I'm disappointed too tbh

Need GAME to destroy Trump over a Cool and Dre beat with an archived Nate Dogg hook

Niggas Die everyday b

Plenty of TikTok’ers, podcasters and influencers to fill that gap it isn’t necessary anymore

Honestly think this generation doesn't have the mental capacity to listen to anything that isn't just easy on the ears. I think its still possible tho it has to be spoonfed

What 😭

Yall expect too much out of musicians especially uneducated ones

76 yo bruce springsteen is doing it (and gaining quite some views). Theres a huge opportunity to make a classic conscious hip hop track

When you have an industry that doesn’t want to hear Consciousness outside of the fans.

You get a generation of rap artists like this

wouldn’t the people with a Walmart microphone and a “platform” of opinions just be 100x worse?

If I gave the reason why, as it relates to a certain group of people who are normally the label execs who control what the majority of people hear, I would get in big trouble...

nan this thread is sad

ive seen this thread and replied to this so many times that its crazy to me that its still a subject of conversation

this 76 year old friend of barack obama still serves his liberal protest the old fashion way

Hip Hop culture barely exists nowadays, it's more of a hip hop industry

and industry never doing anything to f*** up their bottom line

cause black “leaders” in hiphop like Jay-Z let Harvey Weinstein speak for them and shutdown questions in answering political questions about Donald Trump. no backbone, no platform, no message. just green in they eyes, and oh, lemme drop an album attacking the community but use myself as the median and since the community so blinded that they too can get rich as that being “motivation” they gone call it a classic meanwhile I was stepping out on my black Queen for white women then convinced her we need to win the white people over and got on stage campaigning her album to the white people and telling black people “when one wins, we all win” so keep fighting 😂🤣😭

long story short, they love money and love manipulating you to get them more so why would they be political?

a black man curates the Grammys and a black man curates the Super Bowl and all we got were STOP ICE pins and celebrities who couldn’t even expound on their thoughts lmfaooooo just give up on them (hiphop, entertainers) being real leaders like those of the 60s/70s. it’s all hedonistic

One of the few sane posts that Kanye made back in I think 2022 when he had his first meltdown was that labels were perfectly fine endorsing things that are harmful to Black people like gang violence, murder, misogynoir, sexual immorality, and other destructive things whereas pushing that on other groups would get you cancelled in a heartbeat. Especially a group who shares the same background as many music execs and label heads.

If he didn't go off the deep end, that would've been a good point to reflect on.

It correlates with what the OP is saying because it shows how mainstream rappers are sort of conditioned by labels and the industry to go "lukewarm" on the current political situation to maintain profits for Lucian, Iovine, Blavatnik, etc. and not be deemed too "divisive" to the masses. That's why even the mainstream rappers who skew more conscious are still being more passive towards the current regime and not even going all the way in on s***ting on ICE's fascist tactics(not just saying "fuck ICE" lol), the economy being trash, wars happening, Palestine/Gaza, Trump being on the Epstein files, etc.

The crazy thing too is that Immortal Technique and Dead Prez called this stuff out damn near over 2 decades ago.

i thought he would elaborate on "Meanwhile the DEA
Teamed up with the CCA
They tryna lock niggas up
They tryna make new slaves
See that's that privately owned prison
Get your piece today
They prolly all in the Hamptons
Braggin′ 'bout what they made" and never really did in his music going forward iirc

Look what happened to Lupe

I do think it’s a microcosm of politics and American society though.

No one is willing to put their livelihood on the line by themselves. There’s no collectivism or class consciousness which results in fear of speaking out

This too

The onus shouldn’t be on artists

The public are pressuring the wrong people just for social media platitudes