Nuke-A-Rapper!!!
Alan Ralph
>Question: If you had a choice of eliminating one individual hip-hop
>artist on the face of the planet, who would it be and why?
>Rules:
>1. Vanilla Creep and Hammer as choices are much too easy. Please be more
>original.
Aww, go on, pa-lease!!!!!!
>2. EXPLAIN your choice (ie LL is not all that, Moe Dee is an old ass man,
>etc.)
>3. Be rational. Eliminating the impact of, say, Special Ed, because he
>gets all those really cute girls under eighteen that you were just
>waitin' to fiend is NOT rational.
>To start off, I'd like to get rid of Jeff and the Fresh Prince. These two
>were alright as long as they were the younger version of Bobby Jimmy and
>the Critters. Their recent work, howver, with the exception of Summertime
>which was the jam, is weak. Anyone who has seen the "Ring My Bell" video
>or heard it on the radio knows that Prince can't rap a damn about
>anything except Freddie Krueger or Mike Tyson.
Unfortunately, the Prince has grown up but is still acting like a kid...
I'm afraid he's had his day. Mind you, Jeff's still got what it takes...
now if he could find a way of disposing of the Prince...
>Honorable Mention: Salt and Pepa (I can't stand them... especially when
>they try to come off as fine... damn, these girls oughta be drinking Dick
>Gregory) and Run DMC (although they have tried to change both their image
>and style - "What's it all about" was pretty cool, all I can remember is
>that "You be illin'" BS.)
Agreed about Run DMC (I've long felt they were overated somewhat)... but
NO WAY are Salt 'n' Pepa that bad! I think they're coming back on form
nowadays... anyway they don't take rap music VERY seriously, as they
frequently say themselves in interview, so maybe they can be excused...
My choice... LL Cool J... he considers himself God's gift to womankind,
and unfortunately this and his urge to brag and be hard has progressively
encroached into his music. I really like the "Radio" album, but his output
nowadays is SOOO predictable.
Would this have a beneficial effect on Kool Moe Dee's stuff, I wonder?
Alan.
K9...@cunyvm.bitnet
(Alan Ralph) says:
>
>In article <8d8ycYm00...@andrew.cmu.edu>, Dean Calloway writes:
>>Question: If you had a choice of eliminating one individual hip-hop
>>artist on the face of the planet, who would it be and why?
>
>>Rules:
>
>>1. Vanilla Creep and Hammer as choices are much too easy. Please be more
>>original.
>
>>etc.)
>
>>3. Be rational. Eliminating the impact of, say, Special Ed, because he
>>gets all those really cute girls under eighteen that you were just
>>waitin' to fiend is NOT rational.
>
>>To start off, I'd like to get rid of Jeff and the Fresh Prince. These two
>>were alright as long as they were the younger version of Bobby Jimmy and
>>the Critters. Their recent work, howver, with the exception of Summertime
>>which was the jam, is weak. Anyone who has seen the "Ring My Bell" video
>>or heard it on the radio knows that Prince can't rap a damn about
>>anything except Freddie Krueger or Mike Tyson.
I'm sorry to say Prince has a terminal case of whiteus mainstreamitis, but
he seems to be doing pretty well in TV land. His ultra-soft core style just
doesn't cut it anymore, at least not with me. As for "Summertime" being the
JAM personally it kind of grew on me but it wasn't all that; its like when
a sitcom uses a laugh track so much that you think the show is funny.
>>Honorable Mention: Salt and Pepa (I can't stand them... especially when
>>they try to come off as fine... damn, these girls oughta be drinking Dick
>>Gregory) and Run DMC (although they have tried to change both their image
>>and style - "What's it all about" was pretty cool, all I can remember is
>>that "You be illin'" BS.)
>
Run-Dmc seem to have been reduced to writing cute rhymes for Sesame
Street and public service announcements. I think its time for them to
put up or shut up, they need to find a new musical direction of career,
but get real Salt n' Pepa make some good jams, LL does too. My main beef
with LL is that he's a punk...straight up. He comes of like he's running
shit when in actuality, those who know him will agree, he usually running
away from shit. Besides that my girl sweats him too much.... He has a
few good jams on his "Mama said knock you out" CD but there is something
about him personally that rubs me the wrong way. So I agree when you say:
>
>My choice... LL Cool J... he considers himself God's gift to womankind,
>and unfortunately this and his urge to brag and be hard has progressively
>encroached into his music. I really like the "Radio" album, but his output
>nowadays is SOOO predictable.
>
>Would this have a beneficial effect on Kool Moe Dee's stuff, I wonder?
Kool Moe who?
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