I Miss The Old Days Of Rap Music

[isiahthomas]

Rap music right now is so terrible, i don't even listen to these wack new rappers. Most of these southern rappers that are popular right now like Young Joc, T.I., Hurricane Chris, Little Wayne, Baby aka Birdman, Little John and the Eastside Boyz are horrible. I miss the old days of rap from the 80's and 90's. Back then, most rappers had good lyrics and the beats were tight. I can't even remember the last time i went to a record store to buy a rap album. That's how terrible rap is to me right now since i can't remember the last time i bought a rap cd LOL. Rap album sales have been declining for awhile now and they're gonna continue to decline until rappers start making good songs again with good lyrics and good beats instead of these wack elementary rhymes that these wack rappers be saying. These are the rappers i miss.



KRS One
Rakim
Run DMC
Fat Boys
Whodini
Kurtis Blow
Slick Rick
Doug E Fresh
LL Cool J
Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five
UTFO
A Tribe Called Quest
EPMD
NWA
Geto Boys
Ice Cube
Kool G Rap
Pete Rock and CL Smooth
Wu Tang Clan
Onyx
Das EFX
Redman



There's a lot more rappers i miss that i can't think of right now but i'm just very disappointed with rap music right now and i don't see the music getting any better in the future. There's too much negativity in rap right now and that needs to change. I know that rappers wanna talk about how bad their neighborhoods are but what they're not talking about is how they can change their neighborhoods. I'm also tired of rappers dissing each other. Blacks are always putting each other down and dissing one another. We're the only race of people who do that on a daily basis. Will Smith has been dissed by a lot of rappers because his music is positive and he doesn't curse. There's nothing wrong with him not cursing. I wish more rappers wouldn't curse. I'm also tired of seeing rappers dying at a early age. Jam Master Jay of Run DMC was a good guy and he didn't deserve to get murdered. I read that he had some financial problems and the guys who killed him, he owed some money to them. That's sad to hear and the messed up thing about it is that his murder will never get solved because the police don't care. They look at it as just another black man from the ghetto who died.

[FactoryGirl]

Some rap music today is awful, that I agree on, but not ALL rap artists suck like Kayne West, Common, and Mos Def, just to name a few rappers who aren't in the same direction as the Lil Wayne and 50 Cent.

But let's not forget there were some rap artists back in the day that was just as offensive as the rappers of today....NWA for example.

[freshprinceofLA]

Yea right you are man. Now all I hear is look at my watch look at my girls look at me I'M RICHHHH!! That's sooo terrible.
What happened to the days of "REAL RAP". Guys like Tupac, Biggie, N.W.A., Run DMC, Public Enemy, Krs etc. Snoop dogg was a great rapper in the 90's and early 2000's but now he's taken a BIG step back. The most real rapper left Nas.

[FactoryGirl]

Yea right you are man. Now all I hear is look at my watch look at my girls look at me I'M RICHHHH!! That's sooo terrible.
What happened to the days of "REAL RAP". Guys like Tupac, Biggie, N.W.A., Run DMC, Public Enemy, Krs etc. Snoop dogg was a great rapper in the 90's and early 2000's but now he's taken a BIG step back. The most real rapper left Nas.

Rap died with Tupac and Biggie, that's what happened. Hopefully, Kayne, Common, Nas, and Mos Def will lift it up.

[Ireneparalegal]

Isaiah, I can't believe you put THE FAT BOYS! :faint: No way...what a joke they were.

[FactoryGirl]

FAT BOYS?!!! I did not see that one..... the only cool things they did was beatboxing and starring in "Krush Groove" but that was it!:lol:

[Ireneparalegal]

FAT BOYS?!!! I did not see that one..... the only cool things they did was beatboxing and starring in "Krush Groove" but that was it!:lol:
:lol:

[isiahthomas]

