Debate: Is Hiphop A Cancer Or Cure?

[Taadow]

"A cancer or cure" of what?

 

[BmoreGorilla]

LMAO, why do you keep using one off examples like the majority isn't rappin like that?

when I say majority that also implies a minority, in which dudes like Kendrick and Cole apply.

but what about the other 1000's of rappers that are poppin off right now?

My point is that the minority are the most popular. Cole, Drake, and Kendrick have been the biggest rappers in the game the past few years and none of them sell negativity. So obviously the masses are supporting them which means its what people wanna hear

 

[scarlxrd]

fukk this corny christian bullshyt and this fake ass ted-talk.

Nothing he said correlated back to Christianity. He was strictly about Hip Hop in this talk. Relax.

 

[PhonZhi]

It was last week but here you go

All facts. Dope drop

 

[PhonZhi]

Nothing he said correlated back to Christianity. He was strictly about Hip Hop in this talk. Relax.

Cats do that all the time. Comment without actually reading/watching the article or vid posted

 

[ChatGPT-5]

pretty sure the top selling artists in hiphop have always been the positive ones.

currently Drake and Kendrick hold the reigns.

at one time Wayne, Em and Outkast were charting. Wayne being the most 'negative' but its not overly aggressive, its not drill.

Jay-Z and Kanye aren't gangster rappers either.

 

[philmonroe]

Its neither its something to listen to for entertainment.

 

[Maschine_Man]

of course, and most of us know its only entertainment. But there are a lot of kids/young adults that really think that is life.

you know how many ppl were tryna act like o-dog after menace came out? just to be cool?
bruh.....ppl are sheep for the most part.


All I'm sayin is, if you ain't writing the truth then you are just as fake as the person that isn't writing their own lyrics.

ESPECIALLY when you are backing it up with shyt like "I'm really about that life" and "I'm keeping it real"

that is the ONLY reason why I didn't care about that little white dude that was rapping drill shyt(forget his name) at least he came out and said he wasn't about that life.

Idk breh to me its just entertainment at the end of the day. I look at it the same way I look at movies .

But you dont get a pass for using ghostwriters to write that story fiction or not.

I dont listen to every song so I can relate too it, I listen cause it sounds good. Same thing with movies, its all entertainment to me.

 

[Maschine_Man]

pretty sure the top selling artists in hiphop have always been the positive ones.

currently Drake and Kendrick hold the reigns.

at one time Wayne, Em and Outkast were charting. Wayne being the most 'negative' but its not overly aggressive, its not drill.

Jay-Z and Kanye aren't gangster rappers either.

gangster rap isn't necessarily the only negative music.

All of those dudes(minus Outkast really) were talking some negative shyt.
selling drugs, robbin ppl, doing hard drugs, acting out. Even shyt like flossin hard and living outside your means can be negative.

its not always about killing ppl.

 

[Malta]

pretty sure the top selling artists in hiphop have always been the positive ones.

currently Drake and Kendrick hold the reigns.

at one time Wayne, Em and Outkast were charting. Wayne being the most 'negative' but its not overly aggressive, its not drill.

Jay-Z and Kanye aren't gangster rappers either.

Drake is all materialism and not much else

Jay-Z been talking about the hood for 30 years, he been rich longer than he been broke yet still talks about moving dope & is damn near nothing but materialistic today

 

[Maschine_Man]

My point is that the minority are the most popular. Cole, Drake, and Kendrick have been the biggest rappers in the game the past few years and none of them sell negativity. So obviously the masses are supporting them which means its what people wanna hear

they are the most popular....outside of just urban areas.


but what is actually getting played in those urban areas?
Sure those three might be getting play there as well. but there are way more that are charting with nonsense.

Future, Wayne, Rick Ross, are huge and popular.

but guys like Kevin Gates, Migos, Young Thug, etc. are getting lots of play as well..

 

[PhonZhi]

they are the most popular....outside of just urban areas.


but what is actually getting played in those urban areas?
Sure those three might be getting play there as well. but there are way more that are charting with nonsense.

Future, Wayne, Rick Ross, are huge and popular.

but guys like Kevin Gates, Migos, Young Thug, etc. are getting lots of play as well..

I'm in the ATL area and I NEVER hear Kendrick Lamar on the biggest Hiphop station 107.9. And I mean NEVER.

 

[Maschine_Man]

I'm in the ATL area and I NEVER hear Kendrick Lamar on the biggest Hiphop station 107.9. And I mean NEVER.

I just don't know what its so hard for ppl just to accept the truth and not have to fight adamantly about something that is clearly not there.

 

[iFightSeagullsForBread]

I just don't know what its so hard for ppl just to accept the truth and not have to fight adamantly about something that is clearly not there.

Because that implies you're right from the jump.

Which you aren't

 

[Jazzy B.]

this. Hiphop is only the most powerful and influential artform in the universe and cats think it's a "conspiracy theory" to suggest that our oppressors isn't using it for THEIR benefit

Exactly and like I said they'll also refer to the "Industry" and "corporate machine" and use the terms negatively and in relation with supposed non-authentic artists being pushed.

So if one acknowledges that this is present and happens, how can one not entertain the possibility of the same "industry" and "corporate Machine" pushing artists who sing about Black Destruction