eViL wrote:

sebstar wrote:Rap is pop now. It mirrors every other pop genre and has zero integrity.

Before, hip hop used to tell the suburbs what to do. Now the suburbs tell hip hop what to do. The culture is dead, but there are still some cool joints nowadays.

Stuff like homosexuality, selling out, biting another man's style, ext... ---- those were all unforgivable sins. Now they are incorportated fully into rap and encouraged.

There is no soul or balance of styles in hip hop. Just one homogenous sound. It is all disposable pop music for the most part. Not trying to sound bitter, it just is what it is.

Well there is one way that rap puts its foot down, nowadays. If a rapper sounds smart, he or she is positioned as weird and underground. Said rapper is shunned and unaccepted by the mainstream.

Didnt Public Enemy used to be the biggest rap group in the world, back in the day? LOL. Times done changed.

give the business enough time to figure out the formulas and they'll suck the soul out of any music.

Thats right. Thats exactly right. Well, hip hop as a culture and expressive artform was fun while it lasted.

sebstar wrote:MY Personal theme song -- Kid Cudi ft. Snoop - I Do My Thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc0dUjOQtVk

my band is recording its new CD right now. the studio we're in is part owned by Dot Da Genius. apparently duke is associated with Kid Cudi. cool coincidence huh?

nyk4ever wrote:seb.. i know you're reading this bro. get your ass back to posting.

This type of attitude is why he's gone now. ^

eViL wrote:

nyk4ever wrote:seb.. i know you're reading this bro. get your ass back to posting.

he ain't comin' back dude. he feels disrespected i'm sure. and i can understand why.

i can understand where he's comin from. i'm just sayin i hope things get patched up however they need to be.