it became popular and we was all pumpin it. In my city it didn't mater what part of the country it was comin from from. If it was funky, had soul, had a message and WE was feelin it, radio and video was pumpin that shyt. Radio execs were makin bread, we didn't give a fukk, this is hat was hot in the streets and at the time and you are gonna play OUR shyt.
Not just Gangstarr...Cube, PE, X-Clan, Brand Nubian, Paris, The Coup, Tribe, Da Lenchmob...Wasn't all socially conscious music but a VARIETY of styles and sounds where NONE of that shyt just meshed together. Beautiful, black, our code, struggle, rage, and havin a good time....Nationwide. Grew up in that era, from junior high to college we was fed. That's why a lotta of us older heads go so hard on this site because we've witnessed that change in real time and as time goes on younger cats will see the same thing in their genre of music.
40+
Golden era memories
The_Hillsta
Neva missin a beat
40+
The lessons and gems dropped on those Gang Starr albums. The shyt that comes with being "the man" once you come up. Jealousy, envy, cats from your own crew snakin, karma....real life stories over them Premier beats. Radio play, video play, so much DOPE music bruh...
The level of understanding digesting those lyrics from the time we was rockin this shyt in junior high until now with a lot of us raising our sons and with families. The music even hits you harder.
TheAnointedOne
Superstar
First heard Mass Appeal in one of those Tony Hawk games