The big problem, like others have said, is that there's TOO MANY RAPPERS in the game compared to the early/mid-'90s'. For every, say, ten or twelve dope rappers (older and/or newer artists) making dope records, there are at least fifty more (a few old, but most of them new) that are either wack, or just kind of blah, style-wise. It's easier to get a hold of recording equipment to make CDs than it used to be; virtually everyone and his/her no-talent brother or sister can make their own record.
So a person may not have the desire to buy, say, the new CDs from proven dudes like Quinn, The Done Deal Fam, Messy Marv, 40 Ounce Records, Right Way Productions, Yukmouth, and whoever else--not because those artists don't still make dope CDs (they do, IMHO), but because the experience of being burned from listening to bullshit from other lesser artists that were just wack sours a lot of people's attitudes, and they give up on the Bay because of that. Put another way: if you buy twelve apples and the first ten that you eat all have worms in them, chances are that you're going to give up on that batch of apples, even though the eleventh and twelth apples might have been the good ones out of the dozen. Just my view, though.
PEACE!
So a person may not have the desire to buy, say, the new CDs from proven dudes like Quinn, The Done Deal Fam, Messy Marv, 40 Ounce Records, Right Way Productions, Yukmouth, and whoever else--not because those artists don't still make dope CDs (they do, IMHO), but because the experience of being burned from listening to bullshit from other lesser artists that were just wack sours a lot of people's attitudes, and they give up on the Bay because of that. Put another way: if you buy twelve apples and the first ten that you eat all have worms in them, chances are that you're going to give up on that batch of apples, even though the eleventh and twelth apples might have been the good ones out of the dozen. Just my view, though.
PEACE!
