What up with these 40 year old NY rappers still rapping about moving weight and busting guns

Mr. Jack Napier

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In your 40s, you should be welcoming your first grandchild, spending your nights with the tv remote and getting excited about new gadgets like blenders/air fryers. Being on the block or talking about being on the block is not and should NOT be exciting.
You folks really have no real life experience
 

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The problem I have is that all the rappers who say Jay is their biggest inspiration don't seem to pick up on the fact that he stopped being a pure drug rapper after a couple albums. He transitioned more to generic hustler mentality raps, brag raps, shyt talking, storytelling, and club anthems. Yet when I listen to Griselda or some of these other guys it's the same super thug nikka bars where they're shooting 100 guns and killing 100 people. I'm sorry but that's lame to me. Hell that Bleek song...you'd think he was a crime boss, not Jay' lil man.

I don't think older rappers should just rap about their portfolios and prostate exams but I also don't think they should be rapping generic street raps either. If you're gonna do street raps at least do something different than the standard shyt.
 

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You folks really have no real life experience
lol first grandchild in your 40s being the expectation is crazy.
ok, let me break it down...

Most people (not all, but most) got married and had kids in their 20s up until about the 2010s and beyond. Ok, now, if someone has a kid in their 20s, and the kid they had is now in their 20s and having children, exactly what age would the grandparent be of the baby? I'm not that good at math as you geniuses are lol ...... I'm 47. Nine of my first cousins are grandparents. MANY of the people I was in the military with in my age bracket(and some I'm older than) had kids in the 90s and now those kids have kids of their own. My grandmother had 12 children and she first became a grandparent in her 30s. Is there something I stated that's hard to believe or you've never seen? :russ:
 

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It definitely ain't just New York rappers. But Hov is the only guy who comes to mind for me, who aged gracefully, his content evolved as he aged and got further away from his past...

If anyone knows anyone else who has done so, plug me in, because those are the guys who are real inspirations. The guys who were really outside at a point of time, but grew beyond it and their art evolved with them...

You’re my guy and I usually agree but Hov was 26 when RD dropped right? He was 37 when American Gangster was released.

I’ll give you BP3 though he was 39 then.


But I don’t think nothing is wrong with rapping bout guns coke etc they’re just entertainers. If it’s good it’s good.
 

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Agree. This nikkas are so thirsty to dikkride Nas they don't even pay attention to the context smdh...
Y’all took that scribbled in ya notepad shyt too seriously.

Nas would have shot at yall :russ:
 

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What do you have to do to be a street guy in your opinion?
Easiest way I can describe it is, it's about your degree of involvement in activity...

My post history is littered with examples I've given of people I knew personally who weren't street cats, but on the outside looking in, a bunch of people may assume they were...

It's about the level of involvement...
You’re my guy and I usually agree but Hov was 26 when RD dropped right? He was 37 when American Gangster was released.

I’ll give you BP3 though he was 39 then.


But I don’t think nothing is wrong with rapping bout guns coke etc they’re just entertainers. If it’s good it’s good.
I think for me, as my life has changed, if I want to hear that hard shyt (and I do sometimes), I just go listen to their old shyt...

I'm not jamming any old ass nikka who still rapping bout young guy bullshyt, but I recognize that's more of a me thing...
Y’all took that scribbled in ya notepad shyt too seriously.

Nas would have shot at yall :russ:
I personally don't view Nas as a tough guy but I'll say if he was tough enough to shoot at me he was getting the proper reaction 🤣 I don't buy that he'd be prepared for that. This nigha pulled a gun on Envy. Nothing publicized about Nas illustrates him as a tough guy...
 

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Easiest way I can describe it is, it's about your degree of involvement in activity...

My post history is littered with examples I've given of people I knew personally who weren't street cats, but on the outside looking in, a bunch of people may assume they were...

It's about the level of involvement...

I think for me, as my life has changed, if I want to hear that hard shyt (and I do sometimes), I just go listen to their old shyt...

I'm not jamming any old ass nikka who still rapping bout young guy bullshyt, but I recognize that's more of a me thing...

I personally don't view Nas as a tough guy but I'll say if he was tough enough to shoot at me he was getting the proper reaction 🤣 I don't buy that he'd be prepared for that. This nigha pulled a gun on Envy. Nothing publicized about Nas illustrates him as a tough guy...


All makes sense to me
 
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