Bitchass-ness in Hip Hop Part 1

Something has come to my attention in the last maybe 10 years or so in Hip-Hop. I decided to write about it recently when I was reading Big Ghost Chronicles' posts about the softest niggas in the game. I agree with pretty much everything he said in those posts, especially the shit about Wheelchair Jimmy trying to act hard, with his schizophrenic multiple personality type act. One second hes all thugged out, and the next hes crooning to all the ladies. HOWEVER since this blog is called " YOU KILLED HIP HOP " I will address the matters as such.

It is NOT Drakes fault that he is a sissy man. It's your fault for letting that whole style and essence become acceptable.

Look at these niggas. This is circa 1990 or whenever. Do you detect one iota of bitchass-ness?

Fuck no you dont. These guys didnt act like no bitches: they were about making dope music, being gangsta, and not being bitches. If any bitch-ness is being detected, your punk ass is probably too young to realize that this is how people dressed in the early 90s when they didn't want to look like bitches. Fast Foward to about ... lets say 1996 and go to the south.

White Tees and Soildier apparel.

Notice also that these guys don't look like bitches. Oh yea, and notice a young ass Lil Wayne at the bottom of the picture. All of you youngins born in 2001 don't realize that Lil Wayne ACTUALLY used to hang out with people that would make his current claims of gangsta violent activity sound almost legit, if it werent for the fact that he was all of 12 years old. The content of their music consisted of Smoking weed, Fucking bitches, busting caps in the asses of those who oppose their will, and other various alpha male statements. In addition to that: Bling Bling. White tees were pretty much standard issue for non bitch-ass niggas from 96-05. On the east coast and some of the west coast, they were wearing full on suits and things of that nature. In some circles the professional Gangster look was becoming normal. The whole Al Capone look really has no way of looking bitchass. This has kinda remained true till now. Then move along to early 2000 and go to the East Coast.

F-A-B-O-S-T-F-U

Personal hatred towards Fabolous aside... At least he didnt dress like no bitch. He did however make music for bitches.... ahem... girls.. Which you cant really be mad at because that type of shit sells. Ehhh enough of that guys music, his style is so Mother Goose I can't really bare to listen to him at all. In my opinion however East Coast around this time and era always dressed a little bit questionable... but whatever, they are just different from what I'm used to. Lets stay on the east coast and move to about 04.

its 50.... its 50

This guy makes music that everyone loves. From frat boys to 16 year old girls, to pimps, hustlers thugs and skateboarders. Notice the lack of bitchass-ness in his apparel. He is not dressing like a female to cater to females ( We will forget about those g-unit wife beaters for the sake of this post.) This guy is just thugged out making thugged out music for a thugged out audience. Then around here SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT WAS INCREDABLY ODD IN HIP HOP. 

I included a control in this picture. Notice how one of them looks like a rapper, and the other looks like he belongs in the X-Men

I believe it started with The Neptunes becoming a threat in music... but why The Neptunes? I mean didnt Pharell and crew hang out with The Clipse? The Clipse didnt act/dress/make music like bitches??? Many more questions are to be asked of this. At least The Neptunes made pretty nice music ( We wont count how they downgraded Big Snoops Discography in later years.... also Skateboard P don bus gun shots.)

Notice how the apparel is pink.... but still not bitchass .... somehow...

It was also around this time that Dipset and them guys starting making appearances. Them guys were anomalies in the sense that they wore pink, but didnt act like no bitches. They even coined the term " No Homo" and somehow when they used it it was all good. Scientists and Homo-ologists are still trying to research how and why they were able to do that shit. 

More research to be posted on Part 2 of this post

RED NATION!!

Seriously MTV? Seriously BET? Why would you do this? I'm guessing that the guys behind those companies are racist against red mo-hawks. Seriously, wtf. OKAY OKAY OKAY the video has heavy gang undertones... but have you ever seen a Snoop video? Or what about early 90s NWA videos... They actually ran around with guns and 40 ounces and all that other gangster associated type stuff. This video that got banned is TAME compared to most shit out there. It reminds me of D-12's Fight Music, 2Pac's California Love... Denzel Washington's Book of Eli. All of these things remind me of Fallout 3.

