Complex: 25 things everyone thinks about about Hip Hop...but won't say.

[Sad Bunny]

25. Personality matters more than "skills".
24. New York rap has sucked since Dipset broke up.
23. When white people enjoy 'ignorant' rap, it feels racist.
22. Explicitly political rap music will never change the world.
21. Rap treats women horribly.
20. If you don't make a music video for your song, it doesn't exist.
19. Getting music covered on blogs is almost entirely politics and networking, and quality rarely matters.
18. Drake was the best rapper out in 2011.
17. Most criticism of contemporary rap is rooted in biased nostalgia.
16. Ghost producers are rampant.
15. Tumblr rap is less appealing than snap rap, ringtone rap, swag rap, and any other "lowest common denominator" movement.
14. Rap's popularity has declined significantly in mainstream America.
13. One of your favorite rappers is probably secretly gay.
12. The Internet A&R decimated the quality of popular rap.
11. Rap makes violence seem very cool.
10. Hipster critics are either pushing nu-female rappers as a projection of their desires or as a paternalistic, misguided corrective to years of sexism in hip-hop.
9. Rap is the single biggest promoter of drug abuse in popular culture.
8. Most "indie" rappers aren't signed to major labels for good reason.
7. Most conscious rap is condescending, simplistic, and corny.
6. A lot of classic, old-school hip-hop sucks.
5. The excessive use of "nikka" is incredibly awkward for white people.
4. A lot of famous rappers don't write their own rhymes.
3. Rap is a really bad influence on children.
2. You wish that you invented WorldStarHipHop and Mediafakeout.
1. Biggie and 2Pac would have fallen off, eventually.

 

[Colilluminati]

14. Rap's popularity has declined significantly in mainstream America.
13. One of your favorite rappers is probably secretly gay.

Propaganda.

 

[KOTK]

7 yes, 9 no. I don't really see much, if any, rap that promotes drug abuse.

 

[zoo]

The fukk is a Tumblr rap?

 

[Moose_Greyjoy]

7 yes, 9 no. I don't really see much, if any, rap that promotes drug abuse.

9. Is mos def bullshyt

 

[Broccoli Rob]

Some of it's true, some of it's bogus.

Whoever wrote it was working with some serious #whiteguilt

 

[zoo]

23. When white people enjoy 'ignorant' rap, it feels racist.
5. The excessive use of "nikka" is incredibly awkward for white people.

Does Complex even have any black people working there?

 

[FRIED MASON]

26. fukk Complex

 

[LucaBrasi]

I can't believe I used to check for this site a couple years back

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Honestly? I agreed with most of that list.

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

As usual they have to make a huge old list and half of the shyt they throw in to fill up the numbers is off base or completely full of shyt. I wish they would just fukking stop with this. It reeks of corny white boy hipsters every time now.

For example, Hip Hop is bad for kids.....how many of us grew up on Hip Hop and turned out okay? This is the same corny shyt people do with movies. If you were raised right, you were raised right.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Won't say? This whole list has been covered on this message board ad nauseum

 

[Bezerk]

Rap does promote drug use, but the biggest one in America nah

 

[Tetris v2.0]

The fukk is a Tumblr rap?

Just go on 2DopeBoyz.com and see for yourself

About 10% of it is dope

 

[mortuus est]

The fukk is a Tumblr rap?

my guesss is that its people that are known to post on tumblr that get big in the real world off it, e.g kitty pyrd