rant?
How predictable is rap right now? same 10 producers, same subject matter, same flow, same album format..
Between 1987 to 1997 we saw a flourish of albums that took the chances of creativity think Aquemini, think Stress, think Bizarre Ride and then as far as mainstream rap went it totally stopped. Fell off the face of the earth, rappers started rapping the same lines over and over and over... crack, guns, bitches, money, ice and cars. I swear a Lil' Wayne album, a Cassidy album and a Game album are no different. Maybe a different phor or punchline here or there. WOW. When Mobb Deep dropped their sophomore effort The Infamous even though references to guns and so on had already been abused by the west, that album still sounded fresh, new, different.
And even though early 90's west coast albums had more or less the same subject matter they still managed to sound different. Now we got buzz on rappers like insert predictable rapper example #1 in Ya Boy, who if you strip them to their artistic essence have nothing to offer. I've heard his flow before, I've heard his rhymes before and I've heard his songs before. The problem lays that when I heard all that it wasn't coming from him.
Lil' Wayne, T.I. and the Game are the proclaimed top 3 but they as artists have little difference. Their albums are exactly the same. If aliens came to earth and wanted to know about rap right now you could damn well choose any album from the past 10 years because it's all the same shit. I used to ponder why Q-Tip, André, Kane and so on don't drop their raps anymore but today I figured it out. Why should they? If material they did a decade ago can still be more relevant to society in general then the shit we get now then why should they drop? What's the point? Rap has been stuck in the same standing point for 10 years now with no signs of it ever going forward again.
What makes me ponder is how fans of rap who actually know a bit little about the history of hip-hop can actually be entertained by all the shit we get. Just like food, I need to hear different things. You can't survive off big macs every day and you certainly can't survive off the same bang bang my chain so big it can be used to hook an oil tanker in, i sold 12 billion tonnes of crack last week. Gimme that new Jazzy Jeff, gimme that new Royce whatever.
Bring on Desire and The 7th Seal and i'm gone.
On a side note I suggest everyone go buy that QD3 dvd THE MC. It's a hell of a dope documentary about the rap game.
peac3.
How predictable is rap right now? same 10 producers, same subject matter, same flow, same album format..
Between 1987 to 1997 we saw a flourish of albums that took the chances of creativity think Aquemini, think Stress, think Bizarre Ride and then as far as mainstream rap went it totally stopped. Fell off the face of the earth, rappers started rapping the same lines over and over and over... crack, guns, bitches, money, ice and cars. I swear a Lil' Wayne album, a Cassidy album and a Game album are no different. Maybe a different phor or punchline here or there. WOW. When Mobb Deep dropped their sophomore effort The Infamous even though references to guns and so on had already been abused by the west, that album still sounded fresh, new, different.
And even though early 90's west coast albums had more or less the same subject matter they still managed to sound different. Now we got buzz on rappers like insert predictable rapper example #1 in Ya Boy, who if you strip them to their artistic essence have nothing to offer. I've heard his flow before, I've heard his rhymes before and I've heard his songs before. The problem lays that when I heard all that it wasn't coming from him.
Lil' Wayne, T.I. and the Game are the proclaimed top 3 but they as artists have little difference. Their albums are exactly the same. If aliens came to earth and wanted to know about rap right now you could damn well choose any album from the past 10 years because it's all the same shit. I used to ponder why Q-Tip, André, Kane and so on don't drop their raps anymore but today I figured it out. Why should they? If material they did a decade ago can still be more relevant to society in general then the shit we get now then why should they drop? What's the point? Rap has been stuck in the same standing point for 10 years now with no signs of it ever going forward again.
What makes me ponder is how fans of rap who actually know a bit little about the history of hip-hop can actually be entertained by all the shit we get. Just like food, I need to hear different things. You can't survive off big macs every day and you certainly can't survive off the same bang bang my chain so big it can be used to hook an oil tanker in, i sold 12 billion tonnes of crack last week. Gimme that new Jazzy Jeff, gimme that new Royce whatever.
Bring on Desire and The 7th Seal and i'm gone.
On a side note I suggest everyone go buy that QD3 dvd THE MC. It's a hell of a dope documentary about the rap game.
peac3.
