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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
Yeah, but how did OutKast "killing" gangsta hip hop when their last release was in 2003, the same year 50 Cent was dominating with his gangsta music and image? Kanye didn't start to really have true impact on the genre until maybe 2007 and you can argue that the likes of Soulja Boy and all those ATL/southern acts had a huge impact on the decline of gangsta rap before Kanye did.
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Here's a piece that agrees with me.
http://www.avclub.com/article/speake...cline-g-206309
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While Big Boi’s half of the album indicated a way forward, both for Southern hip-hop and for a particularly lyrical brand of conservative rap (which first fueled and eventually killed off the underground), Andre’s album would never be directly imitated—it was simply too strange. But with The Love Below, he had jump-started a pattern of mainstream rappers acting in a way that they simply weren’t expected to act—one rappers like Kanye West, whose debut album was released in 2004, Lupe Fiasco, and Drake would expand upon in coming years.
In the wake of the album’s success, the gangsters didn’t disappear altogether, but they did see their influence quietly wane. Get Rich Or Die Trying ended up being the most successful album of 50’s career, and when Jay returned from “retirement,” he largely avoided the gangster tropes of the past (though he indulged himself with the concept record American Gangster), preferring to focus on art collection, consumption, and other perks of the uber-rich. By 2006, just three years after the release of Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, gangster rap from non-Southern rappers had largely left the charts.
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Me think that sounds accurate?
They didn't kill gangsta rap, which was probably on its way out sooner or later regardless of who came along, but like I said what they did was provide an alternative to that style which trickled down to permeate through a lot of sectors of late-2000s rap or the kind of stuff we have today.
Either way, safe to say the likes of Soulja Boy and those other ATL losers WOULDN'T have careers without Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik paving the way for the southern rappers of all sorts to prosper.
Can we say
impervious to trends?
