Comments on: The Ills….

By: Beware

Beware — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:07:19 +0000

@Pit…

“As much as I love the Quiksta & think that he doesn’t/didn’t get the shine he deserves I kinda feel like he fell off after his last Solo Album. Since then I haven’t heard anything important from him at all.”

Agreed. BUT, i don;t think people as smart as Quik fall off, per se. they just take wrong turns creatively.

He’ll be back. Mark my words.

By: Pit

Pit — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:36:11 +0000

If I posted only what I liked….ha…..it’d be all DJ Quik and 80s R&B. But that’d be a shitty website (not really, but….you know) and wouldn;t be nearly as successful as TSS.

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I Gotcha.

If I posted only what I liked….ha…..it’d be all DJ Quik and 80s R&B.
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As much as I love the Quiksta & think that he doesn’t/didn’t get the shine he deserves I kinda feel like he fell off after his last Solo Album. Since then I haven’t heard anything important from him at all.
What do you think? But that’s not the biggest issue, as long as I am able to bump his older stuff through my speakers.

Bottom line…rappers need to fall back on themselves and contribute more to society.

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Exactly! All I’m feeling when I see most of these faggots on TV right now, is deep shame. We got the biggest crisis since the World War II. If the rappers represent the ordinary man of the society, they must have to say more than ever.

By: don king

don king — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:59:17 +0000

It’s funny how rap has become hypercapitalist in the way it has done when almost all subcultures before it tend to embrace more anti-authoritarian ideals. Instead rap has become *almost* entirely centred around selling materialism and a fantasy aspirational lifestyle to it’s audience, even though everyone understands that the millionaire lifestyle is unachievable for everybody as society couldn’t function like that – it’s such a seductive fantasy that people are willing to be deluded into chasing it.

By: me

me — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:32:36 +0000

this is why i dont support superstars whether it be music acting or sports. i download their shit fuck them cause they dont give a damn about me. after watching jay and alicia keys treat lil mama like that i actually felt good about downloading the bp3 before the release and puttin all my friends onto it. as far as sports youll never see my black ass wearing a jersey

By: Beware

Beware — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:14:50 +0000

@Pit…

Believe me brother, you ain’t the only one.

Hell, I don’t even listen to rap half as much anymore for that reason alone. It’s garbage over tight beats, and the music is what keeps me listening per usual.

As far ad us reporting it, being hypocritical, we’re not all. We’re journalists with a decently large audience, so we have to cater to everybody, meaning we post most music by popular/bubbling artists….whether WE like them or not. It’s our job. If I posted only what I liked….ha…..it’d be all DJ Quik and 80s R&B. But that’d be a shitty website (not really, but….you know) and wouldn;t be nearly as successful as TSS.

Bottom line…rappers need to fall back on themselves and contribute more to society.

What’d Jay-Z say on that Get By remix record I heard yesterday ….”Picture me working McDonald’s…I’d rather pull a mac on you” That’s some ignorant ass bullshit right there. A truthful mentality, but not one that promotes anything positive.

I guess the question really is…where do you draw the line?

By: Pit

Pit — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:43:36 +0000

Great piece, indeed. That’s the one side. On the other side, doesn’t this website post videos of rappers showing their big ass (fugly) chains, presenting their collection of cars etc. almost on a daily basis?

It’s schizophrenic how you talk about the dumb things rappers do with their money, on the other hand celebrating videos in which rappers show off what they got.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to attack you personally, as I am/was not really better by myself. But as I get older, watching videos by those “artists” makes me bleed inside my chest. Why must (todays) rap music consist of so much ignorance and crap. Can’t it be possible to hear a record which bangs as fuck without ignorant ugly bastards saying unnecessary, dumb things. Hell, most of nowadays rap sounds so damn childish, you are just able to laugh at these fools

But maybe I’ve just gotten older and my taste in music changed.
I Used to Love H.E.R.

By: k1ng

k1ng — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:17:11 +0000

Great piece Beware.

By: Bsl_01

Bsl_01 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:20:33 +0000

the question is how do you convince those at the top that the welfare of everyone else is in their best interests
class in America is often never discussed
as if those who come from extreme poverty are to blame because they didn’t pull themselves up by their boot straps
failed because they were incompetent, not because
the system in many cases produces little opportunities
for economic mobility;
and in turn how has hyper-wealth impacted hip hop artists
& the game in which they participate in to procure profit
from some of the same people who will never attain such
status & wealth

peep this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/national/class/HYPER-FINAL.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1

By: Petey the Great

Petey the Great — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:07:52 +0000

leave the lions out of this buddy,

By: Da$Haze$Invada

Da$Haze$Invada — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:53:29 +0000

Man them rappers dont have no money to be taking care of anyone else, the actual rich ones take care of their family as they should and some don’t even do that, you want money? Go to them sport team owners, fashion designers, and car models, and stop leaving music artist as examples that could do any real help, the highest paid of the rappers, producers, and executives work to get that crap and can barely keep it, if they looked to help they could probably only help 1 person actually proper. Some do help as much as they can, and the ones who don’t, why is there a surprise?