inspoeater

2y

What the f*** does that have to do with him choosing the peak of his rap fame and superpowers to make pro black music and pro black music that was “cool” at the time also

Yall gotta stop looking to these niggas to be your actual political daddy and just appreciate when they give you a good political symbol. Niggas would love Drake way more if he did that even if he was on some bullshit and its subtly why niggas always give Kanye bullshit a chance. And tbh the trap niggas could rock out with the ignorance if they even pretended to have type of social layer

Niggas gotta start impelementing rules to save the next generation.

Positivenamehere

2y

@SOLARIS @GodzillaMinusOne

So the thing is (funny u mention immortal technique, vol. 2 was a childhood fav lol) have yall actually listened to some of your fav politically conscious rappers recently?

If you listen with today’s educated brain that has read on things and maybe even experienced s***, more times than not, a lot of ya political rappers was just not accurate on many things (there are exceptions like The Coup and dead prez)

Thing is the 80s and 90s didnt have the internet or a @​theconsciouslee ig reel to put you on game with all that’s going on in the world. You “could” argue we prolly the most informed we’ve ever been in human history. The new “conscious” is introspection and rapping about how you feel and your own thoughts and feelings/pain.

It would be seen as redundant in the current state of things and also rappers realize the whole “hey look up to me as your role model” is just not a feasible role model with things like the internet (imagine if ice cube had a “this you?” on instagram that would never let him live down the problematic Black Korea track?) so why risk that s***?

Kendrick Lamar might be living proof of why politically conscious niggas see all the criticism he’s dealt with through his career and go “nahhhh, I’m not touching that lol.”

(Chuck D in an early interview also said rappers shouldnt be seen as the leaders and it should be people within the community)

WRU

2y

its not about the content, you could say someone did a lot to make sure this type of commentary never reaches wider popularity. by 2000s it was a subculture thing ('conscious hip hop') and by 2010s it was completely infiltrated and designed for status quo (tpab and questlove activism)

viscera

2y

(2) moor mother is the only notable conscious rapper to come out the past decade imo

raps2

1mo

You can be Kendrick or Cole and get everything you do looked over with a magnifying glass of scrutiny and criticism or you could be Veeze or Carti, corner a unique beat style and make all of your content “lol d**** b****es fashion” …. $$$$????