Yes OP listen to seiji oda. You can't play these and be in a bad mood

As in gatekeepers to keep lousy artists that do more harm than good to the genre out, or to keep the prejudiced individuals away? Gatekeepers won't do anything for prejudiced ppl since they don't engage to begin with and most of their takes are founded "facts" from their ass and legit racism.

Music in general taps into a certain human emotion, thus can lead to an unstable psyche.

For myself, I'm able to separate the wrongdoings of the content (such as violence, sex, d*** use etc.) & am able just to enjoy the music/art for what it is.

But it def can affect others.

Nothing to do with me not being able to be silly, I just find his voice and delivery obnoxious personally

Great post, I was about to post Tisa and 454

Bear1Boss is another rapper making fun music

@op You need to be listening to RealYungPhil

Him being obnoxious is part of the appeal for me

Oh yea forgot about him too

I say that but it was 90%< RXK and that man is a demon in human form. He occasionally raps about more neutral subjects like how much he loves his girl, the hardships of his life, or the grind to success, but most of it is about the trap, selling crack, and crime. It wouldn't be so easy to sell if he didn't have such a charismatic and absurd form of lyricism and good beat selection, but man I wish he would explore the former subjects more.

Obviously therein lies my problem but I've got obsessive habits when it comes to listening to one artist at a time, but I've getting better broadening my horizons lately.

Tyler isn't really really violent at all and Skepta is only part time, but both have a great range of tone and subject matter.

Not knocking it either just different strokes for different folks

ur so real

Yeah thats what it boils down to is some being more receptive to what they hear than others and I fall into that camp, for better and for worse, but beyond that it heavily dictates the hot sounds, nature of upcoming artists, and reputation of the genre. I remember we hit a near all time low in integrity a few years back when dissing dead opps was the trend.

skepta has such a variety of sounds but i can see how the grime stuff can do that to you

U gotta listen to the British s***, same vibe but hella humorous when you play out the lyrics they saying in your mind

It was less Skepta and more RXK, I explained it a few posts above yours

Man wtf are yall listening to? A lot of rappers I listen to regularly have some pretty positive messages or at least good senses of humor. OutKast, Lil Wayne, E-40, MF Doom, Jay, Nas, Eminem. They put me in a good mood not a negative one

You are what you feed your brain.

All this rap music subconsciously telling you f*** everyone , get money , chase materials , have no heart, kick back have fun cause your rich

dam im zinged out i cant name any
check some pages bak or sum, explore and listen the ones you havent yet

oddisee so good man

open.spotify.com/album/1kg8zgz4DWrLoUIzpFxBeL
music.apple.com/us/album/lord-forgive-me/1747130575

This has been making me really happy @op