fear of them labels?
these rappers are watching the country burn, but i didn’t hear a single line about whats happening there, hip-hop should be a voice rn but instead they rather talk about how poor listeners are

Because this is who mainstream hip-hop is for now:

my newest president an a******
I guess that's I'm leaving turd stains

this is insane
but we can’t expect this type of protest from this lame
i’m talking about so-called “lyricist rappers”

they own everything

Rappers under 30 struggle to read much less comprehend and write about what’s happening.

What’s with those accounts all being called mason and having the same emojis?

yal asking this every other week while knowing the answer <<

gen pop not even organized to care about anything outside of maintaining their lives but u waiting on get money rappers in 2025 to say something 😵

These mfs already barely can write hits as is, barely care about the state of the world as is. And there’s no way we’re getting a politically charged song that isn’t hit ready. So yeah nah

ain’t this a parody account

Pop culture is increasingly narcissistic and navel-gazing. People want to hear musicians talk about themselves. Lyrical rappers figured out they could play to this audience by talking about internal struggles (mental health) instead of the usual external struggles (sociopolitical issues). They get all the critical acclaim and affirmations for being "boundary-pushing" that comes from political raps, but with way less commercial risk.

We have gen alpha kids that cannot read

Country headed in a sweet direction

🔥

I mean who in any genre is getting political right now?
The lack of political insight is a reflection of how exhausted, depressed and under educated the population is right now

The elites did a good job exhausting all our collective willpower over the past decade. Attention span is flattened and prices are inflated up the ass

So good luck if you’re an artist trying to build a platform on some social conscious s*** from scratch. And anyone that’s already in the industry is trying to hold on to whatever’s left of it because that music industry s*** is over high key.

Streamers are a manifestation of us living vicariously through young people with no financial burden or responsibility as the world falls apart

By design yeah

because nobody will care

Trav fans

i mean its p recent things dont react instantly, but to answer the acess to info is so easily acessible and so much of it is shoved in peoples face in this age that people arent really interesting in turning on music for just hearing political takes, its moreso about how you personally and emotionally are impacted by it, subtext, and like it through that lense. so people have been more interested generally in being personal rathet than explicitly political, back in the day it wasnt like mans had the same acess so hip-hop was like educating ppl all the time and tackled tbh much less complex concepts than what someone talking about like trump rn would right save for the few mainstream exceptions after the 90s like lupe fiasco, j cole and kendrick lamar. though j cole has touched on it.

Anyway im sure we will get music about it over the next year, its p fresh it takes time to make albums. its also that it seems rn ppl value sonics a lot more than lyrics, but im sure itll happen. but like, talking about things like trans issues, gay rights, government funding and s*** has never exactly been common topics in rap music, mans alr touched on the dystopia of trump as a president in 2017 a bunch. In 2020 when george floyd happened everyone talked about it because it was an explicit obvious well known black rights issue and movement, this not so much right. these are like beyond the scope of what anyone outside backpack rappers ever touches on really its hard to put in an emotionally hard hitting way without being preachy.

considering doechii's recent speech mabe she touches on it her next album could see kendrick doing it, armand hammer ofc

your such a miserable guy who has 0 nuance to anything he says other than the most pessimistic bad faith mean spirited way possible to look at things. what a terrible explanation

Entertainment is there to distract you

yes

That's what happens when the new mainstream is built off of mostly "vibes" and a few niggas from 10+ years

doechii didn’t even do anything political on her last album and drake stans were calling her harriet tubman slave music

lol yea she didnt, id fw if she did tho she gave a great speech. but like yea i think the strongest part of what im saying is like

when ever have gay rights, trans issues, governemnt budgeting, foreign policy, and deportations been hot topics in rap like that? I can see the ICE s*** being bigger and like economy getting worse yes but these arent exactly topics that have been popular for rappers ever lol. if its something that publicly is known as an attack on the black community then that would be dif. mans alr talked to death about trump being a dictator in 2017 it would just be the same s*** i dont think anyone cares to hear that. the general feel of this era and the economic s*** is a bigger thing that i think could be reflected in the music soon, but like the guy has been in office for what not even half a year?

feel like its p hard to tackle whats going on rn unless your like a backpack rapper or someone like armand hammer

sad but true