Name some

Him working with ye isn’t a gotcha it informs his stance

somewhere between the HBCU 80s-mid 90s and the 2000s, academia became "less cool" as academia began to be more associated with elitism and out of touchness versus niggas that was there that really came from the hood so they was more in tune with what was happening with the common man while still being able to "wear the mask" as WEB Dubois would say.

B**** Nigga you signed to one...

exactly

stove god
boldy james
all of griselda
freddie gibbs
g herbo
rylo
nocap

Mozzy
G herbo
Roc Marciano
Griselda obviously
Gibbs
Stove God
Kodak is lyrical when he wants to be
Gates

lupe who was begging a teenage keef for mercy online street

I love pretty much every rapper you named but all of them have been making music for 15 plus years (kodak 12 years)

Rylo and Nocap are the only out of those list id consider remotely new

Amazing

Funny enough the man hes replying to is the perfect lyrical street rapper

I guess but a bunch on that list blew up in this era

vibes

future & drill music changed the streets

Jfc I feel the dust in my joints when I listen to this

ur lost

kanye’s raps were much better before he signed cyhi tho ngl

yeap, educational decline is why so much s*** sucks in general now. why a lot of media is ass, why there's little to no polices consciousness/rising tide of fascism, etc

man i wish coulda went to college this nigga dumb as hell

s*** is simple. if u want to blow up today and ur just a regular guy from the streets w no connections, ur best bet is to get some traction on soundcloud or go viral on ig or wtv. lazerdim is the most recent example of a guy who blew tf up w this method.

heres the thing tho if u wanna blow up on soundcloud, u cant just have good bars. u need an actually interesting and unique sound to stand out from the crowd bc theres so many people ur competing with.

of course the street dudes who wanna make bread off rap will focus more on finding a good vocal delivery, interesting preset, and crazy beats than hone their lyricism. lyricism is not rewarded as much when the sound of the music is the most important factor.

tbf tho lazerdim is still a good ass mc, he has some hard ass lines, and dude can be funny as s***.

I get what he's trying to say but that's a very small minded take and kind of an insult to a person's creative potential. It doesn't matter where you are from, if you are creative or have an interesting perspective it doesn't matter where you are from as much.

thank you dude been mid