Ricky Fontaine
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Part of early Kanye's appeal
Chuck D: “I had 17 jobs before I became a rapper. I was never moved by street sh*t!”
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Part of early Kanye's appeal
WaveCapsByOscorp™
2021 Grammy Award Winner
what prompted this recollection? i mean...cool, but did someone upset you? 
“Retiring” from the streets is about as common as making it to the NFL or NBA. The chances are slim, yet many people who aren’t cut out for that life see it as their lottery ticket.
Plankton
All Star
Chuck D said all of this in the late 90s Fight The Power Book stressing how you don't need to be in the streets to get paid like rap music at the time was leaving people to think was an only option to make money..
IIVI
Superstar
He's stayed true to his word over the years. He highly objected and wasn't going to allow his voice/lyrics to be used for Big's "Ten Crack Commandments" back in the day. Primo had to talk him into it and say it was for hop hop and the culture.
I've always wondered about ice cube and ice t. It seems like Ice T was about that life but I'm not too sure about cube.
Was and still am a huge public enemy fan my favorite hip-hop act. Huge influence on my outlook on hip-hop Chuck D was right he saw it was coming. And look what happened. I came up in the early 90s when gangster rap took over subsidized by white kids from the suburbs. At the time 80% of hip-hop was bought by them and savvy studio gangster rappers gave them exactly what they wanted.
Gangster rappers ran off conscious rap just like Tupac ran Q-tip off the stage. The industry worships the ghost of a dude in a leotards putting on the performance of his short life.
Gangster rappers ran off conscious rap just like Tupac ran Q-tip off the stage. The industry worships the ghost of a dude in a leotards putting on the performance of his short life.
Cube has said many times he had a regular upbringing with his parents and went to a trade/technical school before getting into rap with NWA....Alot of these nikkas was telling fairytales on wax or was telling the stories of other dudes...
The_Hillsta
Neva missin a beat
This the type of shyt ya pops tell you, a REAL mithafukkin pops who done seen and been throught it ALL, cant tell em shyt Me and my pops been having these type of conversations since jerri curls n jet magazines.
Chuck D the self proclaimed father of the fatherless. This ain't nothin new. Breh was born in the 50s early 60s. What the fukk you think he gonna say about what he sees in 2024? 1984?
Chuck D the self proclaimed father of the fatherless. This ain't nothin new. Breh was born in the 50s early 60s. What the fukk you think he gonna say about what he sees in 2024? 1984?
CB4 satirized all those studio gangsters NWA in particular, probably 10 years too early because a lot of people missed the joke
At that time there was no internet and wasnt no information about anybody publicly...you could get away with lying about ur shyt.
So many rappers from the 90s would be perceived differently in 2024 because everyones info isnt hidden anymore.
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ThrobbingHood
Take from the b*tch, give to the whores.
MC Gusto was literally Rick Ross’ career verbatim, 10 years earlier.
I Really Mean It
Veteran
it shows in his music
and i don't mean it as disrespect. he was actually rapping as someone who had lived some life and actually had something to rap about that wasn't just murder or drugs or hoes.
and i don't mean it as disrespect. he was actually rapping as someone who had lived some life and actually had something to rap about that wasn't just murder or drugs or hoes.