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hip hop is alive and is breathing perfectlyMainstream is dead not hip hop itself
just saying, nobody bitched about Hip Hop's state until around the time Candyshop came out; be real.& i didn't say it put him on the map, but it is hands down one of the biggest singles this decade (saleswise).
Quote from: rapsodie sees the bitch in you on September 07, 2009, 12:21:19 AMQuote from: Chamillitary Click on September 07, 2009, 12:11:28 AMQuote from: midwestryder on September 07, 2009, 12:07:20 AMQuote from: Chamillitary Click on September 06, 2009, 11:49:06 PMjust saying, nobody bitched about Hip Hop's state until around the time Candyshop came out; be real.& i didn't say it put him on the map, but it is hands down one of the biggest singles this decade (saleswise).i thought in da club sold more. what are yo utalking about nobody bitched about Hip Hop's state until around the time Candyshop came out. people have been bitching about the state of hip hop since cash money came around. hip hop has not been right since after 1997.i don't know which sold more, but whose to say 50 Cent can't have two top selling singles within the same decade?& no, no, no; the "Hip Hop Is Dead" movement started shortly before Nas' album & then Nas' album was like the "official" shit.i don't remember people saying "Hip Hop is dead" when Dre put out 2001 & Eminem was dropping classics & Xzibit dropped Restless & Wu Tang was still putting out that dope shit.We weren't. But the 80s heads probably were. A lot of people complained when N.W.A came out and gangsta rap became the new trend.i really couldn't tell you, but it took off & people got over it fairly fast lol.i doubt they went into "Hip Hop is over", crisis-mode; but like i said, i couldn't tell you.
Quote from: Chamillitary Click on September 07, 2009, 12:11:28 AMQuote from: midwestryder on September 07, 2009, 12:07:20 AMQuote from: Chamillitary Click on September 06, 2009, 11:49:06 PMjust saying, nobody bitched about Hip Hop's state until around the time Candyshop came out; be real.& i didn't say it put him on the map, but it is hands down one of the biggest singles this decade (saleswise).i thought in da club sold more. what are yo utalking about nobody bitched about Hip Hop's state until around the time Candyshop came out. people have been bitching about the state of hip hop since cash money came around. hip hop has not been right since after 1997.i don't know which sold more, but whose to say 50 Cent can't have two top selling singles within the same decade?& no, no, no; the "Hip Hop Is Dead" movement started shortly before Nas' album & then Nas' album was like the "official" shit.i don't remember people saying "Hip Hop is dead" when Dre put out 2001 & Eminem was dropping classics & Xzibit dropped Restless & Wu Tang was still putting out that dope shit.We weren't. But the 80s heads probably were. A lot of people complained when N.W.A came out and gangsta rap became the new trend.
Quote from: midwestryder on September 07, 2009, 12:07:20 AMQuote from: Chamillitary Click on September 06, 2009, 11:49:06 PMjust saying, nobody bitched about Hip Hop's state until around the time Candyshop came out; be real.& i didn't say it put him on the map, but it is hands down one of the biggest singles this decade (saleswise).i thought in da club sold more. what are yo utalking about nobody bitched about Hip Hop's state until around the time Candyshop came out. people have been bitching about the state of hip hop since cash money came around. hip hop has not been right since after 1997.i don't know which sold more, but whose to say 50 Cent can't have two top selling singles within the same decade?& no, no, no; the "Hip Hop Is Dead" movement started shortly before Nas' album & then Nas' album was like the "official" shit.i don't remember people saying "Hip Hop is dead" when Dre put out 2001 & Eminem was dropping classics & Xzibit dropped Restless & Wu Tang was still putting out that dope shit.
Quote from: Chamillitary Click on September 06, 2009, 11:49:06 PMjust saying, nobody bitched about Hip Hop's state until around the time Candyshop came out; be real.& i didn't say it put him on the map, but it is hands down one of the biggest singles this decade (saleswise).i thought in da club sold more. what are yo utalking about nobody bitched about Hip Hop's state until around the time Candyshop came out. people have been bitching about the state of hip hop since cash money came around. hip hop has not been right since after 1997.
