I recently had to do an essay on the differences between rap/hiphop in the 1990's and rap/hiphop in the 2000's.
Well while in the process, i actually realized how much it has changed.
During the 1990's we had rappers mainly from New York and Los Angeles. While thinking of the older rap songs from various artists (ie: 2pac, BIG, NWA, snoop dogg, jayz, nas, wu tang, etc), i noticed that songs from the 1990's were often talking about real life. Things such as surviving in the ghetto and all that kind of stuff.
Now looking at the 2000's. It is dominated by rappers from the South. One thing i noticed is that ever since the South became more popular, the songs started talking only about girls, cars, clothes, and jewelry. Im not saying all southern artists rap about these but most of them are. (ie: ludacris, chingy, lil flip, jeezy, franchise boys). T.I is a great example of a real rapper that still talks about real life.
Just wondering your guys thoughts.
2007-02-05
19:44:18
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