Should Most Blacks Care About Hip Hop?

[Sensei]

Here's the interesting thing: I was born in DC but moved to NC at age 5. The entire time we were doing Hip Hop til... I guess NWA... it was never about claiming it for NC, it was a given that we followed the "East Coast" style. My style reeks of NY to this day.

So technically I'm Dirty South, Goodie Mob made that song fully ten years into my Hip Hop journey. Inside I rep East Coast. All MCS from the crib were heavy East Coast style back then and even recently, but now a lot of them try to get on the new wave.

Let me just ask , how old are you breh? Let me get a grasp of the generation you are from.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Let me just ask , how old are you breh? Let me get a grasp of the generation you are from.

I'll be 40 in May. Failed rapper turned failed Internet rapper. Started rapping at 8 so it's been over 30 years I been B Boyin.

(Not that me and you are divided but: I hate when some frame this as X vs Y. It's just a continuum.)

 

[Sensei]

I'll be 40 in May. Failed rapper turned failed Internet rapper. Started rapping at 8 so it's been over 30 years I been B Boyin.

(Not that me and you are divided but: I hate when some frame this as X vs Y. It's just a continuum.)

Alright bruh,I respect it, but here is the thing. You had to fix your style to an east coast format, from what I read in your post , you say repping hip hop was all about showing love but essentially sounding NYC. But why not display your skills the North Carolina way?Petey Pablo was true to his soil and didn´t care about what he sounded like and did what he felt.He got success and people felt him, regardless if he is considered lyrically adept.

Outkast were Southern as hell, but were considered lyrically gifted and floetically inclined. Ludacris were Southern as hell , but many fools can´t touch his prowess on the mic.

This is my point in order to sound legitimately Hip Hop you gotta sound East Coast.lol

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Alright bruh,I respect it, but here is the thing. You had to fix your style to an east coast format, from what I read in your post , you say repping hip hop was all about showing love but essentially sounding NYC. But why not display your skills the North Carolina way?Petey Pablo was true to his soil and didn´t care about what he sounded like and did what he felt.He got success and people felt him, regardless if he is considered lyrically adept.

Outkast were Southern as hell, but were considered lyrically gifted and floetically inclined. Ludacris were Southern as hell , but many fools can´t touch his prowess on the mic.

This is my point in order to sound legitimately Hip Hop you gotta sound East Coast.lol

At the same time Peter Pablo made his hit, every single MC I was Cyphering wit in NC was still on the Classic Hip Hop style (read: East Coast). There was no "Dirty South NC sound. ATL FL TX was all doing something somewhat different and developing into something "other than". This division came along far into my run.

So the idea of me representing my roots: I was. I am. The roots are the roots of Hip Hop itself.

 

[Sensei]

At the same time Peter Pablo made his hit, every single MC I was Cyphering wit in NC was still on the Classic Hip Hop style (read: East Coast). There was no "Dirty South NC sound. ATL FL TX was all doing something somewhat different and developing into something "other than". This division came along far into my run.

So the idea of me representing my roots: I was. I am. The roots are the roots of Hip Hop itself.

Most of the rappers in the 80s had to start out rapping like NY to a degree, but it was later on when they developed their own style and it evolved. This is especially true with some cats on the West.

I get what you are saying though, if NC started out with an NYC set up, it is what it is.

The thing is Hip Hop didn´t come out of thin air..It was really spin off of Funk(which was based in the Midwest) and borrrowed a lot from Reggae/Dancehall (in Jamaica),so early Hip Hop pioneers borrowed from elsewhere as well.Back then all black music including the emerging Hip Hop is a black thing.

 

[Mowgli]

Its like yall are too lazy of reading, I simply if you ain´t black and ain´t from New York , should you even care about Hip Hop/Rap?

I also asked why is it so much scandalous mothafukkas in Hip Hop ,more so than the previos genres of Motown and Soul music? Keep on blaming the white boy when its a lot of blame on the black side of things.

More blame on the white side. fukk outta here.

 

[Sensei]

More blame on the white side. fukk outta here.

Why more blame on the white side breh?With Hip Hop the record executives and coporate insiders at the labels were actually black folk in Manhattan offices. There is no reason why white executives would want to stop nikkas making money since they already had their hands in nikkas pockets.fukk that bullshyt you talking about.

 

[Mowgli]

Why more blame on the white side breh?With Hip Hop the record executives and coporate insiders at the labels were actually black folk in Manhattan offices. There is no reason why white executives would want to stop nikkas making money since they already had their hands in nikkas pockets.fukk that bullshyt you talking about.

Your idea of how the corporate structure of hiphop is ran is a joke. Please stop

 

[Pop123]

i'm black and from new york, when i hear something fresh i think "yo, this shyt is kinda fresh", it never goes further than that tho, lol, so "care" is too strong of a word. i care about my seeds and my fam and shyt like that, fukk a grown man look like "Caring" about these animals and miscreants out here shuckin and jivin for whitey in hip hop? in it's current state i wouldn't care if rap disappeared tomorrow, . if the NBA or the NFL disappeared tho I might go postal on nikkas.

 

[Sensei]

Your idea of how the corporate structure of hiphop is ran is a joke. Please stop

Dudes like you are turning a blind eye to all the threats, including white execs and snake ass nikkas in the industry, like Diddy and Chris Lighty. But since you are a know it all please explain.Cause in reality, that theory of yours, makes no sense.