kind of tasteless to me. I think they could came at it at another angle

wow… how trashy! I am in total agreement with “ThangThang”… and is Nick Cannon really a credible voice for the future of Hip-Hop??? I think not!

This one goes into the sad but true category. Over the past 10 years hip hop has become ridiculus. It is now the unquestionably undeniable undisputed STUPIDEST form of “music” (and I use the term loosely) in the world. Everything that NaS said is right. We have the most ignornat songs playing on the radio and the most ignorant artists creating them. And it seems that if you aren’t making ignornant/degrating music then you can’t really get that far. (prime example is “Little Brother”) And if by some minute/remote chance someone actually comes along and makes a song that actually makes sense then they have create an “ignorant image” to pull it off and basically trick people into listening to them. (Prime example is Drake now and Ludacris in 2001) Hip hop is nothing more than a real life WWE. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about check out “Cryme Tyme” on the http://www.wwe.com or that other shucking and jiving dude with the dreads whose name escapes me right now. They are the representations of the “hip hop” world to impressionable young minds. And that is truly a sad sight to see. In my opinion hip hop is not only DEAD it was cremated when Soulja Boy came out. SAD but TRUE….

Trashy?? Are u kidding? This is exactly the buffonary that hip-hop/rap has become and our people are eating it up. Do your homework people. Do you remember this is what massa used to have us do back in slavery. Dress up in black face, do a stupid dance and sing for his entertainment. Do you realize that a lot of he dances that they do today, are identicle to the shucking, jiving and buffonary dances they had our ancestors doing as slaves? Do people even listen to the lyrics anymore. All u need is a hot beat, a stupid dance, degrading lyrics, a hot hook and a$$ shaking everywhere and you win BET awards and sell millions. Come on people! It’s not tasteless at all. This is what white America thinks of us and Nick and one of my favorite lyricists of all time, Nas, is just bringing this to the forefront, smacking us in the face with it. We have discussed this topic privately in our own little circles but that has done nothing. Like the infamous line in Spike Lee’s movie School Daze (notice the word “daze” and not “days” cause that’s what we’re in, a stupid a$$ daze)………WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right on magikk!!! Black folk need to wake the hell up about a lot of things. We are our worst enemy!

I don’t like it, because of the history behind Blackface. It was not funny! White people dressed up that way back in the day because they didn’t want black people to act in movies and they was also making fun of black people. I am very upset to see this hot mess! Black people painting their face and broadcasting it like this!! Go and look at the history on Blackface it will really make you mad, this is terrible!!! STOP PLEASE!!!

I think the values in our hip hop culture as it is today is sooo upside down and without substance that a strong and positive and well-intended message like this will end up being ridiculed and criticized!

Today, hip hop lacks balance and variety, and people who do the music because they love it….its not an artform today, but a big bundle of jingles and cadences…it feels like all popular songs, videos, etc are written and produced by ONE very small group of people…everything is so formulaic and generic.

Gone are the days when I could hear some older mature people sing love songs of substance. What can 16, 17, 21 year olds really tell me about LOVE or relationships?? but they are the ones that dominate! for godsake why do we have to feel that Mary J. Blige is OLD?? But we do, dont we? LOL how can we be surprised when 98% of so-called R&B is about F-ing some girl and what she gotta do to show a dude she loves him or what he can buy her or take her or give her…..Frankly these kids have no real experience to sing from!!

Hip Hop today is stale! repetitive! formulaic! and damn near hanging on a thread!
I wanna hear poets and artists in the midst of all these buffoons out there who are just singing jingles and preschool rhymes and singalongs…VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE!
-peace

I’m not even going to get all deep with it because, i know most people on here can see what’s right in front of their face. Nas is exactly right! There are too many people involved in Hip-Hop that don’t come from a Hip-Hop background. Too much down south s**t, too much grown ass people letting little kids determine what’s hot and what’s not. There are not enough black owned labels any more. Hip-Hop was at it’s best during the Russell Simmons Def Jam days. The Shug Knight Death Row days. The Master P No Limit days, and so on.

I don’t think that it was meant to be funny, but as a wake up call, to let us know this is what is going to eventually happen. Simply put back in the day hip hop had a message, it was a way to inform people the injustices in what was going on and now it is nonsense, it has no purpose but to make the dollars. There is no message behind it any longer. Think about it Soulja Boy, does his songs have a meaning, no it is just there to make money, and the sad part is, is that the white folks are enjoying this because it is being used and turned around to their liking. So to me this video was shocking but true and oh so sad.

i TOTALLY agree with Nas!

Ahahahhahhahahahahahaha lmao This s**t is hilarious. And apparantly some people don’t understand that subtle approaches to sending messages DOESN’T work very often. Sometimes, you got to throw cold water in people’s faces to wake them up.

This right here pretty much sums up most MAINSTREAM HIP-POP of today. If a person got offended by this…apparantly you missed the point.

If the truth hurts, just say “ouch!”

yes white people dressed up in black face to mock our buffonery. Hell, black folk painted their faces black and did the same thing. That’s exactly one of the points that Nas and Nick were making. We are buffons and being mocked but it’s so much deeper. Hip-hop/rap that’s being played across the airwaves and on radio is “black face” buffonery, ignorance, mockery, etc, etc. Wake up! The black community has a problem when being corrected.

Amen Lifeiswutumakit! Jesus H Christ, some folk still just dont get it!

Damn the sad truth is that the way things are right now, it is sort of like modernday shucking and jiving, with all the non-sense music that is out. I feel that you can be open to listen to some fun and superficial songs but when that becomes all the public sees or it becomes the most flamboyant aspect of black culture that is publicized it gets to be degrading to our people. And if we continue to let this go and not care about substance and quality who knows? it may get this far. People are being exploited just like in slave days, the only difference is that today they are either to greedy, ignorant or careless to realize and STOP the madness.

LOL… That is 100% on hit! And ummmmm… If Nick has Nas, Em might wanna sit his A$$ down somewhere before he get Ethered up! lol.

