As someone who used to listen to street rap/drill music heavily

I’ve come to realize that the s*** only brings about negative energy, nothing about it actually helps you except getting you hype. Even if the rapper spits a little bit of game, they go right back into the same bs they rapped about 10 songs ago on the same album.

Drill music got these niggas my age and younger hitting the streets cuz they see another nigga get money and hoes off it. When in reality these drill rapper’s future is either death or jail if they stay in the streets. S***, street rap in general have had generations of black men trying to be in the streets cuz they want to be like their favorite rapper, who’s chillin in their gated communities while making this music.

And I know they’ll be people that will say “DOnT BLamE tHe ARt” but that doesn’t apply anymore in this era, black men are legit dying off diss records cuz each side wanted to get more disrespectful.

i hate to agree but i always believed the music played a part and had a influence

This has been a thing in hip hop since the 90s and isnt going away as long as it remains profitable

Thats why so many of these dudes try to use rap as a way of getting out the hood, cause a lot of times theres no other alternative when you can just get rich off telling your story

And rap fans eat that s*** up so thats why it is how it is

Idk about all of it but DRILL for sure did a lot of damage

Yeah if only the 90s moral panic about rap music had succeeded... all the effects of deindustrialization, the crack epidemic, the war on d****, etc. wouldve gone away imo

Nope nope we not doing this thread

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Depends on what you mean by "street rap."

Drill is a subgenre of street rap but people like Mobb Deep, Gibbs, Schoolboy Q, and The Game are just as "street" but their music has more artistry and skill than the average drill rapper.

I would say drill can be negative, especially when it comes to the dissing the dead, but not all of the Black community is affected by it.

The average Black KTT poster can distinguish what a rapper is saying from their own reality but kids who grow up in gang dominated hoods or dysfunctional homes are more likely to emulate that negativity.

So, Drill does play somewhat of a role but it's really an economic and community issue that just gets accelerated by Drill.

The rise in crime, for example, can directly be tied to inflation and fractured economies in inner cities where even many afterschool programs have closed down due to lack of funding but Drill is an easy copout. Look at the rate of crime from 2017(pre-Covid) to now and you'll see what I mean.

It's a very multi-faceted issue but it can't solely be pointed to "street rap." There's a lot of factors involved even psychologically.

@op Youre not wrong but this forum is not the right place to have this convo

99% of this forum is white and more then half of them are trolls / joke posters

lock thread.

Niggas in the 70s and 80s were 13-17 years old making millions dealing d**** and slaughtering each other before street rap was ever a thing

The music reflects the material conditions you gotta start there

I could see how drill has caused destruction towards the community but I don’t see how street rap as a whole has could someone explain how it has?

niggs saying lock the thread when it’s partly true

Before anyone else posts…I need to see some hand pics

Need that hair strand test pronto

Idk if this a thread that need to be made in the ktt2 music section

True…move to life sxn

Music reflects the the times man. Its jus ppl rappin bout their lives and upbringing. Street rap has a part of the play, but not a major one. Its the systemic issues that are doing the real damage.

So it wasn't the government moving d**** into the neighborhoods and assassinating our leaders but it was the art we used to express our pain and bring back the wealth to our families and the culture back into our control that is to blame

Got it