anyways, I can’t believe how much people describe music with such narrow definitions. American media, I hate you!!! LOL

maaaan, these days if A Tribe Called Quest came out, people would call them wack backpackers. THINK ABOUT THAT. How fucked up are people’s perceptions?

THE SECRET PROBLEM IN HIP HOP TODAY, IS THAT SO-CALLED “THUGS” DON’T WANT TO BE CAUGHT LISTENING TO ANYTHING THAT ISN’T IN THE IMAGE OF ‘THUG MUSIC’, AND SO-CALLED “BACKPACKERS” DON’T WANT TO BE CAUGHT LISTENING TO ‘NON-BACKPACK’ MUSIC.

its as if a hustler would beat them down if he got caught with a ‘Gnarls Barkley’ album, LOL

it’s pathetic.

listen to what you love. 80′s pop. rock. hip hop. jazz. funk. 70′s soul. whatever you feel, just listen to it, who cares what others think??? only a weak mind.

c’mon… do we have to keep telling hip hop heads shit they shoulda known long ago? APPARENTLY WE DO.

well, I’ll tell you why “backpack rappers” are about to “blow up”. Because the world’s going to hell, and most people don’t want bullshit music anymore. Ying Yang Twins ain’t gonna protect you or enlighten you about the evils of the world today, but Immortal Technique will… which is why HE’LL be relevant next year, and half these snap-and-crunk rappers will be a forgotten memory

all that matters is SUBSTANCE.
anyone with that, will have a career in hip hop.

Sometimes (you have to admit) lyricism with backpack rigth is often times borin to listen to though, the messages gives out useful insight among other things that opens ya mind.

Really, if backpack rappers put some hot beats and not no monotone beats with the same lyricism skills…its a wrap IMO.

The reason that Common’s “Be” and Kanye’s “Late Registration” did so well last year (both commercially and critically) is that those albums were capable of getting messages out, but not at the cost of putting together good pop songs (for the sake of this post, “pop” just means popular, not like Britney Spears and *NSYNC-type music).

Until backpack rap albums learn that good production is just as important as the lyrical end, Lil Jon is gonna beat Talib to the bank everyday.

And yes, I can’t wait for Lupe’s album, either.

before 1990, there was no such thing as underground and mainstream…it was all hiphop…i mean, DE LA SOUL toured with NWA..and nobody had an issue…

you have public enemy do ICE CUBE’S 1st album…

and to del1, i must remind you it was CUBE that put del on in the 1st place…same way it was king T that put the alkoholiks on….it didn’t matter

i think the moment common put out “i used to love h.e.r.” that’s when a segregation was realized, because before then groups like black moon wasn’t looked at as a backpack group and in most cases were just as street and gangsta as those in the mainstream…but then all of the sudden it became a standard of characterization of whut’s underground and whut’s mainstream…and you have to fit that uniform…

hiphop is hiphop, it’s suppose to be diverse and universal, true hiphoppers embrace EVERYTHING, even if they don’t partake it themselves…so i respect the bay vets that say they’ll support the hyphy movement because it’s that’s whut the youth are doing and it’s their movement….or with the south, it’s their movement, they’re having fun with it, in a time where HIPHOP NEEDS to be fun again…

so there’s no need to knock whut the other man is doing and keep doing you…if little brother can go on tour with paul wall and do a joint with bun b, then whut’s the problem with that????

hiphop is hiphop…fuck this categorization

The Return of Backpacker Rap?

Where did it ever go to make a return?
backpack rap had been around, no one cares
though but a bunch of white kids who think
their listening to some underground shhhh..
no one knows how hot these cats are GARBAGE..
some shit stays underground for a reason
no one else cares to listen to it