Monthly Archives: May 2010

When They Reminisce Over You

May 29, 2010
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As seen on RepPGHHipHop.com As I read yet another “do yall remember when” story on some random site I can’t help but feel like maybe it’s just society in general with this recent 80s craze shit, but in hip hop definitely, we are living way too much in the past. I get it, really...

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Diddy – The Only Artist Keeping the Old School Alive

May 25, 2010
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As seen on RepPGHHipHop.com You hip hop purists are really fucking yourselves on this one, and you next-shit mafuckas are proving why you need us purists educating your asses on this culture. The backpackers are being total hypocrites with regard to the “old school” they want so desperately to keep living and breathing even...

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Keep Me Uninformed

May 22, 2010
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As seen on RepPGHHipHop.com There’s something to be said for first opening that rapidshare lin…..uh….patronizing that iTunes page. It’s the 2010 equivalent of walking into the store and seeing a new album staring at you. Then there’s unzip…..uh….legally transferring the iTunes purchased songs onto an iPod that is reminiscent of ripping open the packaging...

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No Idea’s Original

May 18, 2010
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As seen on RepPGHHipHop.com Yet another rapper (shit make that 3, with at least 2 more murmuring) is jumping on the sequel bandwagon and along with the endless slew of remakes Hollywood is pumping out I really gotta wonder if Nas was right when he said “No Idea’s Original” as I can’t seem to...

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It’s the Finals, Not the Playoffs

May 15, 2010
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As seen on RepPGHHipHop.com As the gossip columns (that’s right, you boom bap backpacking fucks, we got our own gossip columns, ha) try to get Drake and J. Cole to go at it as if pitting two future legends against each other is supposed to improve the state of our culture, I find myself...

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The Future of Hip Hop

May 15, 2010
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As seen on RepPGHHipHop.com In hip hop we have always had the uncanny ability to look at the past, whether it be for important reasons such as pulling samples to create beats or cut hooks, or for the overdone debates of who was the best MC in 1987 and what the best album from...

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Why The 2000s Were Great For Hip Hop

May 15, 2010
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As seen on RepPGHHipHop.com In the never ending battle of “which decade was the best for hip hop” the general consensus seems to be that the 90s were the “golden age” and that nothing in the last 10 years has been worthy of putting up on the same pedestal that we place Illmatic, Reasonable...

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Drake’s Unappealing Appeal

May 10, 2010
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As  seen on RepPGHHipHop.com Once again the boy Drake is dropping fresh material in the form of a blatant “808’s and Heartbreak” outtake called “Find Your Love” and once again the hip hop world of purists, backpackers, so-called gangstas, and those who insist that “keeping it real” is the most important thing anyone can...

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