Subby, meet me in the club. It's going down.

/slightly embarrassed to know that

Okay, I hadn't heard of him, but his "hit" sounds like a parody.



I weep for the hip-hops.

Sum Yung Guy?

Wayne's World!

RaKellaKAT: Wayne's World!

Excellent!

Is this just the default "white submitter hears about a rapper getting charged with something" headline?

-1 Subby

/Yung Joc had a platinum album in 2006

In other news, Fark Music Tab Subbies still proud to advertise their own ignorance...

If you don't listen to radio, watch MTV (or any musical channels for that matter) or hang out around people who listen to that kind of stuff, you're probably not going to know who he was either.

Back in my day, "rappers" would sing about politics, their life, their community, the general atmosphere. Even the superficial "gangsta" rappers still told stories most of the time, with a good beat behind it. They occasionally used to be accompanied by these guys called "dee jays" or something who used to mix music live and sample beats and scratch and so on.

Nowadays it's stuff that's been done in a studio, stuff that's been tested and had suits make sure it's what's hot. They put it on mass entertainment outlets and that's all people get to hear. That's why we have umbrela-ela-ela-ela-ela and buy you a drank certifying platinum.

/white guy
//loves tribe called quest, wu tang clan, big daddy kane, beastie boys, geto boys, etc
///born 1986, so my "back in the day" isn't really that far back, is it?

So, how many "Lil'"s and "Yung/Young"s are there in Hip Hop now?


/"Look at me! I'm a Hip-Hopper! Can't you tell by the way all of my songzzzz are intentionally misspelled simply for the sake of 'street cred'?"

gonzoimperial: Is this just the default "white submitter hears about a rapper getting charged with something" headline?

-1 Subby

Apparently AP Newswire, the Cleveland police department and TSO are all in cahoots with Subby - working to keep this young black man down.

yung joc? How 'bout a Hung Jock

Meh.

You have to understand who holds the purse-strings in the hip-hop industry, and who the demographic is that those purse-string-holders are catering to.

Longevity and creativity aren't encouraged anymore, because it used to take 2-3 album releases before an artist became a solid and consistent brand.

Now the companies aren't even interested in selling albums; they're geared towards single downloadable tracks and ringtones. Hence the new phrase "ringtone rapper" which gets applied to people like MIMS and Pet Shop Boyz.

As far as hip-hop goes, I'm mostly over it. But that mostly has to do with the images portrayed, and the fact that rappers willingly bind themselves and become slaves to those images.

In a way, this reminds me of k.d. lang's old wedding dress gimmick.

Well over a decade since then, we understand that that was just a prop to get herself noticed. Because in a sea of mostly faceless and similar artists, one needs an attention-getter.

The problem with hip-hop is that, since the record industry is now focusing on squeezing out whatever money they can on a single track, EVERY hip-hop artist on EVERY song is using some gimmicky shiat. Which just lowers the standard, because we've gone from quality music and artists, down to what's essentially a musical rendition of those "HEAD-ON. APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD" commercials.

Walt_Jizzney: So, how many "Lil'"s and "Yung/Young"s are there in Hip Hop now?

I did this in another thread, but since you asked...

"Now let's play a little game
how many artists got "lil" in their name?
First one that comes to mind, of course, Lil' Wayne
Lil Flip, Lil White, Lil Moe, Lil Zane
Lil John, Lil Bootsy, I ain't picking on the south
Remember people, Biggie Smalls the one that made Juicy
Junior Mafia, Lil Cease, Lil Kim
Queen Bee never scared to show a lil skin
People see me winning and they show a lil grin
Yo you can't hold me back, I'm going in.
Plus you got the underground too
Looks like Little Brother is down to two
My sound is true, spit to you and make it look dumb easy
Then ad lib like Young Jeezy (Yeah)
Everyone know I smoke Young Dro,
get off my Yung Joc when I clock dough like I'm Young Hov
Spit it for the Young Bucks so they improve they style
and they don't come sounding so juvenile
Don't get me wrong, I love that nig Juvenile
I just want the Young Ones to win, so let's do it now
Every since I was a Young MC
Listening to Ron G and Kid Kapri just starting to cut my teeth
I thought I was a Lil X
Sent to the burbs, had the teachers out in Middlesex a little vexed
Now I don't sweat the little shiat
Like Bow and Romeo, I just grew up a Lil Bit."
-Talib Kweli
Young Fresh and Clean

This thread became way too serious.

Because Lil Joc is just, well, too accurate for today's rappers.

RaKellaKAT: I weep for the hip-hops.

What are you talking about? That song will make a great ringtone!

RaKellaKAT: Okay, I hadn't heard of him, but his "hit" sounds like a parody.



I weep for the hip-hops.

what the hell kind of sorry excuse for music is this? is this seriously what people consider good? if this is whats going platinum these days, im just even more glad i stopped listening to popular/mainstream music over a decade ago.

He's goin' down.

Donald_McRonald: RaKellaKAT: I weep for the hip-hops.

What are you talking about? That song will make a great ringtone!

Ringtone Rap is actually fairly big at the moment, according to some article I read in some default guy magazine (Esquire, GQ, something...)

... We're talking the shiat like Souldja Boi or however the fark it's spelled.

RugbyJeeves:

... We're talking the shiat like Souldja Boi or however the fark it's spelled.

First time I heard that "song" I thought it was REALLY racist. Of course, I also thought he was saying "Sold ya, boy."

/Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
//Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Carl Jung died long ago.

Oh, is this the mouthbreather idiot caught on film with is tongue hanging out of his head?

"Keepin' it real, yo"



/douche