Aug 9, 2023Talking about your street life in a non conscious way is considered art too
Aug 9, 2023Yes. And p***.
Aug 9, 2023Skinn FoleyThe phenomenon of artists being elevated to role models in society is a relatively recent phenomenon and an invention of capitalism though. Really up until the mid-80s that trope really wasn't a thing. Sure in the 60s there were those "political" artists but even then there was a much healthier separation between regular people and celebrities. The deregulations under the Reagan administration on advertising and media creation is what led to the catapult in celebrity worship that we're still trapped in today. Point being, this isn't unique to hip hop or any culture, and isn't even an inherent product of any culture. It's a byproduct of late-stage capitalism.
Nah black pop culture popped off in the 70’s to kill off revolutionary spirit but that’s a whole nother convo that has nothing to do with what we talking about now 40-50 years later with rap as a cemented art form/entertainment genre
Aug 9, 2023X7JQ9L2MF4A8Z@user is that you?
- Aug 10, 2023afterimage
Ktt finally finding a new way of rewording the “is rap destroying our culture/society” threads
that's how you know it's @user lol.
I love bro but starting to feel like mans just really does not like hip hop.
- Aug 10, 2023Cuban Link
To be clear, I’m not talking about rap music motivating people too be violent and sell d****. At a more basic level, It just feels kind of empty and draining to listen to music that focuses on satisfying your ego/most base desires all the time
because no other genre of music has ever done that user lol.
Aug 10, 2023Navy Blue’s last album is a beam of light
- Aug 10, 2023!https://youtu.be/19CYb1pZGN4
THIB 
Aug 10, 2023·edited·1 replyIDK, for me it was always pretty easy to look at it as like WWE. Like Lil Wayne, for example, talking about " I'm gonna run in your house and shoot everyone with my Nina Ross", I always took as like he's not serious, because if he was seriously running all over, breaking into houses, it'd be national news.
Aug 10, 2023I don’t really intake rap lyrics in such a literal way. The entire genre is somewhat ridiculous and juvenile in a good way, but even from a young age my enjoyment of it was purely as an aesthete. I don’t think art should be used to transmute moral values. This debates has been hashing out since the Victorians at the latest, and it’s not one that’ll ever be settled anytime soon.
- Aug 10, 2023·2 repliesNorthShoreWhiteGuy
IDK, for me it was always pretty easy to look at it as like WWE. Like Lil Wayne, for example, talking about " I'm gonna run in your house and shoot everyone with my Nina Ross", I always took as like he's not serious, because if he was seriously running all over, breaking into houses, it'd be national news.
now every drill rapper is literally doing that lol.
that's why they all going to jail.
still don't get why Atlanta fell into the drill s*** now too smh.
- Aug 10, 2023
like just say drill music @op you woulda gotten a better reception
Aug 10, 2023·1 replyinsertcoolnameherenow every drill rapper is literally doing that lol.
that's why they all going to jail.
still don't get why Atlanta fell into the drill s*** now too smh.
Drill rappers doing cnn murder scene coverage on wax
Aug 10, 2023Music that takes a person into a zone of feeling absolutely fresh as f*** and able to do anything they want is not bad for the spirit, do the education
- Aug 10, 2023·2 repliesCRACKASTEPPAVEGAN
Drill rappers doing cnn murder scene coverage on wax
drill rap really just this lol
- Aug 10, 2023
I was in the dollar general the other day and there was a group of small children talking about opps
I died inside alittle - Aug 10, 2023insertcoolnamehere
now every drill rapper is literally doing that lol.
that's why they all going to jail.
still don't get why Atlanta fell into the drill s*** now too smh.
yeah, exactly. To me it was just music. I wasn't one of those, " Oh, my favorite rapper drinks lean and smokes gas, lemme try that too so I can be just like him"
- Aug 10, 2023Skinn Foley
The phenomenon of artists being elevated to role models in society is a relatively recent phenomenon and an invention of capitalism though. Really up until the mid-80s that trope really wasn't a thing. Sure in the 60s there were those "political" artists but even then there was a much healthier separation between regular people and celebrities. The deregulations under the Reagan administration on advertising and media creation is what led to the catapult in celebrity worship that we're still trapped in today. Point being, this isn't unique to hip hop or any culture, and isn't even an inherent product of any culture. It's a byproduct of late-stage capitalism.
is this the big cheese
Aug 10, 2023no
- Aug 10, 2023!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F__owY1pXGM!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AHxjNULeKY&pp=ygUgcmFwIHNuaXRjaGluZyBvbiB0aGVtc2VsdmVzIGxpa2U%3D!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlGfy5IY5zMinsertcoolnamehere
drill rap really just this lol
The Griffy clip
Aug 10, 2023"Bad for the spirit" isn't how I would phrase it, but personally i find myself more and more disconnected from most modern mainstream rap
like yeah I get most of these guys are just expressing the results of the system they grew up in, but at a certain point the music is almost just a tool to perpetuate the same system
It's cool when I'm out or f***ed up or something but generally, as I get older i think I want to hear a lot less about how I'm broke and you're f***ing my b**** lol
Aug 10, 2023I think 2017-2018 was the lowest point for rap being toxic to the mind
Aug 10, 2023thought it'd make me happy
Aug 10, 2023Can we please talk about the social and economic state of the world?
Aug 10, 2023my girl was talking to me about this yesterday and yea idk man. there definitely is a subconscious relationship between how you feel and the music you’re listening too, just feel like it’s massively overstated compared to what you consciously are feeling when listening to it
