Comments on: I can’t believe I actually agree with Soulja Boy

By: nrp

nrp — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:09:02 +0000

i'm no fan of soulja boy tell'em (i'll use his full name since i don't know him like that), but it seems to me, considering ice-t's contribution to the hip hop canon, he speaks from a glass house. with his distinct lack of rhyme skills and as a long-time advocate of pimpin', there's a bit of a credibility gap...like say here

By: DJStylus

DJStylus — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:01:25 +0000

Ice-T apologized but is still beefing, blah blah... It can't hurt to reiterate:

Regardless of what you think of Soulja Boy's message, it speaks to the youth that hip-hop has sought to speak to since it was first born. If the youth are in a position where the songs that they can relate to depict "supersoaking hos," there's a much larger issue at hand than just the song or the artist that composed it.

And I should do a mix that consists of nothing but terrible, corny golden age & old school hip-hop.

By: ill Mami

ill Mami — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:56:59 +0000

I agree with you. Not only do I not care about Soulja Boy, I care even less about Ice T. Isn’t he married to an inflatable doll?

In any case, there were tons of horrible rap shit out when we were coming up, but all that shit has fallen by the wayside. I’m sure my parents were totally confused as to why I could like groups that dressed with their clothes on backwards (Criss Cross) or inside out (Another Bad Creation), but they were dope at the time.

I say, let the kids have their fun. If Soulja Boy’s smart enough, he’ll save his money and not look like Hammer when he spent all his money on his boys…and horses and waterfalls and shit. Cream always rises to the top, and the good music will always do just that. These kids will discover Max Roach and Big Daddy Kane and whoever else is worth listening to when they get to college anyway.

By: Statik

Statik — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:23:59 +0000

BUT! I also agree with Ice-T, now that I watched his response to Souljah Boy’s video.

Now I’m over it. Back to more important issues…

By: Statik

Statik — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:03:51 +0000

Dammit!!!!!!!! I also agree with Souljah Boy. I get tired of old folks complaining about shit and not making any attempt to connect to the younger generation. That, in my opinion, is the main contributing factor to the downfall of our society. Older generations say “Things used to be this way and these young people don’t know shit… bla bla fucking bla bla” Meanwhile, young people don’t care about any of that, the same way the older people didn’t care about THEIR elders opinion 35 years ago. It eventually comes full circle but I wish our elders would cut that bullshit out. It doesn’t provide anything… Thanks for posting this. I just got the Cool Kids album. I’m dumb late on listening to them, probably for the same reasons you’re annoyed by them although they seem to have all the shit that us purists look for in “acceptable” rap music. These days, we can really find a logical reason to be annoyed at anything. Especially if there is an enormous amount of hype and we all lived through the era where what they were doing was original.