Maino Message To NY Rappers: "N*ggas Here In My City Soft. It's So Sweet Here"

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

Ghettos will always exist. Some places will be forever tough to fix up (like the spots you names and my own hood). How many of those places are producing artists who rap, rap well, and rap about the bullshyt that surrounds them? Where are these rappers? Either they don't exist, they suck at rapping or something about them (swag, beats, boring, no it factor) is keeping you from hearing them.

I heard "Shabba Ranks" on the radio, talent/swag has nothing to do with what comes across the airwaves. It's agenda based in my opinion, you control the culture by controlling the content. The Devil's greatest trick is making people believe he doesn't exist. As long as everyone thinks things are better there won't be a need for a revolutionary type of artist. They'll never allow a nikka to have music in rotation that addresses the real shyt. They rather feed you shyt like Macklemore and ASAP which are distractions and side shows instead of the news.

 

[vaudevillevillain]

that's the problem.. nikkas is more focused on who's hard instead of making a good song

 

[ManBearPig]

Soft can be a good thing

 

[tremonthustler1]

I heard "Shabba Ranks" on the radio, talent/swag has nothing to do with what comes across the airwaves. It's agenda based in my opinion, you control the culture by controlling the content. The Devil's greatest trick is making people believe he doesn't exist. As long as everyone thinks things are better there won't be a need for a revolutionary type of artist. They'll never allow a nikka to have music in rotation that addresses the real shyt. They rather feed you shyt like Macklemore and ASAP which are distractions and side shows instead of the news.

Even your city created an entire subgenre of rap called Hyphy as a way to do drugs, do donuts in cars and be carefree and forget all the crap your city has to offer.

I don't think there's an agenda to push A$AP Ferg. And to be honest, the only song out in these NY streets that gets more burn than Work or Shabba is Ain't Worried Bout Nothin'. So like I said earlier, it's not as if these goons or fans that like that gutter rap are playing A-Mafia in their headphones ignoring shyt. They're out there rappin' to Work. Go to any party and when Ferg says "Coogi down to the socks like i'm Big Poppa" everyone's gonna yell BAAAAABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. Fans' tastes and preferences are just different now. shyt, to be honest, the street rapper that gets love from damn near everywhere IMO is Meek Mill. Nobody bought his shyt like that, but every hood you go, they know that Dreams & Nightmares Intro, I guarantee you that. Their demographic just isn't one that lends itself to supporting even the shyt that they like.

The funny thing about Macklemore is that he's spitting about shyt that not many others rap about, which is what sets him apart from even other white rappers. If there was this revolutionary artist out there, someone needs to put people up on game instead of complaining. You can't blame the agenda for not playing a type of rapper that isn't out there. NYC won't play A-Mafia for example out of civic pride, not when fans won't gravitate towards it in large numbers. It would be nice if he got radio play just cuz, but music and radio don't act as a public service.

 

[mozichrome]

what does the plight of the inner city got to do with nobody wanting/giving a fukk about Maino music
and that he doesnt make good music?

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

what does the plight of the inner city got to do with nobody wanting/giving a fukk about Maino music
and that he doesnt make good music?

It has to do with the music not being reflective of the region in which it's artists are produced which is Maino's point. NYC rappers are presenting the public with an image and content that those from the streets don't agree with.

 

[mozichrome]

It has to do with the music not being reflective of the region in which it's artists are produced which is Maino's point. NYC rappers are presenting the public with an image and content that those from the streets don't agree with.

please post last good maino song

go get ya google search on and find me latest good maino song
i mean he wanna say something soft, where this good goon music at that he putting out
find some breh

 

[Wild self]

that's the problem.. nikkas is more focused on who's hard instead of making a good song

The inner city plight isn't the issue. It's that the general public by and large isn't interested in it when the inner city is producing more and more success stories outside of rap. 20 years ago, those stories you could only hear through rap and sports. Now, you sit next to inner city success stories in college. Now shyt, my hood's a fukked up place, but the people out here ain't rapping to get out. They're either doing something else or living a life of crime. The ones that live that tough shyt that try to rap, by and large suck and have nothing new to add to the social commentary that's there. Find me the rapper railing against gentrification. Find me the rapper worried about families uprooting because they can't afford to stay home. Find me the regular dude that lives a regular life trying to make it in rap. That's a different take on the inner city plight. Nobody takes that route because no one seemingly will care.

The fact of the matter is that inner cities in major metro areas ARE getting better. That's celebrated everywhere BUT rap. The still fukked up places simply don't have compelling figures giving you depth into their fukked up life. The few that are go ignored because we'd rather use rap as an escape from misery. Does the music reflect life in 2013? Not completely, but it's not necessarily intended to. Life ain't a 24 hour party, but fans prefer it that way.

As for this.



