Remble - Is West Coast Rap Back?

[Smitty-48]

ain't broke, don't fix it

remember the days when Dre was a punk ass who got dissed ?

Yeah.
Now Dre is a billionaire and Eazy is ... still dead.
It was a great diss track tho.
Did I introduce you to that one, or you already knew about it?

oh I was there at the beginning

first time I heard that track was at the clubs in the early 90's

I mean, we had already come from Sugar Hill Gang through Public Enemy,

NWA was new school to me

[DBTrek]

It was a better diss than No Vaseline and Hit 'Em Up in my opinion, but I'm the minority on that one.
Saying anyone did anything better than Pac gets you exiled from the West Coast Rap church or something.

[Smitty-48]

It was a better diss than No Vaseline and Hit 'Em Up in my opinion, but I'm the minority on that one.
Saying anyone did anything better than Pac gets you exiled from the West Coast Rap church or something.

at first Pac was like a Bobby Brown clone, a boy band rapper

it was only after he went to jail and shaved his head that we started to take much notice of him

then he was dead, not long after

we weren't even dancing to Pac tracks at the clubs until after he was already shot

death was his path to being a Hip Hop messianic figure

[DBTrek]

It was a better diss than No Vaseline and Hit 'Em Up in my opinion, but I'm the minority on that one.
Saying anyone did anything better than Pac gets you exiled from the West Coast Rap church or something.

at first Pac was like a Bobby Brown clone, a boy band rapper

it was only after he went to jail and shaved his head that we started to take much notice of him

then he was dead, not long after

we weren't even dancing to Pac tracks at the clubs until after he was already shot

death was his path to being a Hip Hop messianic figure

The dangers of buying into your own hype.
If you're not gangsta, running with Crips and playing gangsta is a bad idea.
They've been doing it their whole lives.
It's not something you just step into like a journeyman apprenticeship.


(Looking at you Tekashi69)

[Smitty-48]

there is a new Pac now

this generations 2pac is Bashar Barakah 'Pop Smoke' Jackson

[DBTrek]

there is a new Pac now

this generations 2pac is Bashar Barakah 'Pop Smoke' Jackson

That dude is NewPac?
I dunno man.
Sounds like 50cent mumbling over bagpipes to me - but maybe I'm just not cool enough to see the appeal.
/shrug

[DBTrek]

Tell me that dude doesn't sound like Fiddy.

[Smitty-48]

It was a better diss than No Vaseline and Hit 'Em Up in my opinion, but I'm the minority on that one.
Saying anyone did anything better than Pac gets you exiled from the West Coast Rap church or something.

at first Pac was like a Bobby Brown clone, a boy band rapper

it was only after he went to jail and shaved his head that we started to take much notice of him

then he was dead, not long after

we weren't even dancing to Pac tracks at the clubs until after he was already shot

death was his path to being a Hip Hop messianic figure

The dangers of buying into your own hype.
If you're not gangsta, running with Crips and playing gangsta is a bad idea.
They've been doing it their whole lives.
It's not something you just step into like a journeyman apprenticeship.


(Looking at you Tekashi69)

well the two worlds have really fused up here in the GTA

you won't even be a famous rapper here unless you are a gansgter

chain grab is a given, gunfights is a given, the gangsters are the rappers here

Top5 for example

currently on the run from a murder charge, publicly taunting the mayor of Toronto online

it's a dystopic future where Pac is the rule not the exception

[Smitty-48]

there is a new Pac now

this generations 2pac is Bashar Barakah 'Pop Smoke' Jackson

That dude is NewPac?
I dunno man.
Sounds like 50cent mumbling over bagpipes to me - but maybe I'm just not cool enough to see the appeal.
/shrug

he was shot dead in a home invasion, just as he was blowing up into being the next 50cent

so that has generated the 2pac effect, the kids worship him

he was a protege of 50cent, 50cent was at his funeral

but Pop Smoke was actually a Crip, so he was more Pac than Pac actually

[DBTrek]

well the two worlds have really fused up here in the GTA

you won't even be a famous rapper here unless you are a gansgter

chain grab is a given, gunfights is a given, the gangsters are the rappers here

Top5 for example

currently on the run from a murder charge, publicly taunting the mayor of Toronto online

it's a dystopic future where Pac is the rule not the exception

Damn.
Sounds lit.
We still have our murder rappers down here.

But they aren't big time - except maybe Da Baby.