Rap has had this reputation of realism and writing your own raps but we've had legends that have been exposed for either-or and still be respected in the culture, like in one hand, Pusha T, Rick Ross and Future don't live their raps really but are still
respected and people still listen to them.

But on the other hand you got teens who frequent chiraqology and are ready to clown a rapper the moment they get embarrassed on social media because they expect them to a superthug, which sometimes escalates into the rapper getting himself in trouble to keep up the image.

Lemme know what y'all think.

No

Drake
Polo G
Lil Tecca

Nobody gives a s*** in hindsight that Ross was a CO

Makes 50 effort in tarnishing his rep look like an L when looking back on it

i was gonna make a thread but i think people are too caught up in an artist being “real” over being a good rapper

obviously the rapper shouldn’t live his raps if they’re dangerous or never rap about the struggle etc etc etc but people say that one rapper is better than the other cuz he’s more gang involved or struggled more and it doesn’t make sense to me

it also plays into topics abt relatability

no

people who actually care about stuff like that only listen to lil von/sheff g/other grimey s*** like uncle murda or w.e

thot son or gaY daugter?

do rappers actually get themselves in trouble just to keep up a image? what rapper has done that?

Dababy?

It’s a continuing cycle of toxic masculinity and systemic racism

false. ... honestly he just gets wrapped up by his life

No people like Drake, 69 and Lil Tecca thrive with no problems and even rub it in peoples faces

Only KTT2 nerds and Twitter mfs care about s*** like this that's just the reality

what did he do? Yall think niggas are gonna go to jail and potentially f*** up their lives just to please a game that doesnt even award realness? All these rappers are fake and no one cares because its just entertainment at the end of the day

it doesn’t matter to me as long as you are a really good actor and you don’t take it too far

it takes a lot to play a role of d*** lord in music and actually sound cool

people just have nothing better to talk about. real rap fans are too busy listening to dope music to participate in the gossip

Big track record of knocking out random fans

I guess it's just dumb on his part but maybe he's doing it for clout

it only occurs when you on a criminal level of this rap s***.

if you artsy fartsy ass nigga nobody cares.

like lupe fiasco prolly sold heroin, We DGAF.

or Logic was really trying to sell crack out here to close of kin

We Dgaf.

people be tryna be with that street s*** and get caught up when they not with that street s***. even if they with that street s***.

Bro I don’t give a s*** as long as the music sounds good. Y’all think wayy too much about this s***. Just enjoy music and chill

At the end of the day if the music sounds good who cares

But i can never respect a non street rapper talking about hood s*** to sell records when theres niggas whove actually lived that

lmfao if anything people would clown him more for that. Maybe dababy just has anger issues he gotta deal with. Dababy shot and killed someone legally. I doubt he cares about appearing "real" or doing more.

Only if they talk that s*** like they are. If i find out YOU ARE NOT a product of your environment and you only adding fuel to the fire of people killing each other. Not only is you a b**** ass nigga. You exploitling the culture for gain. Tekashi came from a bad part of brooklyn and was broks and all that s*** so i still give him a pass even tho hes a rat. If all the mafia ratted and so did alpo. Tekashi still get a pass for rapping street s***. But if its like a suburban dude rapping that gun s***. And he never been around it at least. I dont like