Entire Rap City Episodes links
- Thread starter En Sabah Nur
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Man, this is the damn truth
Yeah these videos have been popping up on my youtube as well. Cool to see the commercials as well.
Playaz Eyez
Veteran
I don’t think this is true at all, cause R&B was still legit well into the 2000s. Rappers wanting to “sing” and singers wanting to rap is what killed R&B. Instead of putting R&B singers on hooks and bridges, rappers basically started signing themselves, and ditched bridges. I’d say to directly pintpoint it, you’d starry with T-Pain in 2005. Every rapper started to hi-jack him. Then here comes Jay-Z with “Death Of Autotune”, thinking he’s about to do away with it, and it literally explodes after that, having the opposite effect of what was intended.I was the one that brough this to thecoli.com
But I see someone jacked it and made a thread in the booth
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Not gonna lie.... Rap Music ultimately killed R&B over a long period of time.
Starting in the 90's.
Ethnic Vagina Finder
The Great Paper Chaser
It was a slow and progressive death. You look at the each decade got progressively worse. When they put the label “queen of hip hop and R&B” label on Mary J Blige, at the time it seemed insignificant but by the time you got to the early 2000’s the vocal quality had diminished and the production was mostly hip hop.
Record labels stopped developing R&B artists altogether. Some of them would sign to rap labels and they wouldn’t get any assistance.
Rap infused itself into the genre, and it lost its identity. R&B singers basically started singing rap lyrics.
And the crazy part is white artists would use black music to boost their brand but go right back to their own.
U can even say rap music in general has contributed to the erosion of the black community.
It popularized gang culture starting with NWA and Ice T.
It popularized selling drugs and using drugs
It glorified and objectified black women
With each era, it got progressively worse.
En Sabah Nur
The First
Never seen this video before in my life , but it's a perfect example of the OD gangsta wave going on in 93-94
Playaz Eyez
Veteran
Never seen this video before in my life , but it's a perfect example of the OD gangsta wave going on in 93-94
I’ve never seen this either. It comes of as a parody but I know it’s not.
Hell yeahhh
threattonature
Veteran
Never seen this video before in my life , but it's a perfect example of the OD gangsta wave going on in 93-94
I was coming in here to say the same. Us old heads can't say shyt. I'm watching the joint from December 93 and damn near every other video looks like an Onyx knockoff.
JayStarwind
Superstar
Never seen this video before in my life , but it's a perfect example of the OD gangsta wave going on in 93-94
Man I thought that was Tisha Campbell
Edit: she performed in one of the episodes I watched too
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JayStarwind
Superstar
Its strange how this got into everyone's algorithm around the same time.
I really appreciate being able to go back and catch those vibes. The style, slang, programming, shyt even the commercials were cool af. I'm a 90s baby so I only can remember an episode or two from the 2000s and probably why the 1997+ episodes interest me most. That semblance of culture is long lost.
I really appreciate being able to go back and catch those vibes. The style, slang, programming, shyt even the commercials were cool af. I'm a 90s baby so I only can remember an episode or two from the 2000s and probably why the 1997+ episodes interest me most. That semblance of culture is long lost.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
seen most of these back in the day in high school, but dap/rep for the culture
TrapHouse Rock
All Star
Never seen this video before in my life , but it's a perfect example of the OD gangsta wave going on in 93-94
Shazzy switched up her og style for some gangster posturing and flopped her way out of game
she was college educated and bougie on her first joint
