As expected, 21 Savage’s recent message to OG rappers has been met with both criticism and praise.
One OG who wasn’t offended by 21’s callout, which was shared on social media on Tuesday (November 21), was T.I. The 37-year-old Atlanta vet declared that Savage was speaking “real truth,” and went on to detail the ways in which Savage’s message resonated.
T.I. reposted Savage’s note to Instagram, and added the following caption:
“@21savage lil bro speaking real truth tho. The fact of the matter is… There’s been good,bad, great,mediocre artists,&otherwise in EVERY generation …. Even ours(2000s) , The Founding era (80s) & the golden era of the 90s. They’re not the only generation to make “user music” either. Can anyone remember a Lil album called “The Chronic”? Or hit Recs like “Sippin on some Sizzurp”…. Regardless of the subject matter…This is THEY TIME.”
He continued, “Couldn’t nobody tell us how to run ours,or make us sound how they thought we should… Live ya life & do ya stuff young’n. Just bare with us,&try to understand …. y’all niggaz kinda different & take some getting used to. As the elders gotta understand they’re SUCCESS JUSTIFIES the CHANGE. The Numbers DONT LIE!!! Can’t hate on that.”
21 Savage’s post, where he pushed back on any OG rappers who have called out the new generation’s “drug user music,” got more than 25,000 retweets in its first 24 hours online.
The music is wack.. that’s the primary problem. Make dope music and stop wearing skinny jeans making it impossible to buy normal clothes out here.
Not to mention there is a difference between smoking weed and popping molly
gotta remember who’s talking about what, these are ATLIENS, who don’t care about or listen to real hip hop. 21 savage album is garbage by the way. he should be the last one talking , let alone mumbling on the mic.
Another fuckin Troll.. It aint easy being indy is it TIP???? can’t stay in the headlines unless you ride someones (dick)wave it seems like… What happen to the king of the south shit…. FOH suck a dick you fraud. 1. You’re considered old now. You came out 15+ years ago… I know this cuz I was in middleschool when you started getting lukewarm… 2. You have no right cosigning this bullshit considering you got caught for guns and drugs multiple times… rapped about all the shit then went soft when you got home(which is cool you gotta make your $$$) I can respect it. But you not the voice for the youth let alone a role model or voice in music… FOH. Rap… show us why we respected tip to begin with. Not this bullshit to gain attention and try and shit on your Superiors and OG’s … fuck you TI for real. You aint for the culture and you don’t do shit from the heart. Its obvious… And DX you better not delete this shit you assholes.
Appreciate you bro… Its real tho… I can’t stand how a dude like this who made his fortune off of people in my age bracket and was influenced by people I listened to would go against what hes apart of… Hes got some nerve.. Yeah our generation had songs like extacy … sipping on sizzurp … but shit was never glorified anywhere near the level it is now… on top of this… It was not an epidemic and or problem amongst the hip hop community… alot of these guys from my generation and before have even come out saying don’t do this shit etc etc.. so fuck TI again he only did this to troll and get his name in the media with the youngins.. hes probably also hoping Savage will do a song with his lame ass. FOH hasn’t had a hit on his on in a loooooooooooooonnnnnnnggggg time.
Add TI to the list of idiots. Huge difference between smoking pot and taking prescription drugs that will kill you. God damn.
Once upon a time a og called Nas dropped knowledge on a song called what goes around about the ills of drugs. That was enough for me to never try that ish. And last time i checked weed was a medicine. Ti can piss off he is a informer.
One last thing I plan to mention… Ludacris whose also someone that blew up right before TI and is from Atlanta is no where to be heard on the music tip(no pun intended) and you don’t hear him speaking up for the youth or talking down on his OGs… He is the true King of the South and he never once ever had those words come out his mouth…,, Oh I almost forgot(not) Luda washed TI and they’re little back and fourth battle.
What a lame take… Go listen to Luda’s catalog. Dude fell all the fucking way off.
