Ghetto Gospel
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- arinya0
Yeah I agree.. dumb name/label.
- rabattski0
titling your record is a different deal than calling yourself certain names. but why should i care actually, i should get along w/ the programme. :)
- stem0
yeah i know the label is ridiculous sounding. But that's what the music press labelled it...
A lot of the time it's self titled though - the press pick up on stuff and rightly or wrongly it seems to stick.
Snoop Dogg - R&G?
Hate the title - damn fine album
What about U2 - Rattle & Hum?
- rabattski0
that's totally not what i'm talking about arinya it's like kuz said it's just the labeling i don't like. you might as well have b-rock, burglar rock that is. but i get it kuz, have to see pass it and all that, but i just can't take someone serious calling himself an OG or saying they make g-funk.
- arinya0
well rabattski some ppl have little choices in life. some ppl make ends meet through illegal avenues. then money makes it possible for them to leave that life and begin another. gangster to rapper/artist. if an idividual is a gangster who wants to make funk cuz he loves funk would label his music gangsta funk perhaps?
- Kuz0
yeah i know the label is ridiculous sounding. But that's what the music press labelled it. I mean they were all singing about gangsta's, and it had a specific LA sound, so they called it g-funk. Stupid i know, but when you get passed that, the music is class IMO.
And a lot of the rappers did come out of the LA gang culture at the time, tho most just pretended to. I can understand why that's hard for you to take seriously, because they way "gangsta" became this crazy stupid brand. But whatever, the music was cool.
- rabattski0
common, just say those words a couple of times. gangsta funk, gangsta funk. it's so ridiculous. what IS gangsta funk? funk made by gangstas? and if it ain't made by gangstas it can't ever be g-funk? is there also g-blues? g-country? g-soul? i thought musicians where musicians and gangstas are too busy being criminal and all that shit. and OG what the hell is that? like i'm an original gangsta and you're not, you're just a gangsta? pathetic if you ask me, but whatever, everyone has their thing going on.
- arinya0
I love how rappers put out a mama song in the same album they have a smoking, slapping & fukcing hoes song. It's not easy putting the two of those song next to each other on teh same album. respect.
- Kuz0
hey but it's really cool. The sound of West coast rap in the mid 90's. Dre, Snoop, 2pac. They all released some classic g-funk albums. The soundtrack to my adolescence.
- rabattski0
jezus.
- Kuz0
haha, yep! Gangsta bay-bee!
- rabattski0
g-funk? don't tell me it means gangsta funk.
- Kuz0
2pacs whopping double album, All Eyez on me is magnificent with some of the choicest tracks this side of g-funk. I think he's great, and i love the nihilism of it all. The death wish, pure immature violence and angst he spouts. THe few moments of tenderness are that much more revealing.
- rabattski0
yep but not as overrated as biggie. then again, taste i guess.
- arinya0
2Pac. Great but overated?
- rabattski0
i've seen the ringtone commercials way before the video. says a lot.
- its_only_me0
his biggest mistake was leaving so much bloody unreleased music for fags like eminem to produce and spoil.
- Kuz0
well i haven't heard the song, seen the vid or anything. so i don't care.
those words however, are beautiful. You forget with all that thug shit bagage, that he was a real poet.
- stem0
I think it's a question of 'context' Kuz.
The lyrics on their own are as you say; rich in imagery. But that's when you use your own imagination.
Linked to the music vid and all the 2Pac history... very, very sickly
- Kuz0
what are you guys talking about?
if it's that verse printed up top, i think it;s beautiful. Rich in imagery.