Re: Is it me or is it hip-hop? (1992)

jamrock.jamal@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I just think that conscious rap is really fucking up right now at a
time we need it more so than ever. We are living in times where
political corruption and corporate interest wars is whats plaguing
society. We need some of that hard-hitting, angry, seditious political
rap that pe and x-clan used to bring. These dudes right now are lame
and the reason im just not giddy about them like everyone else is: 1)
they rap wit less anger and feeling and more wit preachiness.

Where do you draw the line between feeling and preachiness?
Listen to J-Live. He's not angry, but he damn well brings the heat. Wordplay for
weeks and a grown-up perspective on the world.

2) like
bugz pointed out I was mad young and impressionable when I first heard
pe and x-clan. I was at a place where I felt more of what they were
saying. Nowadays I could straight up not give a *** to hear sum
rapper tell me how to live my life.

Maybe you should just update your musical tastes, since you're all grown up now...

3) when I hear somebody like
immortal technique I cant help to think hes just some political
activist who realized that rapping was a great way to "reach the
masses" and spew more of his leftist views. In a couple of years you
watch. Dude will be making revolutionary reggaeton-techno.

It's not my job to speak for Tech, but I doubt that it's that simple.
And you seem to have issues with his "leftist" views? What exactly are you looking
for, then? If saying that the kleptocracies of South America and other territories
of the "war on terror" and "war on drugs" are doing big business with the US
government, and that you're constantly being lied to in the news, if that's
leftist, so be it. Cos it's like that.

Luca
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"*** a mic check, I bring my flow in cash."
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