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isiahthomas · 09-24-2007, 07:33 PM

Rap music right now is so terrible, i don't even listen to these wack new rappers. Most of these southern rappers that are popular right now like Young Joc, T.I., Hurricane Chris, Little Wayne, Baby aka Birdman, Little John and the Eastside Boyz are horrible. I miss the old days of rap from the 80's and 90's. Back then, most rappers had good lyrics and the beats were tight. I can't even remember the last time i went to a record store to buy a rap album. That's how terrible rap is to me right now since i can't remember the last time i bought a rap cd LOL. Rap album sales have been declining for awhile now and they're gonna continue to decline until rappers start making good songs again with good lyrics and good beats instead of these wack elementary rhymes that these wack rappers be saying. These are the rappers i miss.

KRS One
Rakim
Run DMC
Fat Boys
Whodini
Kurtis Blow
Slick Rick
Doug E Fresh
LL Cool J
Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five
UTFO
A Tribe Called Quest
EPMD
NWA
Geto Boys
Ice Cube
Kool G Rap
Pete Rock and CL Smooth
Wu Tang Clan
Onyx
Das EFX
Redman

There's a lot more rappers i miss that i can't think of right now but i'm just very disappointed with rap music right now and i don't see the music getting any better in the future. There's too much negativity in rap right now and that needs to change. I know that rappers wanna talk about how bad their neighborhoods are but what they're not talking about is how they can change their neighborhoods. I'm also tired of rappers dissing each other. Blacks are always putting each other down and dissing one another. We're the only race of people who do that on a daily basis. Will Smith has been dissed by a lot of rappers because his music is positive and he doesn't curse. There's nothing wrong with him not cursing. I wish more rappers wouldn't curse. I'm also tired of seeing rappers dying at a early age. Jam Master Jay of Run DMC was a good guy and he didn't deserve to get murdered. I read that he had some financial problems and the guys who killed him, he owed some money to them. That's sad to hear and the messed up thing about it is that his murder will never get solved because the police don't care. They look at it as just another black man from the ghetto who died.

FactoryGirl · 09-24-2007, 09:04 PM

Some rap music today is awful, that I agree on, but not ALL rap artists suck like Kayne West, Common, and Mos Def, just to name a few rappers who aren't in the same direction as the Lil Wayne and 50 Cent.

But let's not forget there were some rap artists back in the day that was just as offensive as the rappers of today....NWA for example.

freshprinceofLA · 09-24-2007, 09:13 PM

Yea right you are man. Now all I hear is look at my watch look at my girls look at me I'M RICHHHH!! That's sooo terrible.
What happened to the days of "REAL RAP". Guys like Tupac, Biggie, N.W.A., Run DMC, Public Enemy, Krs etc. Snoop dogg was a great rapper in the 90's and early 2000's but now he's taken a BIG step back. The most real rapper left Nas.

FactoryGirl · 09-24-2007, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by freshprinceofLA

Yea right you are man. Now all I hear is look at my watch look at my girls look at me I'M RICHHHH!! That's sooo terrible.
What happened to the days of "REAL RAP". Guys like Tupac, Biggie, N.W.A., Run DMC, Public Enemy, Krs etc. Snoop dogg was a great rapper in the 90's and early 2000's but now he's taken a BIG step back. The most real rapper left Nas.

Rap died with Tupac and Biggie, that's what happened. Hopefully, Kayne, Common, Nas, and Mos Def will lift it up.

Ireneparalegal · 09-24-2007, 10:57 PM

Isaiah, I can't believe you put THE FAT BOYS!

No way...what a joke they were.

FactoryGirl · 09-24-2007, 11:09 PM

FAT BOYS?!!! I did not see that one..... the only cool things they did was beatboxing and starring in "Krush Groove" but that was it!

