Why Can’t I Be Hip-hop? Just ‘Cause I’m Old?
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I’m first generation hip-hop! Eighteen-years old when Rappers Delight hit the airwaves! Rap music started with my generation of teenagers, now some of y’all wanna ban me from some shyt that started with me?
I’m getting effin’ tired of young people thinking we old-school cats can’t be or do hip-hop! Some of you young’uns think that age is a prerequisite to loving hip-hop culture. Such bullcrap!
Got Jay-Z rapping, “30 is the new 20!”
Newsflash! You don’t stop loving rap/hip-hop just because you turn forty—or even fifty! I might not rock Soulja Boy in my IPod (although Kiss Me Through the Phone has an infectious hook), but there’s still the older classic stuff and some new stuff that’s relevant. That’s like telling my grandparents to stop loving Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn! Fuck outta here! If God blesses you with longevity and you still have a young mind, you will see how stupid you sound to me!
Look at Aerosmith, Sting (U2) and Kiss—them white bwoys are like 60ish—and still doing concerts and fucking groupie white chicks! It’s Rock & Roll till the def!
But hip-hop/rap is on some other vain, superficial ish when it comes to age!
Now I’ve gotta lie about my age and get Botox injections to stay relevant? (No LL Cool J) Not happenin’!
Listen up! Have you been 30, 40, or 50 years old? If not, shut-up and stop telling us how we should walk, talk, think and dress—what music we should or shouldn’t like!
Young people think older people are “old” until they reach that age and they realize that those older people weren’t that old at all! Hell, my mama died at 42—when I was 19 and I thought she was damn near a dinosaur, but now, at 48, I realize (having dated/married several women older than my mother) that she was young as hell! I tell these young doods all the time—sexually, you put a 40 year old woman up against a 20 year old woman, and, in most cases, that cougar (the older woman) will fuck circles around the younger woman! I’m tellin’ you what I know, not what I heard! And after the sex—that younger woman will rush to the bathroom to clean up! That older woman will sleep in the wet spot! Lol! And get up and fix you a peanut butter & jelly sandwich and a glass of red Kool-Aid! What! (*No hatin’ on the young ladies! It-is-what-it-is! Khalil likes them 18 to 80, blind, cripple or crazy!)
There was a time in your life when older people were the shit! And you couldn’t wait to be older!
Remember growing up and having older cousins? Remember being in elementary school and having siblings/cousins in high school? You looked up to them and thought they were the coolest, didn’t cha? You wanted to be just like them!
Now you’re in high school and they’re married with children!
At my age, and balding, I can really understand the “comb-over” hairdos, the receding hairline Bozo look, the dying of gray beards and Viagra (although I don’t need that shyt—yet!—It is our last hurrah at youth!
All I’m trying to say is lay off the old jokes! That\’s some sensitive shyt! lol! To some of us, that’s like calling us fat! Unless your intent is to leave a good-looking corpse (die young), you too, will one day have younger people clowning on your age, as you rock the latest hip-hop fashion (with your old ass!) It’s a cyclic thing my friend!
Shout-out to me and all old school hip-hop heads!
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Me (center) and my old-head dawgs!
nah nigga you cant be hip hop cuz you an old bitch. u heard me. i said nah nigga you cant be hip hop cuz you an old bitch. ha ha ha. look at dem old ass niggas in dem photos. ha ha ha. nigga u crazy
awww! look who’s back! Hey man, you forgot to call me a faggot! lol! How’s the “street shit” going? Have you gotten better at criminality or are you still going back and forth to the pokey?
LMAO… Ya’ll niggas need to grow up and listen to some Marvin Gaye and the Isleys or some shit.. Jaysus, your hair ain’t grey no mo, it’s plain white. SMH
hip hop is young and was created by youth. its gonna have to find its natural progression and develop organically into what you see in rock. its at a plateau in so many ways. but its going to happen. many of the most respected artists are over 30. as they and their music mature it will add depth to the community. but the key is for them to hang around. we need the scrafaces and jiggas and bun b’s and nas’ and de la souls to take the music to a grown folks incarnation. jay did it with kingdom come. its was a very mature album… those boundaries need to be continually pushed.
@mpho… gray/white,,, i kinda like the look! As you can see, sometimes i get weird and feel the need to dye it. chicks are always saying it looks “distinguished.” and you’d be surprised to know how many younger twenty-something women like my “white” goatee. anyway… this was some “tongue & cheek” blogging, so don’t get all wierded out on me.
@shelz… of course, as usual, your take on this is on point. I just wanna see these young folk stop acting like age is a bad thing…. that there is a correlation between getting older and not loving hip-hop….age is something terrible and understand that we are blessed when the Creator allows us to grow old/er, especially with the rate of homicide/desease, which has ravished the black community. I feel bless to be on the downside of 40′s.
nuff said… gotta go to the drug store and cop me some hair dye & Geritol!
Make sure u get sum viagra from dat drug store aswell so u can still live ur homo lifestyle. Seriously though u and Gayslay are some old motherfukers! I’m surprised y’all aint in an old folks home drinkin potato thru a straw already.