Rappers Hit Hard By The Recession

[stevenmtaylor21]

I wanna mug that lil faggot. Whatever his name is

[NINOBROWN914]

all i can afford is h class diamonds.. but its all good

[NINOBROWN914]

damn this lady got RACKS ON RACKS ON RACKS

[YankeeRac3r]

ha im watchin this right now and laughin my ass off at them dissing rozay ..lookin at how it is now HAHAHAA *HOH*

[Griggs846]

Jenk is with out doubt the blackest Turk

[darkinertia2]

why dont they just buy pretty dresses like all the other girls do when they cant buy jewelery?

[1stAidMEDIC]

Fuck those diamonds. Black diamond is better

[tubedude101]

they wear plastic watches now from a gum ball machine

[cpreddie]

wwhat they kno about jewel they cant even afford 1k gold lol

[realOGfromthahood]

300k on a chain is an investment .. when times get rough sell it ... think about this all the rappers in the 80 wearing gold ropes Eric B would have like 31 lb on his neck check him out if you dont believe me hes the dj who never moves if he turned in his gold today 30 lb like 500 oz at $1359.35 an oz he would then have $679,500.00 cash do the math dont hate

[TriaMaxwell]

Hell, the cost of ONE of those stupid things would feed a family of four for a year.

[bigveeayking]

Kanye West spent 300k on his newest piece.. $300,000...fuck

[ViriuZ7]

@bigveeayking t-pain spent $410,000

[MCAMVP]

Rappers don't invest in their future lol...

At least send your kids to school and save money to permanently secure your offspring's future instead of flushing money down the drain.

I guess this is when they have to learn it the hard way

[Sun6Tzu]

@MCAMVP The majority of what these rappers rap about do not promote a positive or profitable lifestyle for any children. Do you think any gangsta rappers actually encourage their own kids to grow up gangbanging or drug dealing? Of course not, but they are encouraging our youth to do it just because they were supposedly involved, survived it and supposedly the main reason they became famous. These guys lie half the time about every issue. Saying and doing anything to stay relevant in the media.

[BeastAP23]

uhhhh i hate when they talk about rappers!

P.S stop saying bling

[HotNewHipHop1]

When you think of rappers you think of Bling, when I think of rappers I think of Immortal Technique, Lowkey & Dead Prez

[flipmaya]

This is how we separate the nouveau riche and the old rich. Nouveau riche tend to show off their money while the old rich doesn't feel the need to.

But I still prefer the nouveau riche, they're the one who actually worked for the money.

[dski1]

oh yea little jon. no bitch its lil john. if he spelled it little then yea. but he doesn't. and i guarantee rick ross has more money than everyone on this show combined. come on

[llellola]

i feel like there is a real lack of research on this show and a splash of ignorance, but whatever. its youtube...

[Dakota2147]

3rd video in a row with nothing but people putting on stereotypes... Why are you even watching these videos.

[ravenmcgrath]

@Dakota2147 why are you?

[ancoloco]

Hence 2010. Where is Lil Jon today ????

[dski1]

@ancoloco what he raked in 5 mil this year what are u talking about

[ancoloco]

@dski1 You're right, he's on the Forbes list. Good for him.

[birdmoney7204squad]

FUK EMINEM

[shadowizbak]

lil jon's chain is reaal lol and how does she KNOW ross' chain is ACTUAALLY fake?..and ross dont own the sreets he owns the prison lmfao

[Quntumking]

The young turks talk about some odd stuff. I understand the religion and politics but reality tv and music etc seem odd for this channel.

[vak182]

rick ross still makes more than both ur ass' put together, so shut the fuck up dumb turks

[sciencemunk]

/watch?v=iCfQmoGcNlI

[StanOfGB]

They aren't hit hard by the recession, styles of chains have just changed

[zion786]

atleast they get bling ana aint got shit so stop hating bitchies

[Dustinsteez1]

idiots rick ross was on mv cribs wit some serious gold and ice definitly legit dude his crib it a million dollar miami joint wit maybacks and shit mayback dude 250k for the cars,,,

[CruiseCraft94]

@Dustinsteez1 mtv cribs is fake complete bullshit you have been lied to

[neilroy6]

these bitches need to shut the fuck up

got nothin better to do than hate on rapper

fuck em

[Cwhitfield15]

Good. Mainstream rap is garbage.

Go Underground and Old School!

[DjBuBbOGum]

"and crunk aint dead" lmao!!

[triunemusicgroup]

stereo typing bitches

[Paulwhoisvegan]

Oh my god! The black man behind the glass! He's black therefore he raps.

