What a limited view to have

They rapping about their realities. You want them to rap about some make believe s***

If they rapped about cookies and rainbows there would be no more poverty according to @op

This conversation should be about how white corporate America is exploiting and profiting off of the lived realities of these niggas because whether you like it or not,street rap reflects what happens in their lives daily

He’s just tryna cling to anything that will give him a sense of identity and purpose I feel bad for the kid

This idiot really thought he was doing something

Dude turned generations of government failure and lack of social mobility into a diatribe about king Von songs

Gross

Youngins were cheffin and juggin in london long before uk drill was even about.

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There are people getting murdered for dissing other dudes dead friends in songs

They’re getting murdered because they live in violent s***holes devoid of any opportunity with a culture born out of poverty and desperation tf lol

You can’t seriously believe that it’s hunky dory for people who don’t rap

I can’t believe Reagan won, flooded communities with crack while making sure to limit any kind of upwards mobility and now are blaming Empire records 🤦🏾‍♂️

Im not saying youre wrong but you cant pretend rap music doesn't play a part of that

This yall problem yall think of these issues as either or. multiple things can be true

It can’t be the lack of social safety nets, inadequate access to healthcare care, out of reach cost of higher education, single parent households, lack of rehabilitative justice system, inherently adversarial law enforcement, and stagnation of wages against rising cost of living preventing wealth accrument and home ownership

Nope no sir it’s that damn Nardo wick

Reading comprehension dont exist no more huh

I literally just told this boy that multiple things can be true at once

I swear to god some of you niggas need to get kicked in the temple

lock thread

One is a byproduct of the other.

It just makes you look silly and reductive conflating flavor of the month rap with centuries of systemic failure.

this aint a mj popcorn issue its kids dying

street raps nd not racial capitalism lol

Capitalistic/Geographical racism definitely played a larger part

‘Street rap’ basically reinforces and reflects their life & situation. Easy to judge their raps from the outside looking in

A lot of people on here are of the opinion that street rap is what convinced people to move into the projects and struggle

They treat it like how boomers treat violent video games

i think people might just be saying that this style of music is a net-negative and reinforcing violence and reactionary attitudes, (not to mention hypermaterialism but thats culture overall)

op shouldn't have been absolutist and say street rap is THE thing ruining the black community but music is influential to all of our minds if you take a lot from music like I personally do, it's influential enough to change your outlook on life

If you would somehow remove "street rap" from reality, it would only remove a symptom, but It would not cure the disease.

The disease is caused by a lot of f***ed up history and a lot of f***ed up s*** that unfortunately still ain't history.

Now Its not completely off what OP is saying about negative ideas that appear in the media we consume affecting us and then becoming reality, but that way of thinking does not paint the full picture at all.

I mean, negative s*** in music comes from negative s*** in real life and the negative messages in music and surrounding it, can add more negative s*** to real life. It's like a cycle.