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"I dont like storytelling - especially not when it isnt really storytelling, it is the rapper trying to fool you that he is living a life he really isnt living. Like 50 Cent, Ice-T and the NWA dudes are doing...The content of the lyrics is the most important part of hiphop, at least in my opinion. Outkast got that..." Um...what??? So you believe this "pimp" stuff that Outkast is puttin out but not NWA and Ice-T??? Outkast are just as violent: "Jump and you'll get you sprayed...Many a n**** fallin fast and I continue blastin, swiftly...And under my seat for you suckers its your final curtain call...The one two to the guage p-u-m-p, You want to do a jack, I heat the barrel til it's empty, get me" Of course that was a long time ago, but is that any more believeable than NWA and Ice??? If it wasn't for them, Outkast wouldn't be making those lyrics.

OK, yes it's the same content, but the difference is Ice-T and NWA are more than just their lyrical content, they also have incredible mic skills, where as 50 doesn't. There's no way 50 could spit like Ice-T does on "New Jack Hustler", "Lethal Weapon", or "Hit The Deck", or many NWA songs, or have their energy. Him and many rappers today sound like they're half asleep and I hate that. Plus Ice-T did more than make "I'm a gangsta" songs, he also described the downsides of that lifestyle.

"George Bush doesn't care about black people" - Kanye West `Nuff said.

:word: Is there ANY recent rap album that doesn't have someone singing in it??? If so, I'd love to hear it.

50 shouldn't be even mentioned in the same sentence as Ice-T and NWA. Any rapper that can still have a recording career over 20 years later is a legend to me. Ain't no way 50 will last that long.

Yea I was thinkin that. He wants to prove he hasn't changed, but in reality he has.

http://icet.com/ecard/player.html Ehhh...some songs are good, some are sell out R&B tracks. On one song he complains how rappers have gone soft, then later he makes a "gangsta love song". Sorry Ice, those don't go together. The CD has been banned from a lot of stores because of the cover.

If 50 thinks he can battle with Nas, he obviously hasn't heard "Ether". And G-Unit is not one to make a statement like that, because they are contributing to the "death" where Nas is trying to save it.

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Was this before or after Nas announced the title of his album in May? Pretty soon it will be "G-Unit Is Dead" :lol:

Personally, I think the fast paced love songs are corny, and on later albums they became more prevalent. Yea he raps well, but for that time they were so trendy. "...DJ...Rapper" was very unique for it's time, and still is. I let a friend listen to it for the first time recently and he was amazed by it. The clean production, the DJ'in, FP's flow and lyrics, the variety in songs, it's the perfect blend.

And P Diddy "conducted" an orchestra on some awards show recently. This after making songs called "Gangsta Sh**" and "Real Ni**as". These "Gansta Orchestras" gotta stop. "Puff Daddy...enough already. Now it's P Diddy, still sounds sh**ty." - Afroman

Lovin "Hip Hop Is Dead", esp. the old school beat breaks in it. "The N" would sound a lot better without that string loop. What is with rappers comin out all hardcore and using strings???? It's so annoying and to me it undermines the effectiveness of what they're trying to accomplish. Rappers will be performing with orchestras next. I guess this is payback for us stealing rock n' roll?

Eminem: Without Me: There's a concept that works...Twenty million other white rappers emerge

Music goes in cycles. Just like how "dance rap" was popular in the early 90's, it faded out. This will also.

He's not crazy, he's what's called a "completist". I know how he feels, it's almost like an obsession.

Don't judge him on one song. His double album Afroholic is great, he's got his own band and hardly uses samples. It's totally homegrown and uncommercial.

K-Solo should be grateful people still remember him.

I only had respect for him when he was with Jaz. He says he's the "CEO of hip-hop" and he's "reppin for the have-nots". And P-Diddy does a website video brushing his teeth saying "See, I'm just like y'all", yea right. Like we can identify with their lifestyle. I respect REAL rappers like Afroman who has to make and sell his music on his own and rap about working the graveyard shift and living out of a van. That's real life, not this gangsta rap fairytale shiz that almost none of their fans have.

True dat, plus all record sales are hurtin thanks to the internet. Gold is the new platinum haha.

I saw LL back in 89, don't remember it though, all I remember is the shirt I got afterwards. That's f'd up I know...haha

Yea, I couldn't believe a veteran like LL would hook up with 50. It's like he only wants to do what's hot, and not stick to who he really is, like the last Run-DMC album.

I totally agree that sales do not equal quality, and the best rappers don't get grammys...at least not anymore. I guess the real hip-hop has gone underground because the fake hip-hop went mainstream. It's not "dead", just not promoted as much.

I totally agree with his album title. Hip-hop as an artform has been sugar coated and watered down to death by most of these pop rappers out here. Nas is one of the only true rap artists left, although he also uses R&B too much. I can't wait.

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