LOL@Ireneparalegal dissing the Fat Boys hahahahahahahahahahaha. That's cold that you dissed them. They did make some terrible albums. I was so mad when i heard their Coming Back Hard Again and On And On albums. Those albums are terrible. Kanye West, Common, Mos Def suck to me. Kanye is a terrible rapper and he has the nerve to be cocky LOL. Common and Mos Def are good rappers but i don't like their beats and most of their songs are boring. I was very disappointed in Mos Def's Black On Both Sides album. I liked Common back in the day when he called himself Common Sense. When he dropped the Sense from his name, his music started to get soft. I saw him recently in Smokin Aces movie with Ray Liotta, r&b singer Alicia Keys, Taraji Henson, Andy Garcia. I know the movie is old but i just saw it last weekend. Common is gonna be in the new movie American Gangster this winter with Denzel Washington, Cuba Gooding Jr, rapper T.I., The RZA of Wu Tang Clan, Russell Crowe. Common's character in the movie is a drug dealer who works for Denzel who is also a drug dealer. There are too many wack rappers now who brag about what they got and that's wack because they're not showing any lyrical skills. I also don't like the fact that there are too many negative rappers, the music is too violent and what these rappers need to do is clean their music up and make positive songs to educate the black youth because the black youth look up to these rappers as role models. The rappers should be telling the black youth to stay in school so they can get a job when they graduate and do something else for a job career besides only being interested in selling drugs, rapping, wanting to be a NFL and a NBA athlete.

[ThomasE]

FAT BOYS?!!! I did not see that one..... the only cool things they did was beatboxing and starring in "Krush Groove" but that was it!:lol:


You forgot that they made animated appearance on "Police Academy" the cartoon series. :lol:

[FactoryGirl]

You forgot that they made animated appearance on "Police Academy" the cartoon series. :lol:

:lol:

How can I forget that one! The eighties...gotta love that decade!

[Janice Johnson]

SugarHill Gang was really good! Rapper's Delight is still a "Jammabale" song to this day. I wonder if the term "hip-hop" came from this song. I could swear I hear the lyrics, "A Hip, hop, hippity to the hip hop, and you don't stop."

[Ireneparalegal]

SugarHill Gang was really good! Rapper's Delight is still a "Jammabale" song to this day. I wonder if the term "hip-hop" came from this song. I could swear I hear the lyrics, "A Hip, hop, hippity to the hip hop, and you don't stop."
THAT SONG IS DA BOMB!!!!!! I never get tired of that song. I was a freshman in high school when that song first came out. It was hip, different, catchy and overall just a friggin' good a$$ song. To this day you can still dance to it. It never gets old. :wave:

"Hotel motel Holiday Inn...if your girlfriend starts acting up, then you take her friend."

[freshprinceofLA]

SugarHill Gang was really good! Rapper's Delight is still a "Jammabale" song to this day. I wonder if the term "hip-hop" came from this song. I could swear I hear the lyrics, "A Hip, hop, hippity to the hip hop, and you don't stop."
Great song without that song Rap/Hip-Hop would be nothing.

[GARFIELDKOOL]

Rap music right now is so terrible, i don't even listen to these wack new rappers. Most of these southern rappers that are popular right now like Young Joc, T.I., Hurricane Chris, Little Wayne, Baby aka Birdman, Little John and the Eastside Boyz are horrible. I miss the old days of rap from the 80's and 90's. Back then, most rappers had good lyrics and the beats were tight. I can't even remember the last time i went to a record store to buy a rap album. That's how terrible rap is to me right now since i can't remember the last time i bought a rap cd LOL. Rap album sales have been declining for awhile now and they're gonna continue to decline until rappers start making good songs again with good lyrics and good beats instead of these wack elementary rhymes that these wack rappers be saying. These are the rappers i miss.



KRS One
Rakim
Run DMC
Fat Boys
Whodini
Kurtis Blow
Slick Rick
Doug E Fresh
LL Cool J
Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five
UTFO
A Tribe Called Quest
EPMD
NWA
Geto Boys
Ice Cube
Kool G Rap
Pete Rock and CL Smooth
Wu Tang Clan
Onyx
Das EFX
Redman



There's a lot more rappers i miss that i can't think of right now but i'm just very disappointed with rap music right now and i don't see the music getting any better in the future. There's too much negativity in rap right now and that needs to change. I know that rappers wanna talk about how bad their neighborhoods are but what they're not talking about is how they can change their neighborhoods. I'm also tired of rappers dissing each other. Blacks are always putting each other down and dissing one another. We're the only race of people who do that on a daily basis. Will Smith has been dissed by a lot of rappers because his music is positive and he doesn't curse. There's nothing wrong with him not cursing. I wish more rappers wouldn't curse. I'm also tired of seeing rappers dying at a early age. Jam Master Jay of Run DMC was a good guy and he didn't deserve to get murdered. I read that he had some financial problems and the guys who killed him, he owed some money to them. That's sad to hear and the messed up thing about it is that his murder will never get solved because the police don't care. They look at it as just another black man from the ghetto who died.

