May 10, 2023·edited
properthis what reading this while listening to rap music feels like
My giga-dawg so damn supportive
- proper 🔩May 10, 2023·1 reply
DAVlDPI just feel so far removed from whatever is popular at this point and the stuff that I do try to listen to just sounds bad. I want to branch out to find some new underground rappers who still rap primarily with bars and s*** but it seems like even nobody in the underground is doing that stuff anymore.
and Im not just saying this to be dismissive or anything but over commercialization of this genre really screwed up the priorities. Like a decade ago we had Kendrick, Drake, and Cole all on the charts all representing kind of a different pathway of this genre... now we got who? What are the priorities of these new generation guys? It seems like the music isnt even the focus of this genre anymore and its just all branding and visuals. Plus not to mention all of the beefs on social media and clout chasing plus these stupid attention seeking gimmicks. like I'm almost a 30 year old man I dont care about hiphop social media pages promoting artists with stupid viral stuff like "_ ex exposes him as being a freak in the sheets!". This stuff is just childish nonsense to me lol where's the good music? where's the artistry? and most importantly where are the older generations collaborating with the younger guys? Like off the top of my head I can only think of a few of these new generation guys (like NLE Choppa) who actually collab with legends.
and you know the bar is so low when Im bringing up NLE Choppa of all people... I dont even think I can name 10 of these new era guys off the top of my head either lol this isn't even a diss or anger, (beause most of my past angry rant posts were just trolling) I'm actually confused as to what is going on with this genre at this point... it just feels like the music is a second thought 
it’s time for rx papi and ka
May 10, 2023properthis what reading this while listening to rap music feels like
- May 10, 2023·2 replies
black hedi slimanei think the key to the vibe shift is making the distinction that rapping is a technical ability and hip hop is a genre. i think once we accept the sub genres that came out of what we consider to be core / root of hip hop are their own genres now, we will enter a better space
i don’t think there’s anyway rap could ever die, it’s such a human ability, and intertwined with how we tell stories. it’s like the idea that singing or songwriting will die. a gift like that could never ever just dissappear. the styles of rapping we once understood to be the end all be all, will always change but i think rapping is as integral to the human experience as much as reading a good book is imo 🤷🏾♂️
I was hoping to get these thoughts in front of you 🫡 glad you’re still around these parts & hoping life’s good to you right now boss
- May 10, 2023black hedi slimane
i think the key to the vibe shift is making the distinction that rapping is a technical ability and hip hop is a genre. i think once we accept the sub genres that came out of what we consider to be core / root of hip hop are their own genres now, we will enter a better space
i don’t think there’s anyway rap could ever die, it’s such a human ability, and intertwined with how we tell stories. it’s like the idea that singing or songwriting will die. a gift like that could never ever just dissappear. the styles of rapping we once understood to be the end all be all, will always change but i think rapping is as integral to the human experience as much as reading a good book is imo 🤷🏾♂️
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- May 10, 2023proper
it’s time for rx papi and ka
will listen to them
- May 10, 2023·editedbabylon sherm
I was hoping to get these thoughts in front of you 🫡 glad you’re still around these parts & hoping life’s good to you right now boss
of course sherm
been grinding my ass off doing my last undergrad paper (climate change migration research, and its so far from my major and research lolol)
once thats done, im just grinding music and finding health care professionals that prioritize empathy and care
we out here, struggling and still making it happen. broke as f*** but never been more hype to be an adult
love and miss u my guy, safety <33
- May 10, 2023babylon sherm
I was hoping to get these thoughts in front of you 🫡 glad you’re still around these parts & hoping life’s good to you right now boss
also im taking my writing more serious, so expect more to come soon
music related thoughts will always be posted here first
hoping to be the mark fisher of ktt...
May 10, 2023no
- May 10, 2023·2 replies
- May 10, 2023proper
this what reading this while listening to rap music feels like
lol I had this playing when I first came across the op made it hit harder 🤣
- May 11, 2023·1 reply!https://youtu.be/tAzjJ4D47Ek
tomorrow volverse
- May 11, 2023https://twitter.com/esqmontgomery/status/1656277106664275968user
that's a good question
I don't think it's run it's course yet but It is definitely losing steam bc Rappers are just in it to make money and not really expand on the black experience beyond a few subjects like growing up poor, being hypersexual, gang violence, having wealth and flexing.
Just a select few people who really care to support anything outside of that because it pays more to be a walking black stereotype than to be real for the vast majority
- May 11, 2023!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Aq5MNEy-wuser
lmao
I think YB is one of the best rappers right now but this was a braindead takehe was in the joint smoking too much Spice
- May 11, 2023https://twitter.com/esqmontgomery/status/1656277106664275968user
A lot of parts of this question I can’t speak on just out of a general lack of knowledge, like I would really have to sit down and concertedly study what qualifies and has qualified as a consistent vanguard of anti-blackness, specifically in the entertainment industry, before I even knew where rap falls amongst that, or whether I thought it was a vanguard of anti-blackness at all. To be honest, I don’t think I know what anti-blackness as it’s own concept even is. I think I know what racism is, I think I know what bigotry and discrimination are, prejudice, ethno-extremism etc but if anti-blackness were just those things, people would just use those pre-established terms. Right? What is anti-blackness? I’m sure that’s a weird/wild question. Is it used as a global concept or a specifically American one? If rap can be a vanguard of anti-blackness, does that mean rappers can be/are anti-black? Or is the music the source of the anti-blackness? I’d have to figure out an answer to any of that before I had an opinion on it.
But I don’t think it’s run it’s course as a form of intelligent expression for any experience, it’s still in it’s youth. Rap became exponentially more popular as music became exponentially easier on every front to make & publish, so I think we tend to treat every rapper that crosses our path as holding identical weight. In reality, we don’t react that way to other forms of artistic expression. There have been, technically, billions of painters, authors, and poets. But as a form we don’t think of it as overexposed or in danger of burning out. I think if cinema can endure, rap can endure
