Why did Pro Black/Conscious hip hop take a decline in the mid '90s ?

[JustCKing]

Dre and snoop blew up and everybody followed

The Chronic had some conscious moments on it.

 

[raoulduke187]

because it was boring?

nikkas wanted to hear that agressive ignant shyt that make you wanna get buck

 

[NotaPAWG]

because it was boring?

nikkas wanted to hear that agressive ignant shyt that make you wanna get buck

No it wasn't

There's nothing boring about this

 

[JustCKing]

Pdiddy ruined shyt with his soft shoe shyt

Alot of g shyt was conscious ... just in a very aggressive way ... it still had roots and didnt jump out of helicopters in tin foil suits landing on porsches and camels and shyt ... mango dancing with south american women

Those videos were smoke screen to cover up the content in a lot of those songs. Puff gets a lot of flack for being soft or whatever, but when you listen to the lyrics in a lot of the singles, the music was far from soft. It was mafiosos rap with over the top violence over '80's Pop and R&B loops. Nobody was editing out Biggie leaving notes for the plaintiff that read "your daughter's tied up in a Brooklyn basement" or "squeeze first, ask questions last". Then there's Lil' Kim telling people to deep throat German rugers on "It's All About The Benjamins". There's also Biggie's verse on "Mo Money, Mo Problems".

 

[LOOPY]

Cuz it was huff.

 

[jackson35]

the people stop supporting it they saw it as a fad

 

[ogc163]

A lot of the music sucked. Outside of Little Brother, there weren't many conscious rappers that legit "deserved" to blow up over the last 2 decades. LB were not corny and condescending like a lot of other conscious acts, I mean look at this corny ish...

 

[raoulduke187]

No it wasn't

There's nothing boring about this

 

[bigrodthe1]

this guy got hot

 

[Taadow]

Because such artists became lowkey haters, and were more worried about the next rappers' message instead of their own.

 

[Lord Mecca]

They saw that influence

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[JustCKing]

Puff definitely didn't cause a decline in conscious Hip Hop. There was a lot of songs out during Puff's dominance that were huge and had conscious and Pro-Black messages and lyrics. These existed:



^^^ "See Black man dead from a white man's powder, see white man scared from a Black man's power", "Ain't got no time for the shucking and jiving, peep my rhyme"



No Limit, which was also big had a lot of conscious, Pro Black content in their music:





^^^ Just to name a few.

 

[MikeyC]

Pdiddy ruined shyt with his soft shoe shyt

Alot of g shyt was conscious ... just in a very aggressive way ... it still had roots and didnt jump out of helicopters in tin foil suits landing on porsches and camels and shyt ... mango dancing with south american women

...they got mermaids in they living rooms and shyt...nikka dancing in the rain with kids dancing on mountains and shyt...im watching this nikka video..the car going 200 miles an hour..WHERE THE fukk IS HE GOING?!

Brilliant.

 

[lamont614]

Pdiddy ruined shyt with his soft shoe shyt

Alot of g shyt was conscious ... just in a very aggressive way ... it still had roots and didnt jump out of helicopters in tin foil suits landing on porsches and camels and shyt ... mango dancing with south american women

nikka said landing on Porsches

 

[010101]

we wanna enjoy our lives
we wanna enjoy our music
its the pleasure principle

cornball rap is depressing for the most part

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