LMAO. you nailed it bro. commercial hip hop died a long time ago. To get any real decent hip hop these days u gotta dig, u ain’t gonna hear no good hip hop on the radio. indie and alternative rappers for the most part are the only cats bringing it and keeping the artform creative and fresh.

Yeah. The mainstream Hip-Hop that we hear on the radio now is garbage. People have all but stopped buying rap music now.

I die at “Necrophiliac of the Rap Game!” His lyrics are garbage (when you can actually understand them) but his producers are the bomb (for the most part). I can’t help but bob my head & bounce in my seat when a Gucci beat comes on! Ha, I love ignorance! =D

I personally think Gucci Mane is brilliant in his use of frequent easy catchy chorus’ that insight dance and party feelings in people who don’t look to music to express their intelligence. If you are looking to this man to express your values you might just be fucked up… However if its a background noise in the soundtrack that is your own… I say rock to it… I think hop hop died when the people who formed the culture got old and fat and more concerned with health insurance and now just sit around and complain about the loss of the culture like the loss of the ability to see their feet under their bellies. My motto as a fan of music in general is to subscribe to what you like and tune out what you don’t. I love southern and bay area music because both remind me of places where people dance their cotton pickin asses off and enjoy the hell outta themselves without having to battle you on Common being conscious vs. Talib Kweli being the most genius vs. Mos Def’s vocal patterns vs. Little Brother being iconic vs. Black Milk being under rated vs. Foreign Exchange being the hottest shit since slum village vs… blah blah blah shut your traps and enjoy the damn music… You back pack rap fans take yourselves far too seriously. In closing the most conscious rapper you love might very well talk about the most ignorant shit- they just do it in the way you might happen to wanna hear it… This article is hilarious by the way!

and my fav line “HE’D BE A GREAT SPOKESPERSON FOR SLAVERY ” i died! but leslie you’re right…i tend to have the same thoughts as you on music but artists that are this damn ignorant i can’t…my main problem with him is using kids on his ignorant ass hooks…don’t get me wrong i love that one Gucci song that i can’t think of right now but it’s only appropriate in the strip club. LOL…Nile named all the artists that make my skin crawl…and did you hear that Plies was [allegedly] valedictorian of his class…makes me sad…

further more anyone that would rather spend money on fake jewels but can not bring themselves to purchase one damn tube of chapstick needs to have the ash beat off him

We were spoiled by Hip/Rap in the 1990s and early 2000′s! Now Hip Hop is all about record sales. I can tell you this, the songs on the radio are being played because they are paying the DJ’s to play there songs! Lastly most music today will not be remembered in the future! Thats why OutKast, Ice Cube, Snoop, WU TANG, SCARFACE, BUN B, TOO SHORT, JAY Z, NAS Luda, are the Last of a Dying Breed! Peace! Hey how do I change my pic from a Cartoon to my own pic?

@Joleezy: His lips are extra greasy TYVM, and we would apply that same idea of fake chains to all your favorite 80′s rappers who founded the frontin movement of glamorousness to rap… you cant tell me them 1984 chains were all real and even if they were what for? Hip Hop has always glamorized opulence. Somebody call Devin the Dude and tell him I need some funk!

Its funny to me that everyone thinks that the era in which they came up was the best over all era in music. funny meaning entirely narcissistic. The era they were being marketed and sold the music they currently subscribe to. Every generation has its baffoon… thank God America didnt use Vanilla Ice as a barometer of white rappers or thered by no Em. I respect the backpack hustle but Id die if I didnt hear me a little retarded shit erry nah and den… I want to say again… the article itself was hilarious… Im over here playing Satans advocate his wife and his personal stripper… that would be a great Gucci Mane song… “She Satan’s wife and a strippa so Ima tippa”

eek–eek! *peelsbanana* to leslie’s comment.

Leslie’s right. It’s important to recognize the merits of the past eras of hip-hop, and the backpackers or whatever, but trashy stuff has its place. Because people just want to be silly sometimes. There is a type of awesomeness in things being terrible. As long as we know it’s terrible. Gucci Mane may suck, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t belong in hip-hop.

People don’t understand that things change over time. When Michael Jordan played basketball the rules were completely different compared to Kobe Bryants era, therefore they can’t be fairly compared to each other. If you want to be “educated” please enroll yourself into a college and stop asking entertainers for knowledge. Nobody complained when Larenz Tate played O-Dog in “Menace II Society”. If you don’t like it then don’t listen it. I believe Jay-z said it best,”If you don’t like my lyrics you can press fast forward”. Argument over!!

EPMD, crossover…… COMMON, I used to love her…. LUPE FIASCO, Dumb it down

some of my favorite songs about this DAMN topic!

Leslie, in regards to your 1st comment,I disagree with your assesment of “backpack rap” vs current mainstream rap.

I do agree, there is nothing wrong with enjoying a certain style of music specifically for the purpose of dancing, partying to, and having a good time. Everything has it’s place. A certain type of music should be played in the club, a different type is played when one is calming down on a Sunday evening getting ready for the work week.

The problem I have with rappers like gucci mane, and many other rappers, most of which hailing from the south over the past decade, is the level of skill in which they posess in regards to the craft they have chosen. It’s simply not a good product.

Parliament/Funkadelic in regards to “what they were talking about” or discussing in their music wasn’t much at all in regards to intellectual depth, but — it was the level of craftsmanship/musicianship, and creativity that made them stick out, and make them worthy of praise or high regard in their field as musicians.

Siilk The Shocker, 4 example, never grasped the ability or capability to do the most simple of requirements needed to be a skilled/great rapper; simply rap on beat. Therefore his level of craftsmanship and dedication to his craft, and talent level should have prevented him from having much success.

But..he had what gucci mane, and many other incapable rap artists have; a money machine to promote them to the american public, guided by businessmen who only care about copying last weeks hit, and getting one just like it under their label.

This phenomenon has always existed in the music biz, and many industries. But in all fairness, comparing Gucci Mane to an artist like Mos Def, Common, or Talib Kweli, is like comparing the skill and craftsmanship of a James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, or Steven Speilberg, to the likes of the director that did Troll 2, Leprechaun, or Death Wish 3.