13 years later this song is as relevant as ever today

From Sean Hannity to Oprah to Bill O'Reilly, everyone has been attacking the content of rap music nowadays... but rap fought this battle before when gangsta rap was criticized over a decade ago. "Hand of the Dead Body" answered those gangsta rap critics back then, and with the criticism taking reaching a new level this year, it's as relevant as ever still today...

Scarface feat. Devin the Dude and Ice Cube- "Hand of the Dead Body"

Real talk

I'm not sure Ice Cube quite got the point of the song.

Nonetheless dopeness.

Rappers back then were trying to make points about reality (wasn't gangsta rap called reality rap back then?) rap today is just high budget adverts for clothes and jewellery. While most of the the violent content today, they're just trying totalk violent because they're label says so.

So in some ways, I disagree, Music today lacks the messages to justify their existance. While rap back in the day was about the mesage.

Wasn't this the start of the beef of Icecube and Common?

I mean he had I Used to Love H.E.R. and Icecube took offense to it. And thenFarrahkan stepped in and they made up. It's interesting you put this up. Common also did I Used to Love H.E.R. in 1994 which is also still relavent today. Yeah rap got its bad reputation from the fact that it was a newly exposed raw music that people were too uptight to accept. Nowadays its nothing but dramatizations. At least when "gangsta" rappers first came on the scene they were trying to say a message. Showing people who crazy it can get.

That was dope what album is this off of.elcamino72

Wasn't this the start of the beef of Icecube and Common?

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