Method Man On Lyrics And Fashion.



The Rapper Method Man Recently Shared His Thoughts About How Some Of The Newer Rappers These Days Care More About Fashion Than Lyrics.

"There are genuine artists out there who love what they do and do it with a purpose, but then you have those dudes who are a bunch of fashonistas," Meth explained in an interview. "These kids are more concerned with the way they look than what's coming out of their mouths...Back when I first came out if you told a kid 'I'm an MC,' the first thing the kid would say to you is, 'Oh yeah, well say a rhyme for me.' ...Nowadays, you tell the kid you're an MC and he's like 'Oh yeah, where's your big chain at? Where's your watch? Where's your car? That's what it is now.' ...The majority of the people who listen to the music can't afford half that sh*t." (Wall Street Journal)

Now Don't Even Try To Go And Diss Meth For Speaking His Mind On This Because He's Not The Only One And What He's Saying Is True. But Rhymefest Was Also Another Rapper Who Spoke His Mind About The New Rap Generation...

"One thing I didn't realize is that Hip-Hop doesn't exist anymore," he declared in an interview. "C'mon, think about the 4 elements: graffiti, breaking, deejaying, and emceeing. Emcees don't exist. That's somebody who gets on the stage, doesn't have to rap, but can hype up the crowd while the DJ is playing. He has all the chants, all that sh*t. Everybody now is "listen to me, listen to my raps." No one can hype up a crowd no more like that. Emcees are dead...So Hip-Hop as we knew is like jazz at this point. I can't really get mad. It exists on a scale so small you might as well call it dead. But even from Disco we got techno, Bass music. From Hip-Hop we got Soulja Boy, Drake; the hybrid singing rap. We got to call it something else because it ain't Hip-Hop. It's not bad; it's evolved into something else." (All Hip Hop)