What's Wrong With Hip-Hop: Throwback Edition

[MattSonzeezy]

In January of 1991 I think I was still sitting in Sound Arts studio watching the Geto Boys record We Cant Be Stopped.

And it is a point well taken, and I have said it before, this shit has been said over and over and over again for years and hwo cares.

Houston has no stranglehold on anything. Only one artist this year went platinum, with the worst most bullshit CD out of the bunch. ATL artists go platinum all day everyday. Sometimes before they even get out of bed.

We have no stranglehold on anything except for the fact that we used to be a realllly strong independent city. Now we are just another city with platinum aspirations that may or may not ever happen again.

Not hating just stating. I love my city but damn dog.

I put in It Takes a Nation of Millions today while driving to Taqueria Arandas. It's been some time since I have done that and I am not lying, I got a lil choked up during Bring the Noise. I'm not kidding. I was all like DAMN MAN WHAT HAPPENED????

It hurts.

PEACE matt

 

[Vitamin]

It's amusing that your undergarments are still twisted over that episode. But thanks for reminding me of your lemming status. I suppose you think this is discourse.

 

[BreakSelf]

When was the crude, racially paranoid irrendentism of X-Clan, ever taken seriously as the learned offerings of "teachers?" The failed ideologies of fringe nationalists, repackaged as consciousness. To the east my brother to the east? Get thee to a library. Read Dubois critique of Garvey, learn about the failed state of Liberia.

LOL

Why don't you break it down for us?
we need to be taught about the plight of Native America -
and only a "concious rapper" such as yourself can teach
us through your channeling abilities...

x 10,000,000!!!!!

When was the crude, racially paranoid irrendentism of X-Clan, ever taken seriously as the learned offerings of "teachers?"

I'm going to go out an a limb here and guess 1991?

 

[SoulOnIce]

*** You are laughing uncontrollably at this user ***

 

[BigSpliff]

If anything, a lot of folks think hip-hop fucked up R&B.

If anything, Hip Hop saved RnB from extinction. Now they've both got the clap, or worse.

 

[BigSpliff]

*** You are laughing uncontrollably at this user ***

Oh jeez....

 

[BigSpliff]

It's amusing that your undergarments are still twisted over that episode. But thanks for reminding me of your lemming status. I suppose you think this is discourse.

now I go back and read this! One day people will celebrate your misunderstood musical/socio-political genius on future Waxidermy-type sites. Until then, until then.

 

[SoulOnIce]

"It's amusing that your undergarments are still twisted over that episode"

"But thanks for reminding me of your lemming status"

"I suppose you think this is discourse"

 

[jdeez]

hi matt.

In January of 1991 I think I was still sitting in Sound Arts studio watching the Geto Boys record We Cant Be Stopped.

And it is a point well taken, and I have said it before, this shit has been said over and over and over again for years and hwo cares.

Houston has no stranglehold on anything. Only one artist this year went platinum, with the worst most bullshit CD out of the bunch. ATL artists go platinum all day everyday. Sometimes before they even get out of bed.

We have no stranglehold on anything except for the fact that we used to be a realllly strong independent city. Now we are just another city with platinum aspirations that may or may not ever happen again.

Not hating just stating. I love my city but damn dog.

I put in It Takes a Nation of Millions today while driving to Taqueria Arandas. It's been some time since I have done that and I am not lying, I got a lil choked up during Bring the Noise. I'm not kidding. I was all like DAMN MAN WHAT HAPPENED????

It hurts.

PEACE matt

I never said Houston/stranglehold, I said South. Discourse, Drizzcourse. Fuck all that.

I understand that reading comprehension might be a tall order for the day ( 420 doods) but what I was trying to communicate was that in 15 years, this might be the frustration that southern folks feel. ( act like you don't know)

I could give a fuck either way. get emotional.

have fun dudes.

 

[mannybolone]

When was the crude, racially paranoid irrendentism of X-Clan, ever taken seriously as the learned offerings of "teachers?" The failed ideologies of fringe nationalists, repackaged as consciousness. To the east my brother to the east? Get thee to a library. Read Dubois critique of Garvey, learn about the failed state of Liberia.

Vitamin,

I'm not disagreeing that, ideologically, the X-Clan had holes big enough to drive that pink caddy through but you're pretty much - from my perspective - failing to acknowledge that, in their time and place, people really did think the X-Clan were revolutionary. You can snicker at that thought now but in 1990? Motherfuckers thought the X-Clan were The Truth. And seriously - I know Zulu Nation type dudes who still swear by their wisdom.

So yeah man, a LOT OF PEOPLE took their shit seriously. You might find that idea scary or abhorrent but you can't challenge that fact of the matter.

 

[Swayze]

Taqueria Arandas

Arandas Special #1 with the cactus strips or your soft!!!

 

[Bsides]

blah blah blah houston houston houston blah blah blah.






X-clan rules batches.

 

[Bsides]

10. "The CD industry. Records are quickly becoming scarce. What are the DJs going to use? Hip-hop will lose the one tool that has truly separated it from all other musical genres." - E. Whiteside, Mt. Vernon, IL

Im also gonna blame the cd industry for this one. 2006 and its still a problem.