Nobody wants to be a "hater", is that why hip hops quality sunk to an all time low?

[BrothaZay]

Bacc in the days nikkas kept it real, if you was a wacc rapper nikkas would give you the and tell you to GTFO, go do something different

Now you got nikkas dont wanna be called haters so dey say shyt like "soulja boy is one of my favorite rappers honestly"


And yes, thats a real quote from a superstar rapper

 

[King Biko]

I don't agree that hip hop is at an all time low quality wise but I do agree some of these nikkas wouldn't have gotten passes back in the day

 

[Rakim Allah]

Blame this guy...

 

[OG Talk]

"Haters" becoming more of a scurge than "biters" has stifled creativity greatly in the past 10 years...

Biting used to be viewed as the biggest crime in hip hop...Now its at the point that when you point out biting you are labeled a hater..





@ BrothaZay u crippin?

 

[Harry B]

There's always been wack hiphop.
Back when Mc Hammer outsold all of New York,Vanilla Ice too.

Kris Kross outselling outkast and scarface in the south and list of rappers goes on.


There was better balance, but commercially 88-94 outside of death row most of these cats were getting outsold by wack rappers.

You've not go to hate, criticize etc specially old 40+ rappers hating on dance rappers like Soulja Boy.
It's just to man up and compete. Now if someone asks you about it, then you can say that it's not your type of shyt.

But let's be honest people like Soulja Boy were not trying to rap, they were trying to do other things like dance anthems for kids, singalong hooks and shyt.
He was doing his thing. However after his first year or so then he fell the fukk of. People like Papoose are worse, people who are trying to rap and just spit struggle bars.

 

[Existential]

I don't agree that hip hop is at an all time low quality wise but I do agree some of these nikkas wouldn't have gotten passes back in the day

So, you're saying there was a worse era in hip hop? When was this?

 

[mozichrome]

this thread gets made every week

 

[How Sway?]

5 stars

 

[King Biko]

So, you're saying there was a worse era in hip hop? When was this?

When it was nothing but dance songs everywhere. Crank that soulja boy, batman, sponge bob, that yank, two step. Everybody was coming with a new corny ass dance every week and nikkas was looking extra homo practicing dance moves and going 2 clubs to have dance offs instead of fukking with the bytches. We got some quality mc's getting recognition right now, we should appreciate that.

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Except the Internet has become the go to avenue to consume and discuss hip hop....

A lot of blogs, certainly twitter, and this very website wouldn't really exist without the hate....

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Nope.

There's actually more negative shyt openly said about, and by, rappers now than there was back in the day.

What's really hurt hip hop is technology. The barriers to putting out a hip hop song (from making the beat, to recording it, to blasting it to the masses is at an all time low). This has severely hampered the A&R's job.....how can you justify to your boss spending countless nights at open mics and ciphers when soulja boy already has built up a following?

Club music has the lowest standards of all musical artforms. People don't mind being fed the same generic shyt over and over, cuz the club experience ain't really about the music, it's about the 'bytches and the drinks'. Then radio became obsessed with club music and record companies equate radio spins to potential sales, so pooof.....soulja boy is signed.

Good to see guys like Kendrick and J. Cole have successful albums despite limited club play because it shows that even the people that like bounce to 'buggati' really wanna hear quality shyt outside of the club. Those are the albums they'll buy, those are the concerts they'll see.

 

[frush11]

Imagine how hard someone like a Mac Miller would have been laughed out of HipHop, in lets say 95/96 era, shyt even 10 years ago.


Someone like him wouldn't even attempted to even have a career as a rapper

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

So, you're saying there was a worse era in hip hop? When was this?

Mid-80's........



[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4bHIxsCMOM"]No Show (Original 12" Version) - Symbolic Three ft. D.J. Dr. Shock | 80s Rap Music | 80s Hip Hop - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbxe_HNfDDU"]Scratch Zone Symphony with MC Clock 'So Smooth' (Fresh Town 1986) - YouTube[/ame]

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[Harry B]

Imagine how hard someone like a Mac Miller would have been laughed out of HipHop, in lets say 95/96 era, shyt even 10 years ago.


Someone like him wouldn't even attempted to even have a career as a rapper

Explain how Marky Mark had #1 hits and shyt then

Mac Miller is rhyming with people like Jay Electronica, spitting bars and all that.
What the fukk was Marky Mark doing.

Back when Wu-tang were struggling to get radioplay outside of New York everyone was bumpin
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXwtHJQ66Rk"]House Of Pain - Shamrocks And Shenanigans - YouTube[/ame]

One of the biggest hits of the 90s
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtILxBszyf8"]Snow - Informer - YouTube[/ame]


Cats are always with this revisionist ass stories about the 90s, we only remember the dope shyt. Not the shyt that was dominating radio, tv and on.
Illmatic would never flop as debuting #50 or something in 2013. People with "classic" albums were floppin every month, it took years for people to respect these "classics". I'm not even old, but from documentaries, what I remember as a kid and on.. All I recall is that an hour a week or so you got dope hiphop on TV and radio was dominated by garbage hiphop music.

THe 90s was easily the best era, but let's not forget how much garbage was poppin.

 

[the rhyme king]

that's why i like the 80's because if u were a sucker mc and could'nt rap they called u out on it now u call one of these wack rappers that can't rap for shyt u get called a hater.