andre 3000 gets it! (he says the realest shyt i've ever heard an mc or rapper say about hip hop)

[Flav]

starts at the 5:34 mark all the way to the 8:24 mark!!!!!!!!!!!!!

he said the realest shyt i've ever heard an emcee and or rapper say bout hip hop, period

andre is so ahead of the game, it's not even funny. he gets it

that very end clip when he said

"watch them old folks cause they will try to mimic you"

The first rapper that came to mind was E-40.

It sounds like he stays in the studio with young people asking them whats the latest slang on the streets. He used to be the creator of slang now it sounds like he just leech slang off the young Bay Area generation.

 

[Foxmulder]

Ghostface and Nas is showing nikkas how to make grown man music.

 

[Mr. Negative]

i'm old enough to remember when n.w.a. was around and friday night videos came on

the point i was tryin' to make was that andre knows hip hop revolves around "father time". 3000 was tellin' it like it is in that interview

it's just some shyt cats don't want to admit.

Rap is the only genre of music where shyt is trendy.

Unless you rhyme about some tmieless shyt, youngsters aren't gonna wanna hear you in ten years.

hell, your die hard fans arent gonna wanna hear you in ten years.


I remember right before Ghostface dropped "More Fish", he was saying that he was too old to be rapping about standing on the corner selling drugs.

Album came out, the hooks on one of the songs was "Jeans! Hoods! Guns! Crack!"

It was pretty much label, though. Now he's dropping love albums and telling stories like he wants to. Which leads to people saying he fell off....


We really wanna be 40+ in the club acting like 30 year olds, while trying to fukk 20 year olds and a group of preteens telling us how to live on the speakers.

 

[Da King]

Hip hop will always be a young mans game, if you 40 or 50 still listening to hip hop

 

[904]

I'd rather he just say that his heart isn't in it anymore rather than just boxing in the genre like that...

It's music. Artistic expression. You're free to do with it whatever you wanna do with it... Theres millions of topics that can be touched on..

 

[I love Latina women]

that very end clip when he said

"watch them old folks cause they will try to mimic you"

The first rapper that came to mind was E-40.

It sounds like he stays in the studio with young people asking them whats the latest slang on the streets. He used to be the creator of slang now it sounds like he just leech slang off the young Bay Area generation.

 

[I love Latina women]

Rap is the only genre of music where shyt is trendy.

yeah and the trends in hip hop go and come so fast, especially now

 

[Booker T Garvey]

hold up...hasn't jay-z been called out (not in a negative way) for always throwing new and young slang in his tracks like "planking" and what not?

i've read that he studies the lingo and whats' hot and implements it in his music, not saying this is bad and if you enjoy his music (which i do) then that's cool

but that's what 3000 is talking about...you're not young anymore and you're not in the streets, the shyt is gonna change and people can see it..

 

[Booker T Garvey]

yeah and the trends in hip hop go and come so fast, especially now

very fast...and it trips me out that nobody sees 2 chainz, T.I., jeezy stay hopping on young indie artists movements in ATL just to remain relevant..

 

[I love Latina women]

very fast...and it trips me out that nobody sees 2 chainz, T.I., jeezy stay hopping on young indie artists movements in ATL just to remain relevant..

yup

 

[backbreaker65]

I get what Andre is saying, but he's coming from an era and speaking from an era where authenticity was a sign of your emcee ability. An era in which you had to be at least some what who you say you are. Now in this era fake shyt thrive more than the real. So he's speaking his truth and at the same time he's not realizing his truth isn't even part of the culture anymore.

 

[Robbie3000]

I just think he is scared to make music and this is his way of rationalizing it. It's kind of dumb to tell people to stop making music after a certain age.

 

[nieman]

Sounds to me like he's just saying that his heart is not in it anymore. A writer writes, a poet observes and puts ish to paper - doesn't matter how old. Life doesn't stop and you can now speak from a different perspective. GEEZ some people are just making excuses for anything. If the elder statesmen are going to take that approach, no wonder it is taking shape the way that it is.

As far as mimicking the young or adopting the trendy sound, that's up to the individual. If you keep switching up, you probably never had an identity in the first place. However, there are also some elders that do act as if they are early 20 somethings. We are also witnessing the first hip-hop generation and first hip-hop generation of listeners reach their late 40s...so who's telling them that they should dress in slacks and shoes when that's not how we came up. Fashion for the late 30s - mid 40s have evolved to the 80-mid 90s urban fashion.

Hell, acting is a young man's game, but the elder actors refuse to be pushed out. They are finding knew roles, and some garnering critical acclaim and even second life in the mainstream. but you should never feel like you're too old to be an artist.

 

[Surreal]

No one tells Mick Jagger to sit his old ass down....

3000 is a 1 verse assassin who gets away with not contributing more to the genre. He's Dre and Lauryn and Barry Sanders
Wants to be mystical and mysterious but ultimately is afraid of failure. Fukk them

 

[Danie84]

A huge Outkast fan, but ageism in Rap is why the old school/new school flounders

...Rawkers are embrace by every generation without this stagnant fukkery