Can We Start A "No Glorifying Violence or Drug Dealing" Hip Hop Thread?

[Poh SIti Dawn]

As I'm getting older (23) I realize that I can do without that negative stuff. If you have music to share then please do. I like people under the stairs, MF doom and a few other people. Getting back into Lupe but his last album I hears was the cool

 

[Archimedes]

It's art breh, it's a distillation of a facet of reality through artist's experience(those who actually lived it).

It's all about balance. If you a kid and all you listen to is gangsta rap, watch action movies, plus your pops is on heroin and gunshots always waking you up at night, you probly gonna grow twisted.

Just enjoy it for what it is and don't define yourself by your musical tastes.

I feel you though, I've thought about this shyt a lot and I'm conflicted... I can close my eyes and see shyt I wish I couldn't, and you can probably see some fukked up shyt on the net/movies that can fukk you up so

 

[The Ruler 09]

 

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[MouseTeeth]

its all entertainment man....no different from watching a good old fashioned gangster movie...all rappers r basically robert deniro - a great actor who can play a gangster role believably and with conviction because they grew up around shyt the source material is based on...majority of rappers r just really good story tellers....the wack shyt is rappers never admit this cuz theres the whole stigma of being "real"....until the get in trouble w the law n all of a sudden its "this is just entertainment"

Once i started looking at drug/gangsta rap as something that should never be taken seriously, i stopped having the moral dilemma that OP has....Nobody cares if rick ross knows the real noriega or if OT genasis is cookin up crack...all that matters is that the shyt is fun as hell to sing along to when ur drunk/high at 3 AM in the club/bar

 

[Virtuous_Brotha]

sex and violence sell rappers could be more positive but aint nobody gonna listen

 

[PhonZhi]

As I'm getting older (23) I realize that I can do without that negative stuff. If you have music to share then please do. I like people under the stairs, MF doom and a few other people. Getting back into Lupe but his last album I hears was the cool

threads like this always flop around here breh. good that your eyes are open at a rather young age

 

[wild100sboy]

anything by little brother

I'm on the same thing you on brotha

 

[sporticus]

I'm with you man. And all this "I say it cuz I see it shyt" needs to stop. You're supposed to be an artist and a poet. Rap about what you'd like to see. Rap about what you don't see. Stop that cycle and the excuses.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

As I'm getting older (23) I realize that I can do without that negative stuff. If you have music to share then please do. I like people under the stairs, MF doom and a few other people. Getting back into Lupe but his last album I hears was the cool