While growing up, i always remember the disdain on peoples faces when you played Lil Wayne, Jeezy, or Ye around them.

With way too much free time on my hands, I wondered when did the change start? Was it features of the 2000s like Justin Timberlake and Linkin Park or was it the early 2010s with bubble gum/pop rap like Nicki, Wiz, and Drake?

Idk what u mean I thought younger people always liked rap

Like I don't think u were getting dirty looks for playing wayne from anyone who was under 40 or wasn't a dork

Or just like wasn't racist

This might be it.

labels

drake didn't start it but he finished it

Think most racists would still give you dirty looks for playing lil wayne

before or around the time country music started taking elements from hip hop. Even racists have at least gotten used to the sounds

I guess it probably started with like blondie

Nah whats really crazy is they now love wayne, kevin gates, and joyner lucas
Idk what it is with those 3 but they’ll always be in a racist mfs playlist. Along with em ofc.

I didn't know this this is weird to me

Ye? He was always a crossover dude

Bro-country?

I saw a hillbilly playing this

with this as his bumper sticker

gentrification is an outdated term. its really more like algorithmicfication
how has nobody said eminem

*EDM/rap crossovers in the early 2010s

Rap stopped being urban and centered around black/urban culture and went pop. White kids only knew the most popular rap acts back then,now they know of every rapper almost. Taking the urban branding away from rap(alot of rappers like early Boosie/Gucci only got play on BET or maybe the Suckerfree block on MTV)taking mixtapes out of the streets and onto blogs(those early Trap-A-Holic mixtapes were considered as underground/Thug as it got back then,white kids didnt know s*** about early OJ Da Juiceman until they heard his music distorting out of a street black kids whip)and eliminating having to go to a store,walk up to a cash register and pay for the new Kodak Black helped alot

Women

pigeonholed into some poppy sensation they cop me rotation at rock-n-roll stations

Macklemore maybe

culture is similuated now. this website is an example
hip hop is not yours

Been a thing since MC Hammer in the early 90s (if you are talking about all gentrification and not only when whites do it).

No I think mine was first

That’s what i’m saying. Power and most of 808s i feel like made people who weren’t listening to him before listen to him and check out his work more and more.