90's Rap vs. Today Stop Comparing!

[DuceTheTruth]

DRE.....DR DRE.....

YEA, WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF THE WEST ITS AUTOMATICALLY THEY THINK OF DRE, SNOOP, AND NATE...NUTHIN WRONG WITH THAT, BUT WIT ALL THE HARDHITTERS THE WEST GOT (NEW AND OLD) ITS A SHAME ALL NIGGAZ CAN THINK OF FROM JUST ABOUT EVERY REGION IS THOSE 3 INDIVIDUALS. I HATE WHEN I HEAR PEOPLE TALK SHIT SAYIN ALL THE WEST GOT THAT HOT IS SAME NIGGAZ FROM 92. ANYBODY FUKKIN WIT WESTCOAST MUSIC NORTH, CENTRAL & SOUTH WILL TELL YOU WE HEATED FROM TOP TO BOTTOM!!...DIFFERENT FLAVORS ALL THRU OUT THIS BITCH...WHATEVER YOU WANT. EVERYBODY WANNA BE THE WEST THATS WHY YOU HEAR A BIT OF THE WEST IN A LOT OF OTHER SHIT YOU LISTEN TO FROM OTHER AREAS. WESTCOAST RAP INFLUENCED A LOT OF WHAT YOU HEAR TODAY. I DONT HATE THAT. I SEE OTHER AREAS POPPIN, ITS NUTHIN. THE SOUTH GOT IT ON LOKK RIGHT NOW, DO THE DAMN THANG!! THIS MUSIC IS LIKE A ROTATIN SPHERE, THE LIGHT ONLY SHINES ON YOU FOR A LIL B4 IT GETS TO MOVIN.

SO HELL, IM NOT TOO SURE IF WE'LL EVER SEE "GANGSTA RAP" RAP AS WE KNO IT AGAIN, BU IM STILL NOT WITH SUM OTHER THIS WATERED DOWN SHIT THATS OUT THERE NOW.

ILL BE HOW OLD SCHOOLS DO IT NOWADAYS, STILL LISTENIN TO THAT 70'S FUNKADELIKS, AL GREEN, GEORGE CLINTON AND ALL THAT, BUT IN THE YEAR 2010 ILL STILL BE BUMPIN THAT AWOL, BLACKMARKET, WCM, SIDEWAYZ, MONEYHUNGRY SHIT!!!...

IM NOT A CONFORMIST!!

 

[southernsacra]

Ok this is a topic I have wanted to speak on for a while now but got lazy too type it all out. I noticed that when dealing with rap in today’s time people are quick to compare it too older 90's shit. Yes true I am a huge fan of the 90's rap and how music used to sound back when R&B and RAP were actually two different things. Dre making the hits and Keith Sweat was responsible for half the kids out there right now. But back too today’s music. When twista comes out with a new hit the first thing said isn’t, "this is tight" or "damn this is coo" its, "his older shit was better" I used too think like this as well then I realized that creativity is what sells. Remaking yourself over the years is what people like. Sad but true people do not like the same music over and over again so you have too switch your style up to accompany the hunger of the industry. Now do not get me wrong, people like me i'm all for the old shit but most out there like the new shit or at least the ones going to buy the album are. Lynch’s shit will never come close to SOS again nor will you see another X-Raided unforgiven album like that again. These are things in the past and I just think people need to accept the music coming out nowadays and stop living in the past expecting too hear that 90's sound again. Anyone see what I am saying?

true but thiz new shit iz weak no "hip hop" shit kan compare to 90z rap even tha early 2000z fuck diz new shit itz all hella weak

 

[EDJ]

Jg@TZ,
WHAT I HEAR IS SHIT THAT SOUNDS SIMILAR AND IS NOT EAR-PLEASIN'. YOU gOT THIS NEW PEPSI gENERATION WITH gARBAgE CONCEPTS AND PLAYED OUT MAINSTREAM OVER-USED SLANgUAgE.

 

[EastSideOfKC]

if somebody says they like new rap better then the 90's.Then their obvious to young too remember music from the early 90's.

 

[thatguy]

^ agreed

thing is fools think to change, you gotta change the entire recipe, if the recipe works, keep usin, just add sumthin that interesting to it to give it a new feel or sumthin, they tryin to change too much

 

[wino]

Ok this is a topic I have wanted to speak on for a while now but got lazy too type it all out. I noticed that when dealing with rap in today’s time people are quick to compare it too older 90's shit. Yes true I am a huge fan of the 90's rap and how music used to sound back when R&B and RAP were actually two different things. Dre making the hits and Keith Sweat was responsible for half the kids out there right now. But back too today’s music. When twista comes out with a new hit the first thing said isn’t, "this is tight" or "damn this is coo" its, "his older shit was better" I used too think like this as well then I realized that creativity is what sells. Remaking yourself over the years is what people like. Sad but true people do not like the same music over and over again so you have too switch your style up to accompany the hunger of the industry. Now do not get me wrong, people like me i'm all for the old shit but most out there like the new shit or at least the ones going to buy the album are. Lynch’s shit will never come close to SOS again nor will you see another X-Raided unforgiven album like that again. These are things in the past and I just think people need to accept the music coming out nowadays and stop living in the past expecting too hear that 90's sound again. Anyone see what I am saying?

I am one of those people that say it...I can't help it....You got a good point about moving on, but it just seems there hasn't been anything this past year to really get excited about.

 

[Southeast Unite]

I think in the era we live in its the information era, where its no more best kept secrets. It was a time when niggas outside the ghettos didnt know what the streets was listenin to, and that was kinda like the subculture. Nowadays, the suburban markets get access to the music prolly quicker than us, and also, the west coast when we was on top we had to use mafia tactics in the music business. And if you look at the mafia, they succeeded only when they kept they secret society. We caint just thumb our nose at the establishment and be on the front line wit it. It was operation west coast shutdown when niggas out here had the east coast rappers and executives shook, aint no a&r's gone try to fuck wit us. And we underestimated the countries love for the west coast, mufuckas was feelin us, but we was like fuck yall, so niggas thoght we was prolly gettin too big headed. Also I dont think we have enough black folks on the West Coast as they do in the rest of America, so the fan base is smaller in that demographic. I think independents might have watered shit down on some levels too, but thats debateable.

 

[EDJ]

^SOUNDS JUST ABOUT RIgHT.

 

[Mind Octapus]

90 music 20 times better

 

[Jae iLL]

Shit, I say OVERALL music was better in the 80s and 90s compared to today. I grew up listening to Bone Thugs, Pac, Brotha Lynch, but also I was listenin to Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns N Roses.. shiet, that was the shit back in the day. Today, rap is fuckin watered down like shit, and they got this new kind of.. metrosexual, let's wear my sister's pants and make up, pop-punk bullshit. It confuses me, I can't STAND that shit, I don't see how ppl can actually enjoy it. Obviously they do tho, cuz these are the folks goin platinum in a week. I can understand why mainstream rap is sellin, cuz that's the shit they play in the clubs, whatever the females is listenin to, the doodes trynna get in that female is gon listen to. This new emo thing trend is confusing tho. I can't comprehend how anybody can actually listen to that shit. Anyway, as far as rap goes, those of us who don't like this new shit are definitely in the minority tho. Look at the sales.. times change.

 

[45Yr Old Virgin]

people say shit goes in cycles but some areas it seems like a broken huula hoop. it goes around till this open part and just falls out and then start over again. there's a gap it seems for some areas or whatever. i guess some people just aren't hustling hard enough, i dunno. if 50 cent can mumble same shit that was said in 88 and still be popular today, i guess other areas must be just not doing their business right to be not on top