Great article on the fakeness of todays Gangsta Rap.. good read

[Nima]

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0323/coates.php

what yalll think
altho i think thats written mostly from a New York perspective

 

[Nima]

up!! yall should check this out i know its long but its interesting

 

[707 loc]

too long....

 

[Tenkamenin]

Great article....

 

[mR.SiPpYGeTiPpY]

after reading that only one thing comes to mind

'I Glorify the crime rate, in my state, now muthafuckas think it's the flyest place' - Dre Dog.

 

[Nonstop]

yeah i agree about the east coast crime rates dropping, but on the west coast noggas is still on... 6 ppl got smoked, 14 ppl got shot last week up here in portland... but that shit dont even make the news...

 

[Nonstop]

and my ppls was in frisco ant the begining of the week, and he was tellin me about some niggas dat smoked a dude out front of a store... got hit like 2 in the head and 3 times in the body i think

 

[BIGCHILL]

But as the '90s wore on, and MTV noticed the big dollars generated by gangsta rappers and their associates, the mirror began to crack. Ice Cube faded into Mack 10, Biggie was replaced by the LOX, and Nas gave way to Nastradamus. As the music became more popular, it became more of a cartoon—eventually, the only cartoon in town. Despite an occasional hit by the Roots or Talib Kweli, the popular face of rap has been defined by acts in the mold of Biggie or Tupac, but with less talent and almost no perspective.



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