[ekeb1]

Bling-Rappers aint real shit. Bling is a bonus for yo career, but it is no status in yo bling.

[drionxx]

haha, shit these guys are pussy's

when they stand in front of these guys they will shit their pants.

shiitt they probally have no friends and no life. why doesnt they say things about these other fag music thing

Peace (Y)

[5783456]

fuk up wth da faminity shit,,im muslim n its against ma religion to wear diamonds n im still doin this shit,,

[neebkiller]

the fuckin bitch ass white dude is a fag for saying bling is feminin.

bitch ass wigger.

[DancingSpiderman]

@neebkiller guys wearing jewelry IS sissy.

dont hayt im jus sayin, guys wearing jewels are poofo sissies.

[theabomation]

it is not the recession stop-in rappers success the music has become an shell of what it was.....

[mtallmen184]

Eminem isn't hit hard by the recession

[teringkutnaam]

@mtallmen184 yes because he is too lame to buy some chains

[Bankallday]

@mtallmen184 because he's white

[tysoninCoMa]

Wearing jewelry to show you have money is tacky, makes bad business sense and actually shows up a poor-turned semi rich hoodrat for what they are: stupid.

[SleepySkeptic]

Bad business? Not likely when they then go on to make platinum records rapping about the tacky stuff they bought.

[a1mint]

The day rap dies is the day the world becomes a better place.

[jlqiii]

Forget the rappers. Ana is hot!

[hateuallful]

Rap is fucking gay!!! Niggers cant afford their jewelry? Who really fucking cares????

[36clashfan77]

I would agree with almost everything you say..if you hadn't said niggers.

[hateuallful]

Dont much care what you think!!

[36clashfan77]

Haha, a great stance i also agree with

[GUCCImontana420]

nigger? really? good job proving your point with the racism. lmao FAIL

[UgoStrange]

Racist much ?

[hateuallful]

I try my best!

[UgoStrange]

as long as you try.

[hateuallful]

Black much?

[ThaRussian]

only women wear jewelry

[slimithy12]

i used to like this show. what the fuck happend.

[DissocialPersonality]

wouldnt you be proud of your 400k necklace

[TomatoeAssassin]

Speaking of nice ass.....I'll bet Ana has one. She's hot!

[dnlxl]

@TomatoeAssassin no, she's fat..

[TomatoeAssassin]

@dnlxl She's just not a stick woman. She's a real woman with a real body.

[paganizondacinque670]

why are these guys always behind rick ross.

[raptorsfan96]

I love the Young Turks

but they dont know shit bout hip hop sumtimes

except JR

[yuknoul0veme]

3:14 - lmfaoo !

Funny xD

[treskall1]

Like to look good? Tacky jewelry makes you look good? Nah, it looks like some tasteless person got hold of a lot of money.

[Trob92]

they jus on here runnin they mouth. the female especially has no facts or referances.

[Imadeyalook]

JR & Ana are right... Bling is not feminine... Cenk must hang out with the Manly Men at the Man Bar watching the Man Show... I personally wouldn't do the jewels, but I don't see anything wrong with it at all.

[MercaStaphInfection]

fat guys annoying

the girls pretty cool tho i like her o yea haha

and thank you black guy for steppin in ther goddamn!

[gtbikes15]

naw this nigga still makn booku money

[moahproductions121]

... do these guys know Rick Ross is on forbes' top ten rappers in terms of how much they made this year. hes got atleast 20 mill, he aint no jay z but he aint no 'youngturks' either.

he made 6 mill which im guessin is atleast 5.95 mill more than youngturks.

but still, good show.

[nothingmsc]

love hip hop, can't stand gangsta rap

this story is hilarious

[rbvmtr]

I'd rather be deaf than to listen to Immoral trash music . HOW STUPID ARE YOU ? money is supposed to be backed by gold gov. is borrowing money to make money and that makes the dollar worthless . dollar crashes { gold = money when there is none / gold buys money when a new coin system is issued

[ffrht]

what a waste of oxygen

[PlayaMade801]

this is a video example of haters

[ballfoot12]

there roastin rick ross and his fake jewellery

[Jeremiy2]

Kinda reminds me of Dolly Parton, she was a poor girl, but instead of showing off bling she went and prettied herself up like a princess, not a queen. But rappers go all the way to looking like they Ole King Cole.

[damik181]

i dont look at rap as a black thing. rap is rap. str8 up. anyone can rap. the culture of hip hop is uni-versal. and dont be buyin d or b or whatever dimonds. if you cant afford the real thing dont get the cheap immitation.

