its in the thread

but it was me going off of the b******ization of "real" rap

De La Soul is one of the meain if not the main that started that discourse in the mid 90s on mainstream, and aimed directly at west coast as making "ignorant" music "nowadays" as "new" even tho "gangster" rap is a reality for people and has just as much of a right to exist as any other expression - while specifically calling out people like 2Pac (also why 2Pac then dissed them later on)

and also people like Kool g Rap + Schooly D on the east, Too Short + Ice T on the west & 8Ball MJG + 2Live Crew on the south, etc. existed since early 80s even in NY - so this "ignorant" Rap existed already near the birth of Rap & has been talked about

it is one of the most destructive and non-progressive + pretentious forms of "discourse" that they made popular

• niggas in the west - home of the black panthers movment that went against the fbi + cia and the LA riots that exposed police brutality on a mainstream level towards black.

• niggas in the west - didnt call it "gangster" (we actually called it "reality" rap LOL), that was polticians and the literal govt. labeling it as such and making us (all of us) now automatically part of gang so its easier to arrest and get warrants for - because now we are considered "gangs".

• niggas in the west - get f***ed over and dying by neighborhoods and police with no govt. help and no job prospects. and this part is actually bigger than the west - this s*** exist in the east too and everywhere.

but niggas like De La expect us (all of us in USA) to sing about flowers, honey & bunnies with how f***e up s*** is? f*** out of here. same with trap, gang rap & drill today.

niggas wanna b**** about one of the two avenues that exist for niggas like us in these situations an want to stifle it. instead of fixing the root of the issue of no jobs, crime, no govt help etc. in these areas, they wanna instead b**** at the symptom ("gangster" rap) that is like the only way to get OUT of this root problem. wanna yell at the symptom, not the root, while ignoring all nuances and whys.

and their discourse evolved into the b******ization of "real rap" and "concious rap" that internet-only "rap fans" and schizo backpackers always do since the late 2000s.

this is why its f*** De La Soul - & the entire ethos they birthed, while niggas have to actually live what theyre s***ting on by force. while ignoring and erasing a whole set of black people (and others) and their reality. straight ignorance. straight arrogance. straight stupid.

diggable planets the only hardcore "underground" overly conscious ny niggas i f*** with

niggas that actually get it and didnt step on others realities - and they actually did s*** to help in real life and in the industry instead of just talk for pats on the back from their weirdo fans that never step outside their room

Ty Dolla $ign greatness

remember when the QVC makeup lady was putting belt to ass musically @provider

a bulletproof SMASH.

she had POP in the palm of her hand.

I would love to experience this era

Yacht rock makes no sense to me half the time because it’s suppose to be this subgenre of soft rock that was coined in the 00’s to describe a certain feeling in 70’s and 80’s songs.

So choosing the songs is really up to the listener and the fan base even uses terms “yacht” or “nyacht” to pick if a song is or isn’t yacht rock.

But then I go into a playlist and see songs like this, and this doesn’t fit at all. I feel like it’s reached a point where these mfs just add classic rock songs that they like and call it yacht. This sounds too fast, too energetic. Yacht should be smooth sailing type s***

They even got Dust In The Wind on one of these playlists which is like the slowest, saddest, dreariest song imaginable. Why would I want to cruise on my yacht to that?

This is more yacht imo

This is like the ceiling of how much energy you want on a yacht song

^doesnt have a yacht

Amazing chune