[mushmouf]

I'm just asking out of curiosity..

I just read somewhere that Rick "the biggest boss that you seen thus far" ross was actually an ex-C.O. or some shit and there is a picture with him dressed in a sheriffs uniform. I don't know if it's real or not and in all honesty...don't really care. He says it's photoshopped but i don't know, if someone did do this....i hope they're getting paid good for their talents.



Or like the wayne and baby kissing picture...



now we all know, had this happened 10+ years ago.....these niggas would have been through. But for some strange reason, wayne and baby kinda breezed through this shit unblemished. Regardless for whatever reason they kiss, old hip hop would not be trying to hear it, but new hip hop is a lot more understanding? uncaring? oblivious?

My point being...

do you as a fan of hip hop care about wether the songs you hear from an artist are real or not?

Do you care if they actually are speaking from real life situations or just imagining someone elses for a profit?

Do you want to hear reality, or do you just want to be entertained and you don't care how you get it?

I'm not bashing wayne or rick...it was just two of the bigger stories i could think of off the top of my head.

does authenticity matter to you anymore?

-mush

[izyuhboy]

nope.

keepin' it "real" these days is to fool white people into buyin' you're music/image.

i don't give a fuck anymore.

why i say this is because i was listening to foxx hole radio yesterday and they were talkin' to some country music guys (can't remember the name of the group) but jamie asked them how much did their album sell so far and one of them said 20 million.

yea you read right, 20 million. i never heard of the group before never heard one song of theirs and they puttin' up thriller #.

so yea, fuck "keepin it real"

and quote i got this:
"You cried, "Keepin' it real", yet you should try keepin' it right That's understanding microphone mathematics" © Plug One

[LEX718]

I think an artist should be able to give you a real glimpse into his life and write effectively from a fictional point of view. I have no problem with artists getting into character, as long as they own up to actually being in character. Nobody should be confined as to what ground they're able to cover as an artist. My only issue is when artists claim to be one specific thing and repeatedly announce that this is the real deal, when it's not. Art is art. You can play a gangster all day on TV, but don't run up in the actors studio and brag to James Lipton about catching bodies in real life if that's not the case. That's basically what a lot of these "entertainers" do on outlets like Smack DVD when they pull out guns and drugs as tho that's supposed to validate all the shit they talk on record. It's cool if the Big Boss Man wasn't a real cop or if Sgt. Slaughter wasn't in the military. It's kinda implied that their characters are not real. It's the implication that these rappers live everything they speak that I'm not cool with. Take Rakim's The Punisher. Dope ass record about smoking motherfuckas. Now did Rakim ever run up in the interviews talking about how he's the most thorough dude in the streets? Nope. He didn't feel the need to justify his art, because that's all it was. Art. And nobody challenged his intentions with making that song. Even KRS looking out the window with the mack, dude still managed to come across as an artist. He never really glorified the fact that he would fuck you up if you got out of line, he just did it. A lot of these new generation acts act as though they have something to prove. Just be a fucking artist and create something interesting.

[BIG KEEF]

it's him...

yeah it does matter...only question is what's real?....if u writin crack raps...i don't 2 much wanna hear U glorifyin it regardless of whether or not U actually hustled the block

if U write like Lupe...see Lupe writes hood shit from his perspective..and makes U think about what some of us call "Cool" (pun intended)

so yeah keepin it real matters....but at the end of the day it's the content that matters

[coolstar]

"Cool" (pun intended)

[BIG KEEF]

the name of his latest offering....the whole concept of the album...did U get the album?

[Tha MIZPHIT]

i used to give a shit, now i could care less. i just want dope music.

[konceptjones]

I'm just asking out of curiosity..

I just read somewhere that Rick "the biggest boss that you seen thus far" ross was actually an ex-C.O. or some shit and there is a picture with him dressed in a sheriffs uniform. I don't know if it's real or not and in all honesty...don't really care. He says it's photoshopped but i don't know, if someone did do this....i hope they're getting paid good for their talents.

That's him, fuck all that "it was photoshopped" shits.

I'm sure there's a few inmates out there that could vouch for "Officer Ricky" or whatever being a C.O.

[coolstar]

the name of his latest offering....the whole concept of the album...did U get the album?

I got it ... it was just really bad

[BIG KEEF]

I went by the nose....but I had heard he was a probation officer.....and they usually don't wear uni's

either way...just cuz U work in the criminal justice system don't mean U aint hustlin....in some cases it means U are....

but I don't think Wrausse did as much as he say he did...

[konceptjones]

I went by the nose....but I had heard he was a probation officer.....and they usually don't wear uni's

either way...just cuz U work in the criminal justice system don't mean U aint hustlin....in some cases it means U are....

but I don't think Wrausse did as much as he say he did...

