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Originally Posted by themaidsroom  maybe i am too old, or i just don't get it, but i think the combination of
someone who could really rap, had the mind and the spirit and the balls
to be truly political and a real band of smoking mf's - this person could change the world..... |
Check out Ice Cube's first two solo albums - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and Death Certificate. I don't know about world changing, but anyone curious about rap should give those two albums a listen. Those albums, to me anyway, capture the essence of rap. To me, when Chris Rock talks about people getting their mogul on, he's talking about rappers moving away from what those albums were--slightly glorified, honest chronicles of current events--and into becoming businessmen.
Not that I'm wishing for those bygone days with 'tards shooting at the screen during screenings of Colors, nor am I saying one can't find relevant equivalents today...but that era is definitely gone.