Ireneparalegal · 09-24-2007, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by FactoryGirl

FAT BOYS?!!! I did not see that one..... the only cool things they did was beatboxing and starring in "Krush Groove" but that was it!

isiahthomas · 09-25-2007, 04:49 PM

LOL@Ireneparalegal dissing the Fat Boys hahahahahahahahahahaha. That's cold that you dissed them. They did make some terrible albums. I was so mad when i heard their Coming Back Hard Again and On And On albums. Those albums are terrible. Kanye West, Common, Mos Def suck to me. Kanye is a terrible rapper and he has the nerve to be cocky LOL. Common and Mos Def are good rappers but i don't like their beats and most of their songs are boring. I was very disappointed in Mos Def's Black On Both Sides album. I liked Common back in the day when he called himself Common Sense. When he dropped the Sense from his name, his music started to get soft. I saw him recently in Smokin Aces movie with Ray Liotta, r&b singer Alicia Keys, Taraji Henson, Andy Garcia. I know the movie is old but i just saw it last weekend. Common is gonna be in the new movie American Gangster this winter with Denzel Washington, Cuba Gooding Jr, rapper T.I., The RZA of Wu Tang Clan, Russell Crowe. Common's character in the movie is a drug dealer who works for Denzel who is also a drug dealer. There are too many wack rappers now who brag about what they got and that's wack because they're not showing any lyrical skills. I also don't like the fact that there are too many negative rappers, the music is too violent and what these rappers need to do is clean their music up and make positive songs to educate the black youth because the black youth look up to these rappers as role models. The rappers should be telling the black youth to stay in school so they can get a job when they graduate and do something else for a job career besides only being interested in selling drugs, rapping, wanting to be a NFL and a NBA athlete.

ThomasE · 09-27-2007, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by FactoryGirl

FAT BOYS?!!! I did not see that one..... the only cool things they did was beatboxing and starring in "Krush Groove" but that was it!

You forgot that they made animated appearance on "Police Academy" the cartoon series.

FactoryGirl · 09-28-2007, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by ThomasE

You forgot that they made animated appearance on "Police Academy" the cartoon series.

How can I forget that one! The eighties...gotta love that decade!

Janice Johnson · 09-29-2007, 04:39 PM

SugarHill Gang was really good! Rapper's Delight is still a "Jammabale" song to this day. I wonder if the term "hip-hop" came from this song. I could swear I hear the lyrics, "A Hip, hop, hippity to the hip hop, and you don't stop."

Ireneparalegal · 09-29-2007, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Voxtrious

SugarHill Gang was really good! Rapper's Delight is still a "Jammabale" song to this day. I wonder if the term "hip-hop" came from this song. I could swear I hear the lyrics, "A Hip, hop, hippity to the hip hop, and you don't stop."

THAT SONG IS DA BOMB!!!!!! I never get tired of that song. I was a freshman in high school when that song first came out. It was hip, different, catchy and overall just a friggin' good a$$ song. To this day you can still dance to it. It never gets old.

"Hotel motel Holiday Inn...if your girlfriend starts acting up, then you take her friend."

freshprinceofLA · 09-29-2007, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Voxtrious

SugarHill Gang was really good! Rapper's Delight is still a "Jammabale" song to this day. I wonder if the term "hip-hop" came from this song. I could swear I hear the lyrics, "A Hip, hop, hippity to the hip hop, and you don't stop."

Great song without that song Rap/Hip-Hop would be nothing.

GARFIELDKOOL · 09-29-2007, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by isiahthomas

Rap music right now is so terrible, i don't even listen to these wack new rappers. Most of these southern rappers that are popular right now like Young Joc, T.I., Hurricane Chris, Little Wayne, Baby aka Birdman, Little John and the Eastside Boyz are horrible. I miss the old days of rap from the 80's and 90's. Back then, most rappers had good lyrics and the beats were tight. I can't even remember the last time i went to a record store to buy a rap album. That's how terrible rap is to me right now since i can't remember the last time i bought a rap cd LOL. Rap album sales have been declining for awhile now and they're gonna continue to decline until rappers start making good songs again with good lyrics and good beats instead of these wack elementary rhymes that these wack rappers be saying. These are the rappers i miss.

