LOCC – Tha Most Gangsta

Clyde Lee Dennis asked:


Get Rich Or Die Tryin is the latest Rap CD put out by the very talented 50 Cent who once again has delivered a brilliant collection of tracks. I’m confident 50 Cent fans, and Rap fans alike will be pleased with this one.

Refreshingly, this was one of those CDs I was able to just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end. Every track is enjoyable and was pretty easy for me to listen to from start to finish.

One of the nicer things about a CD like this is when the talent is this rich even if Rap isn’t your favorite style you still can’t help but appreciate the greatness of the artist.

This is a first rate CD, delivering a little something for everyone. I give it two thumbs up. It’s quite simply great listening. A must buy for the Rap fan.

While this entire album is really very good some of my favorites are track 12 – Like My Style, track 16 – Gotta Make It To Heaven, and track 19 – Life’s On The Line

My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 2 – What Up Gangsta. What a nice track!

Get Rich Or Die Tryin Release Notes:

50 Cent originally released Get Rich Or Die Tryin on February 6, 2003 on the Aftermath Records label.

CD Track List Follows:

1. Intro 2. What Up Gangsta 3. Patiently Waiting – (featuring Eminem) 4. Many Men (Wish Death) 5. In Da Club 6. High All The Time 7. Heat 8. If I Can’t 9. Blood Hound – (featuring Young Buck) 10. Back Down 11. P.I.M.P. 12. Like My Style – (featuring Tony Yayo) 13. Poor Lil Rich 14. 21 Questions – (featuring Nate Dogg) 15. Don’t Push Me – (featuring Lloyd Banks/Eminem) 16. Gotta Make It To Heaven 17. Wanksta 18. U Not Like Me 19. Life’s On The Line

Personnel includes: 50 Cent, Eminem, Young Buck, Tony Yayo, Nate Dogg, Lloyd Banks. Producers include: Dr. Dre, Eminem, John Freeman, Red Spyda, Terence Dudley.

yep asked:


These were the years that Tupac and Biggie past away, respectively.

For those that grew up listening to hip-hop in the 80s and the 90s, we can recall that the early to mid-90s were a time of drastic change in the hip hop culture & industry. The music was changing from thought provoking to club-banging, jiggy music (I have nothing against dancing, but…). The music was changing from many MCs being original to many MCs being carbon-copies. The music was changing from thought-provoking to tracks that could be produced with no-thought. Even the gangsta music back then at least told a story that the society could learn from and groove to (i.e. N.W.A, Dre, Snoop, D.O.C., etc.). I’m not going to even begin to name the number of groups and solo artists that emerged during the mid 80s to the mid 90s that had a lasting impact on hip-hop (i.e. Rakim, ATCQ, Wu-Tang, Busta, etc.). It seems that the events of 1996-1997 marked a big split in the hip-hop time-line. What do u think?

Political N3gro asked:


Do you smoke? Do you drink? Are you supposed to stop but you cant?

Does mo’ money mean mo’ problems?

Does everything your are not make you everything you are?

Is Hip Hop Dead?

Do you, in fact, feel like a Black Republican?

If it is someone’s birthday do you say “Go, Go, Go, it’s ya birthday!”?

Did Gangsta Rap Make You Do It?

ericfrenkilsays asked:


I’m trying to make a joint called “Hip Hop Party, No Hos Attached.” Basically, I love hip hop but I can’t support most lyrics at all! There’s some messed up lyrics out there.

I’m not saying I want something corny like Jurassic 5, but what hip hop can you party to where the lyrics are legit? I’m really just looking for something without the stereotyping of black culture, without the objectification of women, and without heavy drugs and violence coming from gangsta rap.

But it can’t be corny hip hop. If it doesn’t fly, it doesn’t help.

Thanks a lot yall.
Hip Hop Party, No Hos Attached.

JERICHO asked:


*For hip hop, it’s not all about the gangsta look, alright!!!
But, I’m for the real hip hop style as well as real music.

(I’m the only one who asked this question so far!)

