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Either You Die A Hero or Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become the Villain


July 31, 2008 | Tags: krs, nas, premo, biggie, 2pac, Add-2, Black Amerikkka

1st thing 1st, thanx for the support on the song Black Amerikkka and also the mixtape is done and will be available free real soon (21 tracks of fresh concepts/storytelling/spitting). Now to the subject at hand, I was in a typical 'who's the nicest emcee' debate and the cliche phrase came up and you all know which one cause chances are EVERYBODY used it: "If (insert dead rapper or certain era in hip hop) none of this bullshit would be going on". At first I gave my cliche 'Hell yea, you aint never lied' but then I wondered if this was true would that really be the case.

All the rappers we hold as legends who passed were arguably in or near their prime (i.e Biggie, Pac, Big L, Pun, Dilla) and even though we would give up 98% of the music of  today just to hear another album from any of those artist (aside from Pac cause he still dropping more shit dead than some do alive) they left in a way that solidified their positions. You may argue how close to the top they are but are always close to the top. But as the game keeps changing and time goes on, others havent been so lucky to maintain their status. As Dave Chappelle put it, you can get famous but you cant get unfamous you can get infamous but not unfamous.

No lie, DMX used to be one of my heroes, when he first came out barking, growling, threatening to rob, kill and even fuck dead bodies that shit blew me away. As time went on we seen that Dark Man turned out to be just as crazy as he was on the records and was constantly in trouble with the law, impersonating them and trouble fighting his addictions. Camron went from being a rapper with so much potential to being known for silly rhymes and last seen by a pool in his boxers. I watched Prodigy go from being one of the realest who was dropping classics with Mobb Deep to dropping blog videos talking shit about any and everybody. Krs is still doing his thing but he doesnt have the impact he once had. Premo is still one of the illest but he can't get one placement on any of the bigger more successful rappers careers he helped build, how fucked up is that. As much as Nas says their doing an album together im not getting my hopes up. Jay-z drops an album and people are calling him an old head. Every single originally Bad Boy artist is gone and it all had something to do with money and if you are an artist on Bad Boy today its almost like a One album and get shelved type deal and the same goes for Terror Squad. Deathrow is gone. MC Lyte is doing voice over work for BET's show Da Boot. Young MC, Brat, Bizarre were last seen on Celebrity Fit Club and I thought I seen Kid from Kid N Play doing stand up commercials for Sonic's. Not to mention all the other artist who have been swept under a rug as time went on. If Pac, Biggie, Pun or Big L was around they would probably have been subjected to some of the same stuff too, which I'm glad will never happen but as you see it happens to everybody.

I remember seeing Kwame (yea dude with the polka dots) saying rap is like high school, you only got about 4 years to stay in the lime light and after that people start asking why are you still here. Its sad but its kinda true. We dont respect our living legends as much as white folks do The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, U2 or Madonna who tour, make music and still make millions. Seems like Hip Hop artist either fade out or are seen like that guy who graduated who comes back and is hanging outside your class in the hallway. Hopefully this can change and that the legends who are still alive like Tribe, Rakim, Wu Tang, Run Dmc and all the greats from any generation.

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