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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
People will disagree, but I think that line was the moment modern rap started. Yeah, yeah, I know... "It Take a Nation of Millions," "Paid in Full"... etc...
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Some think of it as the death of real hip hop.
Straight Outta Compton was a great album. Very entertaining. But look at what it did. Rap had gone from block parties/I can rock a party better than you to my neighborhood is better than yours to creative sampling and social consciousness to fake ass gang bangers on wax. And aside from some lyrical oriented rappers here and there from that point until now, that's almost all it's been about. Once the country (read: suburban white kids) could classify it as gang music and consume that stereotype in neat little packages, that is all the labels were interested in. Hell, if an artist wants to escape that mold, he better have his own fuckin' label.
So, it's a great album, but giving birth to modern rap isn't exactly something to be proud of.
TM
eta: I'm not overlooking the fact that Straight Outta Compton was actually a social commentary too. Fuck tha Police was a powerful song and it spoke to the hopelessness and futility of growing up poor, black and under the thumb of the police before hand held cameras became affordable. But rappers are still hiding behind that, "I write what I see/know" explanation. And for most of them, it's pure bullshit.
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