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« on: March 05, 2007, 12:33:52 PM »
Dope thread!
The problem as whole is that The US, has glamorized Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Gotti, Scarface etc, since day one, in that respect its a society thing not so much a sole black thang, however, BLACK America has taken it to another level, the thing is when it goes past entertainment then there's a real
problem, i like what D-Planets sayin. The other side of it is, when people talk about their life and ghetto hardships, yes its usually real. Then you get kids 7 8 years old listening and now they interpret it in a different way. What i'm tryin to say is the foundation that Hip hop is built on today is very far from the essence it was before and the new generation, is gonna rap about just that, what they've grown up listening too, regardless if its real to them or not. So if you built on positive hip hop then thats what you'll spit, if you built on pimps hoes and Gats, then ridiculous as it sounds thats whats gonna make sense to you...
Record Sales are down for many reasons, including change in technology, hard to find good music. Albums are being marketed like any ole cheese burger, get as many through in 15 mins, they aint spending time on it.
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