Lyrical Lounge Forum The State Of Hip Hop and Socie..

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Ya'll got me missing Baton Rouge now! Damn, it has been 4 years since I've been back to LA!!! ::cry:: I need some crawfish!!! Hey people, air mail me some crawfish!!! ::suprised:: Southern girl dying out here in CA without that sutff. ::mad:: LOL

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sorry Cat...crawfish season just ended like last week

...maybe the week before...

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that's it. You've entirely missed my point. I mean, say hypothetically you were a black rock musician. How fun would it be to have been turned down for gigs and even getting signed because of your skin color? People wouldn't say you were a guitarist or singer, no, you're that "black guy in the rock band"

And honestly who really gives a f**k about Eminem anymore. All the money in the world wouldn't make him as good as he used to be, before he constantly whined about his mama and his daughter and "8 Mile". He's ANOTHER plague on white hip-hoppers. The VERY FIRST thing anyone thinks of when it comes to a white hip-hop musician is Eminem. OH MY GOD i'm sick of being compared to that white trash bleach-blonde boy. When someone mentions a new rapper, all of the sudden, the first image that comes to their head is black skin and gold chains (and fried chicken if you're racist). But if he's white then automatically he's typecast as either an Eminem or, dare I say it, a Jaime Kennedy stereotype. Gorram it.

Bryan i didn't miss your point. i just didn't agree with it. Yes Eminem did f**k up but that's not the point either. i understand you're sick of being labeled the "white rapper" and yes the black guy in the band is "the black musician" but he's still a musicisan and you're still a rapper. look you're white, that's how people see you. there's not much you can do about it. what you can do though is make them respect your skill, and instead of them being like "what's that white dude doing on stage" they'll be like "that white kid can spit". yes the general idea of a rapper is a big black guy with bling but the general idea of a rock star is an emo kid with a black mascara. if anything, you should be proud that you don't fit the norm. being different doesn't always mean you're better but at least you're different.

man i hate making sense...

Another example is Scott Storch. although there are a lot of white producers, if they're good they're not the white kid that makes beats, they're [insert name here].

i could have sworn Scott Storch was a n***a for the longest til i saw him on tv....

quite the shocker actually....

OOOooo... Jedi Mind Tricks is like Wu-Tang meets Xzibit LOL... I love them!!! Anyways, the underground is keeping hip hop alive. Even though people don't consider The Roots underground anymore, they constantly crank out GREAT hip hop. Jazzy Jeff dropped a CD recently that was off the chain. Talib Kweli is on the path to releasing some emcees that NEED the lime light. Jean Grae is sick! One of the greatest female emcees to touch a mic.

Please. Hip Hop never died and never will. There are too many flavors, too many ways to incorporate the sound into other genres. Check out Linkin Park. My boy Mike Shinoda dropped a BLAZIN album in Fort Minor. And his lable Machine Shop is about to unleash Styles of Beyond. Great emcees there.

Not to mention Lupe Fiasco, Slum Village, Little Brother, L.E.G.A.C.Y., the whole Hall of Justus, Phaorah Monch, Common, De La is still rockin it...

Please people.... anyone who says hip hop is dead DOESN"T REALLY LISTEN OR LOVE HIP HOP!!!!

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Yeah you know i'm with the old music all day...New edition ,Silk, Troop, Portrait, Jade, Mary J, Luth and Al...yeah u right we could write a hall of fame list and it would last the entire blog...Guy...man we could go on and on. But yeah I miss the days of R and B when music had a soul. But those days are gone...So now its all about getting your mixtape cd's together and making a collection you can get with on the everyday thing. Yeah lisa standsfield was the s**t...Been around the world and i i i...good s**t. Janet jackson when she was in her prime...Yup its gone now girl. Now u gotta listen to weak a*s songs about a guy going "suicuidal" cause some jawn wont talk to him. Weak a*s s**t. How u gonna have a song about suicide on the damn radio. What da hell is that?! But yeah man lets go on strike fuckem.[/quote]


Sorry i just had to put my 2 cents in. How in the hell are they gonna put a song by a 17yr old (just fyi) about suicide on the radio and just because they figure we haven't heard it enough they play it 15 times in less than an hour....I'm sorry but it they complain so much about censorship why in the hell are they gonna let a little kid like him (did I say he was 17 already??) talk about suicide when he's suppose to be appealing to younger generations?? So it's ok to talk about suide just as long and he doesn't say anything about b*****s, hoes, a*s, p***y, ect....? I just don't get it how is that ok?? When most suicides are committed by teenagers!! What's next family guy's scripts are going to become our bibles...lol sorry i'm just being retarded now.

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ok ok... if you are looking for good music (hip hop or otherwise) TURN OFF THE RADIO!!! (cue the Dead Prez music! LOL)

As for soul music... there is PLENTY of great soul music coming out. I write music reviews for an internet radio show called Honeysoul.com. There she does interviews with GREAT soul artists like MeShell NDegeOcello, Musiq, Choklate, Cherokee, Davina, Eric Roberson, Vikter Duplaix, Amel Larrieux, Carl Thomas (minus the Bad Boy influence) and so many more.

I mean wow y'all. I know the old school stuff is good but if you love music, you can find good stuff. Rahsaan Patterson, NEW Prince (yes he has some good new stuff), aw man... i could go on for DAYS!! LOL

lol...BJ mayne your the isssshhh right now!!!!! I've heard of this site I just haven't checked it out yet but I will..

~theta

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Dat's right, Theta! Tell yo friends about meeeeeeeeeee! LOL I'mma baaaaaaaaaaad man!

OH... and FYI, beware the recent Davina interview! That is one spacey lady!!

Hip Hop aint dead in your home...Or if u spit it yourself..But its dead everywhere else...

Niggaz like to downplay the fact hip hop is on the respirator because they and a few other dudes they deal with still practice the art in its truest form. But what they fail to realize is that if the next generation thinks that lil John is true hip hop and dont respect anything before this era...It doesnt even matter what we know to be real...because our history will have been erased by then...I cant even get a lil n***a to listen to nothing unless it got some dickhead talkin about his money and cant even formulate a sentence.

i think hip hop is in a coma personally. i don't think it will ever die because even if the golden age never returns, i'm confident there will always be a substantial underground movement unless motha f****s just stop thinking altogether...then we're fucked