yeahhh i heard that album was mad political and focused on writing. crazy

Let’s be real y’all don’t want to hear that s***

And I’m not against political rap/music but if a political song came out today by a popular artist it would plummet on the charts. Especially if it’s about the Israel-Palestine conflict

For a political rap song to work it would have to be akin to Not Like Us where it calls out the problems while also being meme worthy for it to go viral

this isn't AI it's an impersonator?

yeah could be tbh.

Kendrick superbowl was political too with Sam Jackson and in front of Trump. It got MAGA backlash but I would like to see more tbh.

Oh yeahh trueee and not like us. That makes Kendrick, Cole, doechii and bad bunny. Those are some of the biggest artists around, hope we get more too

to work as in be commercially successful? Or achieve actual change?

No music is actually achieving change on its own unless it’s for a simple like very easy to articulate wrong thing people already have an issue with tbh

Like the only s*** I can think of are alright and the bigger picture but those came out just as anthems in protests for simple to understand movements

it ain't even about not getting political, it's normalizing MAGA mentality in hip hop which to me is even worse. The biggest rappers in the game are cosigning and hyping the likes of Nelk Boys and Adin Ross.

For me hip hop is sacred and this s*** is sad af to see and for people to put stannery over calling this out is insane.

I used to love Ye but some s*** is above music for me.

1. I hate you, i do genuinely think that one line was enough criticism but ill give the insight

2. Algorithms babysit people & only care about safe "easy" content. (what I mean by distracted)

3. Audiences are sick of the real world, music lets them escape. (what I mean by distracted)

4. Labels/people in charge only care about profit, so decreasing controversy is less risk and more reward. (part of what I mean by they)

so I believe all these things are engineered by "them" (rich people, people in control, people making decisions, idk they're all part of... capitalism i guess?) to keep consumers distracted instead of "rebelling" because anything else would mean less money & some of the things that you guys (and i) have mentioned all reinforce each other as part of

"because #they want these forms of entertainment to distract the masses not wake them up"

I don't expect any modern rapper to tackle s*** regarding politics or real people problems. Have you heard modern rap, most of it is bullshit.

Yea this s*** is very bad I agree

Drake, Kanye, Yb, sexxy redd, Mexican OT all do it it’s nasty. It’s cuz it appeals to like average conservative sensibilities that come with hyper masculine hip hop culture and also it’s the rising big right wing shift in media rn. Think Kanye made this significantly worse

Nelk Boys & Adin

Who are the “people in control” and “people making decisions” what does this actually look like do u think it’s a kabbal of guys seated around a table like oops doechii u rapped about economic policy ur album is getting shelved now!!

99?

This is a parody account and these types of guys listen to country and Travis Scott or Drake sometimes. Historically most of the base in hip hop also are Christian, homophobic, transphobic, and into sports also, like they r commonly associated with most minorities in America sadl. A guy like this prolly hates most hip hop acts or tolerates them…

WTF IS THIS TAKE

It's bad out here

not a hip hop only problem mainstream music in general is just cooked when it comes to this

Both, because a song need to be commercially successful for the general public to be aware of it

I mean it is a parody account and yea guys like this aren’t rly bumping Kendrick Lamar j Cole doechii and sexxy red they like Drake Travis and country…

Are u gonna deny most of hip hop history and listeners and culture has been heavily tied to homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, heteronormativity, Christianity, and basketball has been tied to it esp for ethnic minorities in general in said culture

I love you

on number 2, Algorithms don't care about safe or easy content, they care about what makes people repeat customers, if someone is engaged by Palestine or ICE content they'll feed them a thousand hours of Palestine and ICE content which in the end achieves the same amount of real change as someone watching a thousand hours of memes

on number 3, escapism is healthy in doses, I don't think everything should be made with the explicit purpose of advocating and pontificating but that's with the proviso that people are thoughtfully educated

on number 4, decreasing controversy does not mean more reward, in this entertainment economy being controversy and risk averse only works if you're grandfathered in, the biggest new creators on social media are increasingly controversial and risky

I don't think there's any 1 group of people that decided 20 years ago lets get together and control things so specifically to keep people distracted, it's much more fragmented and bureaucratic than that, it's ahistorical to not recognise the patterns and to try and simplify it

We should all be better educated and live more fulfilling lives, and these narratives about a specific "they" only confuse the issue instead of tackling real issues

Tbh, that's just the music industry in general.

Many artists already went anti-Trump in 2015-2017 and they probably don't see a point in going that route again either due to Trump's fragile pettiness or not wanting to be anyone's "savior."

Homophobia, misogyny and transphobia, I'll give you that, but every rapper doesn't explicitly point this stuff out in their music. B-Ball culture is a stretch, Hip Hop is way more tied to gang culture in general.

When they do they will either get overlooked or be labeled a grifter and fake activist.