Usually when an OG rapper tells younger rappers to do something, he or she either gets ignored or dissed for trying to shed some light.
MC Eiht — who had a serious medical condition this year — is one of the latest OG rappers to speak on the current state of Hip Hop, and he had something to say about rappers flashing their wealth.
“There’s a lot of people who don’t wake up and drive Bentleys, put on $100,000 chains, and can’t go buy Birkin bags and sh*t like that," he told HipHopDX. "You making songs like, ‘I’m this, I’m that and I got everything,’ and you want the average motherf*cker to come spend they money on your record when to me, it’s kind of braggadocious to your fanbase."
He continued. “Just make good music and if you making money, you making money. "If you bought you a $100,000 chain, okay fine, but I feel like it’s a different case when you just wanna put it in people’s faces. 'Yeah, my chain costs a million, my car costs $2 million.' But the dude who buying your record, he working 9 to 5 every weekend, getting a regular paycheck, so don’t alienate your fans to make them feel like they ain’t sh*t 'cause they can’t buy Birkin bags and million-dollar chains.”
Is MC Eiht speaking truth here?