insertcoolnamehere

3y

The street rap women have a thing called charisma and personality

All the street niggas be too hard ( )

Block Muteson

3y

Kevin Gates doesn't have a personality? Kevin Gates has more hits than a lot of your favorite rappers. He was never lauded by the poptimists and he rapped his ass off as well.

I don't think people want reminded of street violence at all. They'll say it encourages it, but if you replace it with p**** it's all good. Then they'll say the p**** rap doesn't encourage risky behavior or effect children. Which is it? I'm consistent on this issue. Not many are.

shaleirose

3y

So female rappers can’t rap about their p**** but male rappers are allowed to rap about their d***s as well as women’s pussies?

Y’all act like male rappers are preaching abstinence in their verses

Block Muteson

3y

Please read what I said again. I said take or leave both

Apparently it's empowering to rap about being a s*** but not to make money off of being born in a violent ghetto!

Fantano is the exact kind of prude to never entertain violent street rap made after like 2005

shaleirose

3y

But society has been taking male rap subject matter for decades.

I think objectively speaking, rapping about murder and violence and killing is a much more harmful thing than rapping about sex. But I also understand that it’s all entertainment so it shouldn’t be taken as reality.

Also I think people worrying about children hearing these songs are completely out of line with reality because growing up, we heard some pretty vulgar songs as well, it’s literally just music.

EDIT: Just saw your edit. The reason female rappers talking about s***so openly is seen as empowering is because we’ve had decades of male rappers talking about women as mostly sexual objects, so now that the women are reclaiming it themselves it’s seen as empowering

Free YoungBoy

3y

He is right in that some of it feels very performative though

Like people saying women are carrying rap and then pointing to s*** like ice spice and city girls

provider

3y

did Ice Spice not carry the year?

JeffersonSteelflex

3y

but i’m not talking about just here

Block Muteson

3y

Every video game is about shooting humans in the head. The racialized component of rap is the only reason it gets treated like this

shaleirose

3y

But society has been taking male rap subject matter for decades.

I think objectively speaking, rapping about murder and violence and killing is a much more harmful thing than rapping about sex. But I also understand that it’s all entertainment so it shouldn’t be taken as reality.

Also I think people worrying about children hearing these songs are completely out of line with reality because growing up, we heard some pretty vulgar songs as well, it’s literally just music.

EDIT: Just saw your edit. The reason female rappers talking about s***so openly is seen as empowering is because we’ve had decades of male rappers talking about women as mostly sexual objects, so now that the women are reclaiming it themselves it’s seen as empowering

SinceKumbaya

3y

Before seeing this I was just going to make a thread asking why these pretentious reviewers like Fantano / Pitchfork seem to over rate the current batch of female rappers. Judged a lot less harshly than male counterparts

I like Sexyy but Fantano will act like Meg Stallion a great artist but Drake and Future are wack for example

Is it to look like he supports black women or some s*** ?

Block Muteson

3y

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There have always been female rappers. I grew up with 5 sisters in the mini van listening to Salt N Pepa flipping samples of established songs into hit records. I was listening to Three 6 Mafia. I was listening to The Firm. I was listening to The Fugees

The only difference is now it's merged with influencer status and triggers the outrage algorithm that makes things popular. It's no deeper than that.

I'm just asking for the same leeway for gangsta rap made after 2005! I swear anything before that can be violent and appraised critically

Niggamortis

3y

I mean it’s literally a good project lol.

Just stop caring about his opinion on things.

shaleirose

3y

We’ve never had a time period in rap where female rap was as normalized and at the forefront as it is now though. It’s still male dominated, but now we have a legit crop of new female rap artists who all have respectable fanbases

Block Muteson

3y

That's awesome and also not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the people who would never listen to Sauce Walka unless he had a p****

Not Like Josuke

3y

Glad hip hop's number one authority on black music is praising this

Mac Wit Da Cheese

3y

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Fantano needs tune in to Lola Brooke tbh

Prosper

3y

I'll never understand it. It's literally just a guys opinion.

Valentine

3y

His wife is literally black

etuev

3y

You purposely ignoring the fact that "its just a guy's opinion" yet here we are in this thread of 6 pages discussing that opinion. While people on Twitter are also arguing about it. Whether we like it or not and whether it's right or not, the reality is that he has an influence over peoples perceptions of projects as a critic.