How much longer do we have to sit through Trap?

[KENNY DA COOKER]

. Ghetto Mafia was trap music before it was even called trap music and TIP and Jeezy took the shyt into mainstream. It is not a goddamn sound, it refers to the subject matter. Learn yo history, bruh.

Exactly...

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/pay...c-ghetto-mafia-straight-outta-decatur.333416/

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

i'm good with trap production wise. the young dolphs and blac youngstas of the game murder those kind of beats. same with rozays, fewtchs, migos and young kodaks

my issue is with a certain type of lyrical execution over those beats. and that would be melodic auto-crooning rappers like swae lee. nikkas is wack b

All Ross wack songs are the trap ones

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Cause sex workers, c00ns, and CACs don't want black folk to spit anything of intelligence again. Like how They suppress the revival of Black Power raps in the time of police brutality.

See.. posts like this is why a lot of y’all expose yourselves for being corny/lames

 

[Wild self]

See.. posts like this is why a lot of y’all expose yourselves for being corny/lames

Corny you say?

Make a thread about it about my message. It exposes the real ones from the agents.

 

[jwall123]

I slowly preferring Afrobeats and South African House music over Hip Hop.

Underrated post!

Been listening to Palmwine Music by Show Dem Camp... Whole album is mad smooth.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

nikka no the fukk it ain't, trap existed before TI gave it a fukking name. Ghetto Mafia was trap music before it was even called trap music and TIP and Jeezy took the shyt into mainstream. It is not a goddamn sound, it refers to the subject matter. Learn yo history, bruh.

Them Decatur boys....

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Corny you say?

Make a thread about it about my message. It exposes the real ones from the agents.

Here’s what you do... Post some tracks of what you’d consider “black power” music

 

[Wild self]

Here’s what you do... Post some tracks of what you’d consider “black power” music

Thats for another thread.

 

[old boy]

All Ross wack songs are the trap ones

oh word. Elvis Presley Blvd, MC Hammer, Yella Diamonds and the instant blassic BMF?

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Thats for another thread.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

oh word. Elvis Presley Blvd, MC Hammer, Yella Diamonds and the instant blassic BMF?

He got way more that suck
Hell he got Trap, Trap, Trap and that's terrible


Port of Miami 2 just cause of them trap beats

Deap presidents
She on my dikk
Summer 17



Ross need to be on extra musical Soulful opulent beats only

 

[old boy]

He got way more that suck
Hell he got Trap, Trap, Trap and that's terrible


Port of Miami 2 just cause of them trap beats

Deap presidents
She on my dikk
Summer 17



Ross need to be on extra musical Soulful opulent beats only

i see. but you do like those records i mentioned with trap beats though right? when renzel gets in his bag i think he can pretty much body any production keep it a stack. from premo, to alchemist, to justice league, to mike will made it, to metroboomin. he's that versatile b. for instance i loved how he rhymed on gummo, his approach was dope

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

Stop talking. You're out of your depth.

so you have no response to the points.... how bout you stop posting. youre getting emotional

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

I gotta disagree with this. PE and Tribe are routinely heralded as two of the goat groups and a lot of times this is from white folks. The pro black movement in hip hop was very short lived. Maybe from 87-92 at the most and was really a reflection of what was going on in the community at the time. Hip hop has always been super materialistic. But it always reflected where we are as a people at the moment

exactly....plus even at it's peak......afrocentric rap still wasn't at the forefront....


hip hop reflected the streets and from 87-92 we not only had afrocentricty we also had CRACK RUNNING THE STREETS

and sad to say ...most rappers in NYC got thier identity from the DOPE DEALERS of NEW YORK...

thier whole fashion and swag was inspired by crack kingpins and in many cases they were affilated with them

so the afrocentric artists had a losing battle fighting the materialsim in hip hop...


ALL THESE PICS RIGHT HERE are from the "MECCA OF HIP HOP" (NYC) during the era of 87-92.......the so called "afrocentric era"











"you got WEALTHY ARTISTS..spending MONEY LOOSELY..you ask about thier culture THEY TALK ABOUT GUCCI"- KRS ONE "Ya Know the Rules" (1990)

we can't romantize the old school era as everyone having knowledge of self.....and studying lessons and korans and eating holistic diets

we HAD FUKKERY BACK THEN TOO...the late 80s and 90s in NYC was NO JOKE IN THEM STREETS..i know

it was more of a balance back then...yeah we had P.E..and Tribe and the Jungle Brothers ..and Krs One...

but we also had NWA....the Ghetto Boys...Just Ice the Gangsta and Mob Style

and to be honest the scales always tipped in the Gangsta street rap favor....or radio friendly commercial rap

I got my first job in radio in 1991...and pro black afrocentric rap really only get airplay on the late night mixshows.....

i nearly lost my job true story cause i chose to sneak in "YOU MUST LEARN" by KRS ONE inside a playlist that mandated that i mandated that i play songs that resonated well with the female demographic..... (dance orientated..radio friendly)

Public Enemy constantly dissed "black radio" for not showing Public Enemy and black acts any love

"radio stations i question your BLACKNESS..you call yourself BLACK...but we will see if you play this" - Public Enemy "Bring the Noise"







"RADIO ..suckers NEVER PLAY ME...only on the MIX..they just okay me" - Public Enemy "Rebel without a pause"





cause during the day it was mostly party radio friendly rap...HEAVY D....KID N PLAY..MC HAMMER...SALT N PEPA..THE FRESH PRINCE (WILL SMITH)

and in the streets....NOT EVERYBODY was on that "pro black wave".....along with black medallions and kufis

it was lot of cats in the streets rocking GOLD....and wearing GUCCI....and LOUIE

yeah even though we loved Farrakhan and Khalid muhammad at the time..alot of cats were emulating ALPO and Fat Cat

so let's stop this bullshyt narrative that today's RAP MUSIC made hip hop and the black community as a whole SHALLOW and DESTRUCTIVE....

 

[TinFoilSnapBack]

Great discussion in this thread, brehs. I have a lot of thoughts, but I'll try to condense them as best I can.

1. Mainstream rap is definitely in a race to the bottom, and has been for an extremely long time. It's nothing new.

2. Brooklyn Drill, and Drill music in general, is absolutely abhorrent.

3. Most importantly, FIND WHAT YOU LIKE AND SUPPORT THAT SHYT. Yes, we all know that mainstream music is garbage given to us by CACs. However, no one is making you listen to that shyt. People kill me when they say that there's NO good music nowadays. We live in an era where more music is being made and published than ever before. As an artist with no label, no team, and very little money, I just released an album on all streaming platforms last year. I have become much more of an R&B head as I've gotten older. As an R&B head, I have been eating extremely well from new music in the last 5-6 years. Morons say "R&B is dead", but R&B is still making copious amounts of absolute fire; you just don't hear it on the radio. The same thing applies to hip-hop. Good music is not hard to find. If you have a streaming service, it literally makes playlists based on your tastes. Listen to them shyts, and you're bound to find new artists you like. I know we all grew up on the radio and music videos, but it's fukking 2020 now. We're not in the fukking 90s anymore, and they're not coming back. Find some new music you like, or just keep listening to the same tired 90s playlists.