Say what you will about Nick, but it’s the truth about Hip_Hop.
These so called rappers today have taken our music and our culture and raped it into the submission. Hip_Hop was about Black rights, movements and knowledge. Now these uncle toms have taken and turned the words of freedom in to profaned lyrics and disillusioned generations with lies of their life style, money, women, and cars. And they have put knowledge in the closet and set ignorance right out front.
We can only blame ourselves for given CEO’s the nooses to hang us with. Hip_Hop screamed freedom, but it chokes on the propaganda that these no talents have spewed out over their gold teeth and right into our ears, claiming they are speaking truth. I wish Nick and Nas would just go all out and say the names of all uncle toms out there.
Most of these rappers are nothing more than jigga boos.
If knowledge is power than ignorance is death.

And before we even start.. NO Em WOULD NOT give Nas a good battle.

Honestly the game horrible and everyone knows it.Really can anybody really say they still love Hip Hop?? Or adleast love the direction rap is going?? Because the true art form of hip hop passed away and it’s only up to those who truely love her to resurrect this beautiful queen we once called Hip Hop. And i can’t speak for anyone else, but i miss Her too much, so i totally agree with Esco!!

for all the idiots out there, this was genius

MAN NAS AND NICK CANNON NEED 2 SHUT THE F**K UP. AINT S**T WRONG WITH HIP HOP/RAP…. Ignorant? aint Nas the nigga that came out with that

dum ass soung Ochie Wallie Wallie(LOL I LIKED IT) back in like 2001 b4 all that rap is dead bull s**t was going around?

THESE NIGGAS ALBUM AINT SELLING NOW ITS A PROBLEM WITH RAP? MOTHAF**KA MAD AT AUTOTUNE CUZ THEY AINT MAKING NO MONEY… AS FAR AS I CAN SEE RAP STILL GOING STRONG NOW MORE PEOPLE HAVE AND AVENUE TO GET INTO THE RAP GAME AND GET A LEGITAMATE CAREER ALL I SEE IS THE OLD NIGGAS OF RAP B***HING AND NOT CHANGING WITH THE TIME TALING BOUT OLD S**T FROM THE 80′S AND 90′S

AND AS FOR KIDS DETERMINE WHATS HOT….THATS JUST THE WAY IT ALLWAYS BEEN HOW OLD WUR U WHEN U FIST STARED LISTEING 2 RAP AND BUYING CD’S AND GOING 2 CONCERTS…NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR BOUT WHAT A OLD MOTHA F**K THINKS IS COOL

AND BLACK IS JUDGING OURSELF 2 MUCH SO WHAT PEOPLE COMMING OUT WITH A MILLON DANCES THEY SOULD

IF U CAN DANCE DO IT MAKE A SONG AND GET PAID (THIS STUFF IS MENT 2 BE FUN)I RATHER SEE BLACK PEOPLE DANCING/RAPPING ON TV THAN ON THE CONNER BROKE OR SELLING DOPE

WHY IT GOT 2 BE BLACK FACE N****RISH SH*T?

SOUND LIKE SOME OF U BLACK PEOPLE GOT SO CRACKER IN YO BLOOD OR BEEN LISTING 2 MANY WHITE FOLKS

NIGGAS STARTING 2 SOUND MORE AND MORE LIKE RACIST WHITE PEOPLE EVERY DAY ON THESE BLOGS

STOP TAKING BAD BOUT YA OWN PEOPLE NOW WE CAN FINALY GET SOME MONEY IN ANYTHING WE CHOOSE 2 DO WEATHER ITS ENTERTAINMENT OR BUSSINESS

I’ve said it before, Rap is the new Disco.

You know what’s bad? Some ignant dude (or group of dudes) will think the beat is hot and make a similar record, stupid dance for, or even sample this song. I’m gonna start a new millenium version of Public Enemy complete with S1Ws and start protesting and molly-woppin these “rappers” at their shows; and callin ‘em out on records. See how fast I get assassinated.

I’ll call out one right now. Mr. Collipark. He’s been bankrolling ignorance for a while. Look at his “discography”. He’s a heckuva beatmaker and moneymaker, but c’mon dude.

Remember in the 90s when rap got a lil TOO happy and polished? Know what happened? Bone Thugs came out with some real stuff. Fresh music and stories (street reporting). Now they’re legends

GENIUS !!!

as an 80s baby i can honestly say….. this video is how rap has looked since the late 90s…..and STILL now.

Lil Wayne, whip it like a slave ??? best rapper alive??? LOL

yall better read between the lines….

Black folks gettin money wit BLACKWALLSTREET Tulsa Oklahoma, white folks blow it up with help of the army

intergration = working for white ppl INSTEAD OF ourselves

black folks spending BILLIONS of money in America every year but DONT OWN S**T

Black Panthers killed or locked up on false charges by da FBI (CoIntelPro)…..then came Bloods n Crips….. Gov’t drops CRACK in the hood to f**k THAT up…..

GDs Stones & Vice Lords in chitown on sum political s**t….. police dont like that…….

early hiphop, even gangsta rappers spit conscious s**t…. THEN came blingbling and all these fake thugs talken bout bulls**t…..

PAY ATTENTION it aint no f**king coincidence !!!

they want us to be stuck on stupid, ignorant and broke…..

the physical chains came off but thats ONLY because the MENTAL chains are still there !!!

watch BAMBOOZLED by Spike Lee !!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1D443FEE12872DEA

oh yeah….

Obama is the BLUE pill !!!

Ice Cube – True To The Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwA2J3ehKqU

“they’ll have a new nigga next year”……..

BLACK AUGUST
^Blood In My Eye^

Nas does not care about Hip Hop. Nas cares about Nas.

There has always been “shuck and jive” type hip hop artist. Who remembers Kwamae, Nice and Smooth, Audio Two? Kats who ain’t saying nothing conscience just pushing the latest fades (jewelry,cars,club scene, porn,etc), dances (ya’ll know ‘em), and styles.

