lvwytemike said:
I think people would like the album more just because its a trunk bangin cd. You know how mainstream is with them beats, people eat that shit up, i really see this album makin more sales even though i think Everready was a more Tech Like Album (does that make sense?) But I love MLK... Fan Or Foe.. That Box... Message to the Black Man got me chucklin, some real shit... i wanna take that song and have my buddies listen to that and see what they say cuz they think Tech is too hardcore. P.A.S.E.O. that chorus gets stuck in my head bad, real bad.. im walkin through Wally's World Singing that shit
too hardcore?? whats the definiton of hardcore anyway?
i found this on wiki:
Hardcore hip hop is a form of hip hop music characterized by confrontation and aggression in its subject matter, heavy beats, raw sampling and production, or any combination thereof. The term can refer to similar musical sensibilities that encompass several related genres, including gangsta rap, Mafioso rap, Horrorcore, rapcore, political hip hop, and alternative rap.
The origins of hardcore hip hop began in East Coast hip hop during the late 1980s in Philadelphia when artists such as Schoolly D (and later New York City artists such as Boogie Down Productions, Slick Rick, the Beastie Boys, and Public Enemy) began eschewing the popular themes of simple partying and mere braggadocio. Instead, their subject matter and content often reflected the ravages of urban poverty, alcohol and drug abuse, crime, street violence, and gang rivalries.
For much of the early 1990s, with the popularity of artists such as Ice Cube, Ice-T, Da Lench Mob, and Cypress Hill, hardcore hip hop was essentially synonymous with West Coast gangsta rap.
However, artists such as Onyx (Bacdafucup), The Wu-Tang Clan (Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)), NaS (Illmatic), Black Moon (Enta Da Stage), and Mobb Deep (The Infamous) soon re-invented and revitalized East Coast hardcore. This new brand of hardcore hip hop was characterized by its minimalistic beats, gritty drum sounds that were often sampled from vinyl, occasional urban jazz and horn samples, and haunting string and piano samples. During the late-1990s and onto the 2000s, a commercial variant of hardcore hip hop became integrated into pop culture, and enjoyed great mainstream success with multi-platinum artists such as Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, DMX, Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., and Big Pun.
They have a list of artists that fit the genre and Tech is on it....
But alot of the artists on there i dont think is hardcore at all....
But anyway to say black ppl dont like tech cuz hes too hardcore isnt right because groups like 3 6 mafia, bone thugs, and so on are/were very hardcore and they had pretty much all black fans.....
