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We Could Only Pray For That............

I must admit though, I absolutely loved their album " Straight Outta Compton ". It was a masterpiece, as it was a real life story of the Brotha's that fought with all of their hearts against the L.A.P.D. Death Squads that killed many of their Crew.

I can hardly stand watching a Hip-Hop video as they are so generic. 50 girls in Bikini's dancing around the " star " who sings ( talks ) about how he has the Tiger By The Tail. And those cheesy Mr.T Starter Kits they all wear ( a dozen chains of fake gold ) are so lame.

If I could just get my kid to wear his pants above his ass instead of below it I would be happy.


The End Of Hip Hop.........................I welcome it with open arms.

Just let Snoop Dogs synth player to do a solo album as he tweaks knobs like nobody's business.


Famous Ice Cube movie line in Boys From Da Hood, where the one Sista' says.............You gotta quit calling us Sluts and Ho's................O.K.....sorry Bitch. Classic.

XITE-1/4LIVE wrote:I can hardly stand watching a Hip-Hop video as they are so generic. 50 girls in Bikini's dancing around the " star " who sings ( talks ) about how he has the Tiger By The Tail. And those cheesy Mr.T Starter Kits they all wear ( a dozen chains of fake gold ) are so lame.

That's not really Hip-Hop as such. That's just the Rap industry & those running it who know how to harness the system (or know someone that does) to make themselves & their clients enough dough to wear extravagant amounts of 'bling', wear 5000 dollar threads, drive 200,000 dollar cars & live in Palaces. Bit of a generalisation on my part, but at the end of the day, that's still not Hip-Hop. I could list a number of REAL Hip-Hop Artists that despise the new era of RAP & R&B crossover shite, but there's really no need.

well, by definition, when hiphop became an advertisement billboard.. hip hop was over.
aslo, when the hiphop image (clothes, cars, etc) became unaffordable, that was a big sign too.
They weren't smart... if all they didn't do all the advert tie ups with expensive brands and created that un attainable image of multi-milliondallar man who gets all the chicks, it would have made the lives of real people living projects, with 7 brothers and sisters, with everyone working hard on low paying jobs to pay the rent, a lot easier. It's sad because it used to be their music, made by their own people... now it's just fairy tales of a far away land.. almost farther than the expensive whitemanlands of New Jersey. And all the real people do is spend their entire months salary to buy gucci sneakers because they believe it is the single most important item one must have. (the advert tie ups work) It's already conceptually killed itself, it's only a matter of time 'till people figure it out... or go bankrupt trying to live the image.

For any pop genre to work, the image has to be attainable. The clothes have to be affordable, items.. etc.. If no one could afford it, then the image can't perpetuate itself. And to think about it... hiphop wasn't even a pop thing... it was a subculture.

Uk Hip Hop grows in strength and is always redefining its heyday

Strong stories are still being told

Hip hop has pioneered through many music style changes and will continue to.

If the influences of great composers are still felt and instruments of yesterday are still used and pop still fills the charts and my radio - this era will not end

stardust wrote:You also used the past tense Ken

I think there is still the sub culture but not visible under what is called hip hop in the industry machinery.

Very visible are the Pimp kind of like a sort of you know man in the girly, car, clothes, jewels videos.

Well, ya, I guess there's hiphop in mainstream market, versus the actual hiphop scene.. I used to be in the scene, my friends still are... the scene itself seems to be going strong. It might actually even be better once the nonsense gets deleted from mainstream because it only dilutes the image.

bling bling Rap & R&B shouldn't be confused with Hip-Hop.