Truth? Naz is simply attacking the currrent southern rap dominance in the game. Check the beat and rhythm of the video = southern rap style. Check the lyrical cadence = southern rap styling. Many up north think the south is full of dumb ass black people too dumb to leave the south. Happy to exist under the thumb of “Massa”. This is just Nas calling southern rap artist a bunch of Jiggaboos. Beat’em or join’em. Nas wants to beat’em and that’s cool. If Nas can out sell them he can usher in a new era of conscience, “empowering” hip hop music. I don’t see it but I’m not the prophet, Nas is.

Nas wants to play politics with Hip Hop but it won’t work. Hip Hop has seen the greatest conscience rap group ever in Public Enemy and one thing is clear; it’s hard to dance and have fun to “Fight the Power!” The consumer decides whats hot and whats not. And conscience Hip Hop is just not hot. It’s not selling and so record execs aren’t pushing it.

Ultimately, the record companies goal is to exploit all dimensions of Hip Hop including conscience rap. So much so that the conscience groups and artist who were real about their message came to realize that the only way not to be exploited was to quit making their music. True conscience rap is allergic to the workings of the Hip Hop industry.

Hip Hop is however a big tent and there is room in Hip Hop for stupidity, irreverence, and shallowness. Besides I’m loving what I call “strip club rap” with songs like, “I’m in love with a stripper” and “Ha – (paper chaser)”

Once political rap was cool, then it became cool to “f–k the police”, then smoke weed. Now it’s white tees, rims, hole in the wall strip clubs – the south.

Seasons change.

llllllmmmmaaaooo they silly as hell for that but sadly its true…WAKE UP PPL!

TO SUM IT UP, THE INDUSTRY HAS REDUCED US BLACKS TO SUM DAMN GREEDY ASS,GOLDDIGGIN, STRIP CLUB GOING TO AND WORKIN AT, SPORTS WATCHIN,DANCIN, DRUG DEALIN,CHILD DESERTING, BELIEVING IN MAGIC, F**K GOING TO SCHOOL, LET THE WOMEN DO ALL THE WORK, HOMO LOVIN, OBAMA VOTIN, NON READIN, NON TALKIN, NATION OF PEOLPE!(AND I USE THE TERM LIGHTLY) AND F**K YOU TOO NAS, WIT YO EGYPT WORSHIPING ASS!( I REMEMBER THAT “I AM” ALBUM COVER) WHILE YALL RUNNIN ROUND HERE DANCIN AND SHYT, HOMOBAMA IS SLOWLY TAKIN AWAY YOUR RIGHTS TO LIVE WITH HIS HEALTH CARE BILL, YOU DAMN DUMMI! OBAMA ISNT THE BLUE PILL,LOL, HES THE CYANIDE PILL! NOW “JIG” OFF THAT! READING IS “FUN-DA-MENTAL!”

Dont Nick Cannon know that he falls into the same category. He release a hip hop/ rap CD

G-Town Mayor, u hurting them bad, u bess stopz saying stuff liks dat fo massa comes and whipz ya! LOL Good post

FIRST OF ALL GEORGETOWN MAYOR OR WHOMEVER YOU CALL YOURSELF……IF OBAMA HADN’T TAKEN CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT WE WOULDN’T HAVE ANYTHING NOW…..WE WOULD’VE LOST OUR RIGHT TO VOTE, OUR RIGHT TO HAVE AN ABORTION IF WE WOMEN CHOSE THAT, HEALTHCARE AND ANYTHING MINORITIES ARE ENTITLED TO….ITS PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT SET THE ENTIRE BLACK COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE DAMN SLAVERY DAYS….

The Mayor is preaching the truth for real.

Man these Obamanites are going to wake up one morning, without a house, job, country and constitutional rights. My bad, we talking about hip hop. Maybe Obama can take that over and clean it up. Govt controlled hip hop. Can’t be much worse than what it is now. Can I get a second motion on that on the floor. LOL Ignorance is bliss!

is it just me or does this sound like an actual lil john song…well anyway its the truth this is where HH is heading if we dont take back over our music and stop buying the dumb sh*t that they sell to us.
THEY CAN’T SELL IT IF WE DON’T BUY IT,
Oh yeah to Mr. Mayor. i guess you wouldn’t mind giving George Bush a THIRD TERM? if you can see that Obama was the best choice for this country as a WHOLE (meaning the best candidate for country) then please go and have fun smoking weed with Bush and Bin Laden

We living in a place where niggas tooling each other
Where the President and terrorists are cool with each other
Sending millions in the war make us do it with each other
Hit Bin Laden on his cell like ‘I got them making fools of each other

-Joe Budden- “Cold World”

Ron Paul was the best candidate for this country but in America we ignorantly and blindly vote down two party lines. :)

This is what I’m talking about!!!! This needed to be exposed, I applaud them for showing the COONERY AND BUFFOONERY that is being displayed throughout our culture. Hip Hop today is a MODERN DAY MENSTRUAL SHOW, alot of s**t that comes out today is an embarrassment to black people, GROW THE F**K UP AND EDUCATE YOURSELF!!!!! I’m riding wit ESCO on this son!!!

woke up this morning, yeah yeah, and got yourself some sense….got yourself some sense! LOL

As one of the few salty crackers that will be commenting on this–
it may surprise you to read that I agree with the premise of the video. But, the “rap is dying” idea actually applies to popular music as a whole (in my opinion). Rap isn’t the only genre that’s losing substance. Even the songs (rap or not) that pretend to carry any kind of message usually only hint at some watered-down cliche’. Maybe the reason is that– as a society (black or not), we generally have become lazy, have relatively easy lives (compared to earlier generations), and have no real crises to endure. My prediction is that– the current state of our society will actually produce some kind of real crisis sometime soon. And, like it or not– that’s when “real music” with a message will return.

this video sums it up…..rap is dead

Yo NoOneElse, I can agree with you on that but it’s still deeper

@Supreme_Imagery– “modern day menstrual show.” I don’t normally correct people, but that one’s just too funny. I’m pretty sure you meant “minstrel show.” “Menstrual” is something completely different.
;-)

ROFLMAO What the hell are mafukas talkin about on here? Folks mad at Obama? I ain’t never seen no Hood azz Republicans! That sh*t is Deep lol.