Seriously, this is the video. I seen like maybe 3 gang signs the whole video... OK I just re-watched it, and I can identify 3 definite blood hand signs, and one half ass Lil Wayne throw. In retrospect Lil Wayne was probably throwing up Illuminati instead of the blood sign. The video isn't even overly violent. The Game is standing on a car waving sticks around, while a bunch of really slow moving people topple over a fence. MTV and BET.... SERIOUSLY?

oh yea i forgot ....... #REDnation @thegame

Hip Hop Dance Music

Soulja Boy, Fat Joe... shit even Kid n Play. Dance has been an important part of hip hop music for as long as hip hop has been music. Everybody put your hands in the air and wave them like you just dont care. Call and response. If you ever want to rock a mic in front of a crowd and want people to actually feel you and have a good time this is an integral part of hip hop.

A lot of people hate on that Soulja Boy joint and say "he is whats killing hip hop." From the dawn of hip hop time artist have been saying " do this dance," and people have been doing it, and having a dope time at the club. Backpackers need to get off their ass and actually go to the club. Nobody plays Sage Francis at the club, because that shit is not club worthy. By the way: Fuck Sage Francis.

Cali Swag District, with that Teach me how to Dougie shit... that shit is hilariously awesome. The way that I look at it, and the way that I look at a lot of things is: "You don't watch an Arnold movie because of the deep engrossing plot, you watch it because that shit is just entertaining." That can be easily applied to music as well. You don't listen to artists like Cali Swag District because you are expecting super lyricism. You listen to that because it sounds dope. Hip Hop is about having fun. Always has, and always will. Soulja Boy didn't kill hip hop... You did.

Slaughterhouse

This is kinda old news but Slaughterhouse is the backpacker MCs answer to all that " annoying shit you hear on the radio." Backpackers came in their under-roos when this rap group was announced. Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden, Crooked I, and Royce Nickle 9 is who the group consist of. NOW from what I've heard of each of these artists on the solo tip, all of them (with the exception of Joel Ortiz because I never took the time to actually listen to him with a scrutinizing ear) make decent music. With that being said, there is no way anyone can say that I am in any way shape or form hating on slaughterhouse.

They will never be popular, or members of the cool kids club because Eminem signed them to Shady Records.

Now I like Eminem as much as the next guy... but seriously, there is NO WAY ON EARTH I would ever sign to Shady Records. The goal of being signed is so that you can get paid, and have a wider audience while getting paid. Once again, they are signed to Shady Records. The only person on Shady Records that is moving units is Shady. I guess you can count 50 Cent ... but that guy just needed capital and then Eminem left him alone to print money. Wheres Obie Tryce? Where is Stat Quo? Where the Fuck is D12?? And those 3 are artists that I actually followed and tried to see what they were doing.

Bottom Line: Slaughterhouse is good on paper. They all got dope rhymes, and got good producers working with them........ but they probably are barely going to go gold.

To Start this blog off.....

My name is Royalty. I've been making rap music for way too long.( http://www.reverbnation.com/520royalty ) Listening to rap music for even longer. I've done a bunch of shows in the Tucson, AZ circuit with a bunch of different artists out there. Some dope, some wack. I have opened up for a bunch of music acts, like Bone Thugs, Willy Northpole, Do or Die and some others.

I have a horrible confession to make. I used to be a backpacker elitist hip-hop head. I used to only listen to things like Def Jux, Heiro, and all that "Purist" hip-hop. I used to HATE mainstream artists like for example, Ja Rule, DMX, and Jay Z. I grew out of that phase once I got smart enough to realize that a great deal of them backpacking MCs tend to rhyme 15$ words with other 15$ words simply for the sake of doing so. When I grew out of that phase, I also stopped making rap music like that ( thank god).

This blog is gonna be about the realization that I had during that conversion. Mainly the fact that there are good underground artist, and there are bad underground artists. Just like there are bad mainstream artists, and good mainstream artists.