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Nothing funny about Public enemy. Some serious genius hip hop. You just have to look for great hip hop. A lot of great shit out their that is more groundbreaking then popular guitar bands, or indie rock for that matter.
Living in brooklyn, im exposed to a lot of hip hop that people are making in their basement apartments and have a very DIy attitude. More punk then anything.
Chuck D tell it like it is.
Jonathan wrote: Nothing funny about Public enemy. Some serious genius hip hop. You just have to look for great hip hop. A lot of great shit out their that is more groundbreaking then popular guitar bands, or indie rock for that matter.
Living in brooklyn, im exposed to a lot of hip hop that people are making in their basement apartments and have a very DIy attitude. More punk then anything.
Chuck D tell it like it is.
Can't argue with Public Enemy, but what I hate about hip hop is the way it's all been stereotyped, and that rappers appear to be living up to it, instead of breaking the mould (Kanye West is a bit of both)
e.g 'I was brought up on the streets/No moms and dads/I had to fend for myself/With my own two hands/But today I'm hurtin/And I'll tell you why/I got a hangnail/HANGNAIL/Hanging from my cubicle/HANGNAIL/And it ain't beautiful/It hurts like a bitch/That I did last night...'
This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote: (I've never sold drugs, but once in a pizza place, some kid tried to sell me a few dime bags of weed and a white powdery substance)
What's wrong with Columbian talcum powder?
But Public Enemy (RIP) is what 10 15 years ago? In Fear of a Black Planet should be required listening. But what happened? Now all we have, mostly, is this bling bling shit or criminal rap about killing other rappers ect. Putting Lambourgini doors on an Escalade could feed and cloth some hurricane victims, probably buy someone a house. Maybe too many trips to the Candy Store is spreading AIDS and STDs.
2005 and the Brothers are not working it out, they are milking it and creating a nilhilistic and decadent culture that represents everything wrong with society. Sure Kayne West can bitch about Bush with one hand and grab his dick with the other.
twist wrote: But Public Enemy (RIP) is what 10 15 years ago? In Fear of a Black Planet should be required listening. But what happened? Now all we have, mostly, is this bling bling shit or criminal rap about killing other rappers ect. Putting Lambourgini doors on an Escalade could feed and cloth some hurricane victims, probably buy someone a house. Maybe too many trips to the Candy Store is spreading AIDS and STDs.
2005 and the Brothers are not working it out, they are milking it and creating a nilhilistic and decadent culture that represents everything wrong with society. Sure Kayne West can bitch about Bush with one hand and grab his dick with the other.
I think your misrepresenting all hip hop. It seems like your only aware of hip hop that is presented in the popular mainstream. The american public has demanded their fill of gangster rap, and their getting what they deserve. However,somewhere in the underbelly of American culture, their is hip hop that is waiting to be heard , and that is musically fresh with positive ideals.
