Rakim: “…everybody starts buzzing a few years ago about he’s the best ever, so he smells green and releases some new sh*t that was stank as hell.”
I’m reading this one dude’s post about the best rappers of all time and so on,but I’m getting tired of hearing about these old a** rappers. I’m 20 and half.These people I hear being mentioned I never even heard before. Why are people still calling Rakim the greatest rapper?
I’ve never heard one song of his really, except for that sh*t from the Juice soundtrack. A couple people flipped out when I said De La Soul was wack, but as long as I’ve been into rap they ain’t dropped nothing special to me really. That new sh*t they got is nothing but a beat and a hook. They droppin retarded rhymes about being “iced out like a glass of tea or oatmeal cookies,” what the hell is that? To me, if you want to be respected as an old school artist, keep it old school. Because, when you try to make that comeback – and you just try to sound like all the rappers that’s out today – you’re giving up that old school title and it’s open season on your a**.
Look at Rakim, everybody starts buzzing a few years ago about he’s the bestever, so he smells green and releases some new sh*t that was stank as hell.Then he had a greatest hits album as Disc 2, and the sh*t still didn’t hit on nothing. Pac is great because he can make a real greatest hits album with years of music and it was on fire. Most of these rappers out here can’t go platinum no matter how hard they try. But Pac can sell 6 million copies of his old material. I remember Tupac and Digital Underground from back in the day, but that’s because they dropped some tight sh*t. I’m gonna be hated on for this, but the Fresh Prince was dropping that “raw” back in the day too.
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I just think that it’s time to step into a new generation and stop dwelling on these old acts. I mean people judge rappers today on how much they resemble rappers from the damn 80’s. Who cares if Nas is like Rakim? Rakim was like the “original” rapper, whatever he did should be old news today and we should be into something newer, like an evolution. Look at Rock [music] and sh*t, they get better as time progresses because they expand and evolve. But how come all the old rappers are looked at as being so much better than the ones today?
Brand Nubian is always being mentioned too, but again I’ve really never heard anything too hot from them. I remember Pete Rock and CL Smooth, and Nice and Smooth; they were tight. I remember Grand Puba as a solo artist. NWA gets props because they did it back in the day and you can listen to their music now and still see that it was some tight sh*t. Ice Cube was on fire with that solo sh*t too.
Man I just think that old school rappers get too much props in the year 2G.They were the ones that paved the way no doubt, but this is a whole nutha’ generation today and dwelling on old school sh*t just makes sh*t sound wack.
Another thing I don’t like is that people remember all these old school acts so they think that “real hip hop” has to sound like that. All that does is close the door on new styles and genres of rap; because that’s not deemed as being “real.” [I say] Respect the “new” school. Respect diversity.
