Pretentious Swag Rap Is The Worst Sub Genre Since Snap Music
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There's a time and place for all this shyt... I can be listening to Lil Reese, one minute and the next minute it'll be Nas.... I don't see how y'all can rock with ONE kind of style all the time fukk no.
Lol so now black masculinity = gangsta? So we can't be regular heterosexual males anymore? Your view is distorted like the nu age hipsters.
You think that hip hop and urban culture should stay the same forever. With people acting and looking exactly the same.
G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman
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Where did I mention masculinity equating gangsta?
Music popularity dropped when the internet blew up in the mid 00s and downloading became commonplace. Rap dropped the most when it got boxed in as a stagnated art form and lost it's hardcore dedicated fans due to old rappers doing the same shyt over and over and over again.
Slangtonomo
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No it's not...
It's about rappers who dress as if they're bout to deliver some artsy music...and they turn around and make some shyt Pookie down the street who still wears FUBU can make.
This shows that they aren't sincere, they're only acting.
Same way a real nikka can listen to a song by a supposed real nikka rapper...and can tell the nikka is lying and telling tales.
Someone into art can tell a lot of these rappers are faking and just attempting to ride a cac trend.
Slangtonomo
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No wearing baggy (tho it doesn't need be too baggy anymore) is taking control of something and making it yours. Same as with the word ******...yeah it started as a slander to black people, but we TOOK that word and made it nikka...OUR shyt.
So even if baggy started in prison...we TOOK that and made it ours.
Omerta
All Star
U old nikkaz have some very convoluted thought processes when it comes to this generation
I mean I like to just keep it simple and say ur justbitter ol nikkaz but I guess nikkaz dnt wanna keep it simple nowdays
Straight up, you're a fakkit.
This thread has so many different opinions but it's been a good read because mostly everyone has contributed well...and then there's you.
Shout out to Charmander.
LOL at this. This is making me
You want your people to wear tacky, oversize clothes? So you never heard of fitted clothing that is made for men, huh?
Stagnant behavior is the reason why swag music took over; cause the "real nikkas" were so concerned about being "real" that they forgot how to be themselves and do what they want, not what "the streets" tell them. That is why I give props to the youth, despite some of them in their feminine shyt: the ability to be their damn selves and not conform to no damn streets or intertwine that the "Streets" = being black. Expand your mind, not on that feminine shyt, but to tolerate others. You sound like a damn KKK member.
G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman
Logic Is Absent Wherever Hate Is Present
Where did I ever say nikkas should rock oversized clothes? But if I had to choose between baggy jeans and skin tight jeans i'll choose baggy everytime. I rock shyt that fit not shyt that clings to me. You nikkas can't seem to grasp the difference. You think you gotta rock jeans where nikkas can see the coins in ya front and back pocket.
Not to mention that Stack Bundles and Jim Jones introduced the Rockstar clothes to the streets. Not the ASAPs in the rap game. They opened the door back in 2005 and it turned to this. That is why the likes of J. Cole is needed cause his image and songs represent a healthy balance of the black male image. Not the super thug nikka that kills blacks like a KKK member, and certainly not anything feminine. Too bad that normal people in Hip Hop are shytted on.
and who introduced that feminine shyt to the streets?
Kanye started it?
Cole Cash
They took a hammer and sickle to my back
The problem is that rappers often confuse themselves with being actual musicians and composers. Alot of rappers from the 80's and 90s had actual musical training, even Pimp C of all people. Which is why there is some sense of musical elements.
But if you grew up listening to say nelly, followed by Choppa Style etc, back then i thought those dudes were trash, but some of these guys kids grew up on, their style is modeled after that. Take nelly, then take d4l, then dem franchise boyz etc, thats who these kids grew up on and were influenced by, when the hook became more important than the song. Notice most of these tracks are driven by the hooks.
Playing an instrument and learning your craft is alot of work, I know because I personally have had to do it, I had to learn the saxaphone and piano and it was grueling but i learned later in life how to properly compose.
Rappers like nas, rakim etc have that type of background, its why craft is more important than content.
i cant comment on fashion because simply put i dont care about it, i wont lie to any of you, i havent even bought a new pair of shoes in almost two years, but as far as the music goes, very few people will be musical visionaries in the coming years, especially in rap, you dont even need a real voice to sing anymore, a judge on american idol right now is judging others on how to sing while she needs a computer for her voice in the first place. what does that tell you
But if you grew up listening to say nelly, followed by Choppa Style etc, back then i thought those dudes were trash, but some of these guys kids grew up on, their style is modeled after that. Take nelly, then take d4l, then dem franchise boyz etc, thats who these kids grew up on and were influenced by, when the hook became more important than the song. Notice most of these tracks are driven by the hooks.
Playing an instrument and learning your craft is alot of work, I know because I personally have had to do it, I had to learn the saxaphone and piano and it was grueling but i learned later in life how to properly compose.
Rappers like nas, rakim etc have that type of background, its why craft is more important than content.
i cant comment on fashion because simply put i dont care about it, i wont lie to any of you, i havent even bought a new pair of shoes in almost two years, but as far as the music goes, very few people will be musical visionaries in the coming years, especially in rap, you dont even need a real voice to sing anymore, a judge on american idol right now is judging others on how to sing while she needs a computer for her voice in the first place. what does that tell you
fakket
Roadie pipeher
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If thats what you think, then why even bother ask for an explanation... have your opinion and keep it moving... we are having a discussion here
Because that little nikka can't or doesn't know how to express himself in the face of a differing opinion...