Wale: “People Treat Rappers Like Pro Teamsâ€￾

[Kairi]

DC rapper Wale, who recently signed with Rick Ross’ <NOBR style="COLOR: #95181c" id=itxthook0w0nobr class="itxtrst itxtrstnobr itxthooknobr">Maybach </NOBR> Music Group, had some interesting and noteworthy thoughts pertaining to the current state of Hip Hop that he posted last night. Via Twitter:

I think <NOBR style="COLOR: #95181c" id=itxthook1w0nobr class="itxtrst itxtrstnobr itxthooknobr">Tupac </NOBR> connected with several audiences, more then any rapper, ever….and. I doubt anyone will Ever connect that way again. Rap was way different back then…fans showed a lot more love, nowadays people treat rappers like pro teams..
In Hip Hop, they designate [one] rapper a year to be great.

There’s so much anger [and] hatred in the consumer nowadays plus “bein a rapper†is as easy as finding a mic and camera

Sometimes, when underground artist get mainstream success… original fans abandon [them], because “its not cool†to like someone on the charts. Back in the day when [you] had passion in [your interviews] or songs, they said [you] were PASSIONATE..now they say [you're] whinning..#checkurself

Lost boys had a single, that was a story “Renneâ€. How far [do you] think a story record will get you now, as a single. How amazing was Reasonable Doubt? How many people would turn [their] back on [an] amazing album [because] HipHopdx said it “undersoldâ€

Hiphop “enthusiast†hate on certain artist because [they're] not using “big wordsâ€. IN MY OPINION connecting [with people] is [more important] then vocabulary

So caught up in nostalgia, we can’t appreciate the present, til its the past #hiphop
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[PHX]

Spoke so much truth in this. It's just a fad year to year on what rapper people are gonna like except for maybe a few like Wayne. Wale seems like a smart dude and I like his music minus some of the crappy mainstream songs he ends up on like no hands.