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Yeah 50 cent is a punk. Mobb Deep officially sold out when they signed with him imo. At least we'll always have The Infamous and Hell on Earth (not a fan of Murda Muzik or anything else they've done after that.)
Speaking of "Fiddy" have you seen what he looks like lately? I guess he had to lose weight for some movie role.
Does anybody in this thread listen to anything besides 90's east coast underground? Just curious... I used to listen to a lot of that (Godfather Don, Cenobites, Da Youngstas/Illy Funkstaz, Royal Flush, Rough House Survivors, Nine, The Artifacts, etc.) but now I don't listen to any of it... got tired of it. The music component wasn't strong enough... the lyrical style was focused too much on b-boying and freestyling as opposed to actually saying something (good or bad). IMO the bay and the south do a better job of that... there's also more focus on the bass, which is seriously lacking in 90's east coast rap. Even the newer east coast rap sound lacks bass.
I'll clarify more about the lyricism part. While obviously there's a lot of conscious emcees on the east coast, a lot of the time east coast rappers are just trying to rhyme for the sake of rhyming (ie Godfather Don) and punchlines for the sake of punchlines (ie Big L). The only east coast rappers who tend to rap in a continous every-line-matters sort of way that I've heard would be rappers like Nas, Jay-Z, Camp Lo, Killah Priest, Raekwon and a couple others. On the west coast, lyricism is more about being relatable and less about proving that you can bite Rakim and rhyme history with mystery.
Does anybody in this thread listen to anything besides 90's east coast underground? Just curious... I used to listen to a lot of that (Godfather Don, Cenobites, Da Youngstas/Illy Funkstaz, Royal Flush, Rough House Survivors, Nine, The Artifacts, etc.) but now I don't listen to any of it... got tired of it. The music component wasn't strong enough... the lyrical style was focused too much on b-boying and freestyling as opposed to actually saying something (good or bad). IMO the bay and the south do a better job of that... there's also more focus on the bass, which is seriously lacking in 90's east coast rap. Even the newer east coast rap sound lacks bass.
I'll clarify more about the lyricism part. While obviously there's a lot of conscious emcees on the east coast, a lot of the time east coast rappers are just trying to rhyme for the sake of rhyming (ie Godfather Don) and punchlines for the sake of punchlines (ie Big L). The only east coast rappers who tend to rap in a continous every-line-matters sort of way that I've heard would be rappers like Nas, Jay-Z, Camp Lo, Killah Priest, Raekwon and a couple others. On the west coast, lyricism is more about being relatable and less about proving that you can bite Rakim and rhyme history with mystery.
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