Yo on the real why do we hate us? Answer that sh*t for yaself. I know you’ve probably been done wrong by your own people and what not but how are you makin’ it better. If you wonder why you get that azz beat by the police,missed that promotion, or first to be fired at work know that its our lack of unity that helps empower others to sh*t on us. If we had Purpose and the Unity of say the Jewish community we would be a little better off. And I ain’t talkin about holdin hands and singin “We shall overcome” I’m talkin about:

1.Get Money Together in a Productive, Healthy, and Competative manor.
2.Raise our Children Constructively and Productively as a Village
3.Learn how to have Productive,Realistic Relationships with our Women and Friends.

Rap isn’t responsible for our problems but it does Miror how we treat ourselves and each other.

Hip Hop is dead..u got all these wack ass rappers talkin about the same thing..wat happen to the message,wat happen to buyin cds now all u gotta do is download s**t..music will never be the same again unless someones stop this nonsense..

Let me set the record straight: Hip hop and rap is not dead! The commercial sh!t they play on the radio that wins BET, VH1 and MTV awards is dead. Real hip hop and rap still thrives underground but most people don’t get a chance to hear it. Talib, The Roots, Mos Def, Nas and the likes are still putting out cd’s that are incredible but we never hear them cause it’s conscious, makes sense, not degrading our community. So lets keep on making the Lil Waynes of the world rich by degrading our community with lyrics that are mentally, spiritually and physically killing us. It’s not the white man’s fault, it’s our fault. Ignorance kills.

GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED HIP-HOP! GOOD ONE! 1000 PTS! NAS, YOU AN AGENT TOO BECAUSE YOU SUPPORTED US TO GET BEHIND HOMOBAMA “JUS BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK”, IF THE ANTI-CHRIST IS BLACK WILL YOU SUPPORT HIM TO? AND YOU ACT LIKE YOU ARE SUM KIND OF god? “I AM” IS THE NAME THE LORD CALLED HIMSELF YOU FOOL! AND TELL ME ONE THING GOOD THAT CAME OUT OF EGYPT, BESIDES THE ISRAELITES? YOU SUPPORT THAT NAS? YOU SPIT SUM REAL, AND YOU ONE OF MY FAVORITE MC’S…..BUT I CANT TRUST YOU MY NIG! NICK CANNON, DO A GANGSTA GRILLZ CD OR C** OUT WIT ANOTHER DRUMLINE MOVIE AND DIVORCE MARIAH CARRY, SHE’S THE DEVIL COUSIN!

GMayor, man I was all the way with you till u started blasting stuff about what good came out of Egypt. Dang man! Y u going throwing monkey wrenches. History my friend history. Not the stuff they show u on tv or in the bible. I’ll have to address that later. Got some IT issues at wk. Damn, some people don’t deserve to have computers. Just like some dumb mf’s shouldn’t be allowed to rap.

yeah, that’s truth! bug up to nas for tellin it.All these clowns been talking about lately bafoonery, and disrespecting our ladies.

cheeze!

The problem is not the ARTISTS……..the problem is the people BEHIND the artist.

They control who gets promoted and who doesn’t. Every rapper/singer is BROKE with an aspiring dream, thererfore, someone decided to put them on stage and make a profit and if that artist wants to stay in business they will SANG THE SONGS like IKE told the to sang em…

And those that MAKE SENSE and have messages and metaphors in their songs dont get ANY advertisement. I know some underground rappers that will DESTROY these commercial thug rappers….regular people that have everday jobs that can freestyle and lyrcailly demolish these bulls**t artists…however, even if an artist really has talent, they’re not aloud to USE IT because the industry feels as tho it wont sell…

THE POWERS THAT BE!!

Most of you are too young to even know what the hip hop culture is all about because you grew up in a rap culture, which is only one drop of sweat of the body of hip hop. Educate yourself at this brothers site if you want to learn what hip hop really is. http://rbg-street-scholar-multi-media-e-zine.blogspot.com/

TO ALL THE PARENTS OUT THERE WITH KIDS FROM NEGATIVE (IN UTERO)TO HE STILL LIVIN’ IN MY DAMN HOUSE SO I MAKE THE RULES YEARS OLD. MAKE THEM WATCH ALMOST EVERY SPIKE LEE JOINT FOR REAL AND EXPLAIN TO THEM OR TRY THE MESSAGES HE WAS TRYING TO GET ACROSS TO US AS A PEOPLE. BY THE WAY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO POSTED BEFORE ME AND THE ONE WHO WILL POST AFTER ME, IF YOU CAN WRITE OUT EACH WORD IN YOUR POST IT WILL BE GREAT. IT PROVES THAT YOU ARE NOT APART OF THE PROBLEM. ALL OF THIS SLANG TEXT SPEAK DOES NOT HELP YOUR CASE.

NoOneElse, I guess you could say it’s a ‘menstrual show”, as we watch the blood of our men and women flow, on the streets wherever we look or go, caught up under the demon sign, brainwashed in the mind, linked to ignorance, wallowing in the stench of sold out, sell out, bought out mentalities, who were bamboozled by the glitter and bling when there is no such thing as rich, just the white man creating an itch, a desire, setting your mind on fire, look around,pay attention to the cost, before all is lost, in delusion.

Also, I love the one sentence my constituent Dr_Beat_Itup wrote that sums up anything else we share and say about the message of the clip. “Rap isn’t responsible for our problems but it does Mirror how we treat ourselves and each other.”

had to re-post this !!!

