Hip hop isn't supposed to be all watered down like it is today. You take a guy like jeezy, he's supposed to be rhyming about moving crack and ****, but his lyrics are so milquetoast they don't reflect the rugged reality. the **** is being filtered and censored by the record labels, they push **** that makes topics that are supposed to be offensive and thought-provoking and rugged, they make these topics look mundane and acceptable. That ain't reality rap. That ain't what The Chronic was about, N.W.A., Wu-Tang Clan, etc.
The RZA of Wu Tang says:
"Hip-hop is just unbalanced. Right now, rappers are glorifying their hell. How you gonna tell me it's cool to live in the ghetto? Who wants to live where you got rats, roaches, pissy elevators, shootings, killings, rapings, drug addicts, alcoholics, all in a four block radius?"
2007-07-27 19:42:50 · 3 answers · asked by damilitia 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rap and Hip-Hop
I agree. But the record companies can't take the whole blame for this. It's these stupid a** kids now a days that all they want to listen is f*cking 50 cent and talent less Lil Wayne. I'm not hating cause I do like some of there songs, but sh*t that gets tired fast and no other kind of music talks about crack, rims, b*tches, guns and all that sh*t in one song. They call me wired because I have a Brother Ali cd right next to a T.I. cd, but I just can't listen to songs about 20'' rims all the time.
2007-07-27 20:38:15 · answer #1 · answered by beareyouseae 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I ain't understand half the words you said! LOL! But as far as everything else, I'ma go wit' RZA. That sh*t ain't cool talkin' bout killin' people, and rapings. I was glad as h*ll when I heard my mom talkin' bout we gettin' out of the ghetto. If I was in the rap industry, I'd be talkin' 'bout what I'm experiencin' now instead of what I used to go through(shots ringin' out every couple of seconds,wakin' up to gun shots, wearin' the wrong colors, even though they were the school colors, black and blue, when I'd wear my gym clothes home bein' shot at in drive-by's in broad daylight, being held at gunpoint TWICE, and havin' to take two stabs in the arm just to save my girl). Man, 2006 was a bad year for me. All this sh*t and I'm only 15 man. I would hate for someone to feel what I felt even through my lyrics. I listen to rap daily but I don't mind if it's "watered down" cuz' it should be!
2007-07-28 03:26:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I kinda agree but i don't think its the labels, i think its the artists themselves selling out and rhymin about stuff that people have now grown to listen to. You could say they are Givin the people what they want. I'd love to see more stuff like The Chronic, The W, Illmatic, Straight Outta Compton but unless Hip-Hop changes all you can do is listen to the classics on your ipod....
2007-07-28 02:49:37 · answer #3 · answered by NotTheStatusQuo 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