To me, rap died around 1997-98. I didn't listen to any rap after that period.
I hear Lil John and the Eastside Boyz and Little Wayne on the radio, and they are straight up bubble gum. They will never hold a candle to the groups and artists you mentioned. Rap use to be all about art and experience in society, but I can't get with this garbage nowadays. I am 33 years old, and I may sound like an old man, but this rap today is not happening. I miss Rakim, Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh, UTFO, Whodini, Big Daddy Kane, and the rest of them. I grew up with these superstars. Let me list more rappers who are probably lesser known like D-Nice and Kwame.

[Ireneparalegal]

I sure as hell miss Kurtis Blow. He was the first solo rapper who I instantly took a liking to. His song "The Breaks" is on my iPod and when that song plays in my car, I jam up the volume and sing along to it. It brings back memories of when rap made its debut. To be around when something was developed is really nice.

[isiahthomas]

I like Rapper's Delight song too. I like how Sugarhill Gang sampled Chic's Good Times song on that track. I love Good Times song and i'm a Chic fan. Speaking of Chic, i'm gonna have to buy their greatest hits album. GarfieldKool i agree with you about what you said. These rappers now are horrible. I don't see rap getting any better in the future. I think the music is still gonna be terrible 10 years from now. Ireneparalegal i like Kurtis Blow too. My favorite songs by him are AJ Scratch, Basketball, Christmas Rappin, The Breaks. I remember when he had a jhericurl hahahahahahahahahaha. Willie D of the Geto Boys did a solo song called So What 4 years ago. In the song, he talks about he's tired of rappers bragging about what they got. This song is so funny. Here's what he said. Ya'll are gonna laugh when you read these lyrics.



Anybody don't like this can suck the peeda. Watch out now. Here comes another heater. Everytime i turn the radio on, i get hot. I'm sick of nig*as bragging about what they got LOL. I came here to show and tell. Half of these muthaf*ckas broke as hell LOL. Most of these bitc*es scared to come to the hood LOL. The rest talking about they platinum and they can't go wood. Let's get the facts straight out the gate. You ain't real nig*a, you's a cake LOL. You talk a lot of sh*t about scrapping and guns but if i slapped the fu*k out you right now, you run hahahahahahahahahahahaha. So what if your rich. Let me tell you something bi*ch LOL. A nig*a don't feel like hearing that sh*t LOL. I could give a f*ck about how tight your flow is LOL. You garbage if you ain't doing nothing for these kids.


So what you got a new set of wheels. So what they put your house on cribs. So what you filthy rich. So what you filthy bit*h LOL. So what you got ice in your chain. So what you got boppers(slang word for bit*hes)giving you brain(slang word for sucking d*ck). So what you filthy rich. So what you filthy bit*h LOL.


Shouting out to the hood every god damn minute but when you gon build a bridge in it? LOL. Got money out the ass and your swinging like Tarzan but all your homeboys starving. It takes me to talk about your selfish ass cause most individuals don't know the half. You roll through the hood and pass out a few bucks but you ain't really trying to see a nig*a come up. It ain't safe when your talking sh*t. Your bodyguard ain't nothing but a big old bi*ch hahahahahahahahahaha. Heard you got jumped on by a broad LOL. Now suddenly you got a record out and your ass is hard LOL. Cocks*cking muthaf*cka, you a brand new fool LOL. Tricking(slang word for spending money on women who use men)with these chickens(slang word for women)and your kids need shoes. Radios and videos playing your sh*t. Screaming your record company name but they laying you d*ck LOL.


How you living, how you living mr ball player? Since you signed that new contract, you ain't did jack LOL. You lucky i ain't the team owner cause i'd pull out a 9(slang word for a gun)and pop your ass while you riding the pine(slang word for bench)hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Northside nig*as don't care if you rich. We play for respect and authority bit*h LOL.