These lil nikkas have no respect for the history of the genre

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I like Astro but he really needs to stop with the whole "jacking retro style of rap" he's doing. Joey Badass is a nice balance. Astros is just over the top. Every song he raps over is like 25 years old. He trying too hard to recreate a feel that you can't manufacture. He wasn't even born during that time it comes off as pretentious. I hate nostalgia acts. I lived through that era and it's my favorite era ever but stop trying to bring it back. You sound dated as fukk when you do that.

I have to agree with this. It's cool to pay homage, but don't make it your entire act. I respect the youngins that recognize and appreciate the music that came before them, but try and push it forward by making superior music and creating new, innovative rhyme styles.
 

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They gon b :flabbynsick: soon enough with all that turn up and pill poppin

They say that the drugs reflect the music nowadays. Back in the 90s, most people just smoked weed, which was why most rap and rnb was classic. You had a few people who did other drugs like Redman, Uncle Luke, and DMX, but mostly it was weed and you had the right tempo.

Now, it's all these extra drugs, and the 808s and hi hats reflect their mind states and their hyperactive blood streams. That's why these tracks sound like techno.
 

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They say that the drugs reflect the music nowadays. Back in the 90s, most people just smoked weed, which was why most rap and rnb was classic. You had a few people who did other drugs like Redman, Uncle Luke, and DMX, but mostly it was weed and you had the right tempo.

Now, it's all these extra drugs, and the 808s and hi hats reflect their mind states and their hyperactive blood streams. That's why these tracks sound like techno.
Nah not even, a nikka really heavily on xans and lean ain't gonna make the energetic shyt future makes. These fake junkie rappers perpetrating a fraud, the impressionable kids don't know it
 

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They say that the drugs reflect the music nowadays. Back in the 90s, most people just smoked weed, which was why most rap and rnb was classic. You had a few people who did other drugs like Redman, Uncle Luke, and DMX, but mostly it was weed and you had the right tempo.

nikkas was smokin' wulies in the 80's/early 90's and was dust heads. But for the most part, it was weed and mad malt liquor.
 

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Nah not even, a nikka really heavily on xans and lean ain't gonna make the energetic shyt future makes. These fake junkie rappers perpetrating a fraud, the impressionable kids don't know it

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I did say there's a handful of younger mc's. I like both of them but the majority of stuff that gets all the attention is the junkie/strip club/designer clothes promo music. That type of stuff only has a shelf life of a few weeks to a few months. Not saying you have to be like Talib Kweli or some spoken word poetry on every track but at least say something.

You right :manny: Sometimes I feel like a lot of those guys (not Uzi Vert :mjlol: ) want to be lyrical but can't because of the environment in rap today.
 

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Hate to say it, but Generation X failed to raise Generation Z properly. :francis: If that cat was my son, I would be ashamed.


Actually the enemy was/is actually Disney and then Viacom programming.
They are the ones who created this gateway of autotune based music.
That your kids grow up with that really has no basis of soul in their gateway music.
Plus the imagery is made to hurt masculinity.
Evident by DJ lance which is where the efeminate mannerism of this Gen came from as well.
So, the issue is PBS is actually flabby and sick and need some way to rebolster their lineup to be the driving force.
The only issue is Jim Henson passed so you are not getting sesame street or the Muppets in their glory.
It will be affected by Disney who already is manipulating the development of children as far as music is concerned because they learned in the koch/disney era..how to sell and generate a return using their music model to children.
So, the ability to give our kids an alternative with a larger range and appreciation of music is gonna be compromised.
As Disney will be looking to get a real return.
not the type of return that Jim Henson got making sesame street and the Muppets on PBS.
Plus, ushering their gateway model revenue stream users or kids through their network of profit building and age specific models with no attrition rate.
Like Disney used to have in the past.
All because they lacked the age appropriate models to cultivate and produce a profit.
Now disney has all the age appropriate options. to keep a stream of revenue with no attrition rate as a child grows older and Disney just does not play about losing profitability from its gateway to age 40+ bracket anymore.
The way it used to before Pixar, marvel, ABC, and ESPN.
So, that is the issue and Disney is hard to place blame.or fault on because they are air tight and usually their fukkery is backed with some educational cog that is bullet proof as far as pr attack.
As far as Viacom also being a main culprit image wise.
They switch so much that it is hard to place blame
Yet, I know where all the fukkery came from because as a parent I had to screen this bullshyt or outlaw/ban it.
Yet I only know of bans or boycotts because I had two parents who hated ignorant bullshyt with a passion.
In my crib you was not turning on no bullshyt of amy type disturbing pops and his listening of high quality war type music.
Nor were you turning on some idiot box shyt in his crib.
Even when I was in college.
You not coming home watching Beavis and butthead or even wwf wrasslin.
You would have to go to other places to tape it or see it in passing.
You was not watching bullshyt cause pops was hardcore about no bullshyt being in the crib.
Which I see paid off on me.
As early as collecting records because you had to learn to differentiate quality and warrant a vinyl purchase.
Or, you worked so hard to acquire the resources.
to get something that you soon learned how to recognize quality even when it was a certain void there to prohibit you from really knowing till you copped.
So, you learned from coordinating mania III to be taped and get ripped off.
You learned Curtis blow was a ripoff and garbage from singles and not worth a damn album wise.
All because he was phoney the first time you saw him.
Kids now don't have an alternative of quality and big corporations are why.
As they have an entire network based on all types of stream of revenue.
to drain the consumer and purposefully never give you quality.
Or never know it exist or did or could exist.
It is like when you try to buy a jacket now.
You have to special order a high quality real leather jacket.
which maybe cheaper and more stylish than a jacket in the mall.
Yet, all the jackets in the mall are phoney pu leather.
only meant to last a few months and are ultra expensive and not the quality of a real leather. Yet, if you don't know about quality materials.
Let alone been really schooled on what quality is.
You can walk around in the world and not know at all.
Plus if you look around everyone has on a cheap pleather pu fake leather coat.
So, you feel normal not bamboozled.
Nowadays, that is the issue.
They don't have enough educated consumers to create the feeling of being bamboozled.
Which is all because these corporations learned from their past consumer marketing braintrust and discoveryzones.

The consumer does not feel bamboozled because the corporations have learned how to combat the alternative in the market place.
By making it so no high quality alternatives can exist in the market place.


Art Barr
 
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