[shark5643]

fuck you faggit

[SeeMagicNow]

you look like a fruit

[BrendanIsCool]

who gives a fuck about these subhuman negro scumbags

[jdc1style]

only a subhumna scumbag would know a subhuman scumbag...you wouldn't say that to a "negros" face. COWARD!!

[TriniDaddi]

Yea lets see where you live you subhuman trailor trash/

[AMINOGEN1]

tupac wanna be

[Mikuz]

Is he died?

[kakompo]

strippers are looking for a bail out, now some rappers too. ouch

[cvbcvv45]

good! it's less crap my kids don't have to listen to.

[tubefiteen1]

haha u give your kid a guitar @ an early age and that wont be an issue. anyone with any musical appriciation whatsoever won't get into rap.

[Cwhitfield15]

@tubefiteen1 I disagree. If someone listens to Old School or Underground Hip Hop instead of mainstream, then they do appreciate music. It's just the commercialized mainstream that sucks because it became another version of pop music. (BTW, I play the drums and listen to a lot of musical genres).

[TriniDaddi]

Yea I agree with you also rap,rock,bluegrass, country horrible horrible music especially when your kids start cutting themselves, and jeez all that screaming shit, its just crazy.

[GilbertsonDerick]

Most of the rappers will be living with low-to-average incomes when they get older. Their music won't be the "in" thing anymore, and because they have horrible spending issues, all of the wealth they have acquired will become a thing of the past, along with their careers.

[shrapnel360]

Uneducated black guys making millions of dollars off of something that takes absolutely no talent at all; I don't feel bad for them for going broke.

[Doug1145]

If it takes no talent you should be a famous rapper.

And not all rappers are black.

[shrapnel360]

That's a baseless argument. Fame is based on luck, not talent. Can Britney Spears sing? Hardly. Can Lady Gaga sing? No. They got lucky, just as the rappers did.

[Doug1145]

Yeah true. But not ALL famous rappers are black MOST are.

[ignorecorporatenews]

it's not luck, it's business and crime and being a ho

[Simon16180339]

Times are really hard, yesterday I saw a rapper driving an old Yugo.

[charityGSHS]

I hope all rappers are hit hard by the obama depression.

[RydanDenali]

so musicians of the other genres arent affected?

[rcrocks222]

because they don't buy the bullshit bling

they invest in charities instead

[RydanDenali]

i dont know, thats a pretty shiny belt buckle on toby keith.

[rcrocks222]

Toby Keith is one of the biggest charity investors in the world. That fact kills a couple of copper belt buckles.

[RydanDenali]

you just dont like rap music.

[ctjohnso]

stupid

[Ashkalai]

who the fuk are these dicks.???what can u afford???

[blinghiphopking]

yeah i don't think they're fair.. it's as if they see it in a different way.. who cares if we love bling? what's the matter with that? :o

[hotnuke]

Gotta go with Cenk on this one, jewelry on men is rather sissified and weak...lol

Damn Ana looks gorgeous in this vid. Way to spell it out about the cars, houses and bitches, Ana...lmao

[SupaFastVideos]

that's what happens when you offend your fans...arrogant b@stards getting their arses kick by karma

[mcmike1989]

It's not the recession that is hitting these thug rappers hard. It's the constant BS they promote: the bling, the stupid slang they use, being dressed like assholes (wait, they already are assholes), the no snitch BS, spray painting crap on highway signs and outside of hospitals. All of this garbage is part of the hip-hop culture, and all of it being eyesores. These days, working at McDonald's is more honorable and fulfilling (mentally speaking) than being a gangsta thug rapper.

[TheRedneckJunkie]

uhh whats wrong with illegal murals on the buildings?

[4u2b1ib12]

Diamonds are graded A to Z.  There is no such thing as; A, B, or C grade diamonds. The grading starts from D to Z. That is it, currently.

[Lanlordcan]

white people kill me. rappers are not known for bling. they just talk about it a lot NOWADAYS because 80% of them come from nothing. white people like bling just as much as rappers, just not that big.

[TheRedneckJunkie]

no, mainstream rap is about bling homie. be serious theyre not talking about the underground

[Lanlordcan]

ur right it is. im just talking rap/hip-hop in general. but i understand why they rap about it so much, cause a lot of them never had it. but thats like john mccain and all of his houses. u never hear about it, cause he's not a rapper. i just feel like people down it so much but there is a different way to say everything. there are other artist who are not rappers who talk about the same shit but not with slang, so it sounds like a meaningful song to you.

