Because she's a glossy and relentlessly marketed package, human strategy pawn and convenient revenue stream that fulfills that deafening want inside the music industry for a white female rapper.
Since when?

Because she's a glossy and relentlessly marketed package, human strategy pawn and convenient revenue stream that fulfills that deafening want inside the music industry for a white female rapper.


) but I can't stand this notion that anything that sounds like it would be out of place in the 90's is thus bad. Nah, that's just creating more micro genres to pose, shabazz palaces clearly makes hip hop, no matter how weird it sounds and m.i.a just makes electronic music that drifts between various influences she has. Kendrick makes straight forward hip hop, and he's not really all that special...he's just lightyears ahead of a bad bunch...imo of course. I really do feel like hip hop has been gone past its sell by date. I'm not excited about nothingHip-Hop is our equivalent of Country music...the shyt is not going anywhere.
I will say that there is a very obvious schism between it though where some of the other artists in the more progressive camps or teams are about to make some new genre shyt. Kendrick, Shabazz Palaces, Cocaine 80's, and others are blending so many elements its about to turn into something new entirely. Its kinda like how M.I.A. makes "world music" but not really.
and @lui kang's right...if the genre was in a good shape, you wouldn't have to search for good music.
if you like 90s / 00s gangster shyt whats stopping you from enjoying something like this?
Nothing new will be allowed to take foot as long as people (namely east coast and west coast, as those are the media hubs) scoff at almost every new sound (until is appropriated by someone from the east or west...or Drake) and lob universal praise at fukking J.Cole microwaving 90's leftovers and people eating it up like its a feastNah, that's just creating more micro genres to pose, shabazz palaces clearly makes hip hop, no matter how weird it sounds and m.i.a just makes electronic music that drifts between various influences she has. Kendrick makes straight forward hip hop, and he's not really all that special...he's just lightyears ahead of a bad bunch...imo of course. I really do feel like hip hop has been gone past its sell by date. I'm not excited about nothingand @lui kang's right...if the genre was in a good shape, you wouldn't have to search for good music.
Also, its usually the kids and teens that start new genre's...so if anyone was gonna do it...it'd be them
Long story short....what the us lickle ghetto yuots saying then?![]()

For a generation of people who now swear up and down that they loved them it really seemed like they didn't know pretty much anything from their discography aside from the obvious.Since when?![]()
Nah, that's just creating more micro genres to pose, shabazz palaces clearly makes hip hop, no matter how weird it sounds and m.i.a just makes electronic music that drifts between various influences she has. Kendrick makes straight forward hip hop, and he's not really all that special...he's just lightyears ahead of a bad bunch...imo of course. I really do feel like hip hop has been gone past its sell by date. I'm not excited about nothingand @lui kang's right...if the genre was in a good shape, you wouldn't have to search for good music.
Also, its usually the kids and teens that start new genre's...so if anyone was gonna do it...it'd be them
Long story short....what the us lickle ghetto yuots saying then?![]()
not all drill / trap shyt is badif you like 90s / 00s gangster shyt whats stopping you from enjoying something like this?

If people spent money on great records then artists would put out music of like quality. Krit's cadillactica is an album of the year candidate. yet he barely cracked 100K sold since its release.
Move on from hip hop to where? It's the final frontier![]()
heads said that in the late 80's...enter jungle...heads said that in the early 00's...enter grime and dubstep...and it goes on and on (and thats just us uk heads)...you forget how fuccing creative and resilient black americans have been when it comes to music. You man have created blues, jazz, rock, rnb, house, hip hop etc etc...so really the
should be directed at you for doubting black americans ability to create some new sh1t.
That's how we ride in Chicago![]()


@penfield @Liu Kang lumping in Migos/Thugga/Rich Homie with Iggy is part of the fukking problem
The new ATL is a genuine movement making songs from sounds that are unique to them, where they come from, what they represent, and what's happening there right now. Which, as far as I'm concerned, is entirely what hip-hop is. If you don't like it, then whatever (though I'd been forced to brandishing you as a lame) but I can't stand this notion that anything that sounds like it would be out of place in the 90's is thus bad.
Motherfukk J. Cole. He is the Dave Matthews of rap music.



I feel what you're saying...we'll just have to agree to disagree.See I disagree. At some point just because some one is singing it stopped being Soul and became R&B. At some point just because some one is rapping it doesnt have to be rap. An If you listen to M.I.A.'s Kala and Matangi outside of a few tracks its analog as fukk. There's loads of drums and driving beats, and really not much electronica at all. In fact i'd say she's more influenced by bollywood, funk cairoca and hip-hop more than anything. But it's not electronica. And Kendrick is a special talent, man. GKMC wasn't just the best album of that year it was the best of a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG time. Better than some of the most seminal artists in the field. To say he isn't all that special is the downplay the talent that he REALLY does have, he's on of the very few artists that deserves all the praise he gets.
And as far as searching for music, this is something that has happened to ALL forms of music. There aren't any more jazz stations, R&B is virtually non-existent, neo-soul is kaput, and house, funk and electronica are all really niche now. The only things really commercially persistent is pop, mainstream rap and country.

I would argue hip-hop has evolved as much as the roll from jungle/grime/dubstep. Saying that hip/hop hasn't evolved, to me, is one of the sillier statements. It obviously has, just the terms :hip-hop and rap will be brandished on anything that involves people rhyming on a track.heads said that in the late 80's...enter jungle...heads said that in the early 00's...enter grime and dubstep...and it goes on and on (and thats just us uk heads)...you forget how fuccing creative and resilient black americans have been when it comes to music. You man have created blues, jazz, rock, rnb, house, hip hop etc etc...so really the
should be directed at you for doubting black americans ability to create some new sh1t.
Let's keep it 100...the only reason you man ain't moved on from hip hop en masse is because you can still potentially make alot of money from it and you don't necessarily need to have a natural talent like singing or the ability to play an instrument to succeed, which would otherwise exclude alot of people out the gate
I never said hip hop hasn't evolved though...it clearly has. I'm talking about moving on as in creating something new thats completely different. I know what you're trying to say with the hip hop evolution equivalent but only Grime and dubstep work in that argument. Jungle, no.I would argue hip-hop has evolved as much as the roll from jungle/grime/dubstep. Rnb, rock, house, jazz are completely different with their own rules. Saying that hip/hop hasn't evolved, to me, is one of the sillier statements. It obviously has, just the terms :hip-hop and rap will be brandished on anything that involves people rhyming on a track.