Good post. Too bad mugs over here in the states are all about that dollar and are no longer keeping hip hop grounded as an artistic & expressive culture the way they do overseas. I miss the rap battle days where dudes would give each other respect & acknowledge if the other person's rap skills were better.
Hell yeah. Smack dvd use to be cool till those sensitive lames started fighting when they lost. I love the angle of a teacher schooling that young dude. "You got apps older than you" fricking awesome.
Sign of the times. Smart and secure dudes would see someone besting them in a rap battle as a reason to stay motivated and keep their rhyme skills sharp rather than letting their egos get bruised. There will always be someone better than the next man, so the goal is always try to be that better man and not that next man IMO.
Dudes go in hard on each other but pay that respect to one another after its done. [YOUTUBE]wm59N41D96M[/YOUTUBE]
The first guy, yeah, but T-Rex was powerful, his time flew by. The first guy I kept waiting for him to finish...he'd pause like he was done..then start up again..Sheeeiit. Rex was straight NY hood, lmao.
I thought the first kid had better comical punch lines "I ain't saying yous a bitch but you're a female... dawg" I get tired of the dudes talking about how much they're gonna shoot people up. Eddie Griffin said it best real gangsta keep their damn mouths shut.
Yeah but his flow dragged. Half of it's delivery. He kept fucking with my attention span. Rex's so gangster he "got gangsters calling the Precinct" :smt037
If you mean did I grow up with it, of course I did. Was a big part of my life. Now, not so much cause I'm you know..OLDER,:smt039 but hip-hop's babyfeet are permanently in my heart. Oh the stories I could tell, lol....
