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... I know this is random as hell but I just thought I'd put this out there.
I'm going to make this short and sweet;
Before Jay Z came out with Reasonable Doubt rappers were allowed to be rappers.
Tribe Called Quest and de la Soul's had a lane just as Wu-Tang and Biggie a Lane.
Jay-Z got into this thing with "I'm not a rapper I'm a hustler that knows how to rap" attitude.
That energy kind of set hip hop back because everybody wanted to be the drug dealer / gangster / rapper first and artist / rapper wayyy in the back.
It was brilliant marketing by the way but bad for hip hop as a whole.
For umteen years hip hop became artistically schizophrenic and the integrity art form was very questionable.
Tribe's De La's and Digable planet's became iincreasingly Irrelevant for the simple fact that they weren't Street enough. When did being. A hustler equal being a hip hoper?
But overall this Vibe and energy set hip hop by back for like 15 years and it's started with Jay-Z.
And it came at the worst time too. Right after the death of Biggie and Tupac.
With that said I think Reasonable Doubt is Jay-Z's greatest record and one of the better hip hop albums ever to come out.
Also it encompasses many of the emotions that a street dude have in the game.
But it still doesn't change the fact that Jay Z bought an ugly energy to hip-hop unknowingly...
I'm going to make this short and sweet;
Before Jay Z came out with Reasonable Doubt rappers were allowed to be rappers.
Tribe Called Quest and de la Soul's had a lane just as Wu-Tang and Biggie a Lane.
Jay-Z got into this thing with "I'm not a rapper I'm a hustler that knows how to rap" attitude.
That energy kind of set hip hop back because everybody wanted to be the drug dealer / gangster / rapper first and artist / rapper wayyy in the back.
It was brilliant marketing by the way but bad for hip hop as a whole.
For umteen years hip hop became artistically schizophrenic and the integrity art form was very questionable.
Tribe's De La's and Digable planet's became iincreasingly Irrelevant for the simple fact that they weren't Street enough. When did being. A hustler equal being a hip hoper?
But overall this Vibe and energy set hip hop by back for like 15 years and it's started with Jay-Z.
And it came at the worst time too. Right after the death of Biggie and Tupac.
With that said I think Reasonable Doubt is Jay-Z's greatest record and one of the better hip hop albums ever to come out.
Also it encompasses many of the emotions that a street dude have in the game.
But it still doesn't change the fact that Jay Z bought an ugly energy to hip-hop unknowingly...
...Was he supposed to rap like Brand Nubian?