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“Hip hop will die I promise that, if we keep the lies in our raps”

I was listening to EA intro and all I could think was “Why is this 5’2 guy rapping about guns he’s never shot and people he’s never killed?”

Why is the majority of popular rap these days center on lyrical content about s*** that is inherently detrimental to the black community

Inb4 “they just telling they story”
1. Most of them are capping
2. In the 90s and early 2000s even if dudes did rap about shady s***, it would be from the perspective of trying to teach the newer generation a lesson

Can we have serious mature discussion about the degradation of the BLACK artform that is hip hop?

Are you white?

If so, I don't want to have this discussion

I’m actually a Martian

I was thinking for a while when dudes like Goldlink Chance Amine and Saba were coming out that maybe rap was going to start moving towards a more house and gospel music influenced sound

But the “tastemakers” decided that was “corny” smh

At the end of the day, is the music enjoyable?

Is it connecting with the people?

That’s all that matters.

man linked a Goldlink song

Rappers always been exaggerating

See: Pusha T

But still great music

And going outside of the realm of just hiphop, how come whenever an artist makes positive uplifting upbeat music (Kanye, Chance, Bieber, etc.) they get called gimmicky or corny in comparison to dudes who make songs about let’s say something like d*** abuse then literally die from d*** abuse

It makes them happy

Suburbans aren’t the only one out of the 47-50 million that streamed the album on friday

you really gon lump in Kanye's name with Chance and Bieber? opinion invalid, you're white

Let’s talk about why people call someone like Cudi white people music but praise generic trash like quando rondo

Yea exactly. But if all the people are connecting with is talk about being d***ged out, doing criminal s***, and disrespecting each other wouldn’t it be fair to say there is a BIGGER culture problem?

he had some chunes tbh

Cool

I don’t have a problem with that, idk why people try to gatekeep genres because of socioeconomic status and/or race

Rap been the new pop since drake/kanye/SoundCloud

Ayy what? Quando is pouring his heart out on all his songs.

Wow what up with the Rondo hate

Black people don't try to gatekeep genres, it's when white people come in and disrespect the culture/ our race but continue to bump our music and stans black artists

Ngl he is. But at the end of the day he sounds like 3 other niggas who make melodic street rap