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1.Get Money Together in a Productive, Healthy, and Competative manor.
2.Raise our Children Constructively and Productively as a Village
3.Learn how to have Productive,Realistic Relationships with our Women and Friends.

by Dr_Beat_Itup

the enemy, is no longer just the other man,
because the reflection that I now see in the mirror has become the enemy
because the enemy, is now in-me

In some ways I agree with Nas but, this is the same nigga that made Oochie Wallie lol. Whack rappers been out forever now. I think Nas wants money (something he ain’t been getting lately). And I’m guessing he’s talking about guys like Soulja Boy and them Stanky Leg niggas. Yes, the s**t is whack if you ask me. But if you ask a million other people, they love it. Ya’ll need to realize that Soulja Boy IS NOT buying his own records. And guys like him are the reason hip-hop is dying, then other hip-hop artist should be ashamed of themselves if they can’t do better. Don’t blame these youngsters for the so-called “Death of Hip-Hop.” If anything, blame the fans for buying it. Nas is so hypocritical and contradictory it’s a shame. He’s talking about a sell-out “Mr. I Hate Jay-Z” but now he’s Jay’s right hand man. Nas should be worried about resurrecting his career rather than resurrecting hip-hop….

its sad …. but in actuality its true …. think about it … 15 years ago we had Tupac, Rakim, Nas,Common, Ghostface & The Wu …. even jigga was a lil bit more on top of his game …. now we got Weezy, and Souljah Boy whose mere presence scare me from having children all together its a fashion show and children are out here killing each other to dress and floss and drive high end cars … modern rap culture fuels the desires of kids today white and black …… i remember being in high school and hearing Nas “Big Thangs” and that was part of the soundtrack to my life…. Tupac’s “Blasphemy” told me to keep my eyes open and conscious of everything ..Jay Z’s “Lucky Me” … taught me i should have a heart….now rap is nothing more than repetitive hooks and money flossing …. now as a 30 year old black man from the south side of chicago … i am a first hand witness to the decline of black culture and i have lived life through all the hip hop eras …. and its truly sad to say …. but if we as a culture don’t exercise any self control then all will be lost …

Nas n’ Cannon bein’ damn real about the whole thing. Hip Hop is not supposed to be what corporate offices can sell, and if it’s not marketable, then we can’t help you get your music out there… That ain’t how it’s supposed to be. There’s supposed to be room for Pharoah Monch as well as Soulja Boy Tell Em. When corporate offices only look at who sells the most and only wants copycats of those styles… That essentially leaves other artists with no means of finding a true fanbase… that stifles and kills hip hop.

WEll.. OF COURSE ITS TRUE. WHat.. YOu thought it was something new? We tried to warn you. We as in the TRUE Hip Hop Community, those of us that really had a deep respect for the art form and were lucky enough to have lived through the Golden Age of Hip Hop. We warned back then and we won for the moment. As soon as Hip Hops finest passed away.. including Tupac Biggie and Eazy E to name a few. Once the most popular yet concsious rapper was ASSASINATED, that opened the flood gates for this GARBAGE @SS Rap music you began to hear from that point forward. Support that? NEVER. Get your MIND together…

This is nothin but the unfortunate truth… reminds of a poem I recently wrote.. check it out.. be blessed

I\m A Hater??

Anytime the guy who was the poster boy for “Bling Bling” is considered the FACE of hip hop for a generation, we in trouble.

And for those who dont agree… Or just dont believe…Just look at that picture of LIL LAME under Urban Noise Makers… then look right above.. ANy resemblance?

ALL THIS FROM A GUY WHO CALLED HIMSELF NAS ESCOBAR. ESCOBAR!!! I FORGOT HOW MUCH OF A ROLE MODEL PABLO ESCOBAR IS FOR BLACK PEOPLE. EAT A DICK NAS

LOOK AT THE PICTURE OF LIL LAME (#14) UNDER URBAN NOISE MAKERS AND THEN LOOK UP! ANY RESEMBLANCE?

great poem DC

Eye dont care what Nas USED to do or represent…people have a right to wake up…he is absolutely right…hip hop is “SLICK BAFFOONERY”.

Sad but true, black people need to get it together

AND THE SAD PART ABOUT IT THAT THE HATERS WHO METIONED WAS NAS USE TO BE LIKE IS STILL WRONG NAME ME ONE SELL OUT ALBUM VERSE TRACK NAS MADE IF U KNOW ABOUT HIP HOP AND THE WAY ITS BEEN LAID DOWN BY TRUE EMCEES

Even when Nas considered it fashionable to call himself Escobar, he still dropped gems like Black Girl Lost…If I Ruled The World… etc, etc, name one song like that in Weezy’s whole catalogue…

Who owns the airways, the tv stations, who’s cutting these “Black labels” checks…………you know…..so obviously its ALREADY happened. We’re already feeding into this false perception of “hip hop,” “ghetto,” “hood,” and “being Black!” To late Nas/Nick!

Hell even his songs like Love Undying were great storytelling… even with the gangland fantasy, Weezy couldn’t tell a story if his life depended on it.

Personally I can’t hate on Soulja Boy because he doesn’t cuss in his music, he’s self made, and he makes feel good music which is what music is suppose to be about. He’s not “bangin” or promoting hangin on the block. I think young men will look at him and try and do something positive.

US NEGROS DOT KNOW WHAT “RICH” IS! LOL THE WHITE “RICH” ELITES DONT DEAL WIT MONEY, THEY DEAL WIT LAND AND POWER YOU FOOLS! THEY PRINT UP PAPER AND THROW IT TO OUT TO THE DOGS AND WATCH US STEAL, KILL, AND HOE FOR IT WHILE THEY ARE LAUGHIN! LIKE ME,LOL!

well may be they wrong and maybe they rite, who knows?

I swear yall whine too much.

soulja boy is positive? Holly mother of christ! First his name soul, all he’s doing is putting out music killing the soul. “super man dat H@#” Positive? Are you serious? Do u know what that means. OMG! WAKE UP!

People are talkin about being rich. Even rich people are going broke nowadays. The sad truth is, people don’t know the difference between being rich and being wealthy.

As far as this video goes, and the state of “hip-hop”…
The fact of the matter is, as much as I hate to say it, we have no choice but to accept the way it’s headed. Yes, there are still a few of us who remember what REAL rap was like, but us 20+ year olds need to realize that there is a new generation in now. And they enjoy simple, ignorant music.
Hip-Hop died a LONG time ago. Not when Nas said it was dead, not when Soulja Boy became successful… Hip-Hop died when artists stopped rapping for the love of music, and started rapping for a check. Even Jay-Z (who, by the way came out in 1996… WAY before Soulja Boy even thought of rapping) will tell you, quick… “I’m not a rapper, I’m a hustler.”
Everyone who says Hip-Hop is “gonna die”, cuz their own sales are suffering, or their music isn’t supporting them and their families, are being hypocrites.

