Why Did 80s Legends Fall Off So Fast?

[bouncy]

I just watched an ep of the sopranos where vanilla ices behind the music came on the tv while Jackie jr and his man were hatching their plan to take ralphies card game. And I quote:


"Who the fukk is this a$$hole? What did he have like one song?"

That was the sopranos, and around the time vanilla ice started come back. I bet that episode was either around 2004 or before that. Which one was it so I can look it up?

When vanilla ice started doing that reality show, I forget the name, he started getting hot again. He's doing shows again, at least he was.

 

[Big Mel]

"Hot" must have a different meaning to you.

 

[bouncy]

"Hot" must have a different meaning to you.

It's not me, it is what it is. I remember him and mc hammer had a show with thousands of people, and he was the headliner. Then he got his own reality show about building and repairing stuff on hgtv I think it was. Then he was in movies, not the main parts but was part of the movie. That is hot for artists now, let along someone whose last hit was in 1991.

 

[I love Latina women]

The genre was so young, that brand new styles and concepts were being created at a break neck speed..

I remember one summer Das Efx was like then 10 months later n1ggas was like because something more fresh had come out..There was almost a yearly evolution of trends, styles, slang and fashion....

Mainstream rap hasn't really evolved much at all since the summer of '97.. This is why people like Jay-Z can rap about the same exact things he was saying 17 years ago and not many people will call him on it or say he fell off...

this, basically

i couldn't have said it any better

 

[Darealtwo1]

You deleted you Thisis50 profile MIC don't play dumb


So much irrelevance here…….

nikka dats ovo fest..nikka dats drakes crowd. u acting like all dem people came to see 50 perform those songs. no nikka. 50 couldnt pull that crowd if he begged

 

[mc_brew]

it's simple... back in the 80s rap was so new that the record companies didn't know how to market it nor did the artists themselves know what to expect business wise.... now labels have developed a formula for what sells and rappers are more business savvy... that is all....

 

[up in here]

Back then it was only like 2-3 rap magazines. If you wasn't in them you was not seen. Wasn't no Internet that rappers could fall back on to stay "relevant", no twitter, instagram, Facebook, blogs, websites, youtube, mixtapes. If you ain't have something poppin you was out the game. Nowadays rappers are just a lot more visible, even when their time is up.

 

[nineteeneightysix]

80's rappers were like Blockbuster, the internet came through with a bang and they failed to adapt...

 

[intilectual recipricol]

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