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All the emcees Suave just listed are dope. Anyone dissing him for listening to Nas, Jay, Pac, shit even old Twista was good too should really give em another listen. I have no problem with someone trying to have commerical success but when you let that govern your content you've sold out period. See I don't necessarily have a problem with dudes rappin about hoes, money, weapons, and violence if thats really how they're living....if they show that they're actually TRYING to put out quality stuff and not just dishing out a new half assed album every year so you can hurry up and cash in. For instance Missy Elliot openly admitted to half-assing all her albums of the past 5 years or so because "people will buy them anyway" so she doesn't have to try hard. Lazy ass shit. She's right though...people will still buy them anyway...because they're stupid and she's calling them stupid to their face and they don't even fuckin realize it.
The difference between commercial/fake emcees and "real" emcees is simple. Real emcees do it for nothing more than the love of the music and don't care about the money....they write what they want to write and not what they think will sell albums. If you do that..yer real regardless of your content. If Nelly is in the business because he loves making the music above all other aspects then he is a real emcee. Just because you're real doesn't mean you can't be wack though. Theres tons of wack ass emcees in the underground..."underground" means nothing more than not signed. Cash Money Millionaires were underground not too long ago peddling tapes out the back of their cars. Now they actually are millionaires...they're also wack.
Asta!!
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It ain't goodbye, it's see ya later! I'll miss you guys!  - Asta!!
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