Listen man, I don’t feel there’s anything wrong with getting paid for your craft, but changing your craft simply TO get paid is a different thing entirely, that’s where artistic integrity kicks in, ask any painter, any film maker, any novelist. It’s the same all around. If you’re getting paid to do what you already do, that’s one thing… the problem comes in when you say “I’m gonna spit these bars cause I gotta eat”. If you’re not already doing it? You have no business doing it. The ones who only do it for a check are not artists. The ones who were doing it before they could make a dime doing so, are the artists, and if they get paid to spit, so be it. Guys like 50 Cent and Jay-Z are not artists to me, they may have a hot sound, but they got into the game for the wrong reason. Even Carmen Bryan said it herself, Nas is an artist FIRST. When Columbia was getting funny with the money because Nas wouldn’t rush to finish Illmatic, he still was like whatever, it’s done when it’s done…for him, it’s more about the album feeling right, then selling right… and that’s why he gets the respect from me that he gets.

I agree with MPyre. Things change! When hip hop first came out, “real musicians” complained about it at well. Everything has its time. Rap is not the same as hip hop, and it’s foolish for anyone to expect it to be. I never needed any entertainer to “school” me or uplift me, so I never really got into hip hip to begin with. I’m all about the beats and vibe of songs, and don’t really pay attention to lyrics. So rap and rappers are alright with me. Why is Nas upset about silly dances? Like that’s gonna be the downfall of the black race? Even if Souljah Boy wasn’t around, his music still wouldn’t sell (except for die-hard fans). The problem is not rappers selling out, it’s old emcees who don’t realize that their time is pretty much done.

wow love this. living in germany i started listening to hip hop when no one in the *white community* really knew what it was all about(this was back in 92/93, ppl like nas and a tribe called quest ruled). it is sad and shocking to see how things have changed since then and how everything related to black people and black culture has simply become a mass product without any uniqueness and specialty. seeing ppl like asher roth doing something the mass has the nerve to call hip hop is devastating. all it is nowadays is a way for ppl to make fast money, the true meaning of hip hop is gone. the video is brilliant.

WEST COAST GANGBANGING = THEY ARE KILLING THE CULTURE, TEARING BLACKS DOWN
NEW YORK GANGBANGING = REAL HIP HOP

SOUTH DANCING = THEY ARE KILLING THE CULTURE COONING
NEW YORK DIDDY BOPPING, HARLEM SHAKING, AND OMG CHICKEN NOODLE SOUPING (THE KING OF THE COON SHUFFLES) = REAL HIP HOP

ONCE AGAIN EAT A DICK NAS
AND WHEN THAT HYPOCRITICAL ASS NIGGA DROPS OOCHIE WALLY 2010 ON YOU LOOK BACK ON THIS

CHUCK D , DEAD PREZ, BAHAMADIA ETC. COMPLAINING ….OK
NAS COMPLAINING…. NEGRO PLEASE

why are words with double-s being **? america stinks lol

smh@nas teamin wit nick coonon to do diz.. .nick piss’d em kill’d him and his b***h in dat song and nas need to focus on how to do betta in life instead of knockin deez broadz up… and i agree wit brav wit wut he typed at 5:21 pm. .. dem east coast rapperz get on dat bullshyt when dey shyt aint sellin and erry1 elses ilz. ..and for em to point da blame at otha coast ilz dumb as fugg.. .niccaz stay lookin for wayz to be little each otha. .if u dont like wut a artist put out, dont fuggin listen to it simple as dat. .no need to try to blame deez new catz when da old catz open’d da doorz cuz if datz da case dey jus as much to blame.. .aint no1 sayin country, rock, alternative, ska, bhangra or wuteva da fugg else genre of music it ilz ilz dead.. besides muhfuggaz datz mad der shyt or der favorite artist shyt aint sellin. ..

start’d ramblin . .. my bad

Hip Hop is dying a shameful and painful death!!!!!!!!!!! Remember “Let Your Chain Hang Low”? That was an old southern ditty that whites sang to make fun of the blacks in chains and it was made into a hip hop hit. This music is going to the dogs for real. I can’t even stand to listen to the radio for more than 30 seconds. Who can deny the deplorable state of hip hop music? Nothing but money, hoes and bank rolls! This is brain shrinking music. This IS BUFOONERY.

Listen, dispite what you think of the source, Nas’ points is very well taken…However, I do believe it’s a little bit misguided…Hip-hop transecnts genres, borders, and culture all over the world…the originators have control over hip-hop’s origin, they planted the seeds, but we have to accept is that they don’t have control over what it’s seedlings will become…what I do believe that it will evolve, or devovle if you so choose, into somethin somewhat alien to it’s founders..but that’s what usually happens in music…listen to early jazz and gospel verses their contemporary counterparts…hell you think Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry can relate to System of a Down or Gwar? As consumers, we have to ensure that they’ll always be a market for Jay-zs and Scarfacs and newer generation of emcees who embody what hip-hop should be…now exactly what it should be is a entirely different discussion…

Its funny how people say hip hop has changed. Im from Texas and ever since hip hop moved down south some artist seem to have a discrepancy with it, and I hear it from a bunch of up north hardcore hip hop artists. They keep stating hip hop is going to be dead but these are the same artist who came out with mysogynistic songs back in the day like OOchie Wally, and Big Pimpin, and why in the hell is Nick Cannon in this also? Didnt he have a song out with R. Kelly back in the day called “Im a Gigolo?”
The point Im making is these artist are contradicting themselves. Im a down south girl and the music we have down here has always been like that. We’ve always had little dances and cats down here rolling on candy paint, grilled out, thick chicks, in the club doing DJ Jubilees Get It Ready Ready” dances its ALWAYS been like that ( before the south even blew up). And the up north cats didnt care about us, they used to laugh at us back then and thought down south rappers were jokes. Now all of a sudden hip-hop is dying because everyone wanna know about the south?? The same up north cats who put cornbread fed chicks from down here in they videos? Wearing piece and chains just like the South? Yeah uh-huh.

