Is Hot Ni**a a classic record ?

[blackslash]

did it catch on because the people demanded it or because the powers that be pushed it to death?

cracka

This is like the only song in hip hop that got hot organically without a label pushing it

are u serious with that dumass question cracka

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

cracka

This is like the only song in hip hop that got hot organically without a label pushing it

are u serious with that dumass question cracka

isn't there footage of him singing and dancing for a bunch of white record execs?

 

[blackslash]

isn't there footage of him singing and dancing for a bunch of white record execs?

that was obviously after the song got hot in NY

He got that call from epic records after Hot nikka was an anthem not b4

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

i didn't know how hot the track was cuz i don't really associate with teenagers anymore.

 

[blackslash]

i didn't know how hot the track was cuz i don't really associate with teenagers anymore.

all good u cant help ur age

If u 30 u a grown ass man hip hop is a youth thinng prolly why u missed it

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

all good u cant help ur age

If u 30 u a grown ass man hip hop is a youth thinng prolly why u missed it

does it have to be though?

is there no room in the mainstream for "grown up" music?

was the shyt that was poppin off in the 90's "young folk" music?

i dunno.

 

[Asicz]

The societal and cultural impact of the song and everything it connected with is indelible.
2014 will be remembered and connected with Shmurda and Hot nikka and also his legal issues.
Athletes doing the Shmurda dance, even Peyton Manning did the dance.

Also the coincidental timing of the release among current events was interesting. The video makes the song even more classic.
The iconography of "finger guns" and black youth and the imaging amongst the aftermath of controversial shooting of blacks by whites Jordan Davis, Brown, etc. Makes an imprint in the collective concience of America and the world.

 

[blackslash]

does it have to be though?

is there no room in the mainstream for "grown up" music?

was the shyt that was poppin off in the 90's "young folk" music?

i dunno.

i mean even in the 90s the youngbuls were dissing nikkaz for being old or "flabbynsick"


so its always been a young man's game

 

[Asicz]

does it have to be though?

is there no room in the mainstream for "grown up" music?

was the shyt that was poppin off in the 90's "young folk" music?

i dunno.

Rap was always rebel youth music , that acounts for its long gevity so far

 

[DougFunnY]

It wont be forgotten. Nowadays in rap, Its rare that we see something as organic as Hot nikka was

 

[Still Benefited]

meh.

hot nikka >>>> whoa

and there were songs in the same vein as "hot nikka" back when "whoa" was out. i dont know why people are trying to file schmurda under the same bracket as category as souljah boy and stanky leg. smh.





quite a few actually.

but i get your point.

It was the hottest song of 2014, and the biggest record of the entire summer

How is that not classic? You nikkas be living in your own worlds man

Just because you personally don't like a song/artist doesn't make it not classic

This shyt was a hot summer record by default first of all....and its a lot of hot summer records that aint goin down as no damn classic.....this song probably Pretty Boy Swag level of classic,do we really need to classify that record as a classic....Sure we remember it cuz it was big and came out recently,but do yall realize how many records we would have to call classic based off that criteria....the fact its mostly about the dance already got this song on the outside looking in...at least Teach Me how To Dougie got the fact the Dougie is a timeless dance going for it....people gon forget how this dance went by this time next year and the song alone don't stand on its on

 

[mrlongjohn10in]

No doubt song was definition of gangsta rap

 

[BmoreGorilla]

damn you old n dusty?

Im in my early 30s which isn't really old and dusty depending on who you ask lol

 

[BmoreGorilla]

all good u cant help ur age

If u 30 u a grown ass man hip hop is a youth thinng prolly why u missed it

Hip hop aint just for the youth anymore cuz everybody that grew up on hip hop got older. You think nikkas hit their 30s and all of a sudden fall outta touch? That's ridiculous. Half the good rappers are 30 and over or pushing 30 anyway

 

[BrothaZay]

i bet you there are bunch of muthafukkas who came up in the 00's that could recite every word to chingy's "holidae inn".

it was a hit, but it wasn't a CLASSIC hit.

and how do we know? because it's audience did not grow over time. the only people feelin that track today in 2014 are the same people who were feelin it in 2003.

the song did not endure the times. future generations are not going to cling to chingy because they heard "holidae inn" on the radio. in fact they might even go their entire lives without ever hearing that track on the radio, period.

meanwhile i bet there are kids who weren't even BORN when "gin n juice" was released but still know it.

whoever is feelin "hot nikka" NOW... those are the only ppl who are EVER gonna be feelin that shyt.

how many songs from the 80s do people still bump?