[TheRedneckJunkie]

uhh no mainstream rap is crap. underground hip hop is what matters. like IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, and JEDI MIND TRICKS, Visionaries, ILL BILL. thats meaningful music

[ShootAAppleOffMyHead]

technique baby !!

[icfnord]

This is what your welfare checks are financing

[harlyd007]

How stupid. Barak is a rap star, the way he parties at the white house, serving $100 kobe beef steaks to ACORN, spending money faster than its printed. And how about the $500 a pair sneakers Michelle wears to a homeless shelter.

[sabrina9556]

LOL! No you are the rap star when you tell lies and make ignorant comments for glory.

[Lanlordcan]

WTF?!!! all the fuckin presidents spend money like that. and obama might be just be the one who spends the least.

[ThePoisonYouth]

Do what about Obama spending the least?

[CenterLane1977]

SHE HAS NICE JUGGS

[bigmacattack05]

this channel is retarded, sorry just being honest

[bgtbone1]

maybe they dont have money because todays rapppers suck all they talk about is sex, and money, and people get tired of the same shit, first ur in a depression so no one has money, so no one gives a shit about niggers having money, second sex is so cliche everybody has sex, big deal, third their is no substance like tupac, big wu tang, old school, the best time for rap was 98-00 was when i was into it like Dr Dre chronic, and now cheesie lil wayne computer voice

[AlphaTarheel]

All rap's like that, or just the songs you've heard on the radio? Shut the fuck up dipshit.

[Lanlordcan]

get the fuck outta hear, every kind of music with lyrics in it talks about the same fuckin shit, its just said differently. people talk about smokin weed, jewlery and sex all the time. one song about sex right now that's not rap" kings of leon-sex on fire". sex is cliche but it continues to sell BECAUSE its real and everyone does it.

[TheRedneckJunkie]

what about social and political unjustice, the military industrial complex. inequality throught the "FREE" union? not all music is about sex and money dude. and not all hip hop either. some of our generations best poets are hip hop artists.

[wombo2]

WRONG

[rome848]

real read is dead, it died in 2004

[spydat3k]

humble beginnings?

aint nothing humble about contributing to the destruction of your own people, then moving up on that.

[clockworkorange1986]

They're not all the same you know. I can't speak for todays rappers, they're trash. But it wasn't always like this.

[spydat3k]

I remember when it as about having fun, and not about how bling and bitches you had.

Todays music is about mental degradation, and get rich quick schemes.

Groups like Binary Star and Ugly Duckling are still keeping to the roots of this music.

Gangster Rap is not Hip-Hop.

[CynthiaSwallows]

It's so sad,they can only afford two hoes a video now.The recession is really starting to hit home :(

[Spoodily]

What kind of topics/things would you like to hear about on a rap album?

Politics? Social issues? Being human?Who put us here? Secret technology? Physics? Secret moon bases? Colonies on Mars? Ocean bases? How to travel faster than light? Why salary is slavery? Environmental issues? How to make Hydrogen gas with solar and wind power? Clean, renewable and essentially free fuel? The New World Order?

Most people would rather learn some new dance than anything about the world they live in.

[mamacass1972]

That's why the real rappers, the hip-hop rappers aren't heard from that much. You have to go looking for them. Thanks to the internet they can be found!

[Spoodily]

Mamacass, I HATE hip-hop artists. They are pretentious goofs that have no flow. I don't think "intellectual" rap has to suck. I like hardcore bump tracks with the high hat tickin like a bomb that would be considered "gangsta" rap, I could just do without the "gangsta". I think artists like Atmosphere and others with the same sound are kinda weak. I'm white and I call that shit cracker rap.

[mamacass1972]

I love a good beat too but I got tired of just hearing about bitches, hoes, bling and who's ass they're going to kick. It got real boring and I just don't listen to it. I've pretty much just left rap alone and listen to Soul. The old and the new. I think it's funny that they'd rather have a huge pendant with fake diamonds instead of some classic pieces with the real deal. All about the show. So sad! LOL They're still rich so I can't give them any pity. Good music doesn't know color. :)

[Kras3169]

I wouldn't really consider Atmosphere "rap", they're like a jam band and Slug (lead singer) doesn't always rap. My problem with Atmosphere is for ever good song they have, they have 5 I don't care about.

There definitely are better white rappers than Slug though: Ill BIll, Apathy, Vinnie Paz, RA the Rugged Man, Mr Eon, and Cage before he became an Emo homo. I'll give Copywrite and Goretex honorable mentions, LOL. Might be forgetting people, purposely left out Slim Lady b/c I cant stand him.

