If in the respect that their career is dead and buried, then I'd tend to agree. However, people that say that mean that they just decided on their own to walk away from a record deal and millions to peddle mixtapes on a street corner because they want to "keep it real". Yeah, it had nothing to do with a rapper's career flagging, his last 3 albums not even selling well enough for a gold certificate even if you combined all their sales figures, and the record label dropping them. Give me a break.
I think it's so people think, "Oh he's going underground, then this music must be like the music I used to listen to, I'll buy that." Or the rapper is trying to get a part of the underground market, thinking if they say they don't have a record deal then they may jump on board and buy that cd.
Well they dig a hole and then they throw said rapper in it and that is why they say he "went underground". He is then left to the torment of being with other "underground artists" such as, maggots, and worms. Until the day comes of his repentance when he decides to give up his career and become a mainstream artist. Then and only then will he be allowed out and never the same he was before.
Why when a band makes a song that everyone likes and becomes popular and makes money do people call they mainstream sellouts? The answers to these questions we will never know.
I lol when people say rappers are going underground. Tupac is long dead and he isn't even irrelevant yet. Rappers that were one hit wonders and aren't really all that great just fade away, that's not going underground.
I lol when people say rappers are going underground. Tupac is long dead and he isn't even irrelevant yet. Rappers that were one hit wonders and aren't really all that great just fade away, that's not going underground.XilePrincess
Rappers that were one hit wonders and aren't really all that great just fade away, that's not going underground.XilePrincess
In some cases yeah, but not always...Joe Budden's someone who was a one (maybe two) hit wonder but his later work that didn't get any mainstream recognition is universally regarded as his best.
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