^^exactly. He's super lyrical, but not at all deep.

anyone saying "lyrcal" = "deep" is a moron grasping at the english language.



tell em Apexx said it!

no one ever said hip hop was an opinion. i know its not an opinion.
and for you to say d4L isnt hip hop but then say hip hop is a way of life thats contridicting yourself. who are you to say the life that d4l potray isnt hip hop? its sure as hell isnt a Gothic lifestyle or Emo lifesytle. just because you people think certain artists arent up to par or perfect role models for hip hop u strip them from being hip hop..



and last i still say and So has a bunch of other artists...


Hip Hop consists of 4 elements..we arent talking about the past..what it is NOW.

Rapping
DJ'n
Breaking
Graffing


If i am correct having anything to do with these four elements..OR even having a understanding and respect and love for any of these for elements would make you hip hop. RnB singers are also influenced by the hip hop community although they dont take part in any of the elements..THEY in fact still lead a hip hop lifestyle.

so its you live a hip hop lifestyle...and you take part in the hip hop culture that makes you hip hop.


and lockness..what is fake or real hip hop?

that statement just screams that your knocking talent just because its not your taste

any whack artist in the industry that you might not like is there for a reason. because they have a creative way of delivering the shit they put out. just because YOU dont like it doesnt mean someone else doesnt. thats when YOUR opinion steps in and trys to speak up for actual facts.

fake hip hop: anyone who claims to be about the culture, origins, and history of our music, but aren't. They profit by telling you stories to make you think they're genuine in order to add credibility to their own name and dollars to their own pocket.

merk not for nada but I think at this point in the game one would have to wipe their slate clean as to what they see "hiphop" as seeing that the media sources that told you what "hip hop" is the same corporations raking in billions off of the image they created which they want you to believe is real. This reminds me of the book Simulacra and Simulacrum which basically states that the simulation has replaced the original. Synthetic has taken the role that Authentic once had. Perfect analogy for Rap and Hip Hop.

Unless someone witnessed the rise and peak of hip hop, the concious awareness of the era hip hop was born and thrived in, the drive of the hip hop artist for expression of a black voice in music, you'd lose the connection without this prior knowledge. Some things are intangible and can't be expressed with words.

Imagine for a minute that you became sick and a robot was created in your exact likeness to exist in your place. It has polished renditions of mannerisms that people found favorable in you, it looks like you, talks feels and smells like you, hell, it even says it is you! but it lacks the texture of personality that you have. the soul deep within. when it smiles...you look at it and you know it's not real. designed to look real, but deep down you know you're peering into the surface of a machine. It would be hard for someone that knew the original you to have that same love for a mechanized replica of you, and even harder to explain the difference to someone who never knew you.