Who's the first rapper that made selling drugs cool?
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Knicksman20
Superstar
I don't think it was Easy E. This is the first person I saw glorify the crack game
kThe first RAPPER to make selling drugs "COOL" wasn't SIGNED.....it was more than likely an underground mixtape rapper
Those signed artists you speak of G. RAP, ICE T. , SCHOOLY D. and even EAZY E were basically talking from a third party perspective "STORYTELLING"
Like NWA use to say "street reporting"......this was the 80's were SELLING DRUGS was still taboo..and the labels still wanted to be politically correct
like if you listen to ROAD TO THE RICHES, it's told from an observers perspective..."He likes to eat hardy, party and BE LIKE john gotti and drive a Maserati"
As fans nobody really looked at them as COKE DEALERS whom just happen to rap, they were just "gangsta RAPPERS" talking about some real shyt
unlike today....where EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE IN FIRST PERSON "I AIN'T NO RAPPER"..."I'M A STREET CAT"..."IM A REAL NICCA" blah blah blah
the lines are blurred...............
Now the first in my opinion had to be UNSIGNED ARTISTS who didn't have a label dictating what they did, and were not getting any radio airplay anyway...
Acts like CHILDREN OF THE CORN (bloodshed, killa cam, big l, mcgruff)....MONEY BOSS PLAYERS (minnosota, lord tarik).....PMS (uptown female mixtape rappers)
they had no budget from the labels, and were basically still in them streets as evident in their raps.....they were in FIRST PERSON
"Catch me at my store with all types of flavas and the sales don't stop
but I'm not selling blowpops and now a laters , I'm pushing CRACK OUT THE BACK OF LOUIE'S BODEGA!!" PMS freestyle (doo wop mixtape) 1992
these were the artists who influenced the SIGNED ARTISTS WITH THAT COKE FLOW i.e (JAY-Z, AZ, ROYAL FLUSH, BIG) IN 1994 and beyond...
cause these cats mostly from uptown were doing this just flollwoing the end of the afrocentric era in 91
the gods was being replaced by the "bloods"
and B BOYS was replaced by D BOYS
anti drug raps turned to first person hustling raps
and WEST COAST gangsta rap influenced by corporate America labels seeking $$$
made the coke rapper a viable career option in hip hop
Those signed artists you speak of G. RAP, ICE T. , SCHOOLY D. and even EAZY E were basically talking from a third party perspective "STORYTELLING"
Like NWA use to say "street reporting"......this was the 80's were SELLING DRUGS was still taboo..and the labels still wanted to be politically correct
like if you listen to ROAD TO THE RICHES, it's told from an observers perspective..."He likes to eat hardy, party and BE LIKE john gotti and drive a Maserati"
As fans nobody really looked at them as COKE DEALERS whom just happen to rap, they were just "gangsta RAPPERS" talking about some real shyt
unlike today....where EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE IN FIRST PERSON "I AIN'T NO RAPPER"..."I'M A STREET CAT"..."IM A REAL NICCA" blah blah blah
the lines are blurred...............
Now the first in my opinion had to be UNSIGNED ARTISTS who didn't have a label dictating what they did, and were not getting any radio airplay anyway...
Acts like CHILDREN OF THE CORN (bloodshed, killa cam, big l, mcgruff)....MONEY BOSS PLAYERS (minnosota, lord tarik).....PMS (uptown female mixtape rappers)
they had no budget from the labels, and were basically still in them streets as evident in their raps.....they were in FIRST PERSON
"Catch me at my store with all types of flavas and the sales don't stop
but I'm not selling blowpops and now a laters , I'm pushing CRACK OUT THE BACK OF LOUIE'S BODEGA!!" PMS freestyle (doo wop mixtape) 1992
these were the artists who influenced the SIGNED ARTISTS WITH THAT COKE FLOW i.e (JAY-Z, AZ, ROYAL FLUSH, BIG) IN 1994 and beyond...
cause these cats mostly from uptown were doing this just flollwoing the end of the afrocentric era in 91
the gods was being replaced by the "bloods"
and B BOYS was replaced by D BOYS
anti drug raps turned to first person hustling raps
and WEST COAST gangsta rap influenced by corporate America labels seeking $$$
made the coke rapper a viable career option in hip hop
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Isaiah Bradley
Banned
Who ever it is, I wish I could travel back in time and murk that fawk nikka or nikkas
And I would also murk the first rapper that made being a junkie cool too
And I would also murk the first rapper that made being a junkie cool too
OfTheCross
Veteran
@THE RETIRED SKJ
Is there any info or music from PMS online?
I heard about her years ago through this engineer in jersey that apparently worked with her..
Is there any info or music from PMS online?
I heard about her years ago through this engineer in jersey that apparently worked with her..
Grand Eeezus Maxwell
"Time is when, God....lounge!!"
Scarface
I never took the time to search...I just remember them from all the intros I use to hear them do on the doo wop mixtapes
Never heard them on the radio at the time (kiss..wbls ..hot 97)
But I do recall them being in that compilation song with Lauryn Hill call the Ladies that Funk Flex homeboy Big Kap put out...
THEY GOT A VIDEO!!
I remember seeing it on BET rap city
PMS was SEXY as fukk!!
At the 1:52 mark
GPBear
The Tape Crusader
I know it’s “supposed” to be an anti-drug song, but I have a hard time believing people weren’t getting high to “White Lines”. Even as a kid I felt that was a song made to do blow to 