Our Lord and Saviour Jay Electronica exposes Billboard cacs

[sporticus]

What does he think his fanbase looks like?

 

[Cynic]

Maybe you self equating from your own success.
You should not do that, it creates disconnect.

I know it does...getting worse with time

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past that, corporate America has an complete monopoly on everything now.
There ability to be profitable lies in selling out to them.
Past that, you just running on a ticker till you inevitably fail.
If you don't align with their agenda and be compromised.

True but business and life is about playing ball sometimes ...
Even if you don't ...there's always a way to achieve whatever you
set out to do without going completely corporate

 

[Clayton Endicott]

Horowitz huh?

 

[Chris Cool]

 

[Black Magisterialness]

man... I'll never forget an experience I had in '04.

My distant cousin was an entertainment lawyer in Jersey. He invites me to come with him to see a hip hop show with Kiss, Fat Joe, Lloyd Banks and Lil Scrappy. Backstage.

A limo picks us up and there's 4 cacs sitting in the limo sipping champagne. And I'm like: 'wtf are these cacs doing here? aren't we going to the hip hop show?'.

Turns out they were label guys - 3 guys and 1 girl. It's me and my cousin - the only Black people in this limo.

We get backstage. Cacs are greeting the artists as they and their entourage come through metal detectors. Kiss, Lloyd and Scrappy had their lawyers with em. All cacs.

And I thought: 'wow, there are more white people in this hip hop shyt than I thought. and they're running shyt'




Great read. I always say that 1984 is the cut-off for experiencing hip hop in its prime. I'm biased to 84 being born that year, but honestly, I think shyt starts to change for kids born in '86 and onwards. Partly because they were teens when Ja Rule, Nelly and Eminem came through so pop rap is all they know.

Whereas I came into being a teen in '97. I was into pop rap like Mase (Mase could still spit though) and getting into Wu-tang, DMX, Lox, Gangstarr, etc because that was hot in 97/98.



truth.com unfortunately.

I was born in 87 and I VIVIDLY remember 95-98 in terms of rap. I remember the radio breaking truly great artists. I remember seeing outkast go from two cats from atlanta to arguably the greatest duo of all time. I remember West Coast shyt being played all around me....It's more so about what you were around. Pop Rap didn't really gain steam until I was in high school and by then I had already developed a taste for the more mid-90's sound. Then when I got a job I went back and bought or Limewired all that old stuff from like the Native Tounges collective, basically all of Wu-Tang, Gangstarr, etc.

Do we have memories attached like that...prolly not...but we got the very tail end of "good" rap.

 

[3Rivers]

Horowitz huh?

 

[Imlinkin]

Jay Elec annoys me to no end. Breh painted a Mona Lisa in 09' and just put up his brush and paints & start chillin ever since... (Pause) if there is a musical equivalent to blue balls all his true fans got it

 

[Biscayne]

Aren't those his brehs-in-law?

 

[y que]

jay electronica is a white rothchild bytches manstress and dude think he's jesus

 

[Pazzy]

Is that clown serious? He just discredited himself.

 

[3Rivers]

 

[Clayton Endicott]

 

[Chris Cool]

i mean he's got a legit point with cube and LL.

 

[y que]

eminem, wayne, lauryn hill, etc are all making mediocre to no music currently

fukk these corny fakkits

 

[Pazzy]

Let's get this straight, skin color doesn't make someone more or less credible in terms of knowing rap music and . I know more than enough folks that are black like me that don't know shyt about rap and hip hop. These guys are acting like they're the voice for rap. They're not