the one luv female rnb hook remix
no showing all his shows.
then, deflecting and whining when big won the source award.
so, he could authenticate hiring sellout steve stout/trackmasters.
which, directly created the ability for jiggy to become profitable.
when, it had been outlawed in the culture as early as dj Hollywood.
followed up by the sellout whodini beat and prop'n of culture thief Curtis blow.
selling out the production of iww to the highest bidder.
one of the worst jiggy low quality skill off key rhyming on subsequent releases
throwing a bootyshake wet t-shirt party.
instead of performing, to mask how awful a performer he was.
aligning with puff to cause further erosion.
that fully destroyed the protection mechanism of the culture in the industry of rap.
hiding his hands....
then, deflecting on hiphop is dead's who killed't it.
just like you are doing.
there is more,......do you want me to continue.
stop giving passes to the main culture thieves...
art barr
Plenty of good points.
I'll even further it and say plenty of the older, respected artists sold out the art form, and yet years later will get respect for what they did when people call it "that real!"
There are exceptions in catalogues like Jay-Z dropping The Blueprint as a major artist. Other than H to the Izzo, nearly every song sounded like traditional hip-hop, and that includes Girls, Girls, Girls.
But looking elsewhere, such as when people talk about Bone Thugs N Harmony. Everybody mentions how dope they were when they look back, and plenty of people do get it right when they talk about Creepin on ah Come Up and East Eternal 1999. Yet they fail to mention how bad they all sold out. They completely changed up their version of singing.
Going from this:
To this:
I'm not fronting, it sounds dope and was my shyt back in the day. But think of it from the perspective of a loyal BTNH fan, that shyt is probably disappointing. We'll also complain about why music isn't like that Mo Thugs song anymore, but that's what happens when you continually sell out, the music gets weaker for all artists as a whole.
Granted, if they stuck to their same style over and over, they may have gotten exhausted and bland, I understand that. But however, there's great respect sticking to what you do and coming up with different ways to make it dope rather than take the easy way out.
Don't get this confused with another common occurence in hip-hop also which comes form the other side of the spectrum. When people just like to put clown and shame new music. Kendrick Lamar is a stong example of this when GKMC is obviously a classic album, but yet you got some people just hating on the moment and saying shyt like, "Section 80 > GKMC." Now if you really believe that then fine, as long as your opinion is completely about music and you're not hating on it just because his popularity sky rocketed after GKMC.
Also goes along the same lines as a ton of people hating Drake right now. But in a few years when another artist comes out with the same singing and rapping style, those same people gonna be like "This cat isn't on Drake's level. At least Drake kept it hip-hop."