And TI fell off like at the same time as Luda did. Except Luda didn’t claim to be a hard core gangsta while being a snitch like TI
Thank you… exactly what I was trying to imply… hopefully fuck tard next one or what ever the fuck his fuck boy name is gets it now…
Nah Ludas last album was tough, and theater of the mind is fire
T.I.. the BLM silencer and machingun Guy. LoL. What a fucktard hypocrite… BTW, great reporting. Weed is a plant. It isn’t a synthetic prescription drug.
T.I. fell off hard
T.I for sure in line for the Fuckboy of the Year Award. Damn he talked a lot bullshit this year
Difference is some of the shit sound easy with a capital E like leaving ya back door open!
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You on crack or something?
TI doing a drake and begging for the youths to like him. There’s a big difference between smoking weed (done worldwide) and popping prescription pills.
21 garbage is terrible and all the artists that make money are terrible that is the problem. The less skill you have and the worse your music sounds the more props and air time you receive. Tip was always wack, REAL hip hop has been completely moved to the underground.
Holy shit T.I. doesn’t know grammar.
What you expect he is black you know..?
Agreed. I got cancer as I tried to read his post. God damn!
Hey T.i what the fuck happen to you Mannn Terrance Howard Voice from Hustle and Flow.
Who cares what that snitch says
Artists been doing cocaine since the 70s and 80s? Does this guy not understand white lines? And the problem the young generation has is they show no respect to older MCs. It’s ridiculous, and doesn’t happen in any other genre.
The difference is there saying to mix xanax and Percocet which is a deadly combo.
People were rapping about smoking blunts dipped in formaldehyde in the 80s and 90s man. Deadly drug combos have always been present in Hip Hop.
We went from dope sixteens to mumbles and memes. I thought TI was better than this.
21 and rappers like him, the “new” generation sucks ass.. I’ve tried my best to cone to what they’re making but it’s just trash.. Just because the new generation is a bunch of trash liking pull popping addicts I’m suppose to just not say what’s on my mind? That’s why T.I. hadn’t made a hit in over a decade because he thinks he needs to appeal to these young cats and forgot who he was.
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T.I cosigned Iggy Azalea…why should we listen to him?
The fact that some of these new rappers always feel the need to defend themselves means they know the truth hurts… if you knew it wasn’t true you wouldn’t be so defensive. The music is wack! hardly any classic or memorable albums or songs in the past decade. If you fail to build on the past success you will go nowhere. Disrespecting the pioneers only hurts you
Every generation should do they’re own thing, but ignoring the ones who built the foundation means u are lost
All confused new rappers should listen to 2 Pacs song “Old School”. If 2 Pac had wisdom to acknowledge his influences..who are you???
as i have said before if t.i. was an informer will you assholes please tell us who he informed on. if he snitched there had to be someone he snitched on .please supply a name
T.I. was a convicted felon (multiple felon) who was caught on conspiracy federal charges for attempting to buy silencers and fully automatic sub machine guns. When the police raided his home they found an ARSENAL of full auto weapons. A first offender would have gotten SEEIOUS time for this (5+ years at least). T.I. did under two. Since these were Federal Charges, no one knows who he got his arsenal from. Rumor has it, he tatted someone out. It makes sense.
Fuck numbers men! T.I.P just shut it and stop encouraging this no talent hacks.
…and this has been has just compared That issa bs album ti #TheChronic….i mean like wtf
FCK T.I. – We DON’T need to be acknowledging, more less co-signing IDIOTS like 21 BRAINCELLS, KODAK WACK, and UZI DIRT for actin’ like they have NO part in pushing Hard Drugs to Youth, in past it was ‘exceptions’ and ‘innuendo’, NOW these mumble fumble bumble crumble cRappers are dying, ODing, and blatantly rapping about Lean, Xanax, Molly, Crack, Cocaine, Codeine and BS that’s a ONE WAY trip to the Hospital or Morgue…………. Horrible ‘music’, Horrible ‘artists’ and Horrible influences on a blank misdirected generation!
Only real snoop was lil snoop? Lol!!!!!! Wipe those tears. You don’t have to agree with T.I. or Snoop, but discrediting their achievements is opening the door for everything you hate to come right on in.