What Up Treazy Radio Show faithful,its ya dude Jeff 2 the Left and im venting
The one thing i cant figure out is how the fuck you a hot rapper and what you spitting is some made up shit you seen in a movie,or better yet in a cartoon the way some these niggas is talkin now a days.Now i understand you gotta be creative in some kind of way but if you aint fuck the baddest bitch before some label dumped ice on your neck,or if never touched a gun before until the prop gun they give you for your video,its a problem.
My personal favorite rappers are PAC,NAS,And Jay Z,yea thats right TOP 3 In that order,all 3 of those rappers had at least a dose of reality in their rhymes.Pac is on his G shit,Nas rhymes about his surroundings in that killzone called Queensbridige lol,and Jay had a hustlers mentality ...plus they got hot music
Every artist has a story to tell,look at Kanye or even Talib,not at all gangster but still great music without the lies ,Support the real,and not the fabricated shit
2 THE LEFT
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Actually, the way I see it, is that rappers should be allowed to write and recite possibly fictional accounts. Why? Because that's only one corner of writing, being able to write stories made up out of thin air. You see, a rapper take the mantle of any basic writer or storyteller in history... This means that a rapper can talk about what they observe, like Nas or Talib Kweli do. They can also talk about what they've done, and this can branch off to what they feel about what they've done. Jay-Z, the hustler, much of his early rhymes deal with just that. From their observations, they can branch off into what may become, or what they wish things to be. Themes of Armageddon are lush in Busta Rhymes early work. While writing on speculation can border fantasy, I rather approach the complete full course meal of fantasy writing.
Fantasy or imagined stories should be a cornerstone of hip-hop. What's wrong with the Art of Storytelling? I once wrote a track depicting myself and a friend stealing information from an unknown embassy... But the ticker here is that I've never stolen anything from an embassy, ever, and if you asked me had I ever did, I'd tell you exactly what's what -- I didn't, it's a story, it's entertainment, don't get it twisted and have fun with it. I don't agree with exactly what Jeff 2 Da Left is saying, I do agree with what he's getting to, and that is this -- I charge all rappers to make that distinction between reality and fantasy. Take a more professional approach to what they do. Rappers act like actors do, but the difference is that actors don't pretend they are still being recorded. Wouldn't be funny, if Denzel said in character of Alonzo off of Training Day every single time we see him? Even in interviews? My take on this, is that are rappers are obligated, to Make. The. Distinction. Between fictional accounts and their lives, recorded music and recorded interviews, a character on song and track and character in real life. And that's all I have to say. Sure, make up your stories, because reality sometimes isn't all that great... Movies are made with this logic. However, like are actors, they must realize what exactly what "keeping it real" really means.
Just to get it out of the way, I have to say Hawaiian Sophie is the REALEST shit I've ever heard.
Anyway, outside of the Jay hate, yeah, I can agree with a lot of what's going on, but at the same time it poses the same issue we see with this whole "Keeping it real" shit we got going on. When the stuggle to keep it real means doing whatever it takes just to say, "Yeah, I did it".
I hate the fake shit as much as the next, but I'd much rather listen to a song about shooting up the block than listen to the news about a kid shooting up the block.
When it comes down to it though, I'd much rather an MC to tell his or her story, not the story of the dude down the block thats out there doing that grimey shit.
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