Legend or Vet: Chuck D
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Black_Samson
OG
Legendary Vet
SheerExcellence
Active Member
what are we talking abt here?
undeniable legend
400Degreez
Tees, Rees & Bauds
Legend.
Argue with ya mama if you feel otherwise.
Argue with ya mama if you feel otherwise.
FlowrenSick
Member
Chuck D wasn't of the bloviating, redundant rap released in the past 26 years. he was speaking to the black people and convinced many white people who agreed with his anti-racism message. he energized a strong black pride movement that threatened underhanded racist establishment. being black was everything and so you see the results of what happened. Blackness infiltrated Macy's with Cross Colors and Karl Kani, there were leather cut Africa medallions hanging around necks, X caps even before the movie came out alongside Spike Lee's black conscious films. black culture was showin' out strong. but then it was immediately wiped, staved off, almost like it never existed. disintegrated from history. Chuck D with the PE crew hold a hugely meaningful but short-lived historical noise and it was all taken away by plot. the gatekeepers were highly successful in getting rid of the black consciousness movement. here we are 30 years after and the 30 year old have no inkling of what Chuck was about while rating him against commercialized rap. once upon a time in the midst of a crack epidemic attack on the hood. the movement had big success but was deliberately drowned like a baby in a pool. hopefully the rise can happen again and break through next time. Chuck D
FlowrenSick
Member
young niggas can't accept how off kilter they are with shit or that the "now" happened because of what came before. can't keep kickin' history and its cautionary tales to the curb. i refuse to choose to say "fuck it", you're on your own. keeping our library intact
Mister B.
The Devilās Greatest Advocateā¦..
Nigga, fuck you.
Swiffness!
WU-TANG
Lol he literally gave Busta Rhymes his name. What are we doing here. FOH.
Oh, and he was also co-producer on most of them old P.E classics; part of The Bomb Squad under the alias Carl Ryder. Bomb Squad are STILL Top 10 all time imho and I will take their best work over Pharrell or Koonye's.
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is probably the consensus greatest rap album of the 80s. The first rap album to ever be voted by music critics as the best release that year.
We talking about a man that more or less invented black militant rap AND did it in a way that was radio/nightclub friendly enough to dominate the culture for a couple years.
Even Flava Flav wearing the clock was his goddamn idea lmao.
Oh, and he was also co-producer on most of them old P.E classics; part of The Bomb Squad under the alias Carl Ryder. Bomb Squad are STILL Top 10 all time imho and I will take their best work over Pharrell or Koonye's.
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is probably the consensus greatest rap album of the 80s. The first rap album to ever be voted by music critics as the best release that year.
We talking about a man that more or less invented black militant rap AND did it in a way that was radio/nightclub friendly enough to dominate the culture for a couple years.
Even Flava Flav wearing the clock was his goddamn idea lmao.
400Degreez
Tees, Rees & Bauds
You quoted Dre who didn't even write his shit? Smmfh.
When the last time you listened to Chuck D? When the last time any of you voting legend listened to dude?
So you gotta listen to somebody everyday, for them to be a legend?.... 
Where did I say everyday. I bet you niggas ain't listened to this man in over 20 years. These old heads not automatically legends because they started 30+ years agoSo you gotta listen to somebody everyday, for them to be a legend?....
So at what rate must we consume something in order to consider it legend?
I haven't watched Goodfellas from beginning to end in at least 4-5 years. Does that mean I can't say it's a classic movie?
Your logic doesn't make sense.................
illestni99ainne
I Crop Dusted Ya Moms
Incorrect. Maybe you haven't listened to them in 20 years but I'm a fan of this culture, and listen to them regularly instead of shooing our legends to the glue factory fucking exhalt them! Hold them in high regard like white folk do the Beatles or whomever.