How much longer do we have to sit through Trap?

[Complexion]

Facts.

Its like I said, the art has been weaponized and ignorance is the new kicking knowledge.

People are sold fraudulent lifestyles they attempt to replicate with real life actions and then wonder why the world is going to shyt. You've got something that has the ear and hearts of millions across the globe and yet they choose to speak on the same goofy topics over repetitive beats.

And yet people spin em...

 

[Wild self]

Facts.

Its like I said, the art has been weaponized and ignorance is the new kicking knowledge.

People are sold fraudulent lifestyles they attempt to replicate with real life actions and then wonder why the world is going to shyt. You've got something that has the ear and hearts of millions across the globe and yet they choose to speak on the same goofy topics over repetitive beats.

And yet people spin em...

These use IG thots as the main distraction. Even more than money itself. They weapons broads,to lead the black race to destruction since they have as much clout as these simple trap rappers themselves

 

[Complexion]

These use IG thots as the main distraction. Even more than money itself. They weapons broads,to lead the black race to destruction since they have as much clout as these simple trap rappers themselves

No doubt, its deeper than trap. If you step back and look at the world and what its became it really paints a strange image for what is to come as people are straight up digital baseheads except instead of a pipe in their paws they're prodding at a phone...

 

[ISO]

Boop Bap was prominent from the early 80s to about 2002/2003 as the primary beat of urban music.

 

[Wild self]

breh we are in the mega bizarro world era right now.

we do all of this eternal buck dancing all day every day but let you suggest we chill with that shyt for a min just to get our house in order and cats will start wining like you are trying to feed them a Spam and canned corned beef sandwich with some Vienna sausage water as the beverage.

and thats why if I get into some "deep" shyt with someone about the plight of the people and I have to explain the backstory of the shyt, then I can talk to you. If you don't know who the fukk Medgar Evers is and youre not a 6 year old, then we might not be the right team to fly the plane to salvation.

conventional wisdom would tell you "one day this shyt has to stop," but real talk, I just don't see it. Not in my lifetime anyway. it all just feels like an iPhone on a boot loop and the only "solution" is to smash that shyt since disaster is one of the last resorts.

And this blaming the elders shyt is a weak ass move these days. We are all grown ass men/women who have to come to terms with the fact that previous gens didnt/don't know shyt and you're gonna have to look at these "I walked with Dr. King" types with skepticism. Because if all of y'all motherfukkas rolled with him like that, he wouldve lived well into old age.

lets call a spade a spade and realize that every damn gen post Reconstruction and Jim Crow just wants to shine and not be the ones to take one for the team and build the infrastructure of the tribe. Because that shyt is backbreaking work like the dudes who built subway tunnels and bridges and no one could give two shyts about. But even a meme's worth of attention (to this gen) feels exponentially more fulfilling than being an unsung hero for the next gen that literally looks at you, soaks in the fukkery they see you do and then replicate it x 1000 when it's their "time."

and anyone who disagrees probably buys hair products from contemptuous Koreans.

Another thing.......How can the ratchets have everything cater to them, have all the clubs blasting their music, have dudes tricking on them, have Twitter babble.....but threatened by the 5% of the black community that is aware of the dysfunction?

 

[FeverPitch2]

LOL Not at all, breh...

 

[The God Poster]

Imagine having all the music at your fingertips and still complaining about a genre you don’t have to listen to

In my @Sauce Dab contrarian stance that's all y'all do in TLR is complain about shyt you can easily ignore. From gays , this thread & the women that ignore you.

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

The funniest thing about trap dominance is that the three biggest rappers in the game arent trap rappers:

Drake, Kendrick, Cole

idk about drake but kendrick and cole are highly conscious rappers. meanwhile "back in the day", public enemy never topped the chart. there's no reason to complain about "these days" unless you just like complaining and stuck on nostalgia

 

[FeverPitch2]

idk about drake but kendrick and cole are highly conscious rappers. meanwhile "back in the day", public enemy never topped the chart. there's no reason to complain about "these days" unless you just like complaining and stuck on nostalgia

Fight The Power topped The Billboard Rap Charts in 1989.

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

Fight The Power topped The Billboard Rap Charts in 1989.

thats not the chart anybody focuses on. kendrick and cole top the general chart.....the chart that measures all releases, not just within the genre.
bottom line, these days every subgenre and content is plentiful. and conscious music is doing better than ever!
if you prefer the oldies, just say that! but there's no reason to complain about content or sound!

 

[BmoreGorilla]

How is it false?

Becuz you stated that it was a reaction to the west coast when really it was just a natural evolution. For example Eric Sermon used a ton of funk samples

 

[Wild self]

Fight The Power topped The Billboard Rap Charts in 1989.

People want to clchange history and alter the impact of pro black power music. SMH

 

[FeverPitch2]

thats not the chart anybody focuses on. kendrick and cole top the general chart.....the chart that measures all releases, not just within the genre.
bottom line, these days every subgenre and content is plentiful. and conscious music is doing better than ever!
if you prefer the oldies, just say that! but there's no reason to complain about content or sound!

Stop talking. You're out of your depth.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

They all had trap beats and elements in their last projects and collaborate with trap producers and artists. Facts.

All 3 of them had to adjust to stay relevant. Drake went through a big stylistic shift in 2015 and Kendrick just did with his last album.

This is something people seems to forget. The reason these 3 have had staying power is becuz they have been able to adjust to the times while still keeping their identity. All the greats have been able to do that

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Forget about suppressing a Black Power movement from happening again, THEY TRYING TO ERASE THE PRO BLACK MOVEMENTS OF THE PAST and pretend that Public Enemy, Brand Nubian, ATCQ, and others never existed.

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