I'm not speaking for everyone b holding on to outdated principles for the sake of culture is exactly why a lot of people fail.

Except at its very core hip hop is not competitive, it was a new form of artistic expression that like everything humans get their hands on turned into a competition.

Before DJs battled and MC battled hip hop was just some kids in the Bronx trying to party. Kool Herc in his genius figured why play the whole song when i can just repeatedly loop the best part of the song.

He was an artist at its purist form, just trying to find a new way to do something cool. To me thats what hip hop and all art is about. Competition does sometimes bring the best out of artist but on the flip side brings out the worst in artist.

Thats why ATL been winning for so long, they took hip hop back to its ACTUAL roots, which is fun party music. Y'all keep saying hip hop has always been competitive which is simply not true.

you watch the movie 8 mile and tell me it hits in 2020 the same way it did in 2002

People fail because they suck or it wasn’t supposed to happen for them. There’s a reason the biggest rappers are all competitive and the ones who aren’t last for 5 years at best.

Finessers are gonna finesse

If a blank canvas speaks to someone's soul to the point they dropping Ms on it who am I/who are you to judge?

Why would I watch 8 mile today after I learned it was a crock of s***?

"Sucking" is subjective, and "wasnt supposed to happen" means everything is predetermined which makes competition pointless b

Hip Hop had battling in it before it even left the park wtf are you talking about

Have you had this conversation with the biggest rappers b

Rappers are putting on a show and entertaining you niggas b

Being "competitive" is part of that show, so they have to come off that way to get the people's attention, even if they aren't at all b

Drake, Kendrick, and Cole are all competitive. Wayne was competitive, Hov was competitive, Nas was competitive, etc. niggas want to be considered the best ever or at least during the time period.

How do you know b?

Because of curated interviews? Because of made up story book lyrics b?

How do you really know

All of this is subjective even the people that win in battles which is why I originally said battling isn’t even supposed to be taken that seriously people are just soft.

I can rap about f***ing every niggas bitxh in the world, then go home and suck some d*** b

Some kid will be arguing on the internet how I f*** so many b****es b

You take lyrics too seriously b

Nobody sending shots in songs if they’re not competitive the conversation of being the best doesn’t happen without competition. People would literally just exist.

the point im making is that if you’re invested into something for essentially the entirety of your life you’re bound to have different views on it at different points in time

Yes they are b

Content is key, people say things they dont mean in songs literally everyday b

You’re not wrong

Not when you’re a Lakers fan

Rap is one big imagine, and competition is part of that image b

Most of these niggas just go home to their families b they dont give a s*** if they rhyme words better than the next 30 year old b

No s***