JR

6mo

You might be ignoring the trail.

If you f*** with Nas, Wu, The LOX, Mobb Deep, etc. You'll find a way to get to Griselda or even Action Bronson.

Griselda's original fan base were older rap heads. They didn't tap into a younger market until after they linked up with Eminem.

Older rap fans also gravitate towards Roc and Mach too.

Tilia

6mo

Crazy lyrical rappers rapping about pyramids and planets and really not making any sense

lanceylancey

6mo

don't you think you're giving ktt too much credit lmao

JR

6mo

Idk about niggas rapping about the pyramids but the newer underground niggas that bar up still exist.

Hit the Underground Renaissance thread.

If you f*** with Mike, you'll f*** with Mary Sue too.

tiiiiiiiiiip

6mo

what about ab soul

PRINCED3VILLE

6mo

It’s just not cool anymore lol

browser

6mo

🤣🤣🤣

not debating that but i feel like the opinions and mental stability of those type rappers is under way more of a microscope bc of the implied “intelligence” of the subject matter they hovering around vs nobody flinching when kodak or any of these rappers say some dumb sht. If we got ignorance in the direction of the lovable hood nigga i wouldnt mind ignorance in the direction of the conspiracy theory nigga in the barbershop who grazes against validity every now and then lol. Its kinda what we missing in rap’s mainstream lmao

Skydweller

6mo

Crazy how in 2024 a rapper taking about these topics would be considered right wing as hell

Classique

6mo

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sometimes i listen to an i feel like dying or an i feel like that all the time and realize they’re some of the greatest artists of our time regardless of genre able to balance the pop bangers with the esoteric with the socially conscious

Classique

6mo

I’m talking about your Jedi Mind Tricks, Pharaoh Monch, Canibus, etc. Crazy lyrical rappers rapping about pyramids and planets and really not making any sense but they could technically rap extremely well. I really can’t name any modern examples of that lane idk what happened

WopWopWopWopWop

6mo

Behold clandestine veracities, pyramidal antiquities
Fabricated sans humanity, by metallic entities
In arid topographies, solar radiation's ferocity
Cybernetic collectivities actualized pharaonic velocities
Sovereign reveries, in binary extremities
Energized these automatons' tireless activities
Photonic emissions for impeccable symmetries
Unobserved by anthropic ocular faculties
Servomechanisms oscillate, gears articulate inaudibly
Elevating megalithic cubes toward celestial infinities
Devoid of perspiration, merely circuitry's electricity
Chronological epochs elapse, they function indefatigably
Titanium appendages, electromagnetic advantages
Position lithic structures with algorithmic exactitudes
Hydraulic phalanges, emancipated from lassitudes
Accomplish monarchical visualizations with certitude
Hieroglyphic engravings or schematic etchings?
Historiographies obfuscate technological reckoning
Nilotic voltaic flux, incomprehensible energetics
Propel their incessant, Herculean kinetics
Ferrous oxidation, arenaceous accumulation
Occlude their genesis across the topographical expanse
Nevertheless, comprehend their architectural culmination
Transcends temporal boundaries, a pyramidal omnipotence

browser

6mo

This honestly another whole thread lol but we can do it here

For one i wanna stay on what archtypes you think Ye and Wayne each come from respectively edit: i just saw you said Pac. Crazy how that evolved to what it did for both of them by 07-08. And crazy that Pac’s rap dna so wild it can spawn two completely different artists like that

And right now there are a few main ones that stick out but the main two are street rapper (and there are like 3-4 variations of this lol) and street adjacent hypebeast/lifestyle type trap rappers (Yeat Carti Yachty) but subconsciously isnt implied to be a hands on type dude.

For as much as he is polarizing ian had a somewhat clever take on the second archtype by doing the same thing yachty or carti does (suburban or non street kid toeing the line of rapping eary 2010’s trap type subject matter but not getting too graphic) but its controversial because of the suburban aesthetic. Veeze also spun the street rapper archtype into something thats kind of his own with subtle tweaks

Then theres also the slums earl / billy woods or roc marciano boldy james types

Classique

6mo

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RICHAXXVOYCE

6mo

Raz Fresco
ELUCID
Akai Solo
Obijuan
Lungs
Mach Hommy (of course)
YOUNGMAN
Theravada
Koncept Jackson
Ba Pace
Starker
Phiik

There are a lot of them, you might be just looking in the wrong places

insertcoolnamehere

6mo

Most of it can be refuted.

Nature of the threat in ‘96 sounds hard until you listen back and realize a lot of what Ras Kass was saying had mad inaccuracies

browser

6mo

For as much as I miss 2009-2015, Jay Elect on Roc Nation at that time would have had to make a certain type of music to really have a career which probably why it didnt happen lol

Think everything that went wrong with J Cole first album except Jay Elec didnt even have the college kid thing going lol