Why do yall let white liberals (Professor Skye) tell yall that black media and culture is supposed to embrace poverty and struggle?

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

this is not route you want go if you want to cape for drake

Drake is arguably the most authentic guy we’ve ever had in media and that bothers so many people.

Then again yall got literal murderers taking plea deals, abusers selling music about drugs they don’t do, artists who want to rap about revolution after doing bids.

The media truly hates black artists who don’t wrap themselves in loser, downtrodden, middle class, or comfortable mentalities.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

Drake is arguably the most authentic guy we’ve ever had in media and that bothers so many people.

Then again yall got literal murderers taking plea deals, abusers selling music about drugs they don’t do, artists who want to rap about revolution after doing bids.

The media truly hates black artists who don’t wrap themselves in loser, downtrodden, middle class, or comfortable mentalities.

Started From The Bottom Now We Here. lol

 

[Still Benefited]

Elaborate. Using your own words. This man is harboring his argument on presentations of street struggle and portrayals of woe is me blackness. He’s the type to fund black revolutionaries because it gives him an escapist thrill. It’s voyeurism struggle porn. He legit can’t imagine black media that’s not rooted in scarcity and obstacle.

It goes back to when i said a black creator doesnt make a genre they created "black". Hiphop didnt start out originally as a black genre or black culture. There was nothing stopping someone of any color or background from performing hiphop AUTHENTICALLY with zero issue. But overtime safeguards were added,some of those safe guards were very ignorant and closedminded. But at the same time those safeguards,even the ignorant ones are what has kept hiphop from being stolen


Those safeguards are things like white performers immediately getting the side eye. Rappers having their authenticity questioned. Rappers being ridiculed for making watered down and soft hiphop. Being clowned for making weirdo music.


Kanye probably opened the door the most as far as a guy whos not on some tough guy shyt. Comfortable being authentically himself even alongside gangsta rappers. And he was able to pull it off. The music was relateable,he was relateable unlike a MC Hammer. Whos music and mainly his image didnt allow for that and put him in that "other" category.


But make no mistake,him nor Drake ever actually shifted a damn thing. Only thing you can argue Drake shifted was making having ghostwriters okay. But neither he or Kanye tore down those safeguards I talked about earlier. They just existed within them,made good music,and moved respectfully enough they were allowed to operate within those safeguards.


Drake opened the door for this to happen to himself when he started to not move so respectfully. Started to moonlight and move as a parody of a gangsta rapper. There was an unspoken feeling accross the nation that Drake needed to get checked and Kendrick came through. Im sure various cities and cultures Drake took from before had that feeling before. But it was a collective feeling this time,trust me i speak for the nation.



And plenty of non conforming "weirdo" artist are out there and being very much accepted by much of Gen-z. So im not sure why your acting like Drake getting killed sets "everybody being accepted" back. I suggest we keep those safeguards though,no matter how ignorant its the last line of defense

 

[Neuromancer]

White people been dictating black culture for a long time people just don't realize it.

To be smart or popular.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

It goes back to when i said a black creator doesnt make a genre they created "black". Hiphop didnt start out originally as a black genre or black culture. There was nothing stopping someone of any color or background from performing hiphop AUTHENTICALLY with zero issue. But overtime safeguards were added,some of those safe guards were very ignorant and closedminded. But at the same time those safeguards,even the ignorant ones are what has kept hiphop from being stolen


Those safeguards are things like white performers immediately getting the side eye. Rappers having their authenticity questioned. Rappers being ridiculed for making watered down and soft hiphop. Being clowned for making weirdo music.


Kanye probably opened the door the most as far as a guy whos not on some tough guy shyt. Comfortable being authentically himself even alongside gangsta rappers. And he was able to pull it off. The music was relateable,he was relateable unlike a MC Hammer. Whos music and mainly his image didnt allow for that and put him in that "other" category.


But make no mistake,him nor Drake ever actually shifted a damn thing. Only thing you can argue Drake shifted was making having ghostwriters okay. But neither he or Kanye tore down those safeguards I talked about earlier. They just existed within them,made good music,and moved respectfully enough they were allowed to operate within those safeguards.


Drake opened the door for this to happen to himself when he started to not move so respectfully. Started to moonlight and move as a parody of a gangsta rapper. There was an unspoken feeling accross the nation that Drake needed to get checked and Kendrick came through. Im sure various cities and cultures Drake took from before had that feeling before. But it was a collective feeling this time,trust me i speak for the nation.



And plenty of non conforming "weirdo" artist are out there and being very much accepted by much of Gen-z. So im not sure why your acting like Drake getting killed sets "everybody being accepted" back. I suggest we keep those safeguards though,no matter how ignorant its the last line of defense

At no point was Drake pretending to be a gangster rapper. He was pissed about Pusha t and stopped giving a fukk about opinion when he realized people wanted him gone. Yall wanted him to tuck his tail. Mind you Sean AND Cole AND wale all ducked smoke.

 

[Fill Collins]

This thread is already comedy because folks don't want to admit cacs have more of a say so in black culture regarding music than they want to admit. Cacs have been and are signing artists, signing checks, deciding what songs leave the studio, deciding what songs get played on the radio, and which artists are being endorsed by big businesses. We are about to be in 2025 and folks still don't want to acknowledge what's going on.

I just don't care if people don't care

A lot of music out here isn't that good

Drake is a faggxt on account of his semetic handicap

Kendrick, he sounds like he has a cold or sumn, god damn

Plenty of other genres and artists out here