Pharrell

If i had to give a definition I'd say having a code and staying true to your principles and being really self aware

There’s real as in what it truly is (the answers itt) and “real”. “Real” these days is someone the kids and suburbans can live their hood fantasies through. Like it’s a movie and not real struggle, s*** that makes ppl feel like they’re watching Scarface

Let’s call a spade a spade

- BRAVE

Having ethics and being honest

the funny part of this whole thread is that literally everything, and I deadass mean EVERYTHING yall are all saying applies to literally every. rapper. since. '78 my g.

you are verified? Are you a rapper?

Share what's real to you

you got a bunch of legitimate answers and you’re dismissing them

Sounds like you just made this thread to b****

Real is somebody who owns up to who they are & are comfortable with telling their truth & living their story.

Doesn’t matter if they’re a nerd from a suburb, if they rapping about hitting cyber licks & quantum processors, they’re real.

Not you that’s for sure

after I reply to homeboy you'll see that's not the case my g but nice assuming

Payin ya bills, doing what ya need to do, and takin care of ya kids if you got any

You know Piano Mane is mad when he don’t end the sentence in “my g”

you gonna get like 25+ likes from that one my g.

Rap music is the new mafia movies and its been that way for 20 years now

real is just what it is. Its just what exists my g.

Yeah, I made this thread partially from that von thread but this whole week that s***'s been bugging me. Thinking back to that NY drill thread months ago and those reddits where niggas look at these kids/rappers like video game characters.

And I also had just finished watching vince staples' pitchfork interview where he himself was saying "just be yourself, you might be a fake ass nigga. You aint being real by being real"

But real to me is just is. Like, making art is real. It's a product right? When you hear 'fake' what's the first artist you think of? (rhetorical, I know it'll turn into a slander thread)

Like it's this thing where the rapper that has a childish gambino/lil yachty type of background isn't looked at as 'real' because they're not percieved as "took any risks for their families and friends" and to me that's kinda...interesting 'nahmean? Like the only time we look at "taking a risk for your people" as real is if it's some actual life or death type s***. Like we don't know how many economical risks that a Tekashi 69 took for trying to provide for his family. Is he a fake for snitching? Sure, I'd say so. But is he still real for trying to provide knowing that if he failed there was a good chance that he'd die?

Like what makes an artist real and what makes an artist fake?

I hope I answered your question, if not let me know.

Kanye West

A lot of them play into it goes both ways

being a real nigga nowadays is acting like you bout that life when niggas grew up around lauren and jack

This T.I. level deep