Lmao you on gimmick but this facts. Street rappers have some of the deepest, heart turning songs till this day

why are people not able to appreciate the different aspects of rap.

you can appreciate sexxy red and noname

lupe and kendrick more "street" than 99% of "street rappers"

It’s human nature to choose between (perceived) dichotomies

edit: I guess our nature is actually creating them

"Once we lose the soul we’ve lost the genre."

And that's exactly what happened with R&B

He was young

I’ll give him grace on that one

a lot of rappers try to distance themselves from that title. vince, kendrick, etc have all said slick s*** about it

That was also in the midst of the third eye beast coast s***

Being lyrical and conceptual wasn’t seen as necessarily being conscious back then

Now if you try at rapping ur some freak

What I’m tryna state is that folk love to praise artist like them but when a kid from the gutter is telling they story it’s looked as not “deep” or “soulful” enough when they making music about the life we know

What I don't like is people pushing this idea that rap has only ever been super conscious and anyone not making that type of rap isn't a real rapper or isn't making real rap music. Hip-hop started out as a youth movement and other aspects of it like DJing, breakdancing, graffiti were naturally fun and rebellious and anti-establishment due to their counter-culture nature.

But FUN has always been embedded in hip-hop and everything it connotes. This idea that anyone making fun music or rapping about lighter topics isn't "for the culture" is stupid. There's always been conscious rap music but party/fun rap has always been there as well.

Also, everyone should have a right to do what they wanna do without being felt like what they're doing is inferior. Whoever prefers more fun rap songs to conscious rap songs should do that without s***ting on conscious rap and vice-versa. Both sides have always co-existed and rap has always been as it's best when there's enough space at the top for both to get their shine.

shouldnt react to tourists

i feel like its so masterfully worded that this might be engagement bait

twitter brainrot is poisoning hiphop discourse

not if you dont go on twitter

She’s the one.

voices inside my head u the enemy

no drake stans legitmately think like this

Ur just conjuring up ur own issue

there isn’t some sort of popular diminishment of “fun music” within rap music. If anything it’s quite the opposite

and i ain’t been the same since that nigga shot me

i am wholeheartedly convinced that the cia has taken over hip hop at some point in the 90s to make sure it does not go any more popular-while-being-conscious than pac. they course corrected it to being fun first and a vessel to tell about actual conditions of a significant part of population second. kendrick is not even an exception here because his message is not that much against the status quo

i’m tryna focus on this bread u tryna marry me

I can’t believe I agree with Troy Ave Stan, lol.
I think sometimes some people do unfairly discount street rappers and the truths and perspectives that exist in the art they create. It’s actually cringe as f*** when someone says something like “yeah I listen to rap, but only Kendrick and Lupe and rappers with content, none of that street trash 🤓🤓” and i hear people say s*** like that a disconcerting amount.
Like, yes, Kendrick, Lupe, and all the more traditionally “conscious” rappers are great, but denying the lived experiences and souls of street rappers, that they lay out in their art, is shortsighted and wrong, at least in my opinion.
EDIT: oops, the quote went away, lol. @TroyAveStan i agree with the post you made about how street rappers are just as valid as rappers that are treated as more conscious traditionally

🤔

pac was top of the charts while also irl shooting at cops and reading and talking about stalin books, theres not a single way they would allow this to continue