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Comment by Gangstarr on June 10, 2012 at 4:44pm

I agree with anastasia's comment but Questlove explained the situation honestly. People forgot what hiphop was and they started to love everything. Everytime they use same kicks, snares and drums with couple of notes but people say "wow, it's a new thing". It isn't a new thing you fool! he is using the same snares, kicks and drums with reversed keys and you think it's a new thing. I'm not talkin about even their lyrics. They were blamin south side because of their lyrics and music. I checked out one of the CD's from south side and I noticed that now the worst age of hiphop we had to listen, nicki, lil wayne, drake and other clowns. I was watching sub-zero and other DVD's. nicki minaj wasnt famous and she was talkin about so's bed performance and now she thanks everybody to support her creativty and her crazy personality and the other stuff. What creativity are you talkin about? People declared clowns as kings and hoe's as queens. youtube ratings prove this!

Comment by anastasia aka warrior princess on June 10, 2012 at 3:23pm

I agree and disagree with Questlove. He clearly states the distinction between what many consider to be hip hop today and what has already been established as being hip hop. What is considered hip hop today has lost its integrity and honor. I just listened to the song in question "Starship" and it is MOST DEFINITELY NOT hip hop. It has no connection at all with hip hop culture. I actually believe that it is a blatant disrespect to hip hop and what it stands for. I actually feel that it is disrespectful for young-uns to even think that they can redefine something that was established before they were even born. Minaj has the right to create any type of music? that she wants but should not disrespect hip hop by associating her music with this culture. Her song has no type of hip hop beat, no type of lyrical content and has nothing to do with the culture. it is more of a tranz, techno, club type song. Yet people call it hip hop. The younger generation is of the mindset that "anything goes" but that is not the case. There are paramenters and boundaries in life and many young people don't get this. I don't agree that hip hop is too far gone because the music today is NOT hip hop. Minaj is on some other thing ans she needs to call it some other thing. Hip hop was born out of need for those who were not and still, for the most part, are not part of the establishment to have a creative outlet that we could call our own. Minaj's music has nothing to do with who we are, where we've been or even where we need to go. She obviously wants to be popular and part of the esatablishment so let her be a pop artist. Her music makes her whole crew miss the mark integrity and honor in hip hop.