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- From: zuniga@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Ralph Zuniga (FREAC/CAR))
- Newsgroups: alt.rap
- Subject: Re: Sell-Out
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.140237.14976@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 01:56:10 GMT
- References: <1992Jul8.224003.21272@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <1992Jul15.034902.8424@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Organization: Florida State University Computing Center
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- In article <1992Jul15.034902.8424@tamsun.tamu.edu> caj8106@accnxt1.tamu.edu (Curtis Johnson) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul8.224003.21272@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- >ross@refine.enet.dec.com (The Vinyl Record Collector) writes:
- >>
- >> Just some thoughts I collected while reading these 'rap awards...'
- >>
- >> I see some people put down Vanilla Ice as the biggest sell-out and then
- >I
- >> thought, 'How can someone who never was sell-out?' There was nothing
- >for
- >> Vanilla Ice to really sell-out on because he was never real anyway. My
- >vote
- >> for biggest sell-out, but perhaps not of the year, is Big Daddy Kane.
- >I've
- >> never seen a person come out as hard as Kane did and fall off almost as
- >hard.
- >> Each album seems to get progressively worse. It's as if he has a
- >identity
- >> crisis with being Hip Hop or R&B. Which is it? He definately still has
- >> lyrical skills, but just doesn't seem to want to use them any more. This
- >is
- >> just my personal opinion.....
- >>
- >> T-Dub
- >> SHYGUY Productions '92
- >
- >I totally agree with you about Kane being the biggest sell-out thus far.
- >He has an apparent identity crisis on his hands, is he a hip-hop artist or
- >a sex symbol. If he ever makes up his mind to become an artist again then
- >he may be able to get back some lost credibility. He has, up to this
- >point, sold out the rhymes for the sex symbol accolades. (show ya' right)
- >
- > C-ya, 40oz dreams & watermellon wishes,
- >
- >
- > <<< The Noise >>>
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