I remember after the ignorant early 2000s hip hop went in a more light hearted direction
nikkas started wearing skinny jeans. Kanye outsold 50 cent. Drake type of nikkas became popular. There were no major rap beefs anymore. Street rap was pretty much dead in the mainstream. Every rapper was basically calling each other brotha, whether genuine or not the music and culture was way softer
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I'll say this period started in 2007. Then Waka flaka and lex luger started making noise with a harder grimier sound of rap however that sound still wasn't mainstream yet. It did however help birth the modern day drill scene.
I remember first hearing about chief keef and finally checking him out. I first listened to 300. Then I listened to I don't like
I bs you not after watching the video to I don't like I said to myself "this sound this image is about to take over the rap scene in every city in America "
And I was right, but even still I underestimated how Violent it would actually become.
From damn near every rapper being involved in a beef somehow to us losing 7 well known rappers in a 2 year time spand to gun violence to murders surpassing the Crack Era
I feel like the culture over corrected itself from the "soft Era"
nikkas started wearing skinny jeans. Kanye outsold 50 cent. Drake type of nikkas became popular. There were no major rap beefs anymore. Street rap was pretty much dead in the mainstream. Every rapper was basically calling each other brotha, whether genuine or not the music and culture was way softer
Examples:
I'll say this period started in 2007. Then Waka flaka and lex luger started making noise with a harder grimier sound of rap however that sound still wasn't mainstream yet. It did however help birth the modern day drill scene.
I remember first hearing about chief keef and finally checking him out. I first listened to 300. Then I listened to I don't like
I bs you not after watching the video to I don't like I said to myself "this sound this image is about to take over the rap scene in every city in America "
And I was right, but even still I underestimated how Violent it would actually become.
From damn near every rapper being involved in a beef somehow to us losing 7 well known rappers in a 2 year time spand to gun violence to murders surpassing the Crack Era
I feel like the culture over corrected itself from the "soft Era"
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that shyt was horrible outside of one song.