Realness in West Coast music

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

I will go out on a limb and say that no gangsta rapper is 100% real. Even those that have actually done some of what they rap about exaggerate the fuck out of it. Having sold drugs does not make you any more of a drug kingpin than that hippie little white kid who did it in my high school. Carrying a gun on you does not make you any harder than your average member of the NRA, except those dudes actually know how to use theirs and have actually gone out and shot animals. And having been to jail doesn't make you anything but a fuckup.

I enjoy the music. But when these rappers get on television still portraying that character it makes me laugh. Nigga, you ain't any more likely to murder anyone than me.

Youre a little misinformed.

how so?

Youre grouping the entire gangsta rap community together is why.  I cant speak on rappers who i know nothin about personally (other then some shit ive read on the internet or somethin THEy said about themselves). But like I said, down here...if youre in that certain circle, you know whats really happenin. I could use Mitch as an example. Damn near all the shit he is talkin about, is real shit. He mostly raps about real San Diego shit, and triv that really goes down in the hood here. He's rappin about situations and sometimes events that I know first hand have happened. When Willie Jones got killed...happened. When Eddie got killed...happened. When the two ladies got killed over by Dr J's...happened. etc...etc. All Im sayin is, its different when you know for sure that what a certain rapper...or group of rappers is spittin is actually shit you know about. I can only assume that there are other rappers out there too that are spittin the truth. Are all of them? Hell naw. But they aint all fake either.

The ONE thing I would agree about the exaggeration (and this goes with all rap, not just gangsta rap) is how they pump up their bankroll far bigger than it is. Muhafuckas flossin rented cars and shit like its their own. Let damn near every rapper out there tell it....theyre ALL rich lol.

Even the ones who have done something they rap about exaggerate the fuck out of it. I think every rapper is fake to some degree, and I have yet to be proven wrong. I understand some rappers may incorporate some actual bad situations that went down, but at the same time that shit isn't happening 24-7 yet when it comes to gangsta rappers how come its almost always in 100% of their rhymes?

You say you have yet to be proven wrong...but when have you been proven right? Unless you are with these fools on the regular, you really have no clue what they have done....been doing....or do now. 

what are you talking about? Rappers get exposed left and right. I don't need to know someone personally to see them for what they are. A lot of this acting is so cartoonish its funny. But once a rapper hits the spotlight all the real details start to come out.

[Blasphemy]

Listen to 40 Ounces and a Fool" (Feat. Mystic) - off Paris third album and that's the general rapper (Well older ones). Newer ones talk about club and shit like that. but even the "gangsta rappers" make real shit every once and a while.


I mean lol if half these niggaz did the hsit they talked about then they'd be in jail. Hell Brotha Lynch has nothing on Big Lurch. Case and point

Brotha Lynch talks about eating people, Big lurch is serving life in prison for ACTUALLY eating a person.

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i know one thing if i did some shit that could get me locc'd up i'm not telling no damn fans about it,just so they can say damn he kept it networth hahaha, fucc that, that's why rappers should keep a lid on somethings, and most should say they doing they music just for entertainment purposes,if they really get down in the streets people in the streets will know yell

[Dre-Day]

the topic starter wants to hear names of songs, not names of rappers that are fake

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

There's plenty of "real" music. Just check the alternative scene.