Who cares

They're transgenerational talent who will be forever remembered and appreciated. While all these lil niggas are just relevant for few months or few years at best before being replaced by the next fast food rapper.

Not to mention its still a young ass genre, & one of the fastest growing genres ever if not the fastest period

Ngl they might’ve been great but never heard their work and it’s not relevant to me or my life

Normally I agree with you

@Doubledawg227 look at this

If Rap didnt exist today then something else would have obviously filled its spot & niggas would still be popping & getting money to whatever degree. And you wouldnt be depressed based soley on Rap not existing because you wouldnt know what it is in this hypothetical.

Rap is important, has opened a lot of doors & has a lot of energy & topics that relate to today for decades now, that is true, but the way you worded this s*** is od disrespectful, ignorant asl & comes off white af.

And yes lol, various black people were famous/rich before Rap even in music ofc, & today there are still hella black people successful & relevant outside of Rap & the music industry in general lol.

Being black can be so much & include so much more. It isnt one or two ways nor should it be.

Be proud of Rap, you should be, but dont act like its the end all be all for black lives lol.

I'd attribute the last part of your post to capitalism
Which isn't a win for rap music, it's a win for the corporations providing rap music

OP pissing me off fr
This ain’t Twitter

Republican curriculum

Not really. Corps were late af to Rap & a lot of Raps popularity was homegrown & self pushed.

Even other more modern genres such as indie rock that have also had huge pushes have not gained that same success. Rock & country did not have that same early success.

Rap became huge because it was different from everything, & spoke to a generation & class of people that werent being talked too lol & realities that were being swept under mainstream rugs in tvs n newspapers as if poverty, d**** & gangs did not exist. As if black people didnt exist.

Lets not forget the govt, fbi & politicians literally tried to outlaw it in the 80s n early 90s. They did not want it.

Its bigger & more amazing than just "capitalism". Thats grossly simplifying the history, pain & importance/impact of the genre.

No one wanted this genre in the beginning, & it was considered a huge risk to the few that did reluctantly jump on board. Most of Rap wasnt even allowed on radio for a long time besides a scare record here n there.

Thats also why a lot of earlier labels were self funded/founded within the genre itself, & why a lot of it was/is street n gang funded.

We got it out the gutter mostly ourselves. Its one of the most organic music movements overall.

youre bringing down the absolute juggernauts to elevate great contemporaries. I guess youre joking but why'd you do that still

I guess the other guy did the same thing and hes stupid for that too

you should

thread garbage, out

Bladee been around since 2013 has nothing to do with "hyperpop"

I aint even black but theres an entire continent of history and culture and achievements

Even inside the USA you had people like Harriet Tubman, WEB DuBois, the whole Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther movement, a bunch of professionals, scientists, inventors, thinkers and politicians including a president....

My bad then

The media cites him as hyperpop ?

nme.com/features/glitchcore-hyperpop-charli-xcx-100-gecs-rico-nasty-hip-hop-2841348

Maybe alternative pop with some hip hop influence ? But it's not rap !

Part of the cloud rap genre I would say

Still rap but very left-field

Regardless the premise of the thread is insulting to say the least

I promise you there are successful black people that don’t have to dance on a table for record execs

Celebrities can only offer you pacification and catharsis. That’s it. That’s their role in our society. They are a class unto themselves. You can revere and appreciate their capacity to entertain or compete or whatever, but that void they fill is the actual problem.

Big difference between him and ASAP Rocky vocally

Perhaps elements in the production are similar so I can see what you mean !

But yes this thread sucks !

damn yall would be stuck listening to jazz or some s***

its unfortunate that rappers are the role models for young black kids