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Mainstream/Underground argument (Lets set this str8)

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Suga Foot:
I like what I like.  I don't even think about how popular it is.  The only thing I won't do is bump a popular song in my car.  It's too cliche.

Trauma-san:

--- Quote from: abstruse on October 24, 2003, 07:38:29 PM ---If you dont understand the music, it doesn't mean its tight, nor wack. Pickup a book kids, build up on your vocabulary. And it's not only underground rappers who spit 'big/scientific' words, eminem does it all the time, when he raps about pills or drugs, kurupt and rosco always throw around that 'psychoschematic, automatic, static, bubonic, supersonic' shit all the time. Don't hate on an emcees ability to use 'superwords' to express his feelings, instead of spittin at a 3rd grade reading level, goddamn what hip-hop has come to nowadays...




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PUHHHHleeze with this patronizing Bullshit.  You KNOW if I say it's patronizing, it must be patronizing because I patronize people all the time.

Anyways, the reason people have a problem with rappers that use 10 dollar words has nothing to do with "not understanding" it.  Please.  I can understand anything they want to throw at me.  The problem is, these motherfuckers are spitting shit like that to TRY and sound smart.  A talented rapper doesn't need to rhyme 20 long ass words to sound intelligent.  "Blubonic schitzophrenic hydroponic supersonic"... fuck that.  Half the time the shit Kurupt spits when he uses that shit doesn't even work anyways.  You're telling us to pick up a dictionary, I know what the fuck the words mean, the problem is half the time Kurupt don't.  And all these 'conscious' rappers are so fucking full of themselves it's sickening.  Why is Rass Kass any more of a scholar on a subject than I or you are? Fuck that.  Nobody made him spokesman.  Sure, I don't mind him expressing his opinion on something, but we shouldn't hold him up to the light and say he's intelligent, or any more than any normal person is, just because he uses long words.  Case in point, he said some shit in that song about the history of the world about the nose being shot off of the Sphinx, when in reality, that never happened, it's just him talking shit about stuff he doesn't know half as much as he thinks he does about.

My point: The problem isn't we're too stupid, the problem is they're patronizing us with that long word bullshit.

Don Breezio:
none of them are trying to sound smart...its just their state of mind...its like if you read a book...if its all just basic shit, no detail, its boring...if you put detail, bigger words, it makes the story/songs more interesting...i dont wanna listen to some basic shit...i want something that will let me turn that cd off and feel like i have stimulated my mind...even if just for a second...not something that will make me feel dumber after i listen to it...if i wanted that i wouldnt've blocked AG on AIM

Citizen-Y:
Fix your goddamn avatar you inconsiderate motherfucker.

Nightfall:
no, every genre of music has a mainstream and underground, so why not hip-hop?!

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