JeffersonSteelflex

2y

For these new kids getting into making music in genre I get it cause it’s definitely giving them the needs to survive financially but.. it just pays a huge price for the growth of the art.

Aquilla

2y

I get it. I'm ngl me having another job was the reason why I was able to by my art materials. However, to the point where you have no effort or passion in your product and it shows.....

That's where my problem with it lies. In order for a customer to come back, the product has to be quality and a incentive for the customer to come back. It does not feel that way in certain areas of the Hip Hop scene these days.

tomorrow volverse

2y

basically saying that Hip-Hop is now just a corporate product and many of the keystone members of hip-hop who could be standing for its roots and rebelling against it becoming what is has are leading the charge to ruin what rap music originally stood for

examples given : Ice Cube one of my goats

Jay-Z
Killer Mike

really you should read it, it's a great article

krishna bound

2y

one thing i'd like him to address more in the article (he does very slightly in the section about marijuana & essential oils businesses) is that this phenomenon is not just limited to hip hop, and there's no reason to think hip hop has some unique aspect that would differentiate it from the same trend happening universally in media (the supposed organic anti-establishment roots mean nothing.... look at punk or the 60s counterculture movements).
it's not like hip hop specifically sold itself out to capitalism, something he seems to be implying throughout the article, while every other sector of media is just thriving independently otherwise. in general it's just that everything is more corporate, more centralized, and less transgressive than its equivalent several decades ago. it's more identifiable through hip hop currently for people tapped into the genre because of how widespread hip hop is in popular music and culture (at least in america), but its emblematic of a far bigger issue in general consumption

Drogon

2y

Ye was right Hip-Hop the new Rock 'N' Roll.

Rap is in the stage rock music was post-grunge rn

demo

2y

so this means that we’ll get the hip hop equivalent of the strokes in a few years and then it’s commercial viability will fall off a cliff

insertcoolnamehere

2y

Hip hop assimilated...it has reached its midlife crisis. It took the corporate job, bought the Ferrari, left its family, and hit the dating apps. It found new crowds, and is still going out to the clubs, but no one has the heart to tell it that just maybe it isn’t the coolest motherfucker in the room anymore.

math fifty

2y

Hip hop at 50 is dealing with that cost; it has reached its midlife crisis. It took the corporate job, bought the Ferrari, left its family, and hit the dating apps. It found new crowds, and is still going out to the clubs, but no one has the heart to tell it that just maybe it isn’t the coolest motherfucker in the room anymore. It has also done the lamentably cliché thing of veering conservative as it aged. There’s a fascinating story to be mined from this mid-life crisis—but few are telling it.

this is what passes for journalism

internet buddy

2y

The article is clearly an editorial

NewCopeJustDropped

2y

That's you, that's me, the whole world is culpable
Why complacency float the boat the most?
I don't really get it, y'all ain't really with it
All that eat the rich, tax the rich, y'all ain't really 'bout that s***
B****, if you want some money, you can say that
You deserve the payback 'cause niggas took everything
Let's go get that and take it to the hood, though
Share it with community, we soldiers in plain clothes
Everybody got they role, don't be an opp
Everybody got they role, I'ma play mine

Oblivion X

2y

Was the word monoculture used at all

tomorrow volverse

2y

basically saying that Hip-Hop is now just a corporate product and many of the keystone members of hip-hop who could be standing for its roots and rebelling against it becoming what is has are leading the charge to ruin what rap music originally stood for

examples given : Ice Cube one of my goats

Jay-Z
Killer Mike

really you should read it, it's a great article

Smacked Voodoo

2y

Well I mean...he did go down the same conservative path that is described in the 50th anniversary article and the 30th anniversary article

Tubig

2y

Jay-Z, who has been recording Robert Kiyosaki–style Rich Dad Poor Dad rap albums in his later years

Amazing line

Block Muteson

2y

How is this lady in her 30s still talking like this

insertcoolnamehere

2y

@Rockman make one intelligent post in music sxn challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)