Gmahogany...

Interesting that common mentioned the age of hip hop......Don't know if you've heard one of his most popular songs "I used to Love H.E.R.",
listen to it here
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http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/aud...il.asp?ID=1276

but he alluded to the turn that hip hop took...though he didn't quite go into as much depth as you.


I am glad that hip hop artists and businesmen ad finally hearing and responding to the criticism of the men an dwomen in community who hate the direction the music has taken and are taking a REALISTIC approach to do something to examine and change things.

It's not being driven by outsiders this time....or calvin butts and c. delores tucker...trying to build names for themselves ,etc....

Having said that..the news today is who didn't show up...allegedly jay z..was asked to attend and declined.....I figured lot of big names would refuse to take part....

the men who did attend, I think, didn't present themselves that well..as current participants in the industry....they would not bite the hand that feeds them...gmahogany....

in fact, the attorney, who works outside the machine of the system is the only one who brought up the economic factor....This is the man who "liberated" Prince..from warner brothers..Prince the talented...multi instrumentalist...writes everything..plays everything......owns his masters....etc..lock him in studio for 4 hours come out with 5 complete albums..

if PRINCE(at his commercial peak) was subject to record label pressure...imagine a rapper...

It's their livelihood and like the attorney alluded to....some don't succumb to music industry pressure to make simple minded fluff(because they have the integrity, education, and support)...but many do....

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To clarify for others....* the audio link is not a theft....but part of a true hip hop site that sells singles, cds, clothing etc....

download happy people go overboard..taking money out of rapper's pockets...and then complain when the only ones on the charts are the ones appealing to the lowest common denominator