Hip hop now more than ever is accepting of non street acts. Kendrick lamar, fakkit Uzi vert, all the soundcloud fags etc
Low key Jay-Z kind of messed up Hip Hop...
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Sometimes label don’t send info for albums to be certified when they should. Look at the Black Album. It did not take 2 years to go plat
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Yea Reasonable Doubt was not poppin or changing the game back when it dropped in '96.....I remember struggling to get kats to listen to this dude in high school when it seemed like I was the only one bumpin his shyt.... Westcoast gangster rap changed the game and eventually EastCoast gangsta rap solidified it... People didn't catch on to reasonable doubt until later on.. Jay had to re-released the shyt for all the late-comers... But by that time the game was sold... 
Arrested Development wasn't fake deep
SleezyBigSlim
Banned
Nah. Master P and Birdman had more to do with that. Jay like to say he not a rapper. Don't be fooled. He loves to rap and loves being a superstar in the spot light. Master P will straight up tell you rap was just another hustle and he can't even rap. Birdman will tell you the same thing. Them nikkas got into the game to be label owners 1st and foremost. Jay got into the game to be a rapper 1st and foremost. Its why he don't stay retired and keeps dropping albums. Diddy actually has zero talent but wanted to be a superstar even though he cant rap at all like not at all.
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Blame the labels, Jay only made the music. Labels controlled the mainstream music scene
PUFFY KILLED HIP HOP PERIOD
1.. Is fakkitness and being scared of suge and pac eventually leading to pac death
2.. Dumbass nikka told biggie to come out here to L.A. after 5 months of pac being killed and thought everything was sweet and he can come out here cause pac is dead and suge in jail... nikka thought southside had L.A. under control, not knowing that L.A. is much bigger than southside crips
3.. Then literally ruined every other artist on bad boy who could easily have bigger success like the lox and shine
1.. Is fakkitness and being scared of suge and pac eventually leading to pac death
2.. Dumbass nikka told biggie to come out here to L.A. after 5 months of pac being killed and thought everything was sweet and he can come out here cause pac is dead and suge in jail... nikka thought southside had L.A. under control, not knowing that L.A. is much bigger than southside crips
3.. Then literally ruined every other artist on bad boy who could easily have bigger success like the lox and shine
Worthless Loser
Blackpilled
I don't see it at all. What I do see is the cancer that early 90's gangsta rap injected into the community.
I been listening to stretch and bobbito from the early 90's at work. Most of the rappers talk about "wack rappers" and weed. When stretch play something like B.I.G. "just playing" or "in my life time remix" that shyt Stand out real quick. They wasn't talking about the same shyt.
BmoreGorilla
Veteran
The funny thing about Jay saying it was that Jay is actually nice lyrically so it was the ultimate brag. But when someone like Jim Jones said it you knew he was dead serious becuz he wasn’t on that level
On another note hip hop ain’t been right since Pac got shot 5 times and came back. 50 took it to another level by being shot 9 times. All of a sudden your backstory became more important than the music.
shyt just got ridiculous when Game said he got shot 9 times too
He was in the hospital bed in 2001 listening to the Chronic 2001
On another note hip hop ain’t been right since Pac got shot 5 times and came back. 50 took it to another level by being shot 9 times. All of a sudden your backstory became more important than the music.
shyt just got ridiculous when Game said he got shot 9 times too
He was in the hospital bed in 2001 listening to the Chronic 2001
The funny thing about Jay saying it was that Jay is actually nice lyrically so it was the ultimate brag. But when someone like Jim Jones said it you knew he was dead serious becuz he wasn’t on that level
On another note hip hop ain’t been right since Pac got shot 5 times and came back. 50 took it to another level by being shot 9 times. All of a sudden your backstory became more important than the music.
shyt just got ridiculous when Game said he got shot 9 times too
He was in the hospital bed in 2001 listening to the Chronic 2001
Craig Mack could have been something if not for back story. Didn't he get exposed for going to private school as a kid?....and Biggie not liking craig mack didn't help matters either, lol. Mack was ghost for like 5yr until special delivery remix.
Taadow
The StarchBishop™️
Wear My Dawg's Hat
Superstar
Crack killed Hip Hop.
Hip Hop, as defined from its original as a NYC "wave your hands in the air like you just don't care" deejay party culture.
The crack trade introduced a commercial version of rap music (not Hip Hop) that emphasized glorified storytelling
related to the sex, money and murder related to the industry.
Jay is probably the first and most successful, explicitly crack-trade image rapper.