Ethnic Vagina Finder
The Great Paper Chaser
it's a generational thing.
I'm in my 30's so I'm old enough to have experienced hip hop in the 80's when it was still young, pure, whatever you want to call it. It wasn't commercialized yet. All the artists that came out in the mid 90's grew up in the 80's so naturally their respect and appreciation for the culture was strong. It was about making dope music while still having ambitions of making money at the same time.
I graduated high school in 96 and while the music was still dope.. you could see things changing with the newer stuff that was starting to come out. Rap music now had commercial appeal and everyone was trying to capitalize on it.
All the new york artists that held it down in the 80's and 90's where starting to get old, and when the next generation was supposed to carry the torch, the south and mid west started to rise dramatically, (around late 90's) so it wasn't about new york hip hop no more. the game got more players and eventually everything evolved.
Fast forward to today and the link between 80's hip hop and the new artists that come out now is non existent. There's no bond at all. They younger generation were either infants or weren't even born in 91, 92, 93 and forget about the 80's.
I'm in my 30's so I'm old enough to have experienced hip hop in the 80's when it was still young, pure, whatever you want to call it. It wasn't commercialized yet. All the artists that came out in the mid 90's grew up in the 80's so naturally their respect and appreciation for the culture was strong. It was about making dope music while still having ambitions of making money at the same time.
I graduated high school in 96 and while the music was still dope.. you could see things changing with the newer stuff that was starting to come out. Rap music now had commercial appeal and everyone was trying to capitalize on it.
All the new york artists that held it down in the 80's and 90's where starting to get old, and when the next generation was supposed to carry the torch, the south and mid west started to rise dramatically, (around late 90's) so it wasn't about new york hip hop no more. the game got more players and eventually everything evolved.
Fast forward to today and the link between 80's hip hop and the new artists that come out now is non existent. There's no bond at all. They younger generation were either infants or weren't even born in 91, 92, 93 and forget about the 80's.
