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Old 07-13-2014, 07:31 AM   #10 (permalink)
Janszoon
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Originally Posted by djchameleon View Post
I don't get how you don't see the difference between rapping about being from the streets and hood areas and doing things that they really aren't and someone being creative and saying they are from another planet.

What Sun-Ra does is clearly different.
So making up stories about outer space is creative but making up stories about life on the streets isn't? Does that mean George Lucas is creative but Martin Scorsese isn't? I don't really follow the logic there.

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Originally Posted by djchameleon View Post
Do you remember that movie CB4 where Chris Rock was shitting on most gangsta rappers that rhymed about a life they’d never lived? It's the same thing.
I haven't seen that movie in about 20 years. I think the only part I really remember was the black power song.
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