I agree with you 100%. I was just thinking to myself today that most producers ain't really getting the credit they deserve in the media. Imagine oj da juice mane rapping with no beat, that shyt would not fly for one second.
That's exactly what I'm saying.
Gucci Mane would be wack, broke and ice-cream-cone-tattooless if there wasn't for Zay and all them fukks who gave him those beats.
You can one star this thread, undap me, whatever yall want. fukking truth remains - in this day n fukkin age,
it's 100% straight style over substance.
And in hip-hop terms, style over substance = "beats over rhymes"
And that's why more and more of these rappers (which I consider a highly derogatory term now, slur even...if someone called me a rapper I would stab him in the neck) Dr. Seuss with it, nobody cares, because - beats banging.
2012 - style (or swag, for all you washed up fukkboys) over substance - beats over rhymes.
RIP hip-hop and my condolences to all those "believers" who'll still go online shyt about "how there's good hip-hop to be found"...fukk outta here I aint trying to "look" for good hip-hop.