KRS One
Rakim
Run DMC
Fat Boys
Whodini
Kurtis Blow
Slick Rick
Doug E Fresh
LL Cool J
Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five
UTFO
A Tribe Called Quest
EPMD
NWA
Geto Boys
Ice Cube
Kool G Rap
Pete Rock and CL Smooth
Wu Tang Clan
Onyx
Das EFX
Redman

There's a lot more rappers i miss that i can't think of right now but i'm just very disappointed with rap music right now and i don't see the music getting any better in the future. There's too much negativity in rap right now and that needs to change. I know that rappers wanna talk about how bad their neighborhoods are but what they're not talking about is how they can change their neighborhoods. I'm also tired of rappers dissing each other. Blacks are always putting each other down and dissing one another. We're the only race of people who do that on a daily basis. Will Smith has been dissed by a lot of rappers because his music is positive and he doesn't curse. There's nothing wrong with him not cursing. I wish more rappers wouldn't curse. I'm also tired of seeing rappers dying at a early age. Jam Master Jay of Run DMC was a good guy and he didn't deserve to get murdered. I read that he had some financial problems and the guys who killed him, he owed some money to them. That's sad to hear and the messed up thing about it is that his murder will never get solved because the police don't care. They look at it as just another black man from the ghetto who died.

To me, rap died around 1997-98. I didn't listen to any rap after that period.
I hear Lil John and the Eastside Boyz and Little Wayne on the radio, and they are straight up bubble gum. They will never hold a candle to the groups and artists you mentioned. Rap use to be all about art and experience in society, but I can't get with this garbage nowadays. I am 33 years old, and I may sound like an old man, but this rap today is not happening. I miss Rakim, Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh, UTFO, Whodini, Big Daddy Kane, and the rest of them. I grew up with these superstars. Let me list more rappers who are probably lesser known like D-Nice and Kwame.

Ireneparalegal · 09-29-2007, 10:34 PM

I sure as hell miss Kurtis Blow. He was the first solo rapper who I instantly took a liking to. His song "The Breaks" is on my iPod and when that song plays in my car, I jam up the volume and sing along to it. It brings back memories of when rap made its debut. To be around when something was developed is really nice.

09-24-2007, 07:33 PM	#1
isiahthomas Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Aug 20, 2002 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 10,704	I Miss The Old Days Of Rap Music Rap music right now is so terrible, i don't even listen to these wack new rappers. Most of these southern rappers that are popular right now like Young Joc, T.I., Hurricane Chris, Little Wayne, Baby aka Birdman, Little John and the Eastside Boyz are horrible. I miss the old days of rap from the 80's and 90's. Back then, most rappers had good lyrics and the beats were tight. I can't even remember the last time i went to a record store to buy a rap album. That's how terrible rap is to me right now since i can't remember the last time i bought a rap cd LOL. Rap album sales have been declining for awhile now and they're gonna continue to decline until rappers start making good songs again with good lyrics and good beats instead of these wack elementary rhymes that these wack rappers be saying. These are the rappers i miss. KRS One Rakim Run DMC Fat Boys Whodini Kurtis Blow Slick Rick Doug E Fresh LL Cool J Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five UTFO A Tribe Called Quest EPMD NWA Geto Boys Ice Cube Kool G Rap Pete Rock and CL Smooth Wu Tang Clan Onyx Das EFX Redman There's a lot more rappers i miss that i can't think of right now but i'm just very disappointed with rap music right now and i don't see the music getting any better in the future. There's too much negativity in rap right now and that needs to change. I know that rappers wanna talk about how bad their neighborhoods are but what they're not talking about is how they can change their neighborhoods. I'm also tired of rappers dissing each other. Blacks are always putting each other down and dissing one another. We're the only race of people who do that on a daily basis. Will Smith has been dissed by a lot of rappers because his music is positive and he doesn't curse. There's nothing wrong with him not cursing. I wish more rappers wouldn't curse. I'm also tired of seeing rappers dying at a early age. Jam Master Jay of Run DMC was a good guy and he didn't deserve to get murdered. I read that he had some financial problems and the guys who killed him, he owed some money to them. That's sad to hear and the messed up thing about it is that his murder will never get solved because the police don't care. They look at it as just another black man from the ghetto who died.

