Lil Jon & East Side Boyz

Crunk Juice

0 star no Talent - What has happened to HIP HOP and Rap?????

Review Score:

(2/10)
I remember the days when you have 2 amazing types of music, HIP-HOP which was usually dancy and light, yet thoughtful and intellignet sometimes, or just plain dancy with rapping vocals such as Black Eyed Peas, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and even some of Puff Daddy's fun 80's and 70's samples were fun to dance to.

On the other hand we had Rap or Gangsta whatever. The Beats were usually downplayed by incredible flow, aggresion and energy that was usually political, rebellious, social or intimate. Music Like NWA, Ice T, Ice Cube, WU-Tang and all their variations, and may others. This was aggressive and dark and in your face.

Nowadays all you have is pure LAZY beats and trite cliche' lyrical content that is about being the best, because they can drink, and smoke and do more hoes then you. Even Female Rap has gone down the tube What happened to Queen Latifa and Salt N Peppa. Now all we have is Lil' Kim and other's rappin about how fast and hard they can please a man and call themselves Beotches and Hoes.

Eminem and 50 tried to bring aggression back, but fill their stuff with too much EGO Potty Humor and death without the political agenda. You can't talk politics one song, and fart or puke in the next, you sound like a hypocrite. And 50 has one of the worst rhymes ever with "I am on you like a fat kid on cake." Horrible who cares if you are in jail and you have sex visits in prison with you ex.

Now onto Lil John. First of his lyrical content is horrible and cliche'. Now I have no problems with harsh language, when it is done with a purpose like NWA. But Using language like that to describe how you are gonna beat up guys in a club because they are flirting with your hoes is pointless. It seems as though he is so ignorant that him and his crew have no other words to fill their raps but meaningless four letter words

His delivery is also so choppy and loud and downright annoying that you might as well listen to Mudvayne's nu-metal, you here the same thing. He has no flow infact, I would call it anti-flow it is so choppy.

His beats are so annoying. Everybody says what a great producer he is, but this is not dancey, or aggressive or important at all. I could not dance to this in a club I am sorry. It sounds like he recorded a dentist drill, a semi backing up and a construction site and distorted it to different pitches and speeds which make it sound worse then ever, on top of horribly repetitive generic bass loops.

Overall, Stuff like this has ruined a great style of music. Worst of all it did this just to make rap go commercial. Screw commercial, go buy WU-Tang stuff they are still releasing, as well as common, Mos Def, Talib and all those artists like that for true meaningful hip hop and rap, not this so-called music. This has no purpose other then to to make them money to put more gold on all their "lil" teeth. What happened to Porcelain???

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