Will There Ever Be A Rapper Who Can Perform Untill Their 70?

[Mike Statik]

Let's get real the rolling stones, and most of old rock groups are fukking wack too at this point too.

But they've manage to get away with it, for 25 odd years.

But with rap, it's a Genre that's only 30 years old, so you can't compare it with rock and shyt

i seen the rollin stones and acdc within the past 10 years and they were better than ANY hip hop show ive ever seen

and ive seen em all from Jay and Nas...to Wu and Rakim

 

[Will Ross]

Yes when we are old we will want to listen to people that we grew up on. Things that remind us of our youth. you will have young people that will dig it too.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

the people that go to the shows aren't there to hear the new music and i wouldn't think the Stones perform much new stuff (when was the last time they even released an album?) the younger people tho peep the show are there to hear the classics just like the oldies who grew up with it are there to hear the classics.

imagine in 20-30 years that Wu-Tang goes on a worldwide tour? not even counting anythign they drop (group or solo) in the coming 20 years, they already have hours & hours worth of classic material to perform. anyone who was a fan in the 90s/early 2000's would want to see them rip through songs like Bring Da Ruckus, CREAM, METHOD Man, Chessboxin, Triumph, Incarcerated Scarfaces, Cold World, Shimmy Shimmy Ya, Winter Warz, Mighty Healthy, Bobby Digital, New Wu, Heaterz, For Heaven's Sake, etc etc

hip hop is all about the young kids... if you don't cater to the club, radio, internet crowd, you ain't selling records right NOW.. so you damn sure ain't selling out a show at 70..

the first problem is most your fans will be 50-70 them damn selves.. you think you'll still be going to hip hop concerts at 50? 60? would you even want to hear about killing nikkas and selling drugs by that time.. so much you wanna be packed in an arena with 15-25 year olds?

and these ain't soft or classic rock fans.. these are nikkaS... your old ass is gonna have problems up in there...


now these older artists someone else named are still doing it.. but that's clubs and little shows. and those dudes were top 5 of their era. also it wasn't TOO much cussing and talking bout fukking hoes and getting fukked up while hustling crack. they can do that

but if we talking rolling stones status... no never.. unless its drake, 3000, fugees... that i kinda rap and kinda sing type groove

 

[bertyr]

nas @ 70 droppin pillmatic probably'll look like he's 35. Dude don't age.

 

[charmander]

weezy already done had the game on lock for 20+ years and he only 30, by the time he's 50 he gon be 40 years strong in this shyt

 

[Oroko Saki]

The Goat will still be rapping the same way and he'll still look 20 when he's 70

KRS-One - 47 been touring for 25 years and drops albums every 1-2 years.
Big Daddy Kane - 44 been touring for 25 years and is dropping an album soon.
Doug E. Fresh - 46 been doing shows for 28 years
LL - 45, been touring for 27 years and is about to drop an album so let's see what that tour is like


Jay-Z is 43 *cough* and still very relevant and packs large venues.

So it aint a far cry to say that one of these cats will still be doing it 20 years later sans maybe LL cuz he may be fully devoted to acting by then.

 

[DaveyDave]

weezy already done had the game on lock for 20+ years and he only 30, by the time he's 50 he gon be 40 years strong in this shyt

i don't know where you leanred to count but Wayne hasn't been in the game for 20+ years let alone releasing solo albums or running the game for that long

 

[ridge]

those bands are from te 60s

their fans + new ones will go watch

as rap fans grow up + younger generations catch on, they will stil go to watch their favrite rappers

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

those bands are from te 60s

their fans + new ones will go watch

as rap fans grow up + younger generations catch on, they will stil go to watch their favrite rappers

Hip hop hyperbole, unless the kid is really into the art, try telling the average 12-17 year old to come to a run dmc, ll cool j, fat boys, Big daddy kane, edmd concertthey'd give you the and move on. My nephew (16) and his friends even give me that reaction about a lot of clasic material from the 90's. Hip hop hasnt proven to be a genre that younger generations go back and pay homage to and appreciate. And most of the dudes out right now are no where near making classics and shyt another generation would be rocking with.

 

[Dat Migo]

i don't know where you leanred to count but Wayne hasn't been in the game for 20+ years let alone releasing solo albums or running the game for that long

I don't know where you leanred to spell:ponder:

 

[DaveyDave]

I don't know where you leanred to spell:ponder:

oh no a mistake in my typing

 

[up in here]

Jigga man still going strong

and of course the remix album

 

[SunZoo]

i don't know about filling arenas like Rolling Stones but i think MC's like Nas, some members of Wu, OutKast (if they performed together), Big Daddy Kane still rocks shows now so i don't see why he wouldn't keep going, probably Snoop.

there are a lot i could see doing it

snoop could easily be doing his george clinton thing at 70

 

[RajWatts]

 

[NYChase718]

Jigga man still going strong

and of course the remix album

some futuristic flow, where he cant really hear the headfones too well so his rhymes flow off beat in some odd way over the instrumental and his old ass stans praise it as genius