Hip Hop Chit Chat: old or new?

Edited by King Jehu

Read some more...I dont think Frank White has the ability to really understand the greatness of Biggie...

Cud be wrong tho...suppose anyone can feel the flow

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i agree

OLD vs NEW


OLD: The best artists went mainstream (as mainstream as they could be back in the 80's)

NEW: The mainstream artists are not the best, and the beat ones are not mainstream.


Nothing's changed but the exposure and glorification of mediocrity and marketting to a feeble-minded public.


Edited by King Jehu

King Jehu wrote: OLD vs NEW OLD: The best artists went mainstream (as mainstream as they could be back in the 80's) NEW: The mainstream artists are not the best, and the beat ones are not mainstream. Nothing's changed but the exposure and glorification of mediocrity and marketting to a feeble-minded public.

jehu has it pretty well down packed.

The real statment that the majority of the posts in this thread (becides the ones goin off at frank) are essentially not stating that Old or new skool is better, but wether main stream is good or not, and in my view it has ruined alot of rappers (old and new skool). so i stand by my reasoning that MTV has essentially killed music (the stuff that reaches the mainstream ears) look back before MTV there was more varity and most bands used atleast one instrument. Now, this age of MTV, synths have taken away the sounds of a real instrument, which in some genres of music is good (eg rap/hip hop) but in the majority of others has made all music more electronica /techno then any other style and once uve heard 1 uve heard them all.

As i stated before jehu has realy hit the nail on the head with his statment, esspecially the last comment. Commerciallism is 1 of the many things that is wrong with our western world. The majority of marketing playes on the sences enticing you to buy or purchace the object because if u do ull b in with the "in" crowd and the purchace of this product will essentially enrich your life. Take fast food adds for example all the words are chosen 2 play on ur desire/need to eat. And the display of the item always looks better than the one that u purchace. MTV is just another way 4 the commercialists (coke, pepsi, nike etc) to broardcast their names and items by adding their name to mainstream artists.

Now back to the topic, i agree with Orion saying Music is a form of art, each peice is an expression of something (emotion ect), but like all art it is there to be enjoyed and scrutinised so most people do either one, the other or both, which has obviously been displayed in the previous posts.

And finally I say again that MTV killed music and would like to add that nothing beats live music, nothing