friggedy-freaked Gladys Knight and those freakin' Pips
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I did a post a while back on hip hop, and whether or not it is dead. I began to think why is it so hard for me to find good rap music these days. I looked over a post from CrashPryor titled "Disposable Heroes of HipHoprlsy, Part 3", and it got the juices flowing. As I checked over my cd collection most the rap music I have in it is from the 90's. Bands like De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde and EPMD are ones I have all the albums to. I began to pull out cd's from 2000 on up and there were only a handful. I attribute this to how diverse rap music was in the 90's. First you had a show like Yo! MTV Raps, which was not afraid to show every aspect of hip hop. To say I miss Fab 5 Freddy would be an understatement. I really don’t feel there has been a show like it since. On the show you could see groups like N.W.A. followed up with a video by M.C. Lyte. I feel this broad spectrum of music is what got me into rap music. The videos were a lot different then as well, expressing more about the music, rather than what the "typical" hip hop video has become. While my other music genres have continued to grow, my rap selection seems to be stuck in the 90's. Part of me thinks that’s ok though, I will take A Tribe Called Quest song over any Ying Yang Twins tune any day.
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