if we going to do this we need to do it right some of y'all need to get your priorities in chick for real, now i know i'm going to catch flack for for this but to be honest i don't really care the truth is never popular so...

For the preaching of the cross is to them that
perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God
1 Cor 1:18
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The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the Word of our God shall stand forever
is:40,8

WORD thats true homie. ALOT of hypocrites

i haven't ignored you. i heard every word you said. it's a valiant idea, but positivity doesn't need to be the ONLY thing hip hop represents. i don't hate a cat like Lil Wayne or 50 Cent because he represents something negative, i hate them because their rhymes are rudimentary and poorly written. i listen to some negative music, not much, but i also recognize that gangsta hip hop, though it often perpetuates stereotypes, is often used as a political tool to express anger over police corruption and such. 50 Cent and other gangsta RAPPERS perpetuate stereotypes while glorifying the gang culture. that is the difference. when have you even heard 50 in an interview, song, w/e, talk about him doing what he does to "let the kids know it isn't something you want to get into"? even Eazy E got on that West Coast all stars jam talking about how gang culture is bad and violence is bad. as for the whole idea that negativity in hip hop shouldn't be tolerate from Big L either, i disagree. i think anyone who can make a track like "Ice Cream" by the Wu Tang Clan and do it as well as they did lyrically, regardless of the fact that they are just talking about honeys, is/are good artists. as i previously stated, i have read great poetry about homosexual anal sex and horrid poetry about love, God, etc. it isn't the message, it is he way the message is conveyed.

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"True poetry can communicate before it is understood"

-T.S. Eliot

battle record:

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It's not even that for me. You can rap about the same shit over & over all the time for all I care. As long as you got skill, that's all that should matter.

Lil' Wayne actually does talk about some relevent shit when he TRIES ("Tie My Hands" & "Georgia Bush" for example) but homie is just straight lazy with his rhymes & that's why I can't stand him.

Not to mention some of the songs he comes out with is straight garbage.

this is PRECISELY my point.

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"True poetry can communicate before it is understood"

-T.S. Eliot

battle record:

7-0-0

truth i understand where your coming from but with the big l comment i made i was just saying the same rule should apply for all artists ( unless ofcourse your talking about a cat who only talks about those things) ok lets take big l and b.i.g they talked about some of the same things both positve and negitve imo but b.i.g often gets scorned for it, but not big l see what i'm saying? how is that right?

all i ever hear 50 cent rap about is how he's got money and going to the bank and shit like that. thats why more and more people aren't listening to him now, no one can relate to him coz all he ever raps about is how he's rich. i don't think big L was rapping about that.

actually if you listen to the song Eazy-E, MC Ren and Dr. Dre kept a negative message and glorified it more. all the other rappers were talking about gang culture and violence being bad but not n.w.a.

the reason i don't mind people like big l or wu tang talking about negative things sometimes is coz they usually do it in a creative way or real way. although i do hate a lot of the things wu-tang say, a lot of the stuff on only built for cuban linx seemed corny to me but the beats saved it. but if its done out of reality or talking about an experience they really went through or even a clever story or in originality than i don't care. its only when people like 50 cent are being all fake saying they're gangstas just for the sake of trying to look cool, or posing as something they're not, or done in a wack and unoriginal way thats what is the difference to me. they're not being real.