What Does An Artist's Background Have To Do With Their Music?

[thecomebacklegend]

TS searching for a excuse 2 buy lil b album

 

[gee757]

Take Wayne or Rick Ross for example

They may have questionable pasts

But the music they put out is quality

How can anybody deny the fact that they are the two biggest rappers right now

da real question is y r we even worried about 2 BLK MEN backgroundz n hiphop when da highest sellin artist n hiphop is a LYIN WHITE RACIST REDNECK? imean thatz HOUSENIGGA shit worryin about da BLK MAN who lied about sum shit & they get crucified fa doin BLK MUSIK while da white boy getz away scottfree fa LYIN about bein RACIST & is da HIGHEST SELLIN ARTIST N HIPHOP...HIPHOP LOST! smh

If you dont listen to someone because of their background or some shit they did 20 years ago your a dummy......unless they come out the closet.

YA A WHITE MAN ANYWAY LIKE YA MAN CRUSH GAY AZZ DRE THATZ Y U WILL LET A WHITE RACIST REDNECK CALL U A N1GGER AS LONG AS DA REDNECK MAKEZ 'DOPE MUSIK'...SMH@ THAT STUPID WHITE BOY LOGIK!

 

[ShencotheMC]

Nope, as long as the music is dope, the artist's personal lives should matter none...but then again this is hip-hop where the fans are dumb and they put too much value into trivial shit such as what an artist is wearing or who they smashing out

 

[prada_g24]

I really don't care I never sold bricks so fuck it. But these rappers are to blame IMO. They make it personal "I moved weight I was on the block all night I did this n thar" and they never turn that persona off. U always see them with 100 goons in the hood. They are never themselves. They lie so much they start to believe it

 

[1of1]

It now realize that acting and embellishing and fantasy is just a part of rap for most who do it. Truth is not a requirement, nor is actual life experience. You can witness it from you folks pad scribble I'm your notepad and create your "life."

A lot of these rap Niggas want so bad to escape the lameness or sadness of their miserable existence, so they'll fake it 'til they make it and Niggas love a good actor/ picture painter.

 

[deadprezreppinme]

Because if you say you propellen hoes and there fathers you better be able to back it up. There is somethin about the south side that makes me wanna act bad.

 

[MorganFreemanKing]

It now realize that acting and embellishing and fantasy is just a part of rap for most who do it. Truth is not a requirement, nor is actual life experience. You can witness it from you folks pad scribble I'm your notepad and create your "life."

A lot of these rap Niggas want so bad to escape the lameness or sadness of their miserable existence, so they'll fake it 'til they make it and Niggas love a good actor/ picture painter.

LMAO @ the bolded!
telling a story is one thing but as far as making "good music" the fabrication and falsifying shit bleeds through the music and lowers the quality anyway.

Jay-z's "meet the parents" was a fictional story (maybe a better term would be hypothetical) but it wasnt a claim of a false reality so while not a true story, it wasnt tough to swallow and the smell of bullshit didnt plague the song

 

[Peezy_Jenkins]

bruh, this is rap/hip hop

a.k.a. the soundtrack to fatherless, role model-less, disenfranchised youths in the ghettos across America

if you ain't sold no pies, had a job, had a nice upbringing, 2 parent home, or never got shot or shot at then niggas gon hate you

unless you make dance songs

If you dont listen to someone because of their background or some shit they did 20 years ago your a dummy......unless they come out the closet.

so youre admiting youre a grown ass man who still listens to fairy tales?

this is entertainment not English class.

i don't think he saying everything should be a biographic documentary type song, but if it aint comming from a credible source, what the fuck is you listening to? why listen to a nigga spew some shit he knows nothin about? why? cause he say it in a good way? thats wild.

Its music/entertainment homie. Who cares If he dont know what he's talking bout, If it sounds good why should I care what or how he came about it? I dont give a fuck what they do in their spare time just give me something to bob my head to. If you a fan and take these niggas seriously then thats a you problem.

I'm cut from a different cloth than a lot of dudes, I'm an actual man.

I don't need a role-model, father-figure, or hero when I listen to music. I want some slick poetry and a beat that knocks.

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its music nice beats and good lyrics are what i'm looking for. really don't care what they did to be quite honest.

