"You got these f**king kids following you guys rappers... and you're f**king rapping about these lifestyles...It's endangering, it's very detrimental, very dangerous to the communities, that these kids think that is going on that you did not even live. I think rap's supposed to be telling muthaf**kas to go from negative to positive, coming from poverty going to riches and stuff like that. And how to stay in that and how to change. That's the s*** that I want to hear, I want to hear about living life."

Sure, Jan

i stopped listening to music ever since i discovered math

this just in: humans are not allowed to change and grow.

because in 2015-2018 you still had positive s*** in the mainstream. Remember that wave of kyle, dram type of joints that was big?

F*** lil durk

people grow

what math u do

You mean one hit wonders? Cause you are not mentally honest if you’re equating the one hit each of them and amine had to the runs those Atlanta boys had

Tbf a lot of non rap fans thought rap was a joke back in the old days too. We can’t really take what they say to heart cause they don’t rock with it anyway.

You can change and grow, but be intellectually honest. Don’t act like s*** was cool when you were relevant and now it isn’t cause you aren’t. It’s annoying as f***.

You could say the same about country

Kendall Roy Stan account lol

More like he can't sell gangsta anymore

he easily could. he did a prison bid he has all the reason to keep pushing street music (even if he isnt partaking anymore)

its actually ironic u say this because if he did push street music he would probably have been a lot more successful post prison

-says this about a rapper that has (by rule of said gangsta rappers) done probably the most gangsta s*** out of most these gangster rappers

He's not the only one that I remember saying this. I think Roc Marciano also said he doesn't listen to rap like that.

We’ve entered the Meta

Pretty sure He was talking about executives not the artists who just wanna see the content change deep down lol

But then maybe he was talking about people just phoning in whatever content

I think he's right, actually. By definition the mainstream is the bulk of the genre: one song that gets heard by a million people will shape more people's perceptions of hip-hop than 100 songs by an underground rapper that only 1,000 die-hards ever hear.

Because of this, when an art form, genre or subgenre is in a healthy place, and it puts its best foot forward to the world, the work of greatest practitioners becomes known by everybody and defines the perception that the majority of people have of the art form/genre/subgenre.

even before the current internet saturated world, you could go halfway across the world and meet someone who knows tupac or em or 50. because they are legends. this is not a diss on the good underground music itself; even back then, there were underground dudes who had better bars or flow or less wack or violent subject matter than all those guys. but the big dogs defined hip-hop because they had the microphone.

with that being said 1) i dont think new mainstream music is bad as some people are saying (although i admit i dont keep up with new s*** like i used to) and 2) the internet has upended the mainstream-underground distinction greatly. but however the financials and logistics of hip-hop music releases changes in the future, the simple formula of "more people hear a song = more people think 'this is what hip hop is'" remains

I mean coming up the mainstream was how I got into rap. I go back now and get into doom and s*** and find it surreal that this was out and I had no knowledge of it but how would a child find that? Lupe being next to Lean Wit It Rock Wit It on 106 and park gave me and my generation some balance. Now that don’t exist and all the kids like Yeat type music without a Lupe nas type next to it for balance

The mood is so doomer lately

Pretty funny ngl

And we see country and pop and whatever else as jokes too

The fans not gonna give a f*** what an outsider thinks

Rock and jazz are pretty well respected tbh pop and country not so much, yeah.