Dino

8mo

A decade without one is crazy. Thought JID would be the one but he has no mainsteam appeal rn

TTU

8mo

Mainstream just means a top 40 prominent artist Its literally defined to stop these arguments

Windmaster

8mo

Yea I think these days technically there's not that many mainstream rappers, to me mainstream jus means the average hip hop fan knows of u (mainstream in hip hop not mainstream in general)

insertcoolnamehere

8mo

So it’s not because these lyrical rappers arent seen as “cool”

Like my nigga they killed 3000 for YEARS for going to the headwrap and thinking he was on d****. That’s a sentiment known through the city to the point he had to address that on the hardest verse from return of the ‘g’

It aint s*** about looking cool, that was still an era where locs wasnt looked at as a cool thing (ask a dreadhead nigga living in Atlanta through the late 90s to late 00s how I know)

DiamondsFlooded

8mo

it would be like calling fake migo era yachty a street rapper lol

insertcoolnamehere

8mo

looking cool

Nigga the biggest rapper out is swagger jacking a backpack nigga’s style from The Lou.

Cool got nothing to do wit it.

Free YoungBoy

8mo

I feel like to be a street rappers niggas have to believe you actually come from the streets

I feel like everyone knows slayworld was some good kids just imitating chief Keef and them

mr get dough

8mo

“First nigga with a Benz and a packpack”
And even though it was irresponsible broke niggas don’t have 25k to blow on materials

I’m not saying he was flex rapping but I don’t feel like he was tryna act like he was broke; a lot of times when he would rap about being broke it’d be from someone elses perspective like We Don’t Care or past tense

hybrid supreme

8mo

It's kind of is though? Honestly why would you even want to listen to a lyrical rapper if you didn't think the person was cool or smart. It's like taking advice from a dumbass.

I feel like 3k and OutKast in general is a bad example here because they were never really respected like that until later in their careers. Like no one ever really thought Andre was that cool until he became all quirky and started switching his style up...

In the black community yeah because dudes thought he was gay for dressing like that hence the Return Of The G

I feel like being "cool" actually plays way more of a part in todays music than it did before, strange because we seem to have a shortage of "cool" artists present day

I hope I'm still on the right track on this discussion cause I kind of forgot what we initially started talking about lol

met

8mo

I’m barely on this site nowadays but we gotta stop this gimmick of posting tweets about non issues

browser

8mo

Where would you say people like Eminem or Kanye or MF Doom fall

Not really nerdy dudes but not really street

I also think of people like Lupe who nobody really wanted to be but 05-08/09 ish he still was a mainstream adjacent lyrical rapper

what youre saying about sheltered rappers/doing laundry is an unfortunate truth about the situation though. Many of the people skilled enough just dont have the perspective or life experience necessary to be a captivating rapper

met

8mo

We literally came out of an underground renaissance in the late 2010s with the slums and adjacent of self empowering and conscious rap and rnb. If you don’t want to follow that then that’s your problem, not everything will be served on a silver platter

Valentine

8mo

Still waiting for GloRilla’s fast food worker raps

browser

8mo

I think we at the point where everyone dont know that and in 3-5 years we’ll see a full generation of cosplayers cosplaying as cosplayers if we not already there with osamason and nettspend lol

browser

8mo

Thats another thing

Once shes (or anyone) commited to her current aesthetic and brand its hard to imagine her doing that without it just being a video shoot with her in the popyes uniform like she just did. But her actually going in depth on that like spaceships by ye seems so far away from her brand lol

browser

8mo

I think we at the point where everyone dont know that and in 3-5 years we’ll see a full generation of cosplayers cosplaying as cosplayers if we not already there with osamason and nettspend lol

Valentine

8mo

Still waiting for GloRilla’s fast food worker raps

browser

8mo

But i mean thats kinda the problem with today. It feels weird to call carti uzi yachty street rappers but thats what most of their content comes back too

Its like they get the aesthetic/cultural benefit of being “different” from artists like yb or kodak who are more traditional hood type acts but pretty much just fill their verses up with street nigga type raps delivered differently lol

And the dynamic chuck refers to in OP is why they make fake street nigga music instead of being the cudi/wiz/ye/etc descendants theyre supposed to be lol

mr get dough

8mo

She would actually make that s*** sound hard

browser

8mo

Where would you say people like Eminem or Kanye or MF Doom fall

Not really nerdy dudes but not really street

I also think of people like Lupe who nobody really wanted to be but 05-08/09 ish he still was a mainstream adjacent lyrical rapper

what youre saying about sheltered rappers/doing laundry is an unfortunate truth about the situation though. Many of the people skilled enough just dont have the perspective or life experience necessary to be a captivating rapper

hybrid supreme

8mo

Cool has everything to do with it lol...

The Cool by Lupe Fiasco out now!