Southern Rappers Ruining Hiphop?

[216 East]

Originally Posted by Kareem

Yeeees they're ruining Hiphop!

These sloppy mumble-mouth rappers from Down South are RUINING the Rap Industry!


Radio stations all over the country are flooding the air with this country-crunk crap.

They don't give a damn what the public wants to listen to anymore, they are gonna play what they're gonna play anyway and FORCE you to listen to it and FORCE the next generation of Black youth to love it.

From East to West Coast you can't hardly hear anything else but the same mumble-mouth crap over and over again.



These step-n-fetchit negroes are doing more to ruin the hiphop and the image of Black men than all of the gangsta rappers from the 90s.
They are on the verge of setting AfroAmerica back 200 years with all that bucking and shucking they're doing on television on these award shows.

Got the whole world laughing at them.



Rappers like Lil John, Mike Jones, TI and others...........especially the ThreeSixMafia.

A Got-damn disgrace..

Purposely gruffing their voices up and grunting sounding like gorillas with the flu.



Most of them sound like slaves who just stepped off the plantation.

I don't know where they find these clowns at.
The type of dialect most of them use....I thought that old slave dialect died out 60 years ago with Bo-Jangles and 'em.

Here they're bringing it back and trying to spread it out over the entire world.

Now Black kids way up in Chicago and Portland talking like THEY just stepped off a plantaion from listening to these clowns on the radio all day.

"Wut choo know 'bout daaat guuuuul"

Why the hell is a 17 year old from a metropolitan city like New York sounding like Bo Jangles?


My mother used to take me down south all the time to visit the family and most of the Black folks down there didn't talk like these clowns.
Even those with strong southern accents don't sound like these fools.


I don't really consider them Southern rappers because they have no talent.

The South used to produce REAL talent like Scarface, Mystikal, Arrested Development, Usher, TLC.....but they didn't get nearly the publicity these monkey acting fools with all that mess hanging out of thier mouths and from thier necks get today.

And all they do is chant the same hypnotic shiit over and over again and bounce up and down with their arms up like monkeys...that ain't talent.

That's acting like a monkey.

Walking around with thier hair braided like some death-row inmate or all bushed out and nappy like a wild fool.


I'm from the old school where we had smooth robotic dance moves, tight rhymes with meaning and substance behind them.
When hiphop was in it's golden age, teenagers from all over the world were inspired and had pictures of Black men postered on thier walls.

Nice clothes, smelling good, tight fades.........
We used to be fresh to death....had everybody trying to look like us.


Now the youth of the world have to look to Justin Timberlake or Eminem because most of the Black rappers ain't worth a damn no more.

Hip-Hop Is Forever......East, West, and South.........Deal With It!


East:

YouTube - Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.

West:

YouTube - 2pac-keep your head up with lyrics

South:

YouTube - OutKast - Elevators (Me & You)

*smh*...Never Die

[Voluptuous Miss]

216, what about the North ??? I'm sure Canada has some tight lyricists , with some hittin' bass lines. Just kidding, I couldn't resist

[Voluptuous Miss]

Actually, they might, now that I think about it.....

[blackisbeautiful]

I don't really like southern rap. Probably except for T.I., Ludacris and Outcast. Majority of the music is annoying. It lacks originality and depth and all the elements that makes a song great. I don't feel like hearing anybody tell me how to dance and the type of dancing to do. And I especially hate when they keep repeating the same words over and over. People may disagree with me on this, but who cares. It is so sickening now.

[amd1588]

^^ Everything you said can be attributed to rappers from the north as well!

50 Cents, Jay Z, Nas, Ja Rule, etc, They may have different accents, but they still perpetuate ignorant stereotypes of Black men. If anything its only a different way of delivering the same package. You would think with all the money Jay Z has made that he'd stop making mindless music about the dope game, but its the same old thing. The sad part about the rappers and people in the south who listen to that music is that it is unfortunately becoming a reality to them, as well as to blacks elsewhere in the country.

You had some pretty disparaging words for Black people from the south. Perhaps you only meant for it to apply to the mindless rappers. But you say why should blacks from a "Metropolitan city like New York" sound like Bo Jangles ? Well, not entirely sure what you meant by this, but considering the Black men and women IN New York as well as other "Metropolitan Cities like New York" are from the south, then it wouldn't be too far off for their to be some cultural carry overs.

Notwithstanding Blacks in NYC and elsewhere originally from the Caribbean and Africa, ALL "African Americans" are from The South, so its really not cool to somewhat marginalize southerners in that way. What we need is to spread knowledge and build each other up, not to bring each other down.

The South is not killing Hip Hop. Hip Hop has been a damn disgrace for a LONG time now, WAAAAAY before Southern Rappers made the mainstream. Even during the golden age of Hip Hop, only a FEW mainstream rappers were really GREAT. And no, despite what you say the Crunk music of today is NO worse than that garbage that came off the West coast in the 90's. That honestly set us back, this stuff today is just indicative of our degenerate place.

We do not have to prove anything to the world, the history of our music validates us. The greatest of our Mainstream musicians of all time are from the south; Gil Scot Heron, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Isaac Hayes, Ray Charles, James Brown, George Clinton, Nina Simone, Gladys Knight, I could go on and on and on and on............................. You get the point ?

None of the artists I named sound like slaves straight off the plantation, yet they were closer in TIME to the plantation that these artists of today. These people out here today have the MENTALITY, and it shows in their music. But really we as black people gotta learn to stop putting so much credence in individual artists, because they all are sellouts to me, even the old ones.

[JamieC]

Originally Posted by blackisbeautiful

I don't really like southern rap. Probably except for T.I., Ludacris and Outcast. Majority of the music is annoying. It lacks originality and depth and all the elements that makes a song great. I don't feel like hearing anybody tell me how to dance and the type of dancing to do. And I especially hate when they keep repeating the same words over and over. People may disagree with me on this, but who cares. It is so sickening now.

It's not like it used to be and it seems as though anyone can get a recording deal these days. Glad I have my collection of Whodini, Sugar Hill Gang and the original rappers from back in the day.

[blackisbeautiful]

Originally Posted by JamieC

It's not like it used to be and it seems as though anyone can get a recording deal these days. Glad I have my collection of Whodini, Sugar Hill Gang and the original rappers from back in the day.

Wow Jamie! You are OLD OLD school. (LOL).

I do prefer music from back in the days but not that far back. But all fun and jokes aside, you do have a point. It really isn't the way it use to be. I know I am young, but I have an old soul. So all the music I listen to is mostly from the late eighties on up.

[eXcelon]

I remember those days when rap was new, the flavor was just awesome. I still feel this way, I like MF Doom, Mos Def, Kweli, Kanye, Lupe, T. I., I do have the CD with "Real AGGIN Roll Call" with Ice Cube, N.E.R.D.s, Jay Z, Biggie, and my late husband Tupac Amari Shakur. I listen to what sounds good to me and sometimes people can introduce you to something you may not have heard because of the polictics involved with the radio stations.

[Amelia456]

I totally agree. The fact that southern garbage sells lets me know that there are millions of people in the world that don't know a damn thing about good music or true hip hop