West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => Outbound Connection => Topic started by: TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96' on November 21, 2004, 02:23:52 AM
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Is it too early to mourn, is it to late to ride?
I remember where I was the day hip-hop died. For me it was Sept. 13th, 1996. It was a beautiful summer day in one of the midwestern towns where one's own little world seems isolated and unique from the unknown world outside. I was a young buck, barely even highschool age, just girls, playing ball tryin' to be like Rodman, carrying a backpack, with an Oakley hat on backwards, and a pair of headphones on. Then someone must of started a rumor that 2pac died and the world believed it.
Still I never believed that lie. 2pac faked his own death and there is proof on sites all across the internet. Even Chuck D said it. He's chillin in West Africa or in someplace like the Wonder if Heaven's Got a Ghetto video. Safe from harm, just chillin out relaxin. Still he must not be makin music anymore cause he never reappeared like he said he was going to 7 years later on Sept. 13th, 2003.
Anyway, the day 2pac died I bumped "Life Goes On" off the All Eyes on Me album. I called up my friends and everyone was shocked. Some white people said big deal... "Just another dead nigger who sold drugs and rapped out violence." But to real hip-hop heads he was a revolutionary, I heard he was our generations James Deen.
Although hip-hop may not have officially died till 2001, and every once in a while we will still get a decent song or two. Still, I think it was back when 2pac was reportedly dead, that hip-hop began to deviate from it's roots and branches and leaves began to fall off.
............So where were you the day hip-hop died?
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I don't remember.
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was never a Pac fan, so it never died
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Um, in case you didn't realise, hiphop is very much still alive and kicking, you just need to go a little deeper than the stuff you hear on the radio and see on MTV 24/7.
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Um, in case you didn't realise, hiphop is very much still alive and kicking, you just need to go a little deeper than the stuff you hear on the radio and see on MTV 24/7.
co-sign...
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The G the R the O the U the P the I the E... groupieeee, you'se a groupieeeeee!!
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Some white people said big deal... "Just another dead nigger who sold drugs and rapped out violence."═ But to real hiphop heads he was a revolutionary, I heard he was our generations James Deen.
::)
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was never a Pac fan, so it never died
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lol at this topic
if hiphop died 09/13/96, why does your name say "1985-2001"? And for the record, hiphop's been around way longer than since 1985...
I used to be a big Pac fan and i still like his music. You can believe in what you want as for him being dead or not, but saying his death was the death of hiphop is a clear symptom of groupie syndrome. Pac was an important artist and he might have the largest cult following in hiphop, yet his music was neither ground-breaking and very influential, nor the last of some certain type of hiphop ever, so saying hiphop died with him lacks any valid point to back it up
there's no day hiphop died. I never knew how well-thought out Kweli's line really was. but there's nothing that really indicates something you can call death, it's just changed and is changing constantly and while it might do so for the worse, it's still stupid to call it 'DEAD' IMO
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Um, in case you didn't realise, hiphop is very much still alive and kicking, you just need to go a little deeper than the stuff you hear on the radio and see on MTV 24/7.
co-sign...
co-co-sign... :D
the truth is.. dont let -anyone- tell you what hiphop is.. find it for yourself..
coz hiphop isn't about following trends..
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Um, in case you didn't realise, hiphop is very much still alive and kicking, you just need to go a little deeper than the stuff you hear on the radio and see on MTV 24/7.
co-sign...
co-co-sign... :D
the truth is.. dont let -anyone- tell you what hiphop is.. find it for yourself..
coz hiphop isn't about following trends..
exactly.
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Where was I the day hip-hop died?
I was snorting 6 lines of coke off a toilet seat in a Port-O-Potty in downtown Miami. I remember that day as if it were yesterday.
Wait...that did happen yesterday. ;D
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^hahahahah
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its obvious you are one of those white boy elitists who only listens to nerd rap, so im not buying your story. hiphop will never die. it just evolved. deal with it, you lame fuck.
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its obvious you are one of those white boy elitists who only listens to nerd rap
i don't think so. those will not worship Pac and tell you hiphop died with him
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That post was some emotional faggotry if I've ever seen it.
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its a lot of work being an idiot isnt it?
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That post was some emotional faggotry if I've ever seen it.
lol
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Welcome back infinite?
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^1st thing i thought wen i saw this
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That post was some emotional faggotry if I've ever seen it.
I think I'm gonna do what you did and put some quotes from this dude in my sig.
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Welcome back infinite?
Nah, he would of made a thread called:
"Where were you the day Israel was formed?"
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Um, in case you didn't realise, hiphop is very much still alive and kicking, you just need to go a little deeper than the stuff you hear on the radio and see on MTV 24/7.
co-sign...
co-co-sign... :D
the truth is.. dont let -anyone- tell you what hiphop is.. find it for yourself..
coz hiphop isn't about following trends..
co-co-co sign the co-sign
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That post was some emotional faggotry if I've ever seen it.
lol yeah...this has got to be hajj...or, bka infinite
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hip hop died in late 2001.By 2002 i noticed that rap was coming more commercial and by 2003 when i got a better computer and started reading and posting at forums that the music industry is interested in creating hit songs more then real music.Artists like E40 ,too short,spice 1 cant sell anymore cause they ain't considered mainstream and when 213 comes with groupy love which is a mainstream single the cd still didn't sell.show it goes to show that the west gets no love even if you gotta mainstream single and it gets played and promoted. ;D
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also pretty sure this guy is infinite :D
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hip hop died in late 2001.By 2002 i noticed that rap was coming more commercial and by 2003 when i got a better computer and started reading and posting at forums that the music industry is interested in creating hit songs more then real music.Artists like E40 ,too short,spice 1 cant sell anymore cause they ain't considered mainstream and when 213 comes with groupy love which is a mainstream single the cd still didn't sell.show it goes to show that the west gets no love even if you gotta mainstream single and it gets played and promoted. ;D
Word up!
Word life!
Word is definitely life. Although we shouldn't be really concerned with dates, facts and figures (we are concerned with the reflection eternal)... Still, I myself put the date at 2001 as well. That's the year that, like you said, the lines between hip-hop and business, artform and entertainment, began to blurr so much so that it's hard to distinquish the real from the fake. And thus hip-hop had a hard attack, and fell into a deep and permanent coma.
You were also complaining about record sales. And I think that illegal internet downloading has played a role in that. Those artists can't sell anymore. Artists are getting desperate, and with hip-hop on life-support, artists are trying to follow that played out formula (club song, song about bitches, song about money, song about being a gangsta) doing anything the label says to get their album out.
RIP Hip-Hop.
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^ just a note.. as much as i like reflection eternal since it.. there have been many dope albums.. some less some more dope...
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Hip-hop is not dead but many things artists do to sell albums need to die like having a song formula