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lupe non street??

Truth be told Gen z cares more about the vibes than any story street or not street

You can be from the complete suburbs rapping on glo beats about switches, beams, oops, strikers...

Than you can have a YN just rapping jerk/rage beats about being sad, wearing designer, popping pills, and girl problems

they don't care as long as they can make a TikTok sound out of it

yb or pop would be the biggest gen z rappers that make street music, granted most street music acts derail their own careers and got to prison or die

that's a really good comparison, especially because of the expanded branding and corporatization of both rap music & wrestling

while in the 80s and 90s, there was money to be made, it wasn't necessarily Great money compared to other paths. if you were someone like an LL Cool J or Pac or Big Daddy Kane, you really loved rap as an art form to even dedicate years practicing & studying and building your skillset vs the 90s, 2000s, and now, it's a money play.

so naturally we get flooded with 'rappers' that just view it as a come up and only a select few with a real passion for it and desire to make art out of Hip-Hop.

Fire

This guy did reference tracks for CUCK

what is street about that

sometimes passion isn't enough, someone like Logic is probably more passionate than anyone on this site about rap but we've heard his music

and you can't even say the people like LL Cool J or Pac or Big Daddy Kane didn't care about making money, but they treated rap seriously (even if they didn't grow up idolising rappers...) and they were hard workers, which is something a lot of young people today turn their nose up at (for a variety of reasons that can be good excuses but are nevertheless excuses)

If you look at the interview 21 Savage did a few months ago talking about how he doesn't take his craft seriously as a rapper, you can't deny that he works hard but if you said that to 2Pac in the studio he would think poorly of him and probably not invite him back

Part of the problem is that rap and wrestling (culture at large...) just doesn't take itself as seriously anymore, it's hard to come back from that, I don't have the answers for how it can as a whole but certain artists and wrestlers can still garner respect without having to pander to kids or be super gimmicky

I don’t really see this as a Cole diss

And if it is, I mean he’s talking like just because he went to college and wasn’t a street nigga that means he has no life experience which would be stupid

Right

And even then didn’t Cole grow up in a trailer park or some s***. Nothing crazy but he raps about growing up without having much all the time

That’ll always be relatable to someone

I feel this though

There are student of the game type rappers whose whole thing is just being a student of the game n s*** lol

Lot of ppl wasnt around for the pre f&l tapes

Where tf's "Mr. Egot"?

we gotta learn to move on from finding authenticity in trauma

They do have life experience and a story to tell. It’s just not the story HE wants to hear.

Also hate thst people act like the hood experience is solely synonymous to guys running around the hood all day doing bs. If you lived in poverty, you can be a straight as an arrow, go to college, etc, you still lived the experience of being impoverished in America and have a story to tell. You don’t have to sell d**** and shoot s*** to have the full hood experience.

Nah lyrical street rappers still exist they just don’t sell that well

nah this is lowkey meme worthy

cole should have never called himself a "sidewalk nigga"

Kendrick?

I hate a college educated mf

So he might be right

Cooked him

All amazing rappers so im inclined to agree

Meek Mill exists baby