I wanna hear some thought provoking stuff outside of the mainstream.

I gotta think a little bit but I’m f***ing with Ghais Guevara right now heavy. Who else y’all got?

tiktok.com/@​nani2neat/video/7123187221502364934?lang=en (this guy got tiktoks of rapping over rage beats about political s***, it's actually pretty hard)

moor mother

(2) moor mother is the only notable conscious rapper to come out the past decade imo

It's crazy how we been living in some of the wildest political times of our lifetimes and yet rap is moving further and further away from political commentary. Imagine a prime Pac, or Public Enemy, or an Ice Cube etc... with this much material to work with lol

Sad decline to a very important part of the genre

No name gotta come back but she out here doing real work in the community so I respect it

Man… I just feel like there’s so much to rap about these days.

I know there are artists out there speaking on it tho

I was upset at the lack of commentary from rap during covid. An unprecedented event during our lifetime and if you only listen to rap you'd think life had never been better lol have given up on any mainstream acts talking bout anything worthwhile anymore. Kendrick probably the last one

tom macdonald for hardcore pwnage of the libs

I didn’t even think about it like that but yea you’re right. If you look at hip hop in the early 2020s there isn’t much of a shift in what type of music is being put out into the mainstream. At least not in an explicit way

The internet would just clown and call them Immortal Technique Jr and s*** like that.

We probably deserve what we are getting.

BLP Kosher made a political statement here

Got a great reply for this

Isn’t ice cube a f***ing maga moron

were you born yesterday

case in point

I see s*** like this and I understand why people despise Americans tbh lol

Tom MacDonald is right there

Wow I hate this so much and I have mixed feelings about you posting it on here

What the f*** does that have to do with him choosing the peak of his rap fame and superpowers to make pro black music and pro black music that was “cool” at the time also

Yall gotta stop looking to these niggas to be your actual political daddy and just appreciate when they give you a good political symbol. Niggas would love Drake way more if he did that even if he was on some bullshit and its subtly why niggas always give Kanye bullshit a chance. And tbh the trap niggas could rock out with the ignorance if they even pretended to have type of social layer

Niggas gotta start impelementing rules to save the next generation.

The closest we got was some anti vaxx bars lmao

if kanye listens to whiteboy its over

been listening to public enemy and ya it’s hard to not feel like there is stagnation in hip hop rn

@SOLARIS @GodzillaMinusOne

So the thing is (funny u mention immortal technique, vol. 2 was a childhood fav lol) have yall actually listened to some of your fav politically conscious rappers recently?

If you listen with today’s educated brain that has read on things and maybe even experienced s***, more times than not, a lot of ya political rappers was just not accurate on many things (there are exceptions like The Coup and dead prez)

Thing is the 80s and 90s didnt have the internet or a @theconsciouslee ig reel to put you on game with all that’s going on in the world. You “could” argue we prolly the most informed we’ve ever been in human history. The new “conscious” is introspection and rapping about how you feel and your own thoughts and feelings/pain.

It would be seen as redundant in the current state of things and also rappers realize the whole “hey look up to me as your role model” is just not a feasible role model with things like the internet (imagine if ice cube had a “this you?” on instagram that would never let him live down the problematic Black Korea track?) so why risk that s***?

Kendrick Lamar might be living proof of why politically conscious niggas see all the criticism he’s dealt with through his career and go “nahhhh, I’m not touching that lol.”

(Chuck D in an early interview also said rappers shouldnt be seen as the leaders and it should be people within the community)