i’m probably young enough that “real hip hop” to me was the s*** that changed y’all perspective on real hip hop lol

like i f***ed with real hip hop but i never had a phase idk

i f***ed with thug when he came out. not a stan but if u wasn’t jacking lifestyle u was weird

probably thugger he was the first rapper I listened who was lyrical miracle

t pain

Growing up in the south, u had to go find “real hip hop” cause all I heard was niggas like Boosie being played

carti tbh magnolia was my guilty pleasure LMAO

also x and uzi

I Don't Like changed everything for me in 2012

Future, Drake, Key!

Soulja Boy

“Real” hip hop/backpack phase was a pretty common thing for anyone who wasn’t black in middle/high school early 2000s.

almost every white person goes through a “real” hip hop/backpack phase before realizing how dumb it is for a white person to be gatekeeping hip hop.

T.I is real hip hop though!

T.I is real hip hop wtf?

I never had that mentality cause I wasn’t young enough to naturally go through that phase when I first got into hiphop on my own (outside of being around it due to family/environment)

im also not a white hiphop fan

yea i was born i the early 2000s and black so

Eh it can go either way

never really had that mentality i listened to just as much pop and r&b growing up as i did rap so when rappers started singing and s*** i was already on board

Real for lemonade

Didn’t really have it I liked Eminem but never went further then that

he definitely is..

but if you were a teen in the early 2000s who was in the backpack/underground rap crowd (aka “real” hip hop) then he prolly wasn’t “real” hip hop to you back then.

emphasis on the quotation marks around real cause that s*** is such a stupid ridiculous term.

u gotta understand that “real” hip hop used to mean anything classic from the 80s-90s + anything underground/backpack lyrical miracle w a message def jux type beat s***

pretty much if you had a song on the radio or on tv we was hating smh lol.

Never went thru that corny phase thankfully

I couldn't deny how hard this one was

prolly kanye or cudi