The gangsta rap conspiracy is the 90s version of cointel pro

man wants to ask forgiveness for listening to a genre of music

Just seeing this, wow lol

And I’m sure a lot of people are defending this as “it’s just words”

no the f*** it isn’t lmao

Def cause they push this heavily

The extent of that conspiracy will come out one day, but I fully believe that the sharp turn mainstream rap took in the early 90s was entirely the doing of the government according to a calculated plan

And today’s music is the same thing, meant to dumb down and make people hyper aggressive and hyper sexual so they will buy more and stay poor

Dr Dre is definitely a paid actor in all this. And they probably killed pac and big

Let’s make rock the most popular genre again

expand on this

Never

There’s a popular conspiracy theory that’s been around for years that says in the late 80s (maybe early 90s) there was a government meeting to determine the direction of rap going in a new way to promote violence and d**** to keep the black communities f***ed up

Before a certain point, hip hop had street s*** in it but positivity was baked in. And the government probably feared acts like KRS and Public Enemy who were spreading so much knowledge to poor black people

Then the positivity was eroded, mostly by hugely popular music connected with Dr Dre that made positive s*** less trendy

It’s interesting to think about California stripping the positivity from hip hop with its proximity to Hollywood, which would’ve already been well versed in manipulating the public through art, and already had a direct line to the White House

I believe the incedent where NWA received an actual letter from the White House about F*** The Police was actually staged and promotion done by the US government to blow them up. And I think they then put a lot of money into making Chronic and Doggystyle the biggest hip hop albums to that point by far, to try and wipe out the positive stuff as much as possible

Y'all need parents in your lives

Those played apart of it

But gangsta rap made black people take on the hood/street aesthetic as their identity and glorified it to the point where we are now that we got 12 year olds making rap songs about shooting up the block because the elders around them fell for the idea of “street fame” and are passing it on to the next generation

Outside of the Gucci Mane "The Truth" when has Gucci really did any drill music he always talked about more of being a D-boy from East Atlanta and to put it out bluntly Gucci was in his late 20s when he got big,

He was not sum 16 year old kid yelling out death threats on a beat and putting about how he wants to kill this kid and that kid from a different block

Fam “drill” is literally slang for shooting

How does this change what I said? It isn’t “all just gangsta rap”. Drill has always had a reputation for being noticeably more violent than gangster rap and it’d be ignorant to act like it isn’t

@Josuke all these mofos just being obtuse to prove a point, meanwhile they still aint gave an answer to any of these questions lol

When Mozzy went on Vlad and straight up said he was going to use his rap money to buy more guns and start pushing a line on mfs that's when I kinda realized I cant say I dont support the "violence" .....

I'm over here listening to his songs that promote a gang war, glorify mentioning how they've been upping the score, and calling the dead opposition out by name.

Drill fans cant lie to themselves and say they dont "support the violence" there's a reason you listening to sum trash ass 16 year olds yelling on a beat about murdering everyone they dont fw around their hood

I grew up listening to way too much gangsta rap, and the content within those albums was about murdering, pimping, stealing and selling dope. So I agree there is a distinction, but trap is just a sub genre of gangsta rap. Just like ice cube said, they are just telling the reality of their environment. @OP wants them to stop making trap music because it’s “ ruining the world ”; But these people still live in that environment, so they should be silent?

The main difference with trap is that it feels more personal because anyone can make art and upload it nowadays. This thread is making an invalid argument anyways because crime has gone down tremendously.

It’s just that we can see the effects of capitalism and the culture of Violence and racism on full display.

I wish trap music didn’t exist, but the traps do exist, and so does the extreme poverty that create these conditions.

a lot of u forget what’s it’s like to be a kid. I won’t elaborate

Yeah there's no way to really reconcile with it. But I also feel similarly about other aspects of rap, or consumption in general. So much of what we enjoy comes prepackaged in cognitive dissonance because of the system we're in. Drill is just a microcosm of our f***ed up reality.

you b******

This thread is making an invalid argument anyways because crime has gone down tremendously.

Overall the crime especially in murder has been a historical down you have to agree but for African Americans living in the hood that aint true ....

The hood aint safe at all buddy cities all over the east coast/south are worse than they were in the 90s since 2020 started

since the first chart stops at 2015 use the bottom stat to see the current murder rate