Jamall asked:


I’m not talking about being major or anything.I just wan’t to record some tracks and get one mixtape out just one and see the reaction and i’ll take it from there.The reason I ask this is because I see all these people falling in love with soulja boys music.What I write Is not your average bling,money,hoes. and I’m def not a dance or snap type either.What I write and what I could bring is Real life storys and real music and real lyrics.I’m just afraid I’ll fail because the type of hip hop I write I guess I think if people get into that soulja boy type of music nobody will even want to listen to the type of thing I want to bring.I wan’t to bring a positive vibe but then again I’m writing about real life storys and everything I write is real and sometimes real life lyrics aren’t clean because they are my thoughts,what I have lived,I write to vent my anger,feelings etc…But why would anyone wan’t to listen to that real if everyones into that gangsta and dance shit now?
I’m def feeling what you people have to say.And yes to the one person who said they don’t bother listening to it anymore because all they talk about is material stuff and chatter it is true alot of it is.But unfortunatley I do not have a myspace or anything like that to show off my music.I do not have any tracks recorded yet but these lyrics are crazy i’m telling ya.I will make sure to put a question on the rap and hip hop section asking for y’all to rate my music I’ll be like what do you think of my music ? or something.If y’all keep your accounts when the time comes i will email all of you personally and tell you to check out my stuff.thanks 4 all the support I do believe deep down there is a place in hip hop for my music i’ll just have to be the trendsetta.1.

♠HNIC asked:


Think of the foundations of hip hop, New York comes to mind. the “mecca” so to speak of hip hop, alot of the greatest rappers of all time (male and female) hail from New York and then of course the West Coast who some would say gave birth to gangsta rap. and right now the South is enjoying their time on top. the one city I think everyone is sleeping on is Chicago. They have never gotten their just due as a powerhouse in hip hop. Common in my opinion is easily in the top 10 greatest rappers of all time but he is constantly slept on. You look at New York in their prime, The West Coast in their prime, and even the South now in their prime they all have/had alot of depth (in terms of artists), thats one thing I think the Chi lacks, alot of depth. What I would I call the big 3 in chicago common, kanye west, lupe fiasco all drop their albums within the next 4 months, and then of course the speculation of kanye, lupe, and pharell formin a group makes me ask: is Chicago poised to take over?
also alot of credit due to d.o.d., da brat, rhymefest, twista, and shawnna

Michael H asked:


I just read the question about what do you liek better, Hip hop in the 80s, 90s, or now and I laughed my a*s off when people said that rappers were not rapping about b*tches, rims, violence, and money back then.

The 90s started off when true Hip Hop Groups such as Pete Rock and CL Smooth, EPMD(late 80s), Rakim(late 80s), Big Daddy Kane, right???

It evolved into the heavily weed influenced, gang bangin music of the West Coast… Remember when the West had it on lock for like 3 years and they were talking about Lowriders, Money, B*tches, Jewelry, and Violence, Correct???

Then Biggie, Nas, Wu-Tang, and Redman dropped good music and showed an alternative to the commercial gangsta of the West Coast back then.

Then, there was the Puffy/Cash Money Era… Money, B*tches, Rims, Cars, Chains… The same thing we criticized Rap of today for happened in what is described as the greatest decade of Rap…

Who agrees?
What I was saying is that Hip Hop always has artists who speak about b*tches, rims, money and success…

Nowadays you still have alternative artists who make good music and real music like Pharoahe Monch, Little Brother, Nas, Common, Wu Tang, Dead Prez, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Brother Ali, Hi Tek, Joe Buddens, Outkast, and so many more…

People tend to focus on the Lil Boosies, Lil Waynes and compare them to the artists of the last decade, but with record sales down and no one buying albums, rappers today are making sh*t that appeals to the close minded masses as opposed to the minority who want that real sh*t

bacdafuxup asked:


does a rappper have to be gangsta, thugged out, rap about hustlein to be accepted and respected by rap and hip hop fans?

seems artist like lupe fiasco, the beastie boys, and other rappers who rap about other things besides the streets dont get respected even tho they are great, creative, and fun to listin to. what do you think?

Free Your Mind asked:


So I’m looking around wikipedia and stumble upon a genre dubbed “alternative hip hop or alternative rap” which it defines as hip hop that does not follow mainstream trends of gangsta, crunk, and party music. I did a little more research and some of the artist that fall into the genre include A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, The Black Sheep, Fugees and The Roots. Now is it just me, or didn’t these kinds of artists exist BEFORE the rise of gangsta rap? When exactly did they become the alternative?

Aren’t artist like Lupe and Mos Def closer to rap is in it’s original form, which did not promote violence, and made social criticisms? Someone educate me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_hip_hop
http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/best_rap-alt-art.html