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Originally posted by OtterXO
why isn't it your place to comment!? haha 
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Because, despite the fact that I've listened to hip-hop for 10 of my 22 years, I have no right to comment on the "message" that hip-hop sends (or used to send). I can try to justify and rationalize how the lyrics apply to my life, but that honestly would make me just like every white boy in upper middle suburbia who bumps Boyz N Tha Hood while he drives around his neighborhood in the Benz mommy and daddy bought them.
I didn't have to turn to drugs or crime or anything else Biggie talked about in Ready To Die. I can't recollect on my childhood and comment on the state of urban life like Nas did in Illmatic. My neighborhood was lower-middle class, and gangs still thrive in the area, but that in no way allows me to relate to what Rakim talked about in Paid In Full. I got sent to the arts school, and was sheltered from all that.
I just prefer hip-hop from the past because I'm a writer, and the lyricism and poetic sense of artists of the past continues to blow me away. I went insane when I first heard Big Daddy Kane in Another Victory, Ain't No Half Steppin, and Raw. So when Biggie says:
"If I wasn't in the rap game/ I'd probably have a key, knee deep in the crack game/ Because the streets is a short stop/ Either you’re slingin crack rock or you got a wicked jumpshot"
I mostly admire it because of the melodic sound and structure of it.
I've read about Kool Moe Dee and Bizzy Bee. I've learned about BDP vs. The Juice Crew, The Roxanne Battles, and when LL did Break of Dawn. I've done my research, but I'm in no means an expert. Hence, I shouldn't really comment.
Wait...what was I talking about?