Chicago Hip-Hop Scene (Wayne, Gays: buy, living in, park)

[desperad0stl]

Chicago, Philly, New York rap will always be the best...
I never liked southern hip hop and even hip hop from my home town st. louis for that matter.
You can chill out and relax to chicago hip hop

Lupe, Kanye, and Common need to start an empire in Chicago like JayZ and P-Diddy have in NYC.
Anyway i heard Jay and Kanye have been having problems.

[coolyfett]

Originally Posted by Drover

Oh, and not one mention of Lupe Fiasco in this thread either? Man, we all in this thread are all a bunch of un-hip white folk.

Im a negro.....Lupe is from the Chi? I didn't know that. Cool beans.

[Banx]

Originally Posted by sharkylittleton

Remember the days when Common was Common and not the Hollywood emcee that he is now? He used to freestyle on the Wakeup Show. Great times.

yeah Common's a lame now, big time. that new song he got out "universal mind control" straight garbage.

[SoonToBeChicagoan]

Originally Posted by Banx

man check out The Cool Kids and The Ghost Writers, they be some big names in scene right now that haven't gone outside Chicago jus yet.

uhh, The Cool Kids are big everywhere, I hear them on BBC 1Xtra (UK) all the time..

[sharkylittleton]

Originally Posted by Banx

yeah Common's a lame now, big time. that new song he got out "universal mind control" straight garbage.

What's really sad is that people who were around to watch Common come up from the underground scene knows the true raw emcee talent that he posesses is wasted with the watered down version that you see today. You can make the argument in hip hop that once it's packaged for the masses the music becomes watered down and unoffensive. Most of the stuff you hear on the radio may sound like hip hop but feels nothing like it. No more talk of inequality or REAL issues and problems that plagued these artists in every day life. The current climate is infested with grills, supermans, gold chains and video girls. I feel that Twista, Do or Die, and Crucial Conflict who in my opinion are better representatives of Chicago hip hop who "kept it real." Call me an old timer but I'll stick with emcees that have something to say.

[nobodybabycorner]

R. KELLY is Chicago's top hip-hop star and contribution to the scene worldwide.

He's the best selling artist located here, BY FAR.

He's been number 1 in Chicago for a long, long time. He hit number 1 on the hip-hop charts in 2007. No denying it.

[Banx]

Originally Posted by nobodybabycorner

R. KELLY is Chicago's top hip-hop star and contribution to the scene worldwide.

He's the best selling artist located here, BY FAR.

He's been number 1 in Chicago for a long, long time. He hit number 1 on the hip-hop charts in 2007. No denying it.

Yeah, that's true. I wasn't really think bout r n b though.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by nobodybabycorner

R. KELLY is Chicago's top hip-hop star and contribution to the scene worldwide.

He's the best selling artist located here, BY FAR.

He's been number 1 in Chicago for a long, long time. He hit number 1 on the hip-hop charts in 2007. No denying it.

And that's highly unfortunate.

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by Drover

And that's highly unfortunate.

You know;I agree with you.I am not sure if for the same reasons though.

[noid_1985]

Originally Posted by EEstudent

if you want a great example of how kids got off the streets and into studios, started promoting and are now huge names in the music history let me tell you about them boys from the H

Paul Wall
Chamillionare
Slim Thug
Mike Jones
Lil Flip
Trae
Bun B and UGK
SUC
Rap-A-Lot records
ScarFace

The south supports itself by putting rappers on each others mixtapes just look at what retarded DJ Khaled has been able to do (he is oh so annoying!)

The next city that is up and coming.. DALLAS they got the current high school kids dancen to all their new music

Chicago is for the older adults... and the fact that Kanye just came out with "LOVE LOCKDOWN" didnt proves he cant avoid what the south has created(tpain with that machine sound out of FLORIDA)

Chicago cant run the rap game... its just not the South.

And New York has legends (Jay Z, NAS, P Diddy..) and LA is just the West West (even though its fading as of late)

First and foremost- UGK isn't from Houston- secondly half of the rappers you've just named are radio rappers and don't have any skill at all- The only rapper on your list that's getting any major spins across the country right now is Mike Jones with that "Cutty Buddy" joint- funny because he needed Twista (from Chicago) on the track to make the song half way decent. Don't get me wrong Scarface, UGK, and Chamillionare are good/ great Hip Hop artist- but don't think for a second that Houston is running the Hip Hop game right now- maybe back in 05....