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11-03-2010, 02:25 PM
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Re: Tupac or Biggie
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11-03-2010, 03:14 PM
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Re: Tupac or Biggie
Lil wayne
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11-03-2010, 05:18 PM
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11-03-2010, 04:47 PM
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Re: Tupac or Biggie
Easily one of the best song of the 90's and I feel Tupac's best. LOVE this song. And for people that say rap is pointless, this is one of the better ones.
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11-04-2010, 02:27 AM
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Re: Tupac or Biggie
@Chico: Have you seen the parody of that video? That's got some of the most insanely stupid, yet quotable lines I've heard in a while.
"****ing magnets, how do they work?" Lolllllllllllllll, I'd be suprised if they got a 6th grade education. @DRave: Don't bother telling her how much they suck, and/or how mentally challenged they are. I've tried that route, and all it does is turn Clown Posse Nation against you. Either she will eventually see it for herself, or she'll turn into one of them. When I see stories like the one about that "Juggalette" who was pregnant, had the baby, and the baby died at birth because her mother didn't know drinking, smoking lots of weed and taking assloads of prescription drugs was bad for the fetus, and how the mother blamed it on the doctors, well it tells me everything I need to know about them. I do gotta give props to ICP though, if it wasn't for them I wouldn't be able to enjoy ICP parodies because they wouldn't exist. So bless them for that, even if they are turning a large part of my fellow young adults into idiots with no future. As for Drake/Lil' Wayne, I do enjoy them but I don't think lyrically they match up at all with Biggie and Pac. And even though they are defined as "rappers", when I hear songs where they are speaking almost normally, well it's hard to call them rappers after that. I'm diggin the music but the lyrics just don't compare. For example I love that song "Every Girl" by Young Money but when the entire song is talking about wanting to screw every girl in the world, it's not even comparible to songs like Brenda's Got a Baby.
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02-11-2011, 01:52 PM
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02-14-2011, 12:08 PM
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02-15-2011, 11:05 AM
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FD your right, lets add Twilight to the list on its negative impact. How can we clean this up?
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02-14-2011, 01:04 PM
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Re: Tupac or Biggie
I must say, I am NOT a fan of rap music in general, especially gangsta' rap. I realize a lot of that is because I can't relate to what the music is about. While others hear art, I hear a lot of stuff about violence and murder. Then again, I was a big fan of some heavy metal groups back in the day, Metallica and Iron Maiden. So, I'm sure those who hate heavy metal would probably have the same argument against that type of music as I would rap.
Then again, for me, it's not all rap I hate. I LOVE Run DMC back in the day! Their music was fun! Old school beastie Boys, Tone Loc....etc...that stuff was so much fun to listen to. But not gangsta' rap, at least not me.
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02-15-2011, 06:48 AM
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Re: Tupac or Biggie
both of these guys were irrelevant in main stream rap, until they got shot. go figure
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02-15-2011, 06:52 AM
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02-15-2011, 09:03 AM
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Hail Raiser
 
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Re: Tupac or Biggie
They were both quite relevant before being shot & killed.
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02-15-2011, 11:17 AM
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Playmaker
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Re: Tupac or Biggie
Yeah i dont know whats up with firstdown going all Joe Liberman on us
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02-15-2011, 11:19 AM
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Playmaker
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02-15-2011, 07:13 PM
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Playmaker
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Re: Tupac or Biggie
All this talk about gangster rap is irrelevant today. "Gangster" rap has been dead for close to a decade. The current rappers who came from that genre have moved on to more dance-oriented tracks- Snoop, Dre (who produces more than raps anyway), etc. The "mainstream" acts like BEP and TI aren't even on the same skill level as cats back in the 90s (including gangster rappers)... and the content is all about partying and making it rain, anyway. The popular representatives of new school hip hop (like Kanye and Lupe Fiasco) are resonating with suburban kids... also a lot of hipster acceptance, if you will. Most of the stuff I listen to is considered "underground"- and none of those emcees are talking about killing people and dealing drugs.
And back when the 90s introduced the "gangster" genre, what would you have young black men from inner-cities rapping about? Jane Austen novels and tupperware parties? You may not like or even consider hip hop a legitimate form of music, but its longevity (when people were saying it was going to die out like a fad back when it started) and current dominance in the music world has proven otherwise. Gangster rappers, like any other rappers or singers, are artists of varying degrees. And artists- whether they're composing songs, writing books, shooting movies or designing a web site- express themselves by singular experience. The "game" was the only thing some rappers knew. Pretty interesting that many parts of America had no idea what went on in the inner cities (gangs, corrupt cops, cycle of violence) before "Boyz N' The Hood" and "Menace II Society" hit the big screens. Do you think those movies shouldn't have been made either? It's pretty much the same thing- movies, music, and literature all bring a slice of life to an audience that can both relate to its content and those that are just now being introduced. Not all art is meant to be positive and uplifting. We can start heading down a slippery slope with video games, too (GTA, anyone?). |
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