Lol "Ego booost" bad choice of words, Urban. Im On Your Side W/ This Lol .....
.... If anything, i think niggas were nicer back then .... Cuz ur right when u said Niggas wouldnt be as good as they are now if it wasn't for their predecessors .... But thats only because competition shows you the possibilities, more easily anyways. 'The sky is the limit' .. Basically means whatever you see is possible. And all they see are the top cats of TODAY, not The Real Talks & The Daddio's Of Yesterday.. The niggas that were REALLY good. So Not Only Do they Not Know That Level Exists At All (Leading to a False Ego, Thinking They're Doper than The Generic People in their head from 2008) But they can't Be as Good As Them, Until They Reach Their Limit & Break Free From that, On Their Own. Thats when niggas say your 'Next Level' . In a League Of Your Own, When Youre The Shit & Know It. (See Rain Matrix Circa 2011)... They say if someone's gonna teach you, Make sure they're atleast intermediate. Why? Because Thats who's gonna influence you .... Just because the top cat on here isn't teaching you, doesn't mean you're not learning from him. He's Top of the Food-Chain ... He's setting the pace, And You want that spot
Back then, The Top Niggas Was Dope ... Theres a few Heavyweights On Here Now No Lie, But even they wouldnt match Real Talk & DAddio (IMO, Prove Me Wrong)... But they're the niggas you feel like are at the top, So they still set the bar ... But the bar isn't set as high as it was then. So all in all ... Niggas are good, but they ain't AS good, because the bar (The Metaphorical Horizon) Isn't AS high. & It doesn't help to disprove the false belief when Niggas compare themselves to an old-school cat like EtH, who wasn't winning titles back then either lol... No hate , but.... lol. (Its Equivelent To comparing yourself to Bnas because hes #1 of the month. ) & If Anything ... The Fact Yesterdays MiddleWeights Can Even Make it To the Finals Of Todays Tournaments (& Even Win The Title) Should say something about the decline in Skill Level. I Wrote Something For This Once: "Throw 64 Wack Niggas In a Tournament & Give The Winner A Title". Not aimed at anybody, obviously not 100% true ... but by using an extreme it shows you what i mean better.
You'll Never be as Great As The Nigga Ur Trying to Be Like .. Until u learn all u can from that nigga, & Go Your Own Way With It. Real Talk & Daddio Are Looked up to by the Guys u look up to , so do the math. (Unless a nigga broke free. did anybody do that yet? Like a 'Student Becomes the Master' Typa Thing.. Lol Push Yourselves Cuz If Youre Not Learning From The Greats, You Gotta Get Better The Old-School Way, By Besting Each Other. & You're Not Doing That By Not Battling)
Anyways