Rap in '13 is lacking something. I cant pinpoint it.

[MikeBrownsJob]

Yall ol head flabby fakkits can complain while standing on one leg all u want

While us youngstaz stay and by our music

That OVO sound

That TDE sound

That MMG sound

That Kanye sound

SOoo much piffery to enjoy

Has nothing to do with being ..The shyt is real. When you got New York dudes rocking camo shorts, tank tops and vans, dudes from the Bay rocking tank tops, camo shorts and vans, dudes from Dallas rocking the same thing and dudes in Georgia rockin the same thing it's a problem. That's exactly what's happened to rap music and rock music today. There used to be a thing called "southern rock" . Bands like Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker, Lynard Skynard etc. There are hardly any today. Outside of Gov't Mule I can't think of any. The culture that produced that music is ..

 

[blackslash]

Has nothing to do with being ..The shyt is real. When you got New York dudes rocking camo shorts, tank tops and vans, dudes from the Bay rocking tank tops, camo shorts and vans, dudes from Dallas rocking the same thing and dudes in Georgia rockin the same thing it's a problem. That's exactly what's happened to rap music and rock music today. There used to be a thing called "southern rock" . Bands like Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker, Lynard Skynard etc. There are hardly any today. Outside of Gov't Mule I can't think of any. The culture that produced that music is ..

we talking rap or urban fashion contests here breh?

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

we talking rap or urban fashion contests here breh?

You don't see the correlation breh . @Mr. Negative pointed it out. There is no regional breakdown. They all sound the same and "look" the same today. What kept the game fresh was different sounds from different regions. When you got New York rappers entire album sounding like 2chains hooked up with Young chop for 13 tracks that's wack to me.

 

[blackslash]

You don't see the correlation breh . @Mr. Negative pointed it out. There is no regional breakdown. They all sound the same and "look" the same today. What kept the game fresh was different sounds from different regions. When you got New York rappers entire album sounding like 2chains hooked up with Young chop for 13 tracks that's wack to me.

So ur saying Drake's albums sounds like Kdot's albums which sounds like MMG(wale, ross etc.) albums which sounds liek 2 chainz albums??



Ya u off breh

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

So ur saying Drake's albums sounds like Kdot's albums which sounds like MMG(wale, ross etc.) albums which sounds liek 2 chainz albums??



Ya u off breh

 

[NSSVO]

nikka them days is over. fukk, every month, it's the same fukking thread. Saying the same shyt people been saying since 2009. MOVE ON. Buy your favorite rappers record, bet most of y'all don't even do that

 

[wingzboy]

lol

 

[Tom Foolery]

everything is lacking.

 

[spliz]

we talking rap or urban fashion contests here breh?

What he's saying is EVERYONE is on the same shyt..there was a time in hip hop u could feel like u took a trip to a different area when u heard an album...now everything is just redundant as fukk...

 

[CELL]

But he's right, there might not be a regional sound so much anymore but there's a different SOUND overall in the music.

 

[smARTmouf]

It's lacking real fans

 

[bangedher_wholesquad]

a real superstar.

we only got machine made ones.

dont really got no classics just mass appeal that is clearly machine generated.

we in revolutionairy times brehs

 

[BlackMagnus514]

How does social media effect this tho?

IMO its lack of talent and these whack South rappers and NY falling off.

Because these rappers are losing their mystique and looking mad common and silly. There's no aura of mystery. Look at Fabolous and Budden. Those two are probably the worst offenders. Especially Fab, since he's decided to try to sound like he's from Buckhead and not Brooklyn.

Every region is gonna borrow another region's style or flow or whatever, but cats been dikkriding the South for years now. And for what it's worth, the South ahd LA have warranted that. At least their media gets behind their artists. NYC gatekeepers act like bigger celebrities than the artists themselves. Look how Ebro and Rosenberg be acting. Why is your PD on your morning show and in all these VH1 shows?

 

[MartyMcFly]

Because these rappers are losing their mystique and looking mad common and silly. There's no aura of mystery. Look at Fabolous and Budden. Those two are probably the worst offenders. Especially Fab, since he's decided to try to sound like he's from Buckhead and not Brooklyn.

Every region is gonna borrow another region's style or flow or whatever, but cats been dikkriding the South for years now. And for what it's worth, the South ahd LA have warranted that. At least their media gets behind their artists. NYC gatekeepers act like bigger celebrities than the artists themselves. Look how Ebro and Rosenberg be acting. Why is your PD on your morning show and in all these VH1 shows?

Took the words out of my mouth. Now I'm only 27 so I can't act like I was around in the 80s or even old enough to understand everything in the early 90s but once I got into the music in the mid 90s, even as an elementary or middle school kid, I could feel the mystique around certain dudes. You felt like they were untouchable and that the images they portrayed, whether right or wrong, were who they were. There was no constant exposure to how dudes were behind the scenes, you only had word of mouth stories and a lot of those stories became urban legend, like with Wu or Pac or BIG. Beat downs at D&D Studios, fights at shows, Wu beating down reporters, Nas and Pac meeting at the MTV awards...stuff happened and you had to assume it was true.

The music is lacking an aggression and isn't as a part of the pop culture zeitgeist as it used to be. Not saying no one cares about Hip Hop but in the late 90s and early 2000s, it was THE biggest genre in music and the coolest because of the aura, mystique and variety you had in the music. Like someone said before, Cash Money sounded like Cash Money, New York MCs sounded like New York MCs and westcoast cats sounded like westcoast cats. There was room for every style to not just exist, but thrive commercially. We have variety now but a lot of the guys we love are relegated to the underground or just dropping mixtapes and doing shows and not being able to truly be "stars." As the music has grown it's become more corporate and when something becomes more corporate, naturally it will soften up and it did.

 

[BlackMagnus514]

The music is lacking an aggression and isn't as a part of the pop culture zeitgeist as it used to be. Not saying no one cares about Hip Hop but in the late 90s and early 2000s, it was THE biggest genre in music and the coolest because of the aura, mystique and variety you had in the music. Like someone said before, Cash Money sounded like Cash Money, New York MCs sounded like New York MCs and westcoast cats sounded like westcoast cats. There was room for every style to not just exist, but thrive commercially. We have variety now but a lot of the guys we love are relegated to the underground or just dropping mixtapes and doing shows and not being able to truly be "stars." As the music has grown it's become more corporate and when something becomes more corporate, naturally it will soften up and it did.

Guys like Freddie Gibbs woulda been decent in the 90s. Take a cat like DMX, he was the TOTAL antithesis to the shiny suit era. That void wasnt being filled at all till X came. And on top of that, he had an insane run of guest verses that he blazed before and between his first and second albums.

That's why im waiting for what SBQ does.