Quote: (09-16-2013 12:10 AM)numanist Wrote:
Kanye Pest is perhaps one of the most obnoxious, insecure, self-aggrandizing, celebritwit out there. He is always trying to size himself up at every turn, in fact, recently he said he is the second coming of Steve Jobs. He also commissioned a portrait of himself in the image of JC himself. The man needs to be knocked down more than a few pegs, in my opinion.
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It's like that, man.
Once the big money started flowing into the rap game from the mid-90s onward, it all started to be about egos, and hissy-fit throwing, temper tantrum spewing, egomania bullshit. And the quality really went down.
I mean, if you listen to the flow and delivery of, say, the DOC, Erik B & Rakim, Kool G Rap, Heavy D, EPMD, Schooly D, Big Daddy Kane, Just Ice, Too Short, etc., etc., you see that there's nothing like it today.
Because back in the late 80s and early 90s, the money wasn't there...and no big egos to corrupt. They were hungry, and it showed. The talent was there.
You know, I was listening to some real old-school shit the other day...it was Roxanne Shante's "Roxanne's Revenge". You remember Roxanne's Revenge? And I thought, damn, this is just fucking beautiful...just magic. And what females can flow like that now? Nobody. Check it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVy2LHKFG18
Ah, maybe it's just the nature of things. I don't know.
Once the rap game moved out of New York, you had different parts of the country that needed to be representing...the South, Houston, all that. And then you had California, which was always a force but just exploded in the late 90s.