I agree with you. But its Survival of the fittest. and Evolution. Look what happened to R&B Big Band and Jazz. What about those ppl that love this music that seen their industry go to the way side as rap emerged and made a killin in the golden era sampling their beats and killing their market.

If real hip hop cant evolve and survive we have the hits like we got old jackson’s songs of the 70′s From working in the clubs. This new music is less violent which calls for a safer club enviorment. And makes a lot of money for the club. In which supports my hustle. I’m making money off the music being less violent. Its more fun and slap happy. If hip hop dies and Shuk and Jive blows up. I’ll just listen to my hot shyt of the 90′s roll down my windows and blast that shyt down tha block till tha cop’s write me a ticket for loud music or noise pollution.

amen!

Nas did say that Hip Hop was a form of empowerment. Wait. We have a black president, We have black Quaterbacks in the NFL. I think we are empowered enough as black ppl. I think hip hop was successful in empowering the world. We have a black president. Its time now to run your own race.

Hip Hop did its job!!!

Its our job as adults to educate our young kids about real hip hop. Rather to let them run their own course. Its happen time and time again. Where adults blame an industry instead of the ppl taking responsibility. Hip hop begins in the house

All the new generation hip-hop heads have a choice. They can decide what they won’t to hear. Some are making a bad choice of what to listen to and that shapes the direction of hip-hop. It’ about being smarter about the hip-hop you choose to listen to.

N.S. Ugezene

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Nas is cool, but Nick Cannon has got some nerve. Every project that he has ever been involved in was based on him acting like an ass.

I’ve never commented on these stories before. But I don’t know why people are saying Nas and Jay-Z are old and need to quit. I mean they were young once to. 2Pac was 19 when he did Brenda’s got a baby. LL Cool J was 16 when he came out Def Jam’s first artist. They were able to produce lyrically content music at a yong age so why can’t todays young rappers do the same? Also Nas and Jay-Z didn’t call all the rappers that came before them old. They showed respect to Rakim, The Sugar Hill Gang and all the older rappers of their time. I never heard them say Rakim was old and needs to stop. This younger generation is self centered and think rap and the world began when they were born and have no respect for the past and people that paved the way for them. Lil Wayne’s Whip It Like A Slave is a prime example of lack of respect.

I AGREE, HIP-HOP IS DEAD OR YOU CAN SAY WATERDED DOWN. I ALSO AGREE WITH Coolerthanbeingcool “I don’t feel there’s anything wrong with getting paid for your craft, but changing your craft simply TO get paid is a different thing entirely,”

ALSO, I’M NOT A JAYZ BUT..BUT….. “DEATH OF AUTO TUNE” JAYZ HE MADE SOME STRONG POINT ABOUT MCEES TODAY AND HIP-HOP ITSELF LISTEN TO THE LYRICS

lmao! this is corny az hell. nas got a point tho. rap is dyin rite now. Rap could deteriorate into some “coonery” with all the ‘chicken noodle soup & a soda on a side’ & ‘chain hang low’ garbage comin out these days.

Based on the illiteracy and ignorance displayed in many of the comments below, I think Nas is a little late. Hip Hop has been dead for years and the “coonery” has already hypnotized many of our community. But this form of cultural genocide is our own fault. W.E.B. DuBois’s “talented 10th” has not risen up to guide our people to it’s full potential. They moved to the suburbs and left those with no consciousness to rot in the South. This is what it looks like when the “sons of former slaves” refuse to break their own shackles of mental slavery: mass marketed coonery in the name of “goons and niggaz.”

I REMEMBER A TIME WHERE HIP HOP WAS DOING THE HUMPTY DANCE..THE LYRICS WERE ELEMENTARY.I ALSO REMEMBER WHEN HIP HOP WAS SAYING F**K THE POLICE..NWA…I ALSO REMEMBER LISTENNING TO TOO SHORT SAYING “BYTCHHHHH” I REMEMBER SALT AND PEPAS SONG PUSH IT AND ITS MESSAGE THAT YOUTH PICKED UP..I REMEMBER THE DAY NAS HIMSELF SAID NEGATIVE THINGS IN SONGS..TO ME ITS NOT HIP HOP THATS DEAD ITS US AS PEOPLE CAUSE IF WE ARE SO WEAK THAT WE HAVE TO FOLLOW LYRICS AND DO WHAT LYRICS SAY THEN ITS US THAT ARE DEAD..HIP HOP AS BEEN WATERED DOWN OFF AND ON FOR YEARS

F**K Nas! He’s the biggest hypocrite of them all. Nothing bugs me more than to see people like him and Jesse Jackson always want to play the race card while they’re making back alley deals with the people we’re psychologically conditioned to hate. In my mind racism doesn’t exist anymore because the things we often accuse other races of doing to us, there are black folks out there doing the exact same thing.

how is souljah boy giving anybody anything new??? same coonery!

If you goto youtube and read the comments left on this video…its stomach turning. Half the people don’t even know that Shuck nad Jive are names that started black face or have a clue what the baffonery is about. “So what they painted their faces?!?” Serioulsy…as much as we rag on education in this country, we continuely leave out history that shapes our now. Why doesn’t it make sense that bigoted and racist CEO in this country would invest in sebliminal perpetuation of images. PLAY THE ROLE…thats what artist like Wayne and Souljah Boy are doing…Massa only invest in these black mens music if its perpetuating ignorance and the ROLE they want black men and women to uphold in society.

Wow, this is crazy! I just got finished watching Bamboozled, a few days before I stumbled across this. He’s so definitely right. This baffoonery is extreme but not that evident as this video. But when ‘the man,’ get us where he wants, it will be that evident.

