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Originally Posted by Frank Metts
That's the thing your looking for rap and mind blowing punchlines and metaphor snd wordplay ... its naturally for someone who reads text
The evolution is that these cats are making good overall music now, not just rap ... jay z is appealing to someone who might not like rap that much same with em
Your not gonns catch a kid wearing a cold play t shirt having a fabolous or nas cd in his arsenal but bet he has some em and jay z and maybe even some kanye
The evolution is making music for the masses ... not just for the hard core rap fan
Rock doesnt have all the complex material rap has but real good artist constantly make music that will last ... that gets played for decades
Rap songs last what a year .. very rarely does an artist make something that's timeless ... and usually its the same artists making those songs but you csn sprinkle the occassional one hit wonder in their
Music is a business and jay and em understand it ... hell even nelly understood it but tried to move to acting and hasn't really regained focus
Em makes music ... joe budden makes some music ... jay makes music ... kanye makes msuic ... even drake makes some music... 95% of the game just raps
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all them niggas u just named sold out tbh..
em, drake, joe budden, kanye, jay. they all make mainstream boring shit. that's why em and jay ain't been really doing shit since like '03 that ain't trash, kanye just be making stupid shit now, joe budden been tryna get mainstream but fails and drake is that gay best friend all women would have and shit.
these guys don't make music imo, because what i view music as is a way to express and channel emotions through. Tribe called Quest never made a song that didn't sound like it came from their heart tbh, even shit like Bonita Applebum sounded like it was more of a deep feeling u can get w/ than Jay Z spitting trash on Beach is Better or that nigga sitting here dumbing down but talking about topics like shit on Somewhereinamerica or the Blueprint 3 as a whole
imho, i feel like ya'll just listen to jay and want to be that nigga. son naming shit u never heard of and ya'll like "yoooooo this is hot", the SAME materialistic shit u deface other rappers for. jay don't drop any hot shit tbh, son got the same meaning in his songs that other rappers have in theirs. he doesn't flow it on some Nigga What, Nigga Who shit, he got the same ol' boring flow. you niggas love the beats more than the actual song tbh