Hiphop was ruined behind this shield. You couldn't call out biting, clones, no flow, off beat, simple rhymes, corny etc. Flood gate opened and now we have next to no classic songs and no quality control.
I'm not talking about inventing. I am talking about how the term was CO-OPTED by Puff.I thought the bay invented the term?
Prior to that, criticism meant something.
Hiphop was ruined behind this shield. You couldn't call out biting, clones, no flow, off beat, simple rhymes, corny etc. Flood gate opened and now we have next to no classic songs and no quality control.
You're doing too much and seem to be the only on in here with the anything goes thing. There was a time where we gatekeeped our music by having standards. One is free to like what they like but a consensus existed based on skill and quality and many fell short of it and those who met it, their music still stands out to this day.Criticism =/= saying someone's music is trash.
Yup. I forget what book of the Bible it was, but I was reading in it the other day where one of the apostles said to Thomas, and I quote: "Man, you are bugging. You're just hating on Jesus because he is the son of the Lord. Don't doubt or hate Jesus, hate the game."Where's the reference for him popularizing the term? Haters have been around since before Christ.
I stopped buying cassettes in the very early 90s. Wu, Big, Nas, Pac, Outkast, Scarface, Bootcamp, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Goodie Mob, AZ, 8ball and MJG, Bone Thugs, Redman, etc. etc. predominately sold the majority of their albums on CD. Puff's run began around 97 and the quality of hiphop took a nosedive since.All of this was called out during and after Puff's run.
The quality of music is subjective. Technology killed off the quality of music because it made us as fans lazy. The cassette era made it mandatory for an album to be a cohesive listening experienced on which every song was meant to be played. When the CD replaced cassettes, we just skipped to whatever song and or go straight to the singles. I mean, people didn't even refer to the name of the songs just the track number. So we got 20 songs where 3-7 were crazy, 3-4 were skits or intros/outros, and the rest was filler. Digital downloads and ringtones killed the album. And now we have streaming.
I guarantee you there is a correlation between when cassettes became obsolete and the decline in the quality of music.
Where's the reference for him popularizing the term? Haters have been around since before Christ.
Hiphop was ruined behind this shield. You couldn't call out biting, clones, no flow, off beat, simple rhymes, corny etc. Flood gate opened and now we have next to no classic songs and no quality control.
Hiphop was ruined behind this shield. You couldn't call out biting, clones, no flow, off beat, simple rhymes, corny etc. Flood gate opened and now we have next to no classic songs and no quality control.
Very on point thread.
I remember Common saying this back when his third album was dropping. He said you can't even call something wack anymore because now that makes you a hater. And it's true. That nonsense has lasted to present times, where if you say someone is trash that means you're either a hater or "old". It's like you can't even not like certain music anymore without it being turned against you.
Truth be told, that's why so many of the OG's are scared to speak out today and call out wackness. They're scared. The few that do, always have to preface sh*t like "I'm not hating or anything, but I think...". So without that truth being told about the music now, mad wack sh*t drops constantly and nobody wants to speak about it.
You're doing too much and seem to be the only on in here with the anything goes thing. There was a time where we gatekeeped our music by having standards. One is free to like what they like but a consensus existed based on skill and quality and many fell short of it and those who met it, their music still stands out to this day.
You keep posting as if its an attempt to take away someones right to like shytty music. Folks are free to enjoy shytty music but there was a time where saying "it's shytty music" was said by people often enough to where shytty music stayed in its place....in the trash.