Damn it! Listen To This Shit! This is what Hip-Hop has lost, songs like these!Fuck! I must say I am delighted with this Joe Budden "Who (Killed Hip-Hop)" series, this is some of the realist Hip-Hop shit a nigga heard in a minute. Music like this can breathe some life back into hip-hop. I did my own State Of The Union addressing Hip-Hop a few months back but after listening to Joey's "Who" Pt. 1 & 2 he's got me looking @ shit from a completely different perspective.
Here's a few bars that really hit me:
“(The Fans) I mean some of them are fooled so easily by whatever we say or we show em on TV, but that was part of the plan, or was it when Eminem made Stan? I swear some of these fans, they put they whole life on the line, it’s like they can’t like more than one rapper at a time…”
“If rap was alive, we be tryin to be the best rappers ever, not the best rapper alive.......”
“Or do we just think yall getting dumber, we tried to make getting old getting younger”
“Did we lose our hunger ? Something’s gotta give, did we out grow ourselves, is hip-hop a kid? If it is they turn on MTV Cribs and think that’s where these mutha fuckas really live...”
“So now its fuck your bars, if the hook is fly, so we look at Crooked I with a cooked eye!"
"If everythings commercial, Where the fucks the SHOW?"
“Or was it Street DVDs like SMACK that would show you how dumb your favorite rapper would act?”
“Or was it when MTV made a list of the hottest and ignored the nicest, changed the whole stee-lo. I mean the average fan never heard of a Goodie Mob or a Cee-Lo
…But they heard of Gnarls Barkley”
“Are we all killin this shit, is it a group effort?”
“And then a lot of people go and blame limewire,
I don’t think it’s downloadin’ dog, that line’s tired. Did the fans just get tired of the outcome?
One dope single, AND A BULLSHIT ALBUM.”
“Or was it master P with them ugly ass album covers?”
“Or was it when we became obsessed with the brand names, we had the kids trying to buy shit they can't name...”
“Or did it start when Puff took advantage of the sample?” I SAY YES!!!!!
“Is the game now its as bad as its ever been?
Its not ringtones, its the songs that they represent, and I heard all of 'em, Sad part is i wouldn't recognize most of these niggas if i saw 'em”
“now going gold is looked at as a failure…”
“Did we sell out just to get in demand more? Did we go against we used to stand for?” YES!!!
“We let the power of a dollar annihilate us, now the size of our chain gone validate us”
“If we ain't dead, then we just half alive maybe brain dead”
Listen: Joe Budden- Who Pt. 2
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