Are you serious? How is this a hip hop discussion without one person mentioning 2Pac? 2Pac was and will always be the greatest rapper ever to live, the only person that could even come close to Pac is NaS
Mercy, can people talk about hip hop without always bringing up this or that rapper who ain't doing s**t. I mean it's nice to read through and see some new names mentioned. Can we stop talking about Pac and Biggie and talk about MCs with albums and new material coming out this year? And discuss some contemporary albums.Are you serious? How is this a hip hop discussion without one person mentioning 2Pac? 2Pac was and will always be the greatest rapper ever to live, the only person that could even come close to Pac is NaS
Mercy, can people talk about hip hop without always bringing up this or that rapper who ain't doing s**t. I mean it's nice to read through and see some new names mentioned. Can we stop talking about Pac and Biggie and talk about MCs with albums and new material coming out this year? And discuss some contemporary albums.
People bring up Pac like rap started in the 90s. The music is bigger than one performer.
how can you say that? Tupac and bggie were the heart and soul of rap in the 90's. When both of them died part of hip hop died with them. There is no rapper out there that could beat tupac. The new rap that's coming out is crap, the rappers today(besides NaS)don't put there heart and soul into their music anymore, rap has become too commercialized no a days, nobody seems unique
Lol, you give him to much credit. Rap/Hip Hop was here before them and it will continue to be here long after they died.
There were dozens of other artist in the 90's other than Tupac. He was just mainstream and happened to die tragically.
There were a handful of rappers in the early to mid 90's that were just as influential to the hip hop community as a whole, than just Tupac.
Pharcyde, Del the Funky Homosapien, Souls of Mischief, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and the list goes on and on.
blasphemy. tupac and biggie are in the upper echelon according to most. very few current artists are on the same level, and have the same influence.
not saying the pharcyde, or de la, or tribe have no influence at all (they are some of my favorites), but you're basically saying meh, tupac, whatever, if he didn't die no one would remember him.
So what if they're in the upper echelon?blasphemy. tupac and biggie are in the upper echelon according to most. very few current artists are on the same level, and have the same influence.
not saying the pharcyde, or de la, or tribe have no influence at all (they are some of my favorites), but you're basically saying meh, tupac, whatever, if he didn't die no one would remember him.
just wanted to know where all the hip hop fans are at!! I've been into the hip hop scene since 83 and currently listen to mostly nor cal artists but I don't limit myself there... I have a very extensive collection of artists from all over the states, I just have been really diggin what has been coming out of Northern California in the last couple of months. Anyone else into hip hop post some of your favorite artist of current days and what has been in your rotation lately. Currently I'm really liking the Newest release from Messy Marv, "Cake & Ice Cream, Vol. 2". Also have been playing Bueno "Maloof Money", PSD "A Star Iz Born", & Yay Boyz Present "Got Purp? Vol. 2"... How about ya'll???
...Biggie and 2Pac records talking about the good ol' days before hip hop sold out.
Now she's a gangsta rollin with gangsta b*tches
Always smokin blunts and gettin drunk
Tellin me sad stories, now she only f**ks with the funk
Stressin how hardcore and real she is
She was really the realest, before she got into showbiz
Chuck D told me to keep a sober mind//
And even though his sidekick liked the flavor of bass//
I swear to God Hip hop was about being drug free//
I swear to god hip hop is about the upliftment of humanity//
And I swear to god hip hop was what rock was not was what rock was not was not pop, (pop! pshhhh)//
Guess I was gassed!, see I remember when Dr Dre use to express
Himself about hating the chronic//
A few years later he's endorsing it while drinking gin and tonic//
Suburbanites that blast Mace learn their mad face from Onyx//
It was a rat race the first to properly use ebonics//
Dynomite like JJ, but it was a fad like Super Sonic//
Hip hop flipped from being artistic to a pop hit//
Mainstream took control and we cannot stop it//
Its a black art, being manipulated by white controllers//
Just like rock and roll is ....
Eh I haven't listened to wayne in a couple of months now, don't really plan to.
Anyone in here awaiting Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II? I guess it's supposed to come out towards the end of this month. Not getting my hopes up though.
I feel you but I'm just using that person's frame of reference.To be honest I'd like to forget that whole gangster rap era because it only perpetuated the terrible mainstream sh*t that leaked it's way into the 21st century. Very few good came from that era, yes I'm acknowledging the good artist.
Albums like that are always pushed back till you don't even care if it comes out or not. Its just retarded how they do that to us....