09-24-2007, 09:13 PM	#3
freshprinceofLA The Bosses Senior Member Join Date: Aug 09, 2005 Location: A small town in: Los Angeles, California Posts: 2,810	Yea right you are man. Now all I hear is look at my watch look at my girls look at me I'M RICHHHH!! That's sooo terrible. What happened to the days of "REAL RAP". Guys like Tupac, Biggie, N.W.A., Run DMC, Public Enemy, Krs etc. Snoop dogg was a great rapper in the 90's and early 2000's but now he's taken a BIG step back. The most real rapper left Nas.
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09-24-2007, 10:57 PM	#5
Ireneparalegal LEGAL SPICE ;) Forum Legend Join Date: Jul 25, 2005 Location: OXNARD, CA - WHERE THE DALLAS COWBOYS TRAIN & PRACTICE Posts: 38,691	Isaiah, I can't believe you put THE FAT BOYS! No way...what a joke they were.
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09-24-2007, 09:04 PM	#2
FactoryGirl Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Sep 10, 2007 Location: Spinning tunes at club Mood Posts: 448	Some rap music today is awful, that I agree on, but not ALL rap artists suck like Kayne West, Common, and Mos Def, just to name a few rappers who aren't in the same direction as the Lil Wayne and 50 Cent. But let's not forget there were some rap artists back in the day that was just as offensive as the rappers of today....NWA for example.

09-24-2007, 11:09 PM	#6
FactoryGirl Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Sep 10, 2007 Location: Spinning tunes at club Mood Posts: 448	FAT BOYS?!!! I did not see that one..... the only cool things they did was beatboxing and starring in "Krush Groove" but that was it!

09-25-2007, 04:49 PM	#8
isiahthomas Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Aug 20, 2002 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 10,704	LOL@Ireneparalegal dissing the Fat Boys hahahahahahahahahahaha. That's cold that you dissed them. They did make some terrible albums. I was so mad when i heard their Coming Back Hard Again and On And On albums. Those albums are terrible. Kanye West, Common, Mos Def suck to me. Kanye is a terrible rapper and he has the nerve to be cocky LOL. Common and Mos Def are good rappers but i don't like their beats and most of their songs are boring. I was very disappointed in Mos Def's Black On Both Sides album. I liked Common back in the day when he called himself Common Sense. When he dropped the Sense from his name, his music started to get soft. I saw him recently in Smokin Aces movie with Ray Liotta, r&b singer Alicia Keys, Taraji Henson, Andy Garcia. I know the movie is old but i just saw it last weekend. Common is gonna be in the new movie American Gangster this winter with Denzel Washington, Cuba Gooding Jr, rapper T.I., The RZA of Wu Tang Clan, Russell Crowe. Common's character in the movie is a drug dealer who works for Denzel who is also a drug dealer. There are too many wack rappers now who brag about what they got and that's wack because they're not showing any lyrical skills. I also don't like the fact that there are too many negative rappers, the music is too violent and what these rappers need to do is clean their music up and make positive songs to educate the black youth because the black youth look up to these rappers as role models. The rappers should be telling the black youth to stay in school so they can get a job when they graduate and do something else for a job career besides only being interested in selling drugs, rapping, wanting to be a NFL and a NBA athlete.

09-29-2007, 04:39 PM	#11
Janice Johnson Commercial Lover Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: May 30, 2003 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 4,740	SugarHill Gang was really good! Rapper's Delight is still a "Jammabale" song to this day. I wonder if the term "hip-hop" came from this song. I could swear I hear the lyrics, "A Hip, hop, hippity to the hip hop, and you don't stop."

09-29-2007, 10:34 PM	#15
Ireneparalegal LEGAL SPICE ;) Forum Legend Join Date: Jul 25, 2005 Location: OXNARD, CA - WHERE THE DALLAS COWBOYS TRAIN & PRACTICE Posts: 38,691	I sure as hell miss Kurtis Blow. He was the first solo rapper who I instantly took a liking to. His song "The Breaks" is on my iPod and when that song plays in my car, I jam up the volume and sing along to it. It brings back memories of when rap made its debut. To be around when something was developed is really nice.