"she's not hip hop" says hip hop star

pettyofficerj said:
Seriously if you looked at bball way back then...and looked at it now....ud be like what the fuck happened

The level of gameplay is bonkers but I'm sure everyone wasn't happy with the direction it took
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you right tho. the analogy is great. iggy to some extent is what hip hop was back in the day...good or bad. nothing heavy...just fun and you can pretty much hear the words.
 
orejon4 said:
Okay, I'll stop drinking hater-ade.
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The problem with hip-hop these days. Addressing wackness is always considered hating. Lot of MCs back in the day thought Rappers Delight was corny. Doesn't mean they were hating. Just their opinion.
 
pettyofficerj said:
I'm sure old white guys were upset at how the game was changed when blacks took over the nba with their own style of balling, ranging from flash and style to rim shaking dunks

Same goes for football

'Oh man that's not REAL basketball!!!!!!' (Unathletic white guys standing around shooting lethargic jumpshots)
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its not the same thing...

:smt018

in order for your analogy to work black players would have always had a opportunity to play the sport in their league

A black ball player who basically copied a white players style and swagger on the court or field would be exalted as the new face of sport (Forbes magazine article of iggy was titled : “Hip Hop Is Run By A White, Blonde, Australian Woman” )

That black ballplayer copying white athletes style and play would become more popular faster than those white players who created the style.

thats why your analogy doesn't work.
 
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GFunk said:
The problem with hip-hop these days. Addressing wackness is always considered hating. Lot of MCs back in the day thought Rappers Delight was corny. Doesn't mean they were hating. Just their opinion.
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Repeat all of that again please, especially the bolded part.
 
GFunk said:
The problem with hip-hop these days. Addressing wackness is always considered hating. Lot of MCs back in the day thought Rappers Delight was corny. Doesn't mean they were hating. Just their opinion.
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You're spot on, GFunk. The essence of hip hop was calling out your competition lyrically. It's almost as if hip hop is now a product that has absolutely no quality control anymore.
 
orejon4 said:
You're spot on, GFunk. The essence of hip hop was calling out your competition lyrically. It's almost as if hip hop is now a product that has absolutely no quality control anymore.
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That's because you now have people who don't actually care about it dictating what it is/should be. No actual love for the culture in anyway outside of it being a way to get some possible quick money and fame.
 
Ra said:
That's because you now have people who don't actually care about it dictating what it is/should be. No actual love for the culture in anyway outside of it being a way to get some possible quick money and fame.
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This. And with most of the artists just hungry for a buck, your fellow artists no longer perform the self-critiquing function.
 
Ra said:
That's because you now have people who don't actually care about it dictating what it is/should be. No actual love for the culture in anyway outside of it being a way to get some possible quick money and fame.
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That is it in a nutshell. Quick money, moderate fame and a write-up in a popular hip-hop magazine posing by a high-end vehicle, holding a gun in hand, and other childish nonsense. If they land a role in a major motion picture, they have arrived. Despite all that, these folks labor to produce noise with no real rhythmic value. Just a drum machine, a Casio keyboard and a talented sound engineer. But there is not enough love for real music. However, the question is what is the definition of real music. For some, like myself, it is a combination of instrumentation, harmony and melody woven together by emotion. Today it is emotion first, then harmony, if any and finally melody. This, of course, is a generational issue.
 
Ra said:
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Lol, Lord Jamar is becoming hip-hop's angry old man. I would really like to hear from Chuck D and the Blastmaster for their thoughts on this issue, or rather, on issues generally. I may be dating myself here, but I think they had the most coherent philosophies in all of hip-hop.
 
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orejon4 said:
Lol, Lord Jamar is becoming hip-hop's angry old man. I would really like to hear from Chuck D and the Blastmaster for their thoughts on this issue. I may be dating myself here, but I think they had the most coherent philosophies in all of hip-hop.
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Considering Chuck D put in a little voice over cameo at the end of Rah Digga's single she put out last year around the time she did that interview, pretty safe bet where his thoughts lean. Not that he'd waste his time putting out his opinion on something like this anyhow.
 
Ra said:
Considering Chuck D put in a little voice over cameo at the end of Rah Digga's single she put out last year around the time she did that interview, pretty safe bet where his thoughts lean. Not that he'd waste his time putting out his opinion on something like this anyhow.
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i was talking friends of mine about iggy and rah digga and they said...."who gives a fuck"

they were getting tired of the whole convo.

it was funny and interesting at first now....
 
goodlove said:
i was talking friends of mine about iggy and rah digga and they said...."who gives a fuck"

they were getting tired of the whole convo.

it was funny and interesting at first now....
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As it should be. As I already said in this thread way back, Rah Digga simply gave her opinion on Iggy and the current state of Hip Hop. Other people took an ran with that shit and blew it up like those two had some big feud going on for their own agendas. Rah Digga hasn't even commented on Iggy, positively or negatively as far as I know, since that interview.
 
Ra said:
As it should be. As I already said in this thread way back, Rah Digga simply gave her opinion on Iggy and the current state of Hip Hop. Other people took an ran with that shit and blew it up like those two had some big feud going on for their own agendas. Rah Digga hasn't even commented on Iggy, positively or negatively as far as I know, since that interview.
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so true....yeah no doubt.
 
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