Hip Hop stars still hustling

Posting this now, I'll come back and read it later.
No Respect For Hip-Hop’s O.G.s: Why Many Legendary MCs Still Need to Hustle - The Daily Beast

The gist: Bands from 70s - Steely Dan and Rush - are playing sold out arena shows.
Rappers and Hip Hop royalty like LL Cool J, Public Enemy and Ice Cube are still working clubs or playing together on tour.

 

Their music doesn't age as well, IMO. I listen to 80s rap now, and it just sounds dumb. It had its place and time, but i dont care to hear it anymore.

 

80s rap is miles better than the garbage rap of today.

 

I will get off your lawn now Jack.

 

I don't think too many people regardless of race, in the 40-50 age range want to go to a rap concert.

 

DC is full of them.

 

The boy band reunions seem to make a truckload of money too.

 

Having gone to more than my share of rap concerts during the 1980s, most of these acts never played more than medium-sized venues during their prime. And lets just say that almost none of them were known for their live performances.

 

I thought Public Enemy was great live. I saw them several times, a couple with just them, a couple when they were touring with Anthrax and a couple when they were opening for U2. I saw Snoop and Dre probably 20 years ago and they were great too.

 

Wu Tang Clan.
2 Live Crew.

All of the above mentioned rappers are better than Steely Dan and Rush.

I suspect a lot of it race-related. I like rap. I listen to old stuff a lot. That said, not sure I - 40-year-old white guy - would go to a Wu Tang concert.

 

Yeah, I'm 41 and the last rap concert I went to was Outkast well over a decade ago, probably 2002 or 2003. Before that, it would have been when A Tribe Called Quest toured with the Beastie Boys in 2000 or so.

 

I'll leave the debate on the merits of 80s/90s rap to you fine people. That said - there's nothing at all wrong with Steely Dan or Rush.