It seems like more recently Hip Hop music’s gatekeepers are weighing in on the craft they helped advance. Some are in support of how the culture has progressed. Others, like DMC, are a little hesitant in calling the situation now “all good.”
Recently speaking with Murder Master Music Show, Darryl McDaniels says that emcees today give respect to their OGs but don’t get them involved enough in their music.
“It’s all gone,” he says during the interview. “It is all but gone, we get respect but we are not allowed to participate and that is the disrespect or the disconnect. When you remove the building blocks and the foundation everything stops growing it become stagnant and monogamous.”
The Run-DMC member also explained how hearing a Public Enemy demo record made him change is thoughts about creating Raising Hell.
“Hank Shocklee and Chuck D chased us to the airport and said take this with y’all and I put the tape in the box and I went back and ripped up all my rhymes,” he said. “That’s why I was so dope on ‘Raising Hell.'”
Also during the interview, DMC explained how he believed rappers sound the same nowadays and says the greatest Hip Hop song ever is “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five.
Listen to the full radio appearance segment below:
For additional DMC coverage, watch the following DX Daily:
I promise this is very accurate,the new generation has little respect for the predecessors & minimize their influence & importance. It’s the same for the people who are now elders,I always pay homage in my music even though I haven’t made it yet. My uncle always shares old school stories with me about Carlos Broady,Ball & G,Mc Hammer,Jazze Pha etc. There is no school w/o the old school. If you don’t check out my music when you can kingrichard1.bandcamp.com
bruh your music is basic af. you need to amp it up
Too heavy on the synths. Switch up your snare. You clearly like making tracks about girls.
there’s a lot of truth in what DMC is saying. But the youngsters don’t put the older cats on because this is not the thing to do in hip hop. It’s all about what’s happening right now. That’s why it’s moving away from being hip hop and the original sound and character of hip hop. Fresh beats, fresh rhymes, originality.
Old man yells at cloud
Scarface from Houston. Good insight from a true MC
That’s eastcoast ogs. Down south and west coast mcs love putting the ogs on a track.
DMC on one hand is correct but on the other hand is full of crap. What does he mean by “we are not allowed to participate”? Being in videos? Being on tracks with new artists? What old school hip hop artists were in Run DMC videos or on their albums? Didn’t they brag about being “all brand new never ever old school”? I lean more to being a purist but enough of the whining already from the old school heads. If you want to “participate” stop standing on the sidelines waiting for a handout and start your own company and promote the music you want hiphop to be. Stop complaining about how you don’t like the direction hiphop is going. All these 80s cats sound like Al Bundy talking about what he did in high school. SMH
He means that they still put music out but radio don’t wanna play them anymore. And most veteran rappers are independent nowadays.
East Coast rappers don’t give it up to their OGs because old school East Coast hip hop is corny. Down in the south it’s all about showing love to the ones who paved the way, because we have our own style that is relevant in today’s scene. Hate it or love it you know that’s accurate.
*buzzer* Wrong.
Probably because a lot of East Coast OGs spent years not putting out ANY music and shitting on all of the new artists that now have much bigger catalogs than them.
Wrong. Public Enemy gotta new album out and most of them do put music out but radio just doesn’t wanna play them.
The clowns below are obviously brainwashed and heavily influenced by radio, marketing, youtube rappers etc.. Hip-hop culture doesn’t really even exist anymore. The so called music nowadays is nothing but noise and the fashion is gay as hell, plain and simple. Keep on wearing your skin tight pants, you queers. It’s a fucking embarrassment. Hip-hop culture is being made a mockery of and it’s dumbed down completely for this dumbass generation that wouldn’t be able to comprehend complex rhymes and beats. Trust me, you ain’t cool bumping the hot garbage being released nowadays. E’z up to the 18 homies worldwide.
damn it’s refreshing to see someone say something so respectable on this fucking website. you literally sound like some shit i would say. now watch the same clowns say something stupid about this.