Charlemagne
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like I just said, Kane, KRS-One, T-Rap.
Well, if we're going to do that, Rakim was probably the first one to change the way rap sounded.
He took it from the Kumo, the uptown, 129th Street, that hard pausing.
But they strong arm rap from the whack dudes.
From the dudes with the whack, with no balls.
In the mid-late 80s, they strong-armed it for them.
And then for 15 years, you had to be nice.
You had to be nice, super lyrical.
In a party element, kind of like...
It was still around the party element because you had big party and I'm saying J was partying.
But you just had to be saying something.
It didn't matter what kind of song you made.
It had to be some intricate lyrics and that shit.
But see, what he said, he said he was talking 90s and then he went to the 70s.
And I'm saying that 20 years means something.