Gangsta rap is dead - Oct 2003
eminem killed it. Literally. eminem's recent domination of the rap game has fucked up gangsta rap for good. His ability to take this sub-genre of hip hop into the white streets and a generally younger audience has earned him millions and learned me trillions. Now every try-hard rapper and their click is claiming they're gangsta, a situation which undoubtedly waters down the very concept of gangsta. Eazy E must surely be considered the last 'real-life' gangsta, as these bitch-made one-hit-wonders continue to pop up, claiming to be the next 2pac and the next big dogg.
Here's my opinion on the Ja Rule/Benzino vs. eminem/G-unit beef. You're all lame. Both sides claim they have all this street cred when they really got SHIT. I don't give a fuck what people say about 50 cent. He's been shot 9 times, so fucking WHAT? It doesn't change the fact that he can't speak properly and his live shows are being ridiculed globally. Street cred? With a bunch of fucking security guards protecting him everywhere he goes? To me that deserves about as much street cred as y0 mama's titty pump. It's bitch shit.
Still, at least 50 ain't claimin to be the next 2pac like Ja Rule. Disgracing a dead rappers name with yours to sell albums isn't cool, and putting his fucken grave on your video clip is just plain askin for it. You cocky fag, come back to Australia and I guarantee to sabotage your press conference with a pie in the face FOR YOU. I don't know how the fuck you got Benzino behind ya, but it's the only thing saving your career and it's probably the only thing that made you in the first place. I heard your next EP is supposed to be going back to being 'hard'. So you go from tryhard G rapper, to pop-bitch SINGER collaborating with talentless tricks, now you want people to believe you're all hard again. Lay off that special confectionery mutherfucker, you need to build up some serotonin so you can stop hating yourself so much.
But I can't be all negative. Tech N9ne is holdin it down with skill, innovation and just plain bangin shit. Tray Deee and Goldie Loc continue to stay on top their game, with the new Eastsidaz just around the corner and already destined for platinum sales. Knoc-Turn'Al has stepped up to lay his claim as best chorus-vocals man as well as creating some killer beats. Shade Sheist popped up last year from what seems like nowhere with an absolute classic of an album - Informal Introduction. It features some of the biggest names in gangsta rap and makes me wonder where the fuck he got his connections! Cypress Hill are yet to be surpassed as far as I'm concerned. Fred Wreck may have tentatively taken the title from DJ Muggs for best DJ/producer but thats only cos the new Cypress shit ain't out yet! Hopefully we'll get Muggs AND Wreck. Hopefully.
On the really raw side of gangsta rap, Necro and Ill Bill are creating their own genre in horror or terror rap. Their morbid, grotesquely detailed lyrics over contrastingly upbeat tunez have found a large underground following and have to be respected if for nothing else than doing something different.
On the really bitchy side of gangsta rap, you have people like Nelly. For one thing, Nelly doesn't even rap. His sound is like a cross between a rapper, a singer, and a pregnant mother during labour. I hope the burns have healed from the fucking scorching he copped from KRS-ONE. I guess I should be thanking Nelly, for his ignorance and flagrant disregard for a hip-hop pioneer seems to have re-invogorated KRS-ONE at a time when he needed it. Back to 'Nsync with your pimple-infested face
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