Classic

[mynameageef]

It's kinda' funny how
With time running down
I remember the days which were once a haze
when, rap was rap, before the whirlwind of deranged, crazed, money chasers in cars with spinning blades
fake gangsters, fake actors
Basically, the detractors that would make you think sticking people pays
That they could be an homage to guys who provided the way for others to rhyme for days
Who with a little bit of gold and a page made me think I was listening to live grenades
The newbies drive down streets the late 70s and 80s paved like they're owed a ticker tape parade
And after one album they want the Hollywood star and an engraved name plate
Like they flew anywhere close enough to the sun to have a feather burnt away, with the audacity to consider themselves a successor to a namesake

Yeah, Yeah,
I know
I know
Not another Joe Blo saying how it was and how now it isn't so
well when the current artists wouldn't take up the space on a ruled A4's margins
listen back and tell me
anyone recently beyond Kendrick that's crippled a track with words in a sick rap
Like he got the whole fucking dictionary on a yoyo
And yeah, yeah,
There's different generations with their own expectations, and limitations
And sure they sell, yep, yep, they get play on Youtube and radio stations
And maybe I'm caught in the rhymes of my time, but can you deny?
That post, around 2005
The beats are wacker, lines derivative, and I can't buy into it even a little bit
As if they're all bastards, illegitimate
Without the ill in it

So where's the father
The mother?
The young ones seem like they never heard of NWA, of anything besides the modern day version of Alizay
Instead of real drugs its pharmaceuticals, these current so-called artists are so anxious they're clean through the nail,
down, to the cuticle
And it could have all been so fruitful, so so so beautiful
They could have built their own legacy, instead I'm out there with a rose for their funeral
The foundation was laid, in any given decade from the last fifty
I mean god damn, the best lyricist out there is: Taylor Swifty!
Yeah you read that correctly, I'm not being glib or shifty
A pop princess writes more real shit than anyone post 50

Cent that is,
Has the music mafia really become this weak and this lame?
With the mentality of Vida fucking The Game to further her fame and make some money off a divorce if the marriage ever came?
It's littered with Instacunts: brainwashed social media gremlins,
anything for a like
Lead zeppelins, about as ballsy as a severed vas deferens or something of a similar semblance
Thing is I'm not sure even if they were the embodiment of manure
they'd ever be good enough, or pure, to be used as fertiliser
That's how immature, these little shits are now
So pardone moi, if I don't see the allure of downloading or listening
They got about as much character as a WWII vet shot in the head and buried in the Ruhr
Or is that...
Too obscure?

[mynameageef]

Link 1 http://rapbattles.com/forum/showthre...-of-a-Bitch%94
Link 2 http://rapbattles.com/forum/showthre...8-Zero-to-Stfu

[Wuxia]

Man. You know I loved reading this for one glaring reason. It was a different generations perspective on the decline of what you perceived to be a sacred artform and culture you valued with utmost respect. I had, well, tbh I still have, that same mentality, however mine was born from a different era. The 90s. And my grievance was with the inevitable commercialization of Hip-Hop, the beginnings of Hip-Hop being profiteered in restaurant and TV advertisements, corporate figures using it to sell products and make their services more attractive to demographics they were unable to previously tap into. I hated all that shit. From The Rugrats movie soundtrack, Blinky Blink in a music video whoring himself to the kids...to present day Pusha-T of The Clipse getting his own Arby's sandwich. I fucking hate what rap as become. It recently turned 50 but I had no reason to celebrate, because those who celebrated it all whored themselves out in one way or the other.

This was an inspiring OM. I loved it. You're a great writer and fantastic new addition to the site.

[mynameageef]

Much appreciated, glad you enjoyed it.
I haven't written an OM in a loooong time.
Dipping in and checking the scene, didn't even know the site was still live.

But yeah different generations, and different maybe expectation of the quality of the music.
I'm not totally shitting on the newer stuff but disappointed at how tame a lot of it is.