How many of 'em really did? I mean, seriously, how many of these cats talkin 'bout movin kilos have ever laid hands on one?

I can see dudes movin rocks, grams and maybe oz's, but I highly doubt any of 'em "tore the block apart" like they say they did. N_ggas was more likely small change dudes, not much more.

[izyuhboy]

That's him, fuck all that "it was photoshopped" shits.

I'm sure there's a few inmates out there that could vouch for "Officer Ricky" or whatever being a C.O.

"I know Pablo, Noreaga/The real Noreaga he owe me 100 favors"

if that ain't C.O. talk i don't know what is

i guess he really is the biggest boss that we've seen thus far.

[Cov]

the only thing i care about is dope music.

if it aint dope, i aint checkin for it.

and if it is dope, im not doing research nor listening to people trying ot bring the artist down because they are getting theirs...

if its dope, thats all that fuckign matters because all it is anyway IS entertainment.

[logic]

the only thing i care about is dope music.

if it aint dope, i aint checkin for it.

and if it is dope, im not doing research nor listening to people trying to bring the artist down because they are getting theirs...

if its dope, thats all that fuckign matters because all it is anyway IS entertainment.

pretty much...

[Mallzini]

Not really. I've been over that whole "real/fake" thing for a while now.

If theyre entertaining and are good at what they do I'll fuck with em.

I mean, rappers are masters of hyperbole anyway so folks should never take what a rapper says in a song at face value in most cases.

Shit i saw an old pic of Rawse in a mag wearing a teeeeeny chain lookin magnificently regular so he couldna been doin it like he says in his songs.

[KING_E]

if an emcees is fixated on some negative shit, i don't care if its fake or real... ain't for me.

[bace135]

if an emcees is fixated on some negative shit, i don't care if its fake or real... ain't for me.

Precise

[BIG KEEF]

if an emcees is fixated on some negative shit, i don't care if its fake or real... ain't for me.

u articulated it better than me...but basically yeah

[akshun]

man....wayne is still a fag in my book yo. so is baby. please say the baby.

homo shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

you know why that shit i dismissed nowadays??? cuz homo's run this rap shit. mos def already told you that

[BIG KEEF]

man....wayne is still a fag in my book yo. so is baby. please say the baby.

homo shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

you know why that shit i dismissed nowadays??? cuz homo's run this rap shit. mos def already told you that

I watched as New Orleans native defended it 2 the death in an argument....one nigga was ready 2 fight me

[sylvy]

"Cool" (pun intended)

ahem.

[BIG KEEF]

ahem.

U hurt my feelins, Sylvy

[sylvy]

U hurt my feelins, Sylvy

I'm sorrryyy.. I didn't mean to... that shit was just so funny to me and your timing was too perfect..

[The Phantom of Sinatra]

i thought we all knew that rick ross was not real wait you mean some of yall actually believed that this dude knew pablo escobar? i actually don't think the picture is real for a number of reasons but i don't think ross was ever that real. he's a rapper.

[Dunn-D]

the minute this became "entertainment" instead of hip hop..real went out the window...


Ghostwriter/Stylist/Publasist/Hot Producer...


when you don't have to be born to do it anymore...you can just feed somone the words and the style and craft it how you want.

So to answer the question...I'm asuming everyone is lying anyway...so who cares..bring the good tunes.

[The Phantom of Sinatra]

the minute this became "entertainment" instead of hip hop..real went out the window...
Ghostwriter/Stylist/Publasist/Hot Producer...
when you don't have to be born to do it anymore...you can just feed somone the words and the style and craft it how you want.

So to answer the question...I'm asuming everyone is lying anyway...so who cares..bring the good tunes.

if people consider sugar hill gang's rappers delight a milestone for hiphop then real was never in the window.

[Dunn-D]

if people consider sugar hill gang's rappers delight a milestone for hiphop then real was never in the window.

that was more of an isolated event than typical practice though..right???


but I supose under the logic you just gave, we been beliving in a lie from jump street


...like I said..I assume it's all lies anyway.

[2NsNoSandNoZ]

that was more of an isolated event than typical practice though..right???
but I supose under the logic you just gave, we been beliving in a lie from jump street
...like I said..I assume it's all lies anyway.

there where tons of other cats after sugar hill gang that where fakes...music is fake a lot of the time...but I dont know...I used to really care about rappers lying...idk if i do anymore...but i know this...I dont lie on my records...never will...honesty and art go together IMO...

but fuck it...

[jaymojanglez]

yes because the definition of art is something done by someone primarily for the purpose of sharing their inner feelings, their inner self, their inner experience.

[2NsNoSandNoZ]

yes because the definition of art is something done by someone primarily for the purpose of sharing their inner feelings, their inner self, their inner experience.

YO!! ur avatar is crazy...that's from fuckin PRO WRESTLING?? wild...aiight back to the post..