When did rap become all about lyrics

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

hip hop has a triforce beats- flow- lyrics two without the other is just plain garbage

 

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[PhonZhi]

Trap beats are all trash breh. Let me know when they make the first good one.

Strippers love em my dude. Sadly, stripclubs have a large influence in the direction rap has gone

 

[IllmaticDelta]

With all due respect not like Ra fam. Emceeing changed drastically after he dropped. Just listen to the music before 86 & you can see the difference

to see/hear mels trueimpact you have to listen to rap bootlegs in the early days before records...it was simple

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I'm an 'Old Head' and I can listen to this all day............



Like Kool G. Rap said: Lyrics are fabric/beats are lining/My passion in rhyming is fashion designing

It was NEVER all about the lyrics since the genre was created primarily for partying and has continued to be that way for nearly 50 years.

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[DJ Mart-Kos]

for me music is 50/50. 50% Rapper/50% Producer

 

[IllmaticDelta]

on Melle Mel

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On Kool Moe Dee

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on Caz

 

[lucky lefty]

When the GOAT our Flow Lord and Lyrical Savior Hova Da Gawd dropped the holy grail of hip hop lyricism aka the GOAT debut album Reasonable Doubt

Ironically this is also when the rest of these bum ass, bytchmade, infinitely inferior, shytty ass excuses for spitters came together & decided to push the narrative that rap couldn't be about lyricism since all their remedial ass, garbage ass bars combined couldn't compare to the worst 8 bars off RD

 

[hex]

"this BIG guy is aight I guess"

BIG is goat and Life After Death is the goat album. It's literally The Blueprint before The Blueprint

The Blueprint before "The Blueprint" was "Supreme Clientele" though.

Fred.