What' Happened to all the Conscious, Political, Revolutionary Rappers?

[TaxCollector13459]

The game don’t respect it no more

Look how they did Big Krit



Drill makes you blow up unfortunately

 

[TaxCollector13459]

They broke

 

[NZA]

the success of gangsta rap created a feedback loop of more non-blacks buying rap and dictating the tastes of the rappers which then influenced younger black audiences to also not care about conscious rap later on and to not have the capacity to create conscious rap once they came of age...

there are some other factors but that would probably derail the thread...

 

[MasterThought]

People who hate black people control the rap music industry.

Rap music is designed to be a soundtrack to the prison industrial complex. ((They)) want as many of our youth thinking it's "cool" to be a gangbanger/drugdealer as possible.

It's called social engineering so of course the world's most popular artform can NOT be used to inspire black people for good. It can not be used to interject a positive self-image into the black masses.

The current dominant content of most rap music is all by design.

Self-hating, black KKKLansmen Minstrel Show music is what it has become.

 

[REAL6]

 

[Art Barr]

The two Toys on this panel.

Need to stfu.

The problem is the industry used a bunch of toys and c00ns.

To market rap. When those toys and c00ns were never culturally apart of hiphop.

Same here.

c00n pederast and c00n writer.
Talking to Harry Belafonte who actually setup rap.
to be first misappropriated with the bait and switch of the marketing and content on beat street.

Thank the lord for breakin.



Art Barr

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Most conscious rap was always smart dumb nikka shyt anyway.

A lot of these dudes can't even articulate their thoughts well and rap is a medium that's too wordy to stay consistent, nikkas end up talking in circles and contradicting themselves in the same song because being politically aware takes understanding nuance and history. You gotta be well read to speak on this shyt intelligently.

You actually get more out of the mainstream artist that says something profound every once in a while than some of these try hard nikkas.

Facts




gets right to the fukking point. Honestly one of my fave songs, and I don't even fw with this sound at all.

 

[Grand_Verbalizer]

Sticks to the script throughout the whole thing more or less, Sounds decent/good. Staying power still undetermined



Produced by August Fanon whose pretty liked/respected in the underground and also behind some of Mach-Hommy's most celebrated works.

 

[mson]

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.

When did Tip get run off stage?

 

[BK The Great]

Everyone makes fun of Jay Electronica but he was dropping music during the Pandemic and made an album with Jay rapping about the topics he always does Fans want that low vibrational music that serves no purpose.

 

[Raw Lyrics]

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

Can you fill me in with the Immortal Technique Playboy interview?


Also, I think you're a bit off the mark. No one with an ounce of common sense expects perfection from their messengers. You eat the meat (pause) and spit out the bones. No one is perfect, and most people from time to time display some form of hypocrisy. Every messenger is flawed, that does not mean you ignore the message if it's a good one.

But it's all a matter of opinion. In my opinion, the powers that be knew that revolutionary rappers were a threat to the status quo and shut it down via their CACs running the labels.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Can you fill me in with the Immortal Technique Playboy interview?


Also, I think you're a bit off the mark. No one with an ounce of common sense expects perfection from their messengers. You eat the meat (pause) and spit out the bones. No one is perfect, and most people from time to time display some form of hypocrisy. Every messenger is flawed, that does not mean you ignore the message if it's a good one.

But it's all a matter of opinion. In my opinion, the powers that be knew that revolutionary rappers were a threat to the status quo and shut it down via their CACs running the labels.

Many years ago, IT was questioned about his stance on "revolution", but at the same time doing a interview for Playboy (I think it was the magazine, but I could be wrong). But you got to factor in the demographic always desires a hero. Not everybody can free think for themselves and see that an artist is flawed. Each group or solo artists that took the stance, end up slacking off in demeanor, which ends up throwing them in the entire bushes. And it goes beyond rap, its political forces, writers, actors, etc.

People desire this messiah, instead of taking the grain of knowledge and expanding on it. Yes, the powers that be on the labels want to silence such a voice, but humanity can do the bidding as well to destroy such a push, by not buying the music that promotes violence, not putting artists on this big podium when they just another person trying to get by but hey here are some nuggets, and most of all...staying true to self.

At the end of it all, it goes both ways. People need to treat the bullshyt pump by the labels as a line of entertainment, support the artists that are trying to make a change, and realize that these exact same artists are just as human as them. Stop believing that a rapper like Mos Def doesn't like plenty of p*ssy, or Dead Prez end up wolfing down some pork.

Enough with the wrestling storyline focus in music. Just take the word and acknowledge it. That's all I'm saying. But it is what it is.

 

[Raw Lyrics]

Many years ago, IT was questioned about his stance on "revolution", but at the same time doing a interview for Playboy (I think it was the magazine, but I could be wrong). But you got to factor in the demographic always desires a hero. Not everybody can free think for themselves and see that an artist is flawed. Each group or solo artists that took the stance, end up slacking off in demeanor, which ends up throwing them in the entire bushes. And it goes beyond rap, its political forces, writers, actors, etc.

People desire this messiah, instead of taking the grain of knowledge and expanding on it. Yes, the powers that be on the labels want to silence such a voice, but humanity can do the bidding as well to destroy such a push, by not buying the music that promotes violence, not putting artists on this big podium when they just another person trying to get by but hey here are some nuggets, and most of all...staying true to self.

At the end of it all, it goes both ways. People need to treat the bullshyt pump by the labels as a line of entertainment, support the artists that are trying to make a change, and realize that these exact same artists are just as human as them. Stop believing that a rapper like Mos Def doesn't like plenty of p*ssy, or Dead Prez end up wolfing down some pork.

Enough with the wrestling storyline focus in music. Just take the word and acknowledge it. That's all I'm saying. But it is what it is.

 

[kt773]

The game don’t respect it no more

Look how they did Big Krit



Drill makes you blow up unfortunately

Big Krit is living good and is a prime example of a successful rapper without switching up your craft and core sound , another thing, people mostly use hip hop/ rap for either party music , block shyt or depression level songs , the artist didn’t change , the consumer did , in return the rappers changed.

 

[Lonj]

The revolution got co-opted by corporations.