Hip Hop Really Deserves to Die At This Point
- Thread starter Awesome Wells
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This was my exact thought when I heard that AI track. Legit shock. Except a minor difference: it meant I’M the one who needs to bow out. Bc all this money = it will keep going in this watered down form
Any industry is only as strong as who’s at the top. What they do will be rubber stamped, and that’s the direction things will go good or bad
Lebron started team hopping, that’s trickled down to literally every level of hoops….James harden started traveling. Everybody travel now…Wayne’s legacy was the switch from dealer mentality to junky mentality
And w/ Drake, his legacy is we have the gentrified suburbia dwewbs as tastemakers. Not just Drake but Akademiks. It means if you a purist you’ll lose your shyt trying to fight against them just detach yourself from mainstream …ESPECIALLY if kendrick loses
Any industry is only as strong as who’s at the top. What they do will be rubber stamped, and that’s the direction things will go good or bad
Lebron started team hopping, that’s trickled down to literally every level of hoops….James harden started traveling. Everybody travel now…Wayne’s legacy was the switch from dealer mentality to junky mentality
And w/ Drake, his legacy is we have the gentrified suburbia dwewbs as tastemakers. Not just Drake but Akademiks. It means if you a purist you’ll lose your shyt trying to fight against them just detach yourself from mainstream …ESPECIALLY if kendrick loses
It's going to be alright guys. Take as much time as you need...
I know kendrick let yall down and its hard to process but continue to use this thread as a support group to work through your feelings.
this isn’t even a logical response to what i said…
Nigerianwonder
Superstar
Stage 1. Denial.
this isn’t even a logical response to what i said…
Yo this really a thread? So y’all want one of our most lucrative professions die?
Nigerianwonder
Superstar
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
This here.
It doesn't have anything to do with accepting "change". Hip Hop's changed every damn year since the beginning. And the people who usually say sh*t like "accept change" haven't been around longer enough in the culture to even speak to as much change as the rest of us have seen since the late 80's.
Like you said, the nonsense is on overdrive and calling that out is what everyone should do if they care about the state of the culture. It's not in a good place. And dudes should be able to say they have a problem with it. We all know it, so why aren't more people speaking about it? Other than dudes like Pete Rock. OG's are literally scared now. The same dudes who spent their younger years in the 90's calling out every single wack move they could find. They should be doing the same today. And us too.
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
As far as what?
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
There's been a lot said in the thread.
The profession of Hip Hop dying is not one of the issues.
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
Truth.
Joey Bada$$ is 10 years younger than I am. That's my dude. Last week, he was saying he can't find anything in today's Hip Hop that looks like what made him want to write raps as a kid, and said it's hard to look at the culture today and not be disappointed. Anyone that obsessed over this music back when it had that high quality and the culture was moving in the right direction, will definitely have a hard time sitting back and watching the building burn down.
Like you said, it's nothing but trash and bullsh*t on every first page of every Hip Hop channel and board. But everyone seems to have just accepted how garbage the game is now, and would rather stay quiet about it. So it's basically where we have to just listen to old sh*t we loved way back and forget about expecting more of that to be coming down the road. It's wild.
south took over around 2003-2004, after grodt came out and died down lil Jon kick them buildings down himself
once this dropped it was a wrap, bet and mtv and radios ran this song into the ground that entire summer.
Heavy_Handz
Superstar
& that is why Joey Bada$$ is one of the few younger dudes that I truly fukk with. His last album 2000 got constant spins when he dropped that shyt. You can feel it in the music. The music he makes is from the point of view of somebody that I can relate to & that’s what I love about Hip-Hop. Maybe a lot of younger dudes relate with a lot of the nonsense flooding the internet & airwaves nowadays and you only know what you know. I can’t expect a younger kid to relate to me being 43 years old and seen era after era overlap. It’s not about me living in the past because I’m very relevant and doing quite well for myself in my formative years. Nothing washed up about living in the present and operating with a clear mind & positivity. It’s about being able to clearly see through bullshyt on another level because I’ve really lived this shyt.
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
Nah. Karma?
What did NY do wrong to deserve bad karma? LOL!! NY was holding Hip Hop higher than any other region, along with The West Coast.
Nyc lost its way via grief of big supporting puff.
After that it never recovered.
Art Barr