Billy woods literally one of the most talented writers in music i have ever heard and im nearing forty
He was just called “average” by an internet poster man life aint fair i tell ya

AND THAT DUDE WAS YAPPING ABOUT G HERBO LIKE HE NAS OMGGGGGGG

I heard that one tape with the pigs cover Didn’t move me tbh

Kdot we got work to do...

We need music that’s both FUN and has a MESSAGE. That’s why you should stream my album available everywhere

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I always think of this David Lynch clip when people talk about a "political voice" (or some equivalent) in art or music

Importantly art and music should be inspired and honest and come from your perspective, "conscious rappers" and old soul singers lived in a more integrated culture where politics and social issues were a consistent talking point, so they were making music that reflected their reality and what they saw with their own eyes

For a young rapper today who become successful from social media I think it's needlessly harsh to say they're all "bought and paid for" when they were never going to make that kind of music in the first place, their lives and algorithms don't intersect with politics or social issues, rappers today are middle class and apolitical

Political rap songs (and most politically themed songs in general) hit hardest when its not coming from a theoretical place, all the people in the thread doing the communist word salad miss that, Tupac's socially conscious songs work best because he's speaking about realities he witnessed and saw with his own eyes and not because he knows the terminology to signal that he read a few tweets summarising Karl Marx

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Hell yeah

Except f*** Spotify

The goal of streaming is to turn music into a background filler

When we needed Cole the most he showed up spitting

At one time, my neck and wrist was havin' so much ice / You'd think I'm gettin' dudes deported to a borderin' turf

What do you use I’ll send a different link

Great points op. Sometime between the end of the 90s and early 2000s hip hop was hijacked and instead of resistance music you got materialism and glorification of crime, gangs and violence. All by design

This idea that "rappers make music about what they know" yeah they only know that s*** because of systemic oppression and you're encouraged to maintain that lifestyle instead of overcoming it or fighting for change. Pretty sure I saw something in the Epstein files about jay z being one of the early puppets in this transition

iPod classic. So I’d just buy it if it’s good.

Thinkpieces won’t change the order of the universe

That voice will come when it comes, even if it comes after you die

don’t beat yourself up about it

This is conspiracy theory bullshit tbh. If you were alive in the 2010s / early 2020s you heard all kinds of commercial rappers making political music for gods sake Ski Mask the Slump god even did it. YG and Nipsey made a F*** Donald Trump.

George Floyd protests gave us a lot of music and SoundCloud rappers had everybody in Kluxbusters hoodies

When it’s time it will come.

Well what David’s saying doesn’t have much application to this topic. He’s talking about how he makes art, but thats looking on the micro level where this is a macro topic. And even still, his art did touch on societal issues.

This isn’t about so and so artist should be Bob Dylan. It’s about how the industry as a whole has been disconnected from the common person. We have nothing compared to the past.

No I don’t want disingenuous art, I don’t think anyone’s asking artists to make art they don’t believe in. But it’s telling that artists speak from their perspective and none of them speak from ours anymore.

soul singers lived in a more integrated culture where politics and social issues were a consistent talking point

I do not know what world you’re living in where politics and social issues aren’t a consistent talking point. And I don’t know what world you live in where the “middle class” isn’t being eroded away.

He’s not and no one said that. He just said some bullshit in an interview yesterday

most users are just parroting bullshit they heard online about hiphop and don’t actually take time to honestly observe and critique the s*** they are saying lmfao. is what it is online

we’ve gone from hiphop police, to CIA assets, to Epstein files

dudes never learn and just move on to the next conspiracy

I actually started watching this last week because someone else had previously recommended it. I got like 30 minutes left

Fr lol like it’s not that deep at all. Whole thread on bullshit tbh

nigga stop it

what did I say wrong? he made a song motivated by George Floyd’s killing after protesting in ATL with proceeds going to Breonna Taylor family, the Bail Project and other black causes and chose to not continue that messaging after doing so lol

I just thought baby could’ve done more with it to be political

I agree dawg, is what it is I guess. he did more than most, even though it’s nowhere near enough

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