[smoketunes]

they should put this video on worldstar

[TheEvolver311]

we can all only hope that the days of rap being all about your car, your bling, your bank roll, etc.. will die out.

rap in general has become a cookie cutter new-pop music.

just like how female singers just need to be young and hot with a little talent.

rap has become , you have to have been a thug,drug dealer, womanizer, strip club expert, with little talent.

[TheEvolver311]

dead prez said it best, "they wanna make us think its all about party and dance. it might sound good when your spitting your rap, but in reality don't no body live like that."-dead prez 'turn off the radio'

[rockinwillb]

rappers are the shitty residue @ the bottom of the toilet bowl. what, can you only buy five $100k+ cars this month instead of ten? can't get the 150 plasma screen in your Range Rover? can't buy the $300,000 platinum and diamond grill? you pathetic ghetto-scum-gone-filthy-rich-g­hetto-scum make me sick. but don't worry. your boy Barack will take more away from you than ever before, that is if you (c)rappers would actually pay your taxes.

[nemesis656]

Aww. Poor guys. They cant buy gold fucking chains anymore. Who cares? What about the people who cant find a min wage job

[JCJ77]

This story is so awesome rich people can't buy things they like. Do you realize what they are saying?

Idiots.

[Kras3169]

Rappers are only being hit hard by the recession because rap music itself is in a recession!

The mainstream rap of today is a fucking disgrace to those of us who grew up to Biggie, 2Pac, Big Pun, Big L, Nas, etc. The rappers of today suck and deserve to be broke. Their music SUCKS!

The funniest moment in rap music...Scott Storch develops a coke habit and blows $30 million in 6 months! Ha-ha!

[Kras3169]

Wow, if I was black I might be offended by that. LOL, nice try though you fucking walking abortion. Out of all the sperm that your father blew into your mother, your the one that made it to the egg? You were the best out of that batch? Just goes to prove that even God has a sense of humor! Have a nice day, you ignorant racist waste of life.

[word559]

You're white and listen to rap? Wow. I don't even need to talk back. You just owned yourself.

[mamacass1972]

Go back even further with Run DMC, Big Daddy Kane, Kool Moe Dee, MC Lyte, Doug E. Fresh, Salt N Pepa, Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions! Now that's rap!

[Kras3169]

I was born in '83...that stuff came out when I was in Elementary School. You're making me feel so old! LOL.

But yeah, that was good stuff too!

[mamacass1972]

I was born in '72 and The Sugar Hill gang was one group that I heard really early on!lol

[Kras3169]

Haha, CLASSIC!

[Spoodily]

This is a quote from Too $hort, one of the greats. I think it's a timeless lyric.

All you brand new rappers got a new flow

You ain't samplin James Brown no mo'

Probably try to sample cameo

Parliament Funkadelic, you scandalous ho

you stole it, Ossie Brothers, Bark Kays

Barry White, Isaac Hayes

Have you heard the term 'Sample Clearance'?

Swore the n**** who wrote it, would never hear it

[Werdzwurth]

That is funny. Rappers are hilarious.

Only weenies like 50 Cent need bling & cars to be hip anyway because nobody listens to him, unless of course, your fascinated by bling & cars.

Real emcees don't walk around wit diamonds, when you make good music you don't need to.

There's been a lot of rockers toning it down lately too.

[Spoodily]

Go to a third world shit country and ask them to name a rapper. They will say 50 cent. I agree that not everybody likes him but he understands the business and has made a fortune through rap. Maybe not from selling records but him being in rap put him in the right place to put his name and products out there to cash in.

"Hip-hop" artists are just shitty rappers that think they are "artists" because they suck.

[jmjfanss]

But 5-0 is a joke himself, sure he's a businessman, but he does not represent black america at all.

[JCJ77]

When you make good music people listen to it and buy it- so then you can buy bling because you want to.

[DropThought]

Wow. Young Turks is actually getting good, lol. When they cover the Armenian genocide, that'll be when I sub, rofl

[hylton7]

These guys suck

[magicwhiteguys]

you are an inarticulate idiot.

[Rezda]

and she has nice ass tits

[tonylee1973]

I agree she is sexy

[tremone21]

crackers are tough they talk shit behind a computer scream. you an evil ass cracker. i like it when white people show their true sides. you prove us right. crackers are white devils that can't run the country that the stole from the natives, killed 50 million africans, slaughtered the natives, spread diseases including aids, raped women and children all over the world, etc. go back to your caves in europe. i didn't asked to be here. your ancestors brought my ancestors here dumb ass funky wet dog