rap is going through it's "hair metal" phase

[Don Jacob]

right now i'm sitting here with the flu on a friday night watching some old ass 80's metal videos  on MTV2.

now the reoccuring themes i'm seeing is
-the objectifying of women
-flashy cars
-fake machismo
-corny ballods
-jewlery

now hmmmmmmm fast forward to today what do rap videos look like,lol

now if history has taught us anything two things are going to happen here

1. some nirvana type group is going to spring up and change things
2. another music genre will come into dominance.

[eS El Duque]

hip-hop been around for a long ass time....the hair metal for hip-hop started in 1998 or so

[Don Jacob]

well it's got a ways to go then


hair metal -1979-1990


while we're on this note of hair metal

nirvana didn't kill hair metal....if Guns N roses never happened i seriously doubt nirvana woulda knocked down that door

[West C. Connected]

Well Kanye's both popular and not one of those bling rappers.

[eS El Duque]

Well Kanye's both popular and not one of those bling rappers.

yea, but he's one of those poppy commercial rappers

i gotta give props to Kanye though, he hates Good Charlotte as much as I do

[West C. Connected]

Well Kanye's both popular and not one of those bling rappers.

yea, but he's one of those poppy commercial rappers

Why? Because he wears throwback jerseys, raps about bitches and drugs, has expensive videos and does everything he can do get people to buy his CDs? He doesn't do any of those in my opinion.

[KURUPTION-81]

i wouldnt say kanye was commercial, he may have been made commercial by his record sales. If u c what im sayin.

[davida.b.]

Its kinda funny when you think about, cuz hair metal didn't completely die out, it just became really underground. So when you think about it, when people have lost interest for bling bling in the mainstream, Cash Money Millionares could officially qualify as underground hip hop.

[West C. Connected]

lol Good point, rich underground rappers that'd be something.

[eS El Duque]

Well Kanye's both popular and not one of those bling rappers.

yea, but he's one of those poppy commercial rappers

Why? Because he wears throwback jerseys, raps about bitches and drugs, has expensive videos and does everything he can do get people to buy his CDs? He doesn't do any of those in my opinion.

lol, guess you havn't heard his album or watch his video's. Well, that's what dick riding does to ya.

just my opinion, that's all

[Shallow]

Well Kanye's both popular and not one of those bling rappers.

yea, but he's one of those poppy commercial rappers

i gotta give props to Kanye though, he hates Good Charlotte as much as I do

I remember when he put down Good Charlotte for using the "this is the anthem" line by Jay Z. He said that that's Jays line and they shouldn't use it. This really made me dislike Kanye. But for Good Charlotte's sake, I hate those guys more than anybody, but for intelligents sake. Jay Z takes more lines any one, so why is it bad when some one uses one his. Kanye is either stupid or a ay Z ass kisser, either way I'm not impressed. I don't even like his music that much.

[Kill]

Well Kanye's both popular and not one of those bling rappers.

yea, but he's one of those poppy commercial rappers

Why? Because he wears throwback jerseys, raps about bitches and drugs, has expensive videos and does everything he can do get people to buy his CDs? He doesn't do any of those in my opinion.

well he does rap about bitches

[West C. Connected]

Well Kanye's both popular and not one of those bling rappers.

yea, but he's one of those poppy commercial rappers

Why? Because he wears throwback jerseys, raps about bitches and drugs, has expensive videos and does everything he can do get people to buy his CDs? He doesn't do any of those in my opinion.

well he does rap about bitches

Not like other people though, plus he doesn't really do it to sell.

[Primo]

I have seen a growing trend of more and more underground rappers becoming more popular. I can tell you its changing because the only people buying the Ja Rule are girls, gays, and club guys..
Look at Dilated.. I would never expect them to be on my local radio countdown at night in a million years.

[Throwback]

kanye doesnt make music for commercial succes i think, more because he's good at it ( prob the only thing he's good at) and he likes doin it. and the mass suddenly likes it