What' Happened to all the Conscious, Political, Revolutionary Rappers?
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RamsayBolton
Superstar
They flopped
Kendrick didn't I guess.
Kendrick didn't I guess.
feelosofer
#ninergang
A good chunk coli said they would rather listen to ignorant ratchet shyt because its real and political or conscious rap is corny and preachy.
I'm going to keep it the most possible buck....it was never a thing to begin with. This dates back to the 2000s, when Immortal Technique got ousted for doing an interview with Playboy.
Let's go further, Public Enemy spit about revolution and black rights, but the one that kept it the biggest of bucks got booted, while the one that did drugs and became a mockery of the revolution stayed.
Now with Ice Cube, Mr pro black himself, ends up riding the G Funk wave, while the dude that he was dikkriding off of (Paris) ended up being an afterthought.
Dead Prez audience were an array of cacs despite them talking Coli breh points.
Lupe kissed the ring with Atlantic.
Mos Def dropped one of the greatest forms of art possible, only to become an embodiment of hypocrite with his stance with Hollywood and choices of women.
The grim reality, that revolutionary and political rap is an oxymoron in itself, because it comes off as entertainment. When Diddy tried to do the "Vote or Die" movement, that dead the shyt in a heart beat.
How can you possibly take a political rapper seriously when they PAWG, drink, and etc on the low?
And the ones that are straight up down for the cause, end up being straight up afterthoughts (Shoutout to The Coup).
All in all, it would be nice to have a political rapper nowadays. shyt, imagine a drill/trap political rapper talking about running up on politicians, and straight up Green, Black, and Red piff.
Its never going to happen, because folks are so far gone and lost in the sauce, we are absolutely fukkE
Let's go further, Public Enemy spit about revolution and black rights, but the one that kept it the biggest of bucks got booted, while the one that did drugs and became a mockery of the revolution stayed.
Now with Ice Cube, Mr pro black himself, ends up riding the G Funk wave, while the dude that he was dikkriding off of (Paris) ended up being an afterthought.
Dead Prez audience were an array of cacs despite them talking Coli breh points.
Lupe kissed the ring with Atlantic.
Mos Def dropped one of the greatest forms of art possible, only to become an embodiment of hypocrite with his stance with Hollywood and choices of women.
The grim reality, that revolutionary and political rap is an oxymoron in itself, because it comes off as entertainment. When Diddy tried to do the "Vote or Die" movement, that dead the shyt in a heart beat.
How can you possibly take a political rapper seriously when they PAWG, drink, and etc on the low?
And the ones that are straight up down for the cause, end up being straight up afterthoughts (Shoutout to The Coup).
All in all, it would be nice to have a political rapper nowadays. shyt, imagine a drill/trap political rapper talking about running up on politicians, and straight up Green, Black, and Red piff.
Its never going to happen, because folks are so far gone and lost in the sauce, we are absolutely fukkE
and nikkaz will gladly sign up to promote it.
The market asked for more gangsta rap and gangsta rappers to give us that ”authentic“ black narrative and that’s precisely what we got. Back in the 90s I think it was 80% of hip hop being bought by white kids. They didn’t want to hear rapping about Malcolm X. Everybody else go ran off the stage like Q-Tip.
ThatTruth777
Superstar
White folks not buying rap to hear all that breh
BK The Great
Veteran
This dropped back in 2020 during the George Floyd murder, it has been quiet ever since. We need more music that is about current events.
The thing with Kendrick is that dude did not realize how much weight he held as a figure in such a manner. He became this embodiment that was spiritually soul crushing, when honestly, he should have kept going with the whole "Section 80/GKMC" approach. The feeling of fixing up home first (in this case, Compton), it worked in a, each one teach, one aspect.
Yet, he became a messiah when folks don't want such things to occur. Like the problem with humanity, is that they crave the messiah. They want a leader, instead of realizing that they are true leaders, in a form of self-doubt. People lived off of another man, and get hurt when they realize that their favorite entertainer is a "Trump supporter" or etc. Hence, why, the argument of political rappers seems like a outdated format because people don't want to realize their ability to change a nation.
When Nas tried to do such things with God Son, the hood laughed because dude looked like he was cold on the album cover, nobody couldn't get jiggy with his revolutionary raps, and we're trying to stunt, get p*ssy, and "murk nikkas".
This whole ordeal with life and society is just one big complex matrix. The more you realize that people are sheep, entertainers are talking heads, and the 1 percent finally got the upper hand in this race of control.
Sucks but all I can do is sleep, eat leaves, raised my son to be a true king in the future, and mate on my wife.
They're boring and I'm more well read than all of them.
TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?
I walk around a little edgy already
Not the point of this thread but go off
WaveCapsByOscorp™
2021 Grammy Award Winner
Either now they sound bitter, if they’re been around long enough and continued to stay in the lane.
Or, they sound different than what would have been considered conscious due to shifting genre values since around the early 2000s.
I think a lot of that shift happened when you had people like Kanye West riding the backpacker/consciousness wave. That’s when the sounds and values of conscious rappers started to become different. And then the audience that was invested, a whole new generation of consumers.
That brief period of popularity kind of left an impact that shifted the ideas of what it means to be a conscious rapper.
Or, they sound different than what would have been considered conscious due to shifting genre values since around the early 2000s.
I think a lot of that shift happened when you had people like Kanye West riding the backpacker/consciousness wave. That’s when the sounds and values of conscious rappers started to become different. And then the audience that was invested, a whole new generation of consumers.
That brief period of popularity kind of left an impact that shifted the ideas of what it means to be a conscious rapper.
DJ Paul's Arm
Veteran
This
Can’t have the youth learn anything of substance. Show them cars clothes and money is all that matters!
TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?
I walk around a little edgy already
Gtfoh here
No one takes you seriously here... even your fellow Indians