Its the sign if the times...most people are just sheep...following trends because popularity is the only thing of ...my little cousin raps like chief keef
I told him dude is
and he looked at me like
I asked him
about having bars and he said" i dont have time for none of that shyt Im just saying to make a hit for streets and get poppin "
But at the end of the day it is what it is...when I was coming up we all wanted to rhyme like Kool G Rap or Kane because their flow and rhymes we so dope but LL was the most popular at that time.
LL actually was the boy king of the old school way of thought and battled to become a new school way of thought hold over draw.
When all his other contemporaries were phased out because of lack of skill or cultural connection.
So, even back then LL still culturally earned his spot in the old school way of thought as the boy king and cemented his draw and legacy as a teen before he was eighteen in the new school way of thought.
People who really don't know ll's career and the culture of hiphop talk shyt about LL but culturally.
Really don't know indepthly the culture to fully critique LL.
If there is no LL, no young emcee from queens ever gets on in the new school way of thought.
That includes rakim and g rap.
One of which was also a herald to the best street grassroots rapper from queens in that era and all time created the best old school battle record and second best battle record in the history of rap all time.
That if we talk about that record unearths and exposes every fraud in rap to this day.
That is why sugar hill and that evil culture thief who ran it, covered it up historically, in general from the masses.
Art Barr