Mos Def on current rap: "I don't think we need more Crack Commercials"

[bigillwill06]

said this but he did a big feature for westside gunn a year or so back and gunn is a straight up cocaine/money/ fashion whore so im gonna need mos def to get off the tupac hypocritical wishy washy shyt. Cuz for the right price he will jump on a "coke commercial"

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

The funniest irony is that the only rappers who still even rap about crack anymore are the backpacker favorites like Griselda, Boldy, Pusha etc. that appeals to the “mature” listeners

Dumb ass lying ass post here.

 

[I love Latina women]

Mos really just needs a solid producer down to tie himself to him like the nas/hitboy shyt.

always surprised me he took such a huge step back after the elastic when he definitely has a lane.

But he seems so antifame 99% of the time that you can tell he doesn't give a fukk. Shame Kanye tied him up when he was tryna be musically active.

yasiin has reached a point where he’s only going to do what he wants on his own terms without compromise

That’s clear as day and has been for years now

Take notice how The Ecstatic was the last album released under his former stage name, Mos Def and that was 2009


Since then all of his releases have been released under his name yasijn bey and he has never looked back


He loves the art but it’s the business that left him feeling jaded; hence the announcement he made for his retirement back in 2016

Retirement from the business but not the art and being an artist

That’s why things like these album releases he’s done have been so unorthodox

It’s a way for him to still enjoy doing what he loves without the business getting in his way

 

[banner34]

The funniest irony is that the only rappers who still even rap about crack anymore are the backpacker favorites like Griselda, Boldy, Pusha etc. that appeals to the “mature” listeners

The new age rappers rap about percs and leans which is kinda worst than crack.

 

[Mac Ten]

Mos Def sold records in a time where there was balance in Hip Hop…


At least the street rappers back the talked about the bad side of the crack game. DMX didn’t glorify using crack or selling crack.

These new kids emulate these drill rappers who didn’t have no knowledge at instilled in em which is why the music has so soul in it.


The OGs nowadays are too scared to check the young nikkas at all because they are too broke and would rather be a Yes man

 

[Mac Ten]

i was saying this 20 years ago in Drew Hall (HU you know!) and a lot of brehs looked at me like I had 3 heads.

Negativity in Hip Hop been on overdrive and it's no coincidence that White America dropped it and many long time black Hip Hop fans dropped it as well.

What shirts was they wearing back then???


Did they really bump Mos Def out the cars???

 

[Mac Ten]

The new age rappers rap about percs and leans which is kinda worst than crack.

DJ Screw died of a OD should have warned cats about the dangers of drug use

 

[I love Latina women]

Mos Def sold records in a time where there was balance in Hip Hop…


At least the street rappers back the talked about the bad side of the crack game. DMX didn’t glorify using crack or selling crack.

These new kids emulate these drill rappers who didn’t have no knowledge at instilled in em which is why the music has so soul in it.


The OGs nowadays are too scared to check the young nikkas at all because they are too broke and would rather be a Yes man

You must be 20

Hip hop had already stated a decline by the time 98’ in terms of the culture and it’s golden era

It had gotten more mainstream by 98’ and was at its commercial peak but the quality overall for the most part was watered down

the good old days of 88’ to 96’ were gone

 

[Capital Steez]

Dumb ass lying ass post here.

Lemme guess, you’re 40+ right?

 

[Renegade47]

But it was cool when his generation did it?

no?

 

[Ruck]

Black dante will always be in my top 5

 

[Awesome Wells]

Mos Def sold records in a time where there was balance in Hip Hop…


At least the street rappers back the talked about the bad side of the crack game. DMX didn’t glorify using crack or selling crack.

These new kids emulate these drill rappers who didn’t have no knowledge at instilled in em which is why the music has so soul in it.


The OGs nowadays are too scared to check the young nikkas at all because they are too broke and would rather be a Yes man

All this right here.

The era that Mos comes from, was the Golden Era. So we had a lot of balance back then. He's absolutely right with everything he just said. The new artists today don’t really know how to switch gears and offer different perspectives. They just bite whatever they see other people doing. Topics, flows, styles, etc. So we're basically at a point now where we're hearing the same song from 195 different rappers. And it's all trash and doesn't really do anything for the listener other than offer those same generic vibes.

The culture's quality is at an all-time low, when it comes to creativity because no OG's want to bother with speaking out on this. They don’t want to look bitter or old, so they just stay quiet. That silence is why Hip Hop's been looking funny in the light for like two decades and counting.

 

[Kenny West]

This is honestly one of the things that bugged me most about this genre since I was a kid.

nikka this is just rhyming words. You can rhyme words and make a song about anything. So why is 90% of the songs about selling drugs and killing [specifically] nikkas?

Imagine being a kid in the early 2000s. On the white radio stations you'd hear a song that's on some "fukk you mom, this is my own life" Linkin park shyt, next song would be on some love shyt, creed singing about wanting to be rockstar, a song about crushing on some chicks mom, rage fueled metal music, avirl lavine singing about her crush on a skater boy etc.

Then I turn to the rap station and it's: A song about killing nikkas and selling drugs. Another song about killing nikkas and selling drugs. Another song about killing nikkas and selling drugs. A song about how the rapper is richer than me and will fukk my bytch because he kills nikkas and sells drugs. No way black music is simply this creatively bankrupt

When I was a kid I bought the bs explanations of "These are our stories!" or "this is art imitating life!". Then when I became an adult I ended up learning just how many of these rappers were straight up lying in their lyrics and interviews.

At this point in my life I'm ready for nikkas to admit this shyt is social engineering and apologize to C Delores Tucker. Ready for mf to admit that in spite of knowing it's poison, nikkas are too sheepish/ too addicted to the poison to ever change anything.

 

[010101]

street nikkas turned straight dunce now

the street scholars fly intellectual hoodlum era is just a memory

fools just stand in front a microphone fried out their mind mumbling let the engineer & producer sort it out

the deep thought & time it takes to make truly timeless records fools don't have to give

so all we get is shyte like gelo.ball chino hills well raised ass dropping music acting like he's from the mud of baton rouge

& the crowd can't even call it a joke they actually running behind the shyte seriously HA

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[I love Latina women]

Black dante will always be in my top 5

To me, I see him as the GOAT in the way that most here view Nas as the GOAT