Rappers That's Killing Hip-Hop

[TheBadazz]

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I'll add Plies to that. He sounds like Master P. I couldn't stand Master P. Him nor his Brothers and son couldn't rap worth a crap.

[hotboyz]

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You have to be too young to remember it then. The 90s had some HORRIBLE songs that got a ton of playing time on the radio. My ears still hurt every time I hear that Bucketheads song.

Name the songs

[hotboyz]

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I'll add Plies to that. He sounds like Master P. I couldn't stand Master P. Him nor his Brothers and son couldn't rap worth a crap.

plies sounds a little perverted in his lyrics

[Cebby]

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Wu-Tang Clan,The Notorious B.I.G.,Nas,Tupac Shakur,Snoop Dogg,Bone Thugs-n-Harmony,N.W.A,ice cube,easy e,jay-z,etc.........i can keep going forever

Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer had the two highest selling rap albums of the 1990s.

Obviously there was great music put out then, but pop music by and large has always been throw away catchy music.

Even the rappers you listed relied on generic hits to get play. All of Big's singles to my knowledge included a sing-songy hook (most by females), the only Wu singles were the 1-3 per album with a hook, and Bone-Thugs' big hit was... sing-songy-hook based.

Illmatic took 7 years to go platinum.

People always tend to overrate the past. While Wu and Nas put out probably my 6 favorite rap albums in the 90s (Illmatic OB4CL, Liquid Swords, Ironman, 36 Chambers, and IWW), the sale of all those combined don't reach Hammer Don't Hurt Em.

Outside of rap, Ace of Base had the highest selling album one year, another year Celine Deon carried the Titanic album to the highest sales, the Spice Girls, and the biggest single of the 90s was the ****ing Macarena.

[hotboyz]

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Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer had the two highest selling rap albums of the 1990s.

Obviously there was great music put out then, but pop music by and large has always been throw away catchy music.

Even the rappers you listed relied on generic hits to get play. All of Big's singles to my knowledge included a sing-songy hook (most by females), the only Wu singles were the 1-3 per album with a hook, and Bone-Thugs' big hit was... sing-songy-hook based.

Illmatic took 7 years to go platinum.

People always tend to overrate the past. While Wu and Nas put out probably my 6 favorite rap albums in the 90s (Illmatic OB4CL, Liquid Swords, Ironman, 36 Chambers, and IWW), the sale of all those combined don't reach Hammer Don't Hurt Em.

Outside of rap, Ace of Base had the highest selling album one year, another year Celine Deon carried the Titanic album to the highest sales, the Spice Girls, and the biggest single of the 90s was the ****ing Macarena.

well at least the music wasn't commercialized like it is today,some ppl get brainwashed by the money

[Cebby]

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well at least the music wasn't commercialized like it is today,some ppl get brainwashed by the money

Did you not read my post?

What about Hammer or Vanilla Ice wasn't "commercialized"?

"Today's music" (whatever period that may be) is always more commercialized than it was in XXYY.

[3rdAnswer]

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no one said hip-hop was dead,ITS DYING.........

a bunch of people say hip hop is dead....and that was just a direct quote from the RZA to anybody who thinks that hip hop is dying. Hip Hop is not a kind of music...it's a culture.

[trobinson97]

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a bunch of people say hip hop is dead....and that was just a direct quote from the RZA to anybody who thinks that hip hop is dying. Hip Hop is not a kind of music...it's a culture.

You make too much sense to be a part of a thread like this.

[daflyboys]

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Not even close to true. Name a time that didn't have terrible popular music.

I didn't say there wasn't a time. You missed the point.

[X*Cell]

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Lil Wayne

AGREED.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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BET and MTV deserve a mention in here.

[Eton Rifles]

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I think we have to remember there was a time when like 90-95 percent of hip-hop was underground. BET and MTV only played them on specialized Rap shows. Nowadays they play them all the time so they need more commercial artists to justify it. And when things become more commercialzed, the quality tends to go downhill.

[X*Cell]

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BET and MTV deserve a mention in here.

QFT

[Jukeman]

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Scape goat


none of those guys are killin hip hop.....

WE choose what is play on the daily...

WE choose what trends to follow...

Hip Hop is young and it is STILL growing....

[DickDalewood]

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Scape goat


none of those guys are killin hip hop.....

WE choose what is play on the daily...

WE choose what trends to follow...

There ya go. If the majority didn't listen to and buy the music, then it wouldn't continue.

You can't blame the artists for being smart enough to record what the people clearly want.