Quote from: Chamillitary Click on September 07, 2009, 12:40:58 AMQuote from: rapsodie sees the bitch in you on September 07, 2009, 12:21:19 AMQuote from: Chamillitary Click on September 07, 2009, 12:11:28 AMQuote from: midwestryder on September 07, 2009, 12:07:20 AMQuote from: Chamillitary Click on September 06, 2009, 11:49:06 PMjust saying, nobody bitched about Hip Hop's state until around the time Candyshop came out; be real.& i didn't say it put him on the map, but it is hands down one of the biggest singles this decade (saleswise).i thought in da club sold more. what are yo utalking about nobody bitched about Hip Hop's state until around the time Candyshop came out. people have been bitching about the state of hip hop since cash money came around. hip hop has not been right since after 1997.i don't know which sold more, but whose to say 50 Cent can't have two top selling singles within the same decade?& no, no, no; the "Hip Hop Is Dead" movement started shortly before Nas' album & then Nas' album was like the "official" shit.i don't remember people saying "Hip Hop is dead" when Dre put out 2001 & Eminem was dropping classics & Xzibit dropped Restless & Wu Tang was still putting out that dope shit.We weren't. But the 80s heads probably were. A lot of people complained when N.W.A came out and gangsta rap became the new trend.i really couldn't tell you, but it took off & people got over it fairly fast lol.i doubt they went into "Hip Hop is over", crisis-mode; but like i said, i couldn't tell you.I'm pretty sure they were. A lot of people called it the death of rap. The difference is that it was mostly contained to magazine articles and older people who were hip hop fans in the 80s, and those of us who grew up on 90s rap weren't being exposed to their opinions. The internet wasn't really big back then so every person's opinion on the planet wasn't being broadcast. Even in the late 90s/early 00s, not everyone had internet and blogging and forums hadn't really taken off so it wasn't like today where we are being exposed to every person's opinion.
Well now that Deathrow are bringing out all this unreleased i think hip hop is going to be good again, im very stuck in my ways and continously listen to stuff from the 90's, its what i love. I do check out new stuff but i never get that excited, maybe im just getting too old maybe im just ignorant but i like what i like so long live 90's hip hop.
i would say '90-'00 >>> any decade, for rap.i do admit i like gangsta rap more-so than any other type of rap, so i suppose you can call me biased.but like i was saying, classics were dropped even after Biggie died.the last true classic, that people throw in the conversations with the Biggie's & the Pac's is Eminem's MMLP.maybe mainstream music was dying at that time, but surely not to the state it's at now; at least they were rapping.
I feel like everyone has lost sight of what hip hop is all about. Everyone is all caught up in the so-called “hip hop” lifestyle and this auto-tune crap. There are a few mainstream artists that I still have respect for like Jay-Z. Death of auto-tune is DOPE. Love how he speaks the truth. What are your thoughts on hip hop today?
Quote from: Chamillitary Click on September 07, 2009, 09:24:21 AMi would say '90-'00 >>> any decade, for rap.i do admit i like gangsta rap more-so than any other type of rap, so i suppose you can call me biased.but like i was saying, classics were dropped even after Biggie died.the last true classic, that people throw in the conversations with the Biggie's & the Pac's is Eminem's MMLP.maybe mainstream music was dying at that time, but surely not to the state it's at now; at least they were rapping.I see The Blueprint and Stillmatic get thrown around as classics as well. Get Rich Or Die Tryin, Speakerboxx/The Love Below...Not too many after that, but there's a good reason. A classic is an album that has stood the test of time. We probably won't know more of this decade's classics until its over.
Quote from: rapsodie sees the bitch in you on September 07, 2009, 11:59:52 AMQuote from: Chamillitary Click on September 07, 2009, 09:24:21 AMi would say '90-'00 >>> any decade, for rap.i do admit i like gangsta rap more-so than any other type of rap, so i suppose you can call me biased.but like i was saying, classics were dropped even after Biggie died.the last true classic, that people throw in the conversations with the Biggie's & the Pac's is Eminem's MMLP.maybe mainstream music was dying at that time, but surely not to the state it's at now; at least they were rapping.I see The Blueprint and Stillmatic get thrown around as classics as well. Get Rich Or Die Tryin, Speakerboxx/The Love Below...Not too many after that, but there's a good reason. A classic is an album that has stood the test of time. We probably won't know more of this decade's classics until its over.true, but Eminem made such an impact with the race thing & his music (even if he has a majority white listeners) still sells as good as anybody.i would say his first two albums are true, undisputable classics; but i am an Eminem fan, so don't listen to me.