Looking Back, Did "Laffy Taffy" Mark The Death Of Lyrical Hip Hop?

[Ol’Otis]

Webbie

Savage Life


05 was a dope year

 

[MoneyTron]

Just imagine if it didn't come out. We'd be wearing Timbs in the middle of summer down here.

THANKS FABO! THANKS L-O!

 

[itsyoung!!]

Savage Life


05 was a dope year

people love up to bring shyt like laffy taffy but fukk it the high lights of that era like Savage Life are way better than the highlights of this era.

webbie was spitting every song

one my top albums honestly

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

I remember when this first came out, many rappers cited this song specifically as the death of hip hop

11 years later was this song really the beginning of the end?

So this song made lyrical artist extinct? I don't get it

 

[Don'tCallMeLuckyB]

So we going to act like this didn't drop? It's like ppl have selected memory



" bu bu bu but that's odb he's a legend, that song was just about having fun "

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

Savage Life


05 was a dope year

The Documentary, The Massacre, Late Registration, The B.Coming, Be, Trill, The Carter 2, Monkey Barz...but 2005 was the the end of Hip Hop

 

[RammerJammer]

No, because there was still great hip hop in that 2005-2008 time period.

 

[bogey_j]

I agree. Even as an 11 year old in '06, I knew what was good and what was trash, and the good definitely outweighed the trash in that period. Internet hip hop nerds just ran with the whole "hip hop is dead" concept throughout the late 2000's, being willfully ignorant of the high amount of quality music coming out. Mainly because folks on the internet were still on that corny "southern rappers are trash" shyt, and hated on nikkas like Jeezy, Gucci, Wayne, ect., saying they "killed" hip hop because they weren't rapping over early 90's boom bap beats, and didn't talk like NY nikkas

Folks like Plies, Jeezy, Gucci, Wayne, Rick Ross, T.I., and Three 6 Mafia were going platinum. One hit wonder nikkas flopped because people knew they were trash. nikkas acted like all southern rap sounded like Laffy Taffy and A Bay Bay. They didn't want to listen to southern rap until the mainstream forced them to. I can definitely argue that the artists I listed are just as lyrical as any other 2000's rapper. Lyrical rap never died, nikkas down south always made lyrical rap, along with club shyt. NY's sound just got stale, and they hated on us, until they started jocking us

fukk outta here, you ain't know jack shyt

 

[Prince Mongo]

fukk outta here, you ain't know jack shyt

Ok... What were you listening to around the mid-late 2000's?

 

[melraH]

Smashed a Rican Groupie on beat, from the backdoing the dance to the laffy taffy song top10 college moment.

I hated this song at first, But it was catchy and all the Biddys went crazy for this song.

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[TripleAgent]

The Telecommunications Act did.

 

[LevelUp]

 

[The Guru]

Probably crank that soulja boy YUUUUUUUUUU

 

[DaSk8D00D]

Was on a road trip in middle school with my grandpa who is a music lover but was totally removed from rap/hiphop. He was open minded enough to give it a shot and had me switch the radio station in the car. Laffy Taffy played and he quietly changed stations during the next commercial break

Hip Hop failed me that day