Ghostface Killah shared his thoughts on the state of modern hip-hop in a new interview with Rolling Stone, stating that “[e]verything is the same” nowadays. The Wu-Tang Clan staple explained that the younger generation of rappers don’t practice the art of “storytelling” anymore and are more about clubs. “A lot of p*ssy getting thrown around and sh*t,” he said, comparing the likes of MC Lyte, Lil Kim, Erica Cane, Lauryn Hill and “the Foxys” to the new breed.
“Even when Lil’ Kim did it, she was gangsta with it. She was a rapper’s rapper. She was Erica Cane with it.
But the Lauryn Hills of this sh*t [are] gone. Even the Foxys and shit like that, like a lag came over it,” he continued. “But all this other ‘lick my ass,’ ‘my butthole brown’ sh*t, it’s like .
.. it’s too much.
” The rap vet did acknowledge, however, that the genre has changed over time, and that the rappers of today can’t “rhyme about an eyeball falling out your face, and having the police pick it up and put it in a plastic bag” the same way his generation did. He continued, “Because we was rhyming about [raps] ‘smoking woola’s at 16.’ Now you’ve got these n****s [and] pills is off the meat rack with the lean and sh*t.
But at least we had substance in our music. Everything is the same now.” Although the 54-year-old has his grievances, he also praised a few of the younger rappers and their ability to release more melodic music as it “changed the game” —.
