But it's an old Sauce Money beat, which proves my point that most hip hop artists made more grown man shyt when they were kids.
actually your point was not proven with that example for a few reasons.
1) beats are resampled and rediscovered all the time. rapping over old samples doesnt make you better or worse its the listeners preference. you identify with that beat which is why you like that song better.
some might say that beat is played out and has been sampled 100 times already and that song was a throwaway and not original or creative. i could understand that point of view as well.
2) sauce money/jay-z has nothing to do wit this. neither does clark kent the guy who made that or kaygee from naughty by nature who used it 3 years before that or genovese the sicilian 3 years before that.
even calling it a sauce money beat shows you arent familiar with it.
the point you were tryin to make is raw unadultered passion cannot be replicated in later years but in some minute cases can be duplicated.
so yeah i understood that but the "old song" thing was just babble and ghostface has love songs that supercede camay in every way possible.
if raekwon is being judged on his sellout nature then he is doing a good job, homey is still keepin it 100 with us even when;
kanye got him on one of the biggest albums ever
jayz is posin in pics wit him
he arguing with his mentor/leader/friend Rza/professor X (and keepin it respectful as well)
single handedly keepin the WU brand alive
is on songs with justin beiber
and still keeps it less than PC.
the gods dont throw rocks at them