MY MAN….NAS!!!!!!!! boy I knew you wouldn’t disappoint me!!!!!! folks are starting to see what you’re talkin bout but I BEEN seen it and when you said that Hip-Hop was dead tha 1ST time, I was YEAH THAT’S MY DUDE, HE KNOWS WHATS REALLY GOIN ON AS FAR AS WITH THA RECORD COMPANIES, HOW THEY DONT GIVE A DAMN BOUT US AS BLACK PEOPLE THAT JUST WANNA SEE THEM FIGGERS……..but naw, people was like, MAN Nas is hatin, Hip-Hop aint dead it’s in tha South………they was soooo caught up wit NOT loosin their lil money that they didn’t SEE what tha FUC.K my DUDE was sayin, but NOT me I understood when you said that sh.it, I understood when you wanted to name yo album NIGGE.R!!!!!!! now people can defend lil Wayne all DAMN day and say it was a metaphor that he was usin when he said, “I’ll whip it like a slave” or “I beat it like a cop” talkin bout….. he talkin bout whipin up the recipe for makin drugs but yall need to get real cuz if thats tha case and if he’s such a good rapper he could have found better words or MORE intelligent metaphors to paint that picture!!!!!! and I HOPE WAYNE IS AS DUMB AS I THINK HE IS AND GO @ NAS WITH A DISS RECORD…………..CUZ HIP-HIP WILL SOON SEE HIS “REAL” SKILLS, CUZ NAS WILL WIPE HIM CLEAR “OFF” THA MAP……..CUZ THERE IS “NO” DISS RECORD THAT I’VE HEARD FROM LIL WAYNE THAT EVEN COMES CLOSE TO THAT “EITHER” SO PLEASE TAKE OFFENSE TO THIS “REAL” SHH.IT BEIN TALKED ABOUT AND DO SOMETHIN WAYNE!!!!!!!!!!

CO-SIGN WIT MY DUDE “NAS” ALLLLLLL THE WAY……IF YOU NEED ME TO SIGN SOME KIND OF PETITION, I’M THERE MY DUDE!!!!!!!!!

@ Vertigo2001 I feel what you are saying. “Drop that stuff know roll with it”. They don’t know about that, LOL.

However, so people are corny and just flat out ridulous with some of these songs but you always have those people. Think back to “who dat it is, my baby daddy”.

For people saying racism is dead, tell me where you live because I’ve lived in many different stated in the U. S. and it’s always alive and kicking.

lol…It was funny to me…Don’t see why certain famous rappers are even getting radio play…Stupid songs talkin’ bout some stanky leg, wasted, supaman da ho, and countless others are beyond stupid and have been placed in the category of rap…But these are the same songs people request and the so called rappers get paid off of people who think this is rap…I guess, since it’s their money, they can waste it, but there is almost no reason for me to even turn on a radio or go to a store and purchase rap music from most of these folks who can’t rap to save their life…

PRTYBRN

” Who dat is?? My baby daady__” I remember that song ( it was stupid) and yeah there will always be stupid artist coming out with stupid s**t, unfortunately Nas didnt get that memo or he’s just upset cause everyone is in the south.

As far as Racism: Who said racism was dead?? I live in the REPUBLICAN CAPITAL of America lol there are towns black people cant even ride through to this day ( like Jasper, Texas which is an hour away from where I live) and towns that STILL have Klan Rally’s. One of my friends drove through a Klan rally through one of those hick towns…thank god her car is tinted.

its sad but true hip hop music used to tell stories now its about gettin “b***hes” money, cars, clothes…… stanky leg chicken noodle soup,lip gloss poppin and other bulls**t, come to think of it that where we messed up lettin that “chicken noodle soup song slip through the cracks and the ppl sitting on top of the record labels are thinking we don’t care they stupid enough to fall for it and we did shame shame shame…. we used to run hip hop it was the streets testimony and now its a joke. im sayin rap about shootings and gangs but awareness for the younger generation that look up to the “rappers” hell back then you mom didn’t mind if you said i look up to run dmc because of what they represented look where they are now…yea 2 outta 3 fine but look where they are they are not just rappers they are bussiness men and they are passin the torch to there kids. life ain’t all roses but we are the voices that reflect the future

hip-hip & garbage rap is as different as day and night (one is considered food 4 thought and the other is just basically a conscious mind killer simply, how else can i put it ?)

although it may appear as such, hip hop is not dying a slow death. it’s actually maturing and evolving. the northeast’s child is merely undergoing a frustating, yet highly entertaining, phase of puberty or maybe even a tinge of mid-life crisis. hence, the neccesity for such excess to accompany the art itself. perhaps what we’re experiencing in hip-hop is a universal cylic rhythm which manifests itself as a cultural regional identity. for some (if not many), it’s southern persona causes quite the discomfort which is nothing less than what occured during it’s time spent in miami and on the west coast. the only difference is the apparent impact hip-hop’s southern personifaction is having on the industry and it’s profound influence on the masses. the universal cycle will continue and in time hip-hop, upon undergoing somewhat of an alchemic pounding, will find it’s way back home – enlightened, knowledgeable, wise, transformed and full-grown.

as for the nas & nick cannon psa… too funny!

when we made BLACK WALL STREET, they bombed up

when we were own bosses and ran our own neighborhoods they made intergration

when we woke up in the 50s and 60s they created COINTELPRO

when the Panthers were killed or in jail on false-charges (CoIntelPro), we tried to maintain with the Crips, Bloods, GDs Stones and Vice Lords Latin Kings etc…

when the gangs got too political, they made crack

when we made hiphop, they took the CONSCIOUS element outta the music and promoted garbage-music.

and here we are today

hiphop began as a tool, but is being used as a WEAPON to keep us stuckon stupid.

this movie explains it all…..

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hip-hop is dead because people see this video and think nothing more of it than it being funny. people don’t get any message out of music anymore, because most artists don’t have anything to say. all they know is pop pills, drunk liquor and get in the studio to saw whatever, knowin DAMN WELL IT DON’T MAKE SENSE. i believe hip-hop an rap would be just fine if there were more artists like talib, mos def, nas, wu-tang, and anybody else who raps with a purpose. we need more m.c-in an less b.s-in