Yesterday I was “slow creep’n” down I-35 with NBC5 Photojournalist Quincy Thomas, AKA Q-Pac. We both have a favorite XM radio channel called “The Rhyme.” It’s Ole’ School rap from guys like Big Daddy Kane, Run DMC, Kool Moe Dee and the list goes on. For some reason, I love the stuff, the beats, the scratches but especially the rhymes. I’ll do the “Humpty Dance” all night long.
Sitting there in rush hour traffic got me thinking, why don’t rappers rhyme anymore? There’s no more, “put your hands in the air, like you just don’t care” lyrics. The Fat Boys, The Beastie Boys, Run DMC and the boys all had more rhymes then Picasso had paint, they were so smooth they’d make you faint.
Is it creative laziness? Or is the Hip Hop community simply rhymed out? Are all the rhyming combinations really used up? The death of the rhyme is all to real.
I know there are more combos out there, and I don’t mean meals. If I can bust a rhyme so should the rappers of tomorrow.
“I’m G-Stinch of the Six O’clock hour, uncovering the news is my power. I hold the mic like a gun firing facts at you… Who can rap the news? Me… That’s who!”
July 30, 2008 at 10:26 am |
I just think you have to find the rappers that have talent. That usually means going underground to find them
July 30, 2008 at 1:18 pm |
That is super hilarious! Although I can’t imagine you rapping this and doing the moves! That would be a sight!
July 30, 2008 at 2:51 pm |
Well G-Stinch, first off Big Daddy Kane is K.A.N.E. and Kool Moe Dee is K.O.O.L.
A few rappers have the flow and others just are bubblegum and popcorn.
So if you gonna rap, go out and wreck it …
If you do good we’ll respect it.
I’m not a rapper but i play one on the internet.
July 30, 2008 at 2:52 pm |
Ummmm wow. Could you at least learn to spell some of the bands you claim to like? It’s Big Daddy Kane, Not Cane. And Kool Moe Dee, not Cool Moe Dee. And hip hop is more about the flow these days, than the rhyme. Early rap highlighted the rhyme, now, not so much. It’s called innovation.
Your little rap at the end has ZERO flow. It kind of rhymes, but it has no flow and even though it rhymes, it sounds like shit. A lot of old rap rhymed, but was awful. Hip hop has simply matured.
Seriously man. You hear that loud noise? That’s all the black people in DFW laughing at how ridiuclously white you are coming off as, while trying to come off as hip and with-it. If someone showed me this posting and told me it was a joke regarding just how white someone can sound, when they are trying to sound black, I would totally believe it.
Now I need to tear my eyes out and light them on fire after reading this.
Maybe this is so funny because the whitest thing on Earth is a newscaster. Even black newscasters that were raised in the ghetto, sounds like Gomer Pyle.
July 30, 2008 at 3:17 pm |
Its all about what makes them money. Back in the day, rhymes were done for fun/parties/neighborhood fame, not really for profit. Money came by surprise. Once that took over, most lyricist went underground and rappers became mainstream ATM’s for record companies.
TrUe aka BrownSugar…… “when did you fall in love with hip-hop”………..1979.