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hip-hop has it's fair share of parasites trying to make a quick buck.
Quote from: The Overfiend on August 18, 2007, 05:07:03 AMhip-hop has it's fair share of parasites trying to make a quick buck. hip-hop IS a fair share of parasites trying to make a quick buck. Most of these the street rappers play the part year round. They want to call it art to critics and real to the street fans. I've said this before, but to me it's as ridiculous as Al Pacino if he was doing interviews in 82 promoting Sarface while staying in the Tony Montana character. It's just a shame that most of the public doesn't see that. For them it's like pre-1985 pro wrestling when all the media portrayed it as real and the wrestlers wouldn't dare call it fake. Most people had an idea that it was but the wrestlers would never appear out of character in interviews. If Nas wants to be seen as a poet, an author and artist then he and more rappers need to come out and say it, and say it again, and then say it one more time. "My name is Nasir Jones and I am not a thug. I have never been a thug, and at best I was the kid tagging along with the real thugs trying to be cool. I use those childhood experiences and mix them with gangster movies I love to tell stories through music, but that's all they are; stories". But he has to realize that he cannot do that AND go on TV claiming to be a don in '96 and keeping Tupac from taking over his streets during the East/West feud. He cannot go on interviews and tell people Jay Z was this that and the third on the streets while Nas was more the real deal. And if he wants to speak out against gun violence on the street then he has to be willing to turn in and testify anyone he knows that committed it, for the sake of the community he's trying to help. If my blood brother needlessly shot and killed a man woman or child in the street I wouldn't even have to think about turning him in, and I'd stare him right in the eyes when I testify in court. It's not me who would be ashamed for turning in my own brother. It's him that should be ashamed for not turning in himself, not pleading guilty, and killing someone in the first place.
Quote from: Shallow on August 18, 2007, 09:54:15 AMQuote from: The Overfiend on August 18, 2007, 05:07:03 AMhip-hop has it's fair share of parasites trying to make a quick buck. hip-hop IS a fair share of parasites trying to make a quick buck. Most of these the street rappers play the part year round. They want to call it art to critics and real to the street fans. I've said this before, but to me it's as ridiculous as Al Pacino if he was doing interviews in 82 promoting Sarface while staying in the Tony Montana character. It's just a shame that most of the public doesn't see that. For them it's like pre-1985 pro wrestling when all the media portrayed it as real and the wrestlers wouldn't dare call it fake. Most people had an idea that it was but the wrestlers would never appear out of character in interviews. If Nas wants to be seen as a poet, an author and artist then he and more rappers need to come out and say it, and say it again, and then say it one more time. "My name is Nasir Jones and I am not a thug. I have never been a thug, and at best I was the kid tagging along with the real thugs trying to be cool. I use those childhood experiences and mix them with gangster movies I love to tell stories through music, but that's all they are; stories". But he has to realize that he cannot do that AND go on TV claiming to be a don in '96 and keeping Tupac from taking over his streets during the East/West feud. He cannot go on interviews and tell people Jay Z was this that and the third on the streets while Nas was more the real deal. And if he wants to speak out against gun violence on the street then he has to be willing to turn in and testify anyone he knows that committed it, for the sake of the community he's trying to help. If my blood brother needlessly shot and killed a man woman or child in the street I wouldn't even have to think about turning him in, and I'd stare him right in the eyes when I testify in court. It's not me who would be ashamed for turning in my own brother. It's him that should be ashamed for not turning in himself, not pleading guilty, and killing someone in the first place.If Nas was not a platinum rapper, would you have the same opinion. This cat... puts Illmatic as the greatest album ever, agrees with me that Nas is top 3 of all time, and still disses him. I don't get a thing this cat says.
Hip Hop needs to stop telling everyone who's real and who isn't and start being real, for real, and stop acting. Only then can it properly move forward as art.
Who cares about Fox News and Bil O'Reilly .... the best way to answer this guy is to ignore him ...