Saw this Dram video. I think its safe to say nikkas done ran outta gimmicks

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i think the gimmick between dram and yatchy, etc. is the appearance of happiness (supposedly happy ass beats and vibes and smiley face)... but if you listen to the lyrics they aren't really all that positive. its kinda weird
I didn't even know that which proves my point even further:mjlol:
 
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I didn't even know that which proves my point even further:mjlol:
i listen to dram, he has some soulful stuff on his projects but his singles are usually his most happy go lucky shyt. i dont listen to yatchy at all but i had to read his lyrics when i kept hearing people say shyt like "he's so positive and he makes me feels so happy" ... obviously those people dont really listen to music, they just vibe i guess. his lyrics full of misogyny, violence and angst lol :yeshrug:
 

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Yall being dishonest and you know it. Nobody said something was wrong with smiling but you cant tell me this isn't that nikkas gimmick










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Every damn pic. No one is this damn happy and you can tell he's forcing it in some of these:mjlol:
You know who would be this happy?

Someone who just broke into an industry they've been working at for YEARS.

Someone who can pay bills just making music, not havin to work a 9 to 5.

Be honest man yall just used to people complaining and being depressed, 99% of threads on here are about disliking something or being upset about something, same shyt on twitter. Seein someone smiling got you suspicious, think about how crazy that sounds.

You make a thread about nikkas who look sad in every pic? I highly doubt it :mjpls:





Or maybe the nikka just fukks with shrooms/acid :pachaha: they'll have you geekin all day at absolutely nothing
 

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You know who would be this happy?

Someone who just broke into an industry they've been working at for YEARS.

Someone who can pay bills just making music, not havin to work a 9 to 5.

Be honest man yall just used to people complaining and being depressed, 99% of threads on here are about disliking something or being upset about something, same shyt on twitter. Seein someone smiling got you suspicious, think about how crazy that sounds.

You make a thread about nikkas who look sad in every pic? I highly doubt it :mjpls:





Or maybe the nikka just fukks with shrooms/acid :pachaha: they'll have you geekin all day at absolutely nothing
You know damn well this is that nikka's image:mjlol:



He high af early in the morning. I can look into his soul and see he forced it:mjlol:
 

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You know damn well this is that nikka's image:mjlol:



He high af early in the morning. I can look into his soul and see he forced it:mjlol:
nikka i wake and bake too tf you mean :mjlol:


But okay I'll play along, I'd rather have the extremely impressionable youth (who rap is PRIMARILY made for) constantly see images of a nikka smiling and coolin than any of the other dumb shyt we see from these nikkas most the time
 

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You mad at a nikka for being happy

Cacs did a ridiculously potent job of fukking up your subconscious into thinking there's something wrong with seeing a nikka in a good mood :scust:

nice spin :ehh:

But if you're not from the era where rap was real, you wouldn't get OP's post.

Over-the-top smiling doesn't work for hip hop for two reasons
1) hip hop is about struggle and trying to overcome it. So over-the-top smiling implies you have zero struggle and if you have no struggle, the fukk you rapping for? Just go make pop or something

2) over-the-top smiling isn't real/genuine. And hip hop is concerned with what's authentic (even though 80% of its consumer base are frauds).

As Retch so eloquently put it:

"When the fukk did everybody get so friendly? I ain't never been that friendly. I aint never known the world to be that friendly. We aint all friends, my nikka...."



im not really feeling the kiddie sounds mixed with sex appeal but pretty sure the majority of streamers are horny and impressionable kids so it makes sense marketing wise. he also got a kiddie muppet vibe going on the "Cute" video that was released the other day.

yeah, that shyt bothers me. Because you can tell it's aimed squarely at kids. It's the equivalent of anime fanservice
 

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Seriously tho. This nikka's gimmick is smiling. How the fukk you maintain a smile in the whole damn video?:dahell:



Anybody seen this nikka live? Aint njo way he can do this thru out a whole show

I saw him live. He's actually a happy ass goofy nikka. Matter of fact once his set was over and other acts took the stage he would come out while they performed just dancing on the stage.
 

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nice spin :ehh:

But if you're not from the era where rap was real, you wouldn't get OP's post.

Over-the-top smiling doesn't work for hip hop for two reasons
1) hip hop is about struggle and trying to overcome it. So over-the-top smiling implies you have zero struggle and if you have no struggle, the fukk you rapping for? Just go make pop or something

2) over-the-top smiling isn't real/genuine. And hip hop is concerned with what's authentic (even though 80% of its consumer base are frauds).

As Retch so eloquently put it:

"When the fukk did everybody get so friendly? I ain't never been that friendly. I aint never known the world to be that friendly. We aint all friends, my nikka...."





yeah, that shyt bothers me. Because you can tell it's aimed squarely at kids. It's the equivalent of anime fanservice



1. That's what it was founded on, but art evolves, you can look at damn near any other artform and see evolution from what it primarily was. Rap is relatively young so most hip hop heads are ignorant to that fact or choose to delude themselves into thinking rap is gonna be the one outlier that stays the same. That idea is actually lowkey toxic because the average person is typically gonna interpet it as "rapping/basketball is the only way to overcome my struggle" and they essentially put themselves in a box, we already see this in communities.

That or they just get stuck in a loop of talking about their struggles and not talking about realistic ways to get out of it, which starts by creating an optimistic outlook


2. No way in hell you gonna tell me hip hop is concerned with authenticity gicen the currently climate, WAY too many fake nikkas to point to ti debunk this

Prodigy a "legend" yet he's KNOWN for being a fake tough :duck: ass nikka
 
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