Each to their own.. It's easy to see what's watered down Hip Hop though and what's not.

Anyways, yes, it's true, internet cats have no right to critique an artist and down their shit when they've never done it themselves. That's like these fucking sports commentators who have never played football in their lives yet feel the need to talk shit about Phillip Rivers' throwing technique or the shape that Lendale White came to the combine in. Or what's worse (and probably more related) are the fans who sit in front of their TV all day yelling at their TV screen, telling their favorite player to do something knowing they can't hear them, eating potato chips, fully decked out in a team cap plus custom jersey (to fit their 500 lb. stomach), ready to talk shit about the rival QB to his face when he's never played ball in his life because he couldn't make his high school's B team. However, there was one commentator that had never played football in his life but he decided to coach and became one of the best coaches in the league and of course there's the guy who was depicted in that one movie with Mark Wahlberg where he never played ball and was a huge Eagles fan but tried out for the team and made it and played for 3 years. Those both negate our arguments so idk.

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what is "real" is right on site having your mind filled whit as i call musical propaganda blinds you that's why most people are helped by others to see the truth as i sincerely helped you and i helped Nate if i or other people dictate what "real"is then you or others in the same situation would be my or somebody else copy if you know what i mean ?? and as i said in my opinion real can be seen whit the naked eye and whit the simple listen

the same argument can be used to justify the death of hip hop and to justify Lil Wayne's presence in hip hop it's not relativist here because here is a universal viewpoint because it's not fashion here or even politics there always been as J breakz said a pattern for pop music and what we see on TV people always used that pattern for a long time so pop rap or fake hip hop can be actually picked out from hip hop and put outside pop music in general have the same structures and i don't mean Soulja Boy i mean people like TI and such because you can actually identify the pop elements from his music from his musical notes to his rhymes cause pop music always sounded the same

I'm not sure what you're talking about, it really depends on what artists you're on about. Of course some people can relate to something that another person may not, for instance Tupac has got to be my top emcee but it's not because he has dope metaphors, multis or anything like that (although his flow is always good and even exceptional when compared to all the trash that's out there today), but because I can relate to a lot of what he's saying, he's dropped a lot of tracks which I consider classics and have some emotional meaning to me so Tupac for me is number one.. For Erik on the other hand I don't think he's even in the top 20.

However if you're talking about Kanye West (wack to me), Ludacris, Chamillionaire, Lil Wayne.. Then no.. That's all bubble gum, watered down commercial bullshit and it's not real to anyone it's just something that trend followers can vibe to..