Comments on: Hip Hop Artists Answer What Today’s Rap Lacks Compared To The Old School

By: shience

shience — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:15:08 +0000

#21 cuz fat joe is hip hop… he was getting deals and shooting video in 92-93.. one of the 1st puerto ricans to step outside of breaking, graph and djing to emcee… thats why.. #23 exactly… one of the sickest groups digging in tha crates= bigL, fate joe, OC, and AG…

#25 ur the reason why hip hop is dead…appeal to a 12 yr old? man when i was twelve i was listening to dre and snoop. snoop’s 1st joint, real hip hop… if ur 12 now u got solja boy rick ross. stuff like nas aint even directed towards you… real rnb isnt even directed towards 12 yr olds… BET plays Ciara BETJ plays Raheem Devaughn. nobody wants to kick knowledge or provide something new… they just wanna recook which ever recipe worked the last time.

By: sdot

sdot — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:23:17 +0000

What most rappers lack is substance noone raps about anything anymore. Nas is the best all round MC because he could talk about, killing someone, drugs, women, jewelry, cars, politics, and uplifting topics.

The funny thing about people who like Juelz swag and this getting fresh stuff is. Most of those people wear $500 shoes but live in the projects and don’t have a high school dipolma.Your priorities is all wrong. I wear Guccis and pradas too but My parents own their house. And I go to Lehman college. Im 21 and todays youth definetly has no substance and they follow everyone like a herd of sheep.

On another note Juelz sounds like a real N!gger we spalshing we splashing. Read a book you coon.

By: Your dad

Your dad — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:55:31 +0000

Alot of you ignorant fools so caught up being idiots that you ignore whats being said. I agree with KRS-One and with most of what Sugar Hill Gang and Fat Joe said. Now and days you got artists being half-assed about their jobs and not supplying you with good music. They only want that quick buck and there is almost no meaning in their music. Todays Hip-Hop to me doesn’t have any soul…no feel…and todays rap has no meaning. Its all the same money, hoes, and guns. Back in the day Rap & Hip-Hop was more about having fun, talking about whats going around you, being heard, and entertaining others…hot lyrics, hot beats, and make money…but now artists got lazy. As soon as someone drops a hot single you have other artists trying to bite their style instead of taking little bits and making it their own. Hip-Hop started to die in the early 2000s and by 04 it was put on life support. Right now there are some artists trying to revive it…but at the moment its sinking deeper and deeper into that eternal slumber and may never wake up.

What Hip-Hop needs to survive is for are all these fake artists, trying to make a quick buck, to die so that anyone with real love for this Hip-Hop game can be themselves and shine…rather then thinking I gotta be like Soulja Boy if I want to make money.

By: Silentfashions

Silentfashions — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:32:01 +0000

THE ONLY THING I THINK HIP HOP LACK NOW A DAYS IS OFFICIAL FANS. TODAY HIP HOP IS A SUPPORTED BY A DOWNLOADING ERA, PEOPLE NEED TO STOP ACTING LIKE HIP HOP IS DYING DUE TO TALENT LIKE EVERYBODY WAS HARVARD GRADS!! KRS-1, AND THESE DUDES IS GRANDFATHERS OF HIP HOP THEY NEED TO TAKE THERE CANE AND SIT DOWN, MOBB DEEP, NAS, AZ AND ETC…IS CONSIDERED OLD SCHOOL…WTF ARE THEY REALLY TALKING ABOUT??? THEM DUDES DON’T KNOW WHAT PLATINUM OR GOLD SALES IS ABOUT!!! WHY WOULD U WANT TO APPEAL TO A 12 YR OLD???? WHAT YOU WANT TO TAKE IT BACK TO THE ESSENCE 35 YEARS OLD IN THE PARK RAPPING??? YOU’LL DUDE IS CRAZY LET THE YOUTH ENJOY RAP…LET THEM HAVE SOMETHING WITHOUT COMMENTING..CHANGE IS APART OF LIFE…NOTHING STAYS THE SAME..GET A JOB!!!

By: iotatl

iotatl — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:25:07 +0000

Totally co-sign with #3

hip-hop always used samples!!! Hip-hop began with looping Chorus, bridges, and hooks of James Brown, Issac Hayes, and many others. Hip-hop began with the party jams also…

By: Clipz

Clipz — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:05 +0000

and so much hate towards Fat Joe LOL

I miss tha DITC days.

By: Clipz

Clipz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:58:58 +0000

Technology killed hip hop – Q-Tip

But yeah, everyone in that video had a point, even Juelz excluding that splashing shit. Hip-hop just adapts to each passing decade.

RTNY needs more topics like this for us to discuss, enough of these Tony Yayo/NORE on a diet type bullshit posts.

By: UALREADYKNOW

UALREADYKNOW — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:03:06 +0000

fat joe is so ass and irrelevant why he talkin?

By: BOSS

BOSS — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:50:21 +0000

Real Talk By Fat Joe.

By: County of Kings

County of Kings — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:42:03 +0000

niggas like juelz is wats wrong, juelz is a 1 of a kind dude but he can survive off of sayin things like splash and as long as ppl luv it he wont ever have to step his game up. we do have alot of creativity today but it lies with the producers not really the rappers. back then rappers had to spit fire in order to eat, nowadays rapper come in sayin how rich they already are so theres no need to work hard cuz they already “ballin”.
all in all, the vh1 hiphop honors are a breath of fresh air to the hiphop community, sumtimes it sparks arguements but after enough of these shows maybe the newer rappers like juelz learns sumthin extra about hiphop to make his music better. he performing naught by natures “everything gonna be alright” . that song was so deep sumone as shallow as juelz shouldnt be doin it, maybe he’ll surprise me