His point about "outside influence" and inspiration is also crazy
A few examples:
- Look at Pac, dude travelled around the US growing up, was into theater and ballet, was the child of a Black Panther....no surprise his music transcended rap and was culturally impactful
- 3000 and Big Boi were bumping Kraftwerk and Kate Bush albums
- RZA was into Eastern Philosophy, foreign cinema and 5% teachings
- Drake was an actor who grew up in Toronto (a very multicultural city that is unlike the average American urban experience) and travelled to South frequently growing up. He went to art school. 40, his producer, studied Physics and has a unique approach to mixing and mastering
- Kanye was into fashion, videogames, drawing
- Snoop is an old soul who's dabbled in basically everything and has cosigns all over the map
- Nas was the son of a Jazz musician and was into literature and history
- Tyler is creatively in charge of damn near every venture Odd Future does
- Mos Def, started as an actor....Childish Gambino, comedian, writer, actor.....Dilla, came from a musical family, spent time honing his skills in church
The great artists that make music that transcends Hip-Hop and stands the test of time are usually enlightened and inquisitive types. All have some method and discipline to the craft. Some might have been privileged but there was always a yearning for knowledge and the new.
Truth is, many grow up without the resources or TIME to care about anything other than where and when the money will come in, but at a certain point....successful artists, ones that are 30-35+ that have kids, wives, mortgages, are still out portraying the same tired ass image of what they-once-were and arent giving the youth the knowledge and inspiration to do something OTHER than trying to look fly and be "that dude" all the fukking time. Lames like Pusha T who are 38 wearing skirts, rapping about coke, saying "Im not a rapper"....
The ones have real and reputable CAREERS, are the ones that paid dues and brought some outside, external influences to the table
Garbage in, garbage out. If you ONLY listen to Wayne and Gucci, blindly worship Hov, strictly browse World Star and IG and whatever lifestyle blog is telling what to be interested in...you'll get a lot of the trashy, disposable, derivative rap we have now