Killer Mike said the irony is that more Black people went to jail under the Clinton administration than any other time because of all the crooked drug laws that existed, so you have to look at both sides here.

Ether at its highest form.

NY became gentrified and the ones that are holding on to old ass ignorant beliefs of the past see that their war to keep the old status quo is failing, and are about to lose that war altogether.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

Even your city created an entire subgenre of rap called Hyphy as a way to do drugs, do donuts in cars and be carefree and forget all the crap your city has to offer.

Hyphy was a perfect reflection of the spirit and energy of Bay Area youth at the time. Hyphy was an accurate reflection of the times. Hyphy was the result of the crack babies becoming adults. They couldn't articulate the origin of their plight like their predecessors but they showed you the result of the action. When I look at the NYC rap scene right now I don't believe it's an accurate reflection of the streets of NY. I could be wrong, only those from NYC can tell me.

 

[Wild self]

You speak the truth sir. This is the reason nikkas like Big Sean more than Maino online. Suburban dudes finally have representation in hip hop and they're not willing to go back to the days of the goons being the coolest nikkas around. They like seeing themselves being the cool guy therefore they root for Drake to win.

It's just like in High School, if the goons in the school were the coolest nikkas in the school and got all the girls from your freshman to your junior year and you were a square you wouldn't like it. But then all of a sudden as a senior shyt change and the girls start jocking the square guys and the coolest guy in school is the most square and awkward nikka in the school (Drake). You would love it because that guy represents you. This is why the Drake's, The ASAP's, The Big Sean's, J-Cole's etc. get so much love online. Squares finally have their representation and since they outnumber the goons in social media presence their voice is the loudest.

About time black folk take their minds up from the gutter and aspire to be something more than goons. LOL @ you wanting the rest of history to be ran by self destructing goons that harm the community, but hate when the "square" nikkas get their turn. That is some KKK shyt you on there, ignoramus.

 

[Wild self]

You speak the truth sir. This is the reason nikkas like Big Sean more than Maino online. Suburban dudes finally have representation in hip hop and they're not willing to go back to the days of the goons being the coolest nikkas around. They like seeing themselves being the cool guy therefore they root for Drake to win.

It's just like in High School, if the goons in the school were the coolest nikkas in the school and got all the girls from your freshman to your junior year and you were a square you wouldn't like it. But then all of a sudden as a senior shyt change and the girls start jocking the square guys and the coolest guy in school is the most square and awkward nikka in the school (Drake). You would love it because that guy represents you. This is why the Drake's, The ASAP's, The Big Sean's, J-Cole's etc. get so much love online. Squares finally have their representation and since they outnumber the goons in social media presence their voice is the loudest.

About time black folk take their minds up from the gutter and aspire to be something more than goons. LOL @ you wanting the rest of history to be ran by self destructing goons that harm the community, but hate when the "square" nikkas get their turn. That is some KKK shyt you on there, ignoramus.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

About time black folk take their minds up from the gutter and aspire to be something more than goons. LOL @ you wanting the rest of history to be ran by self destructing goons that harm the community, but hate when the "square" nikkas get their turn. That is some KKK shyt you on there, ignoramus.

Show me where I clamor for ignorance. Show me where I clamor for self destruction. Don't worry I'll wait. The problem with the square nikka is he has nothing to say. Drake admits he can't relate to the struggle, I personally don't want to hear any rap music from anyone that never spent a night in the ghetto. Go make some R&B or Pop or some shyt but if you can't relate to this struggle then leave this genre alone instead of raping it. Only square nikka that's kicking socially relevant shyt is J.Cole who I'm on record saying is my fav rapper of this era.

 

[Wild self]

Rap in general is soft... The fear of rappers is long gone.... The edge of the genre is missing. Maino needs to reevaluate his comment and focus on the whole game in general.......

Cause that shyt gotten predictable and stale. Only so many times you can talk about the block and how many ways you can kill people before parody-like shyt gets promoted.

 

[Wild self]

The new gen NY rappers are soft & wack as fukk.

lol

You like thugged out nikkas, do you? HAHAHA

 

[Wild self]

Show me where I clamor for ignorance. Show me where I clamor for self destruction. Don't worry I'll wait. The problem with the square nikka is he has nothing to say. Drake admits he can't relate to the struggle, I personally don't want to hear any rap music from anyone that never spent a night in the ghetto. Go make some R&B or Pop or some shyt but if you can't relate to this struggle then leave this genre alone instead of raping it. Only square nikka that's kicking socially relevant shyt is J.Cole who I'm on record saying is my fav rapper of this era.

Rap is about OVERCOMING the struggle with your own way of expression, not embracing and and staying in it. Even back in the day when "The Message" was made, they were talking about overcoming that shyt and being better people. You don't have to be a goon to be a good MC. You the one that is brainwashed back in the 90s into thinking that you have to be in the streets doing dirt to be a relevant to the culture.