I dont care about the person i care about the music the music makes the artist.

i feel all this long as its not completely outrageous like juicy j and dj paul rapping about doing magic tricks to kick crunchy black out or some bullshit like that. i couldnt just make up wild stories myself and i'd might feel different if i actually knew the rapper but i dont. aint too much out of the realm of possibility that drake can actually defend himself or tyga actually knows people in gangs anyway. like i said b4 lot of these idiots have no guidance and wanna be really be taught something or feel like cuz the rapper is doing it its the right thing to do. dumb asses need to find they parents or pick up a fuckin book and just enjoy and see if u can relate to this music.

 

[Noble Al Lee]

I'm cut from a different cloth than a lot of dudes, I'm an actual man.

I don't need a role-model, father-figure, or hero when I listen to music. I want some slick poetry and a beat that knocks.

I don't care if Nas Escobar was really flipping kilos, or if Biggie Smalls had 100 bricks, I don't care if JayZ lost 92 bricks, I don't care if Rick Ross knew Noriaega, and I truly don't care if Styles P committed 450 unsolved murders.....because street-poetry dosent have to be a criminal confession for me to enjoy it.

Squares and geeks have to get their street-science from rappers which is why they are so fascinated with the Street-Cred of these rappers who manipulate their stupidity and corniness by selling them crafted images.

/thread.

Anyone talking about they dont listen to so & so because its not 100% real is a weirdo. Im an adult male with the common sense to discern fact from fiction. Get your mind right and grow up. Its music. Not a gauge to measure reality by.

 

[DOPEdweebz]

bruh, this is rap/hip hop

a.k.a. the soundtrack to fatherless, role model-less, disenfranchised youths in the ghettos across America

if you ain't sold no pies, had a job, had a nice upbringing, 2 parent home, or never got shot or shot at then niggas gon hate you

unless you make dance songs

exactly how the game works

bruh, this is rap/hip hop

a.k.a. the soundtrack to fatherless, role model-less, disenfranchised youths in the ghettos across America

if you ain't sold no pies, had a job, had a nice upbringing, 2 parent home, or never got shot or shot at then niggas gon hate you

unless you make dance songs

Unfortunately and ironically, most of the niggas hating came from the same background you described that they despise the rapper for.

 

[Splackavelli]

fuck this thread. ross lied that's why.

 

[Mr.LV]

Drake grew up in a mansion and made a song called "started from the bottom". A rappers background is not as important as it was in the past. Nowadays its about what are you doing as a rapper right now.

 

[5 Grand]

What's wrong with scribbling in your notepad and creating a life you didn't live...and making a milion dollars off it?

In the meanwhile, somebody who really lived that life is sitting in prison for the next 25 years.

In the above scenario, what did the rapper do wrong?

 

[Red_Eyez]

I can't listen to artists who constantly lie and act like a cartoon character and have been exposed so many times.

Says more about the people who do than anything else. They probably just like the artists and can relate. Fans today have no standards.

If there's an incentive people will always compromise their beliefs and ethics

 

[nj2089]

Yall bought the music not the nigga who made it

 

[CornerOfTheBottle_P]

A Rappers background does have a say if he is embraced by the streets or not look at rappers who don't have a street background like Drake and Kanye West. OG gangstas don't ride around listening to that Panzy Rap so to me a rappers credibility and history does play a role in how he will be perceived by the public. If your music aint being played on the streets then your going to have to be a closet fan or get clowned for listening to Fag Rap

 

[Ear2DaSt]

just don't pick and choose..

 

[freethewave]

Its right to say it should soley be about the music

In sayin that an artist who acts up and gets called out can hurt the image there by lessening there appeal

On the other hand seein a rapper who has been found to actually live what they rap about adds to there image increasin there authenticity.which adds respect which will lead to people enjoying the artists work more i.e Pac

 

[Ear2DaSt]

give examples of who you think aint bout that life?

 

[CornerOfTheBottle_P]

give examples of who you think aint bout that life?

Eminem damn shoul aint bout that life after them Free World dudes drove to that man house and beat him up in his front yard. That's supposed to be a real life movie bout the man and them boys put them thumpers on that man.