I think this generation itself as a whole is softer...matter fact I KNOW...lol..I mean there damn sure is exceptions n shyt...but the world in general was different then...people got their hands dirty FAR more...legally and illegally...just in general..any way u wanna look at it...
these teens & kids today are coming up no different than how me & you came up bout a decade ago. i see it everyday, and im sure you do too. actually, alot of neighborhoods have gotten worst.
unless youre including us as softere as well....i mean, we're not far removed from the youth. with that said, every generations is softer than the previous. people in here talking about mob style, but how many of them could go toe-to-toe with thorough-bred slaves in their prime? all them mob style dudes would get eaten alive.
and sure, the drug game isnt as crazy as it was in the '80s & '90s, but on the flipside, theres more people walking around broke with a chip on their shoulder today.
that and Cam actin like he couldnt jump that gate was fukkin hilarious..lol...but yea...Elz even threw the mic soft as fukk..like he was unsure what would happen after or some shyt...
lol. he prolly was unsure because he didnt know who was on his side & who wasnt.
If u think drake is speakin of financial situation in that song ur being dumb
Its obvious he's talking bout the Rap Game..and how he started from the underdog position(bottom) now he's the top nikka in the game(now we here)
drake didnt start from the bottom of the rap game.
hes a plant.
it may have been a fall off from 50's previous album sales, but sellin 700k your 1st week isn't a fall off by any means
and regardless if it was a publicity stunt or not, a lot of people still wanted to hear 50 cents music..its just that hiphop was going thru what i consider a "transitional" faze(around 05/06), and many people felt that 50 cent's style was dated,and kanye became the "in" thing, which is why we're seeing all these soft n sweet nikkas in hiphop right now, imo
no offense but you sound like a vh1 special.
50 has been
since he dropped that massacre weed-plate. he continued selling for a few more years off of his name, commercial momentum and his machine. lets not act like he was a flag-bearer for hardcore rap music in 2007.
and lets not act like kanye outsold a prime 50.
kanye was never the "in thing". the streets never got behind him, so how could he be the "in thing" in hip-hop? and lets not act like the streets were behind 50 cent in 2007 either. their whole sales battle was nothing but a promotional tool. a great idea and it worked, but thats all it was. it wasnt not great moment in rap history. hell no.
and there was no transition. all those fairy rappers were placed in their positions. they didnt work their way up legitimately. i rarely ever hear any of their album cuts when i step foot out the house. if i hear their music being played, its almost always a single(most likely the radio) being played out of someones car.
thats something thats lost with alot of young cats. they sit back and allow "trends" to be dictated to them. they never witnessed a true transitional phase.
Truest post.
1on1 i'd say that to his face if alive...
Say what you want about Drake 
