anyone else noticed how now when classic heavy hitters like jay-z, nas, even ghost and others, come out with some new shit, it never holds a candle to their classic material? i mean i cant listen to all the tracks on the latest method man album, who would have ever predicted some shit like that? 10 years ago I never saw such grown up rap hitting the genre.

BAH

12/22/2006 10:26:01 PM

b/c they're not as hungry

12/22/2006 10:30:24 PM

I mean... this isn't a rap-exclusive phenomenon. It's not a new phenomenon either.

12/22/2006 10:42:02 PM

actually i think the technology available to them now, and the fact that flashy producers flood the market now are ruining shit too. look at old school marly marl or large professor or early rza shit with the old rugged down and dirty beats... the rap really had to really say something, it had to really say something to make an album work, now the rap seems secondary to the flashy kayne west or neptunes beats.

12/22/2006 11:19:52 PM

rap is a fad

just like slap bracelets and dinosaurs

12/22/2006 11:22:02 PM

too bad abortion wasnt a fad your parents fell for

12/22/2006 11:22:52 PM

Jay-Z dropped his best album when he was 32. Ghost's recent stuff is on par with his best and method man never dropped a classic unless you count 36 chambers. Different artists peak at different stages in their careers. Check out the new Ice-T and X-Clan albums if you wanna hear quality stuff by rappers in their 40s. If not, be happy those artists gave you those classics in the first place and accept that illmatic is never going to come around again.

12/22/2006 11:47:08 PM

see i feel that the complacent additude is the wrong approach to take

you devalue a commidity and it hurts its consumers across the board. thats why these days nigs like lil jon are making money and he couldnt come up with 16 bars to save his life

[Edited on December 22, 2006 at 11:58 PM. Reason : tical 2ooo was better than the newest shit]

12/22/2006 11:57:43 PM