How much longer do we have to sit through Trap?

[KENNY DA COOKER]

But people act like The Booth heads: claiming that those 3 don't have "the streets" and dont have hoes and hardhead dudes blasting their songs in ratchet clubs and strip clubs

cause the typical BOOTH/COLI poster is socially awkward messageboard poster who never gets out the house..rarely be around girls ...don't own a vehicle ...has no clue about the dynamics of the music industry and doesn't go to clubs

these songs drake..lamar and cole have "ride in the whip" and beat "in the clubs"

a ratchet azz club i visit from time to time in south carolina only cause my cool azz uncle is the bartender plays 60% trap music and 40% thot hop

and when J. COLE dropped that "NEIGHBORS THINK IM SELLING DOPE" single sometime back...that song became the ANTHEM FOR THE CLUB that year...

they played that shyt back to back

 

[Lhark]

That depends trap music keeps evolving into something else.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

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.

Bingo and doesnt help that you have Jews who are more than happy to pay motherfukkas to continually push this stuff out. If there was not business model for it, it would dissolve like an Alka Seltzer tablet.

 

[Illuminatos]

Y’all are delusional and old.

These young nikkas are the ones that choose the sound.

For the millionth time Kendrick, Cole, and Drake are the big 3 out of the last decade and they aren’t on that trap wave, so there goes that stupid argument.

And I don’t care what some clowns in the “Booth” says. There’s a reason that there’s a running joke that whatever the Booth says is wack is probably a hot in real life. Half of those dudes are out of tune with what’s going on in the real world.

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

Don’t care. I just don’t listen to it.

Yep

I been off that bs

 

[ISO]

Y’all are delusional and old.

These young nikkas are the ones that choose the sound.

For the millionth time Kendrick, Cole, and Drake are the big 3 out of the last decade and they aren’t on that trap wave, so there goes that stupid argument.

And I don’t care what some clowns in the “Booth” says. There’s a reason that there’s a running joke that whatever the Booth says is wack is probably a hot in real life. Half of those dudes are out of tune with what’s going on in the real world.

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.

 

[Wild self]

Bingo and doesnt help that you have Jews who are more than happy to pay motherfukkas to continually push this stuff out. If there was not business model for it, it would dissolve like an Alka Seltzer tablet.

Crazy how all those people put thwir differences aside and form a Voltron effort to stop black empowerment songs from ever being on the air again.

And even if those positive songs get on the radio even 5% of the time, the ratchet heads will feel threatened that thwir whole foundation would crumble.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

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

Theres still quality songs being put out using that sequence of drums and rhythms.

I'm fine with how shyt is music wise but the song/topic content now is meh in trap.

Whoaaa.

I think we have totally different ideas about what Boom Bap was, if you think that it was the primary beat of urban music.

Boom Bap was prominent from like '92-'95.

It was basically the jazzy soundtrack of New York getting their asses beat by Death Row, Ruthless, and all the West Coast funk based stuff.

A lot of dudes yearn for the return of boom bap
Here's the thing about boom bap
People get it confused with Golden Era, East Coast boom bap is immediately post Golden Era
Boom Bap crystallized around Enter The Wu-Tang, Illmatic and The Infamous. You can throw in Enta Da Stage if you want.
Boom Bap's fatal flaw was that it was catered to only one type of listener
They used to call these dudes "hardrocks" on the east coast
This type of dude typically hugged the block all day and night
Smoked weed and drank throughout most days, didnt hold a job or bring in substantial income
Gross estimate 60% of these types were in the street life; the rest being teenagers or college aged young adults

The aforementioned albums were by hardrocks and spoke directly to the hard rock experience
Which at the time was new
Boom Bap conveniently forgot the roots of hip hop
Hip Hop originated as a party sub culture
The objective was to turn the party out through b-boying, deejaying, and emceeing
The main problem with Boom Bap is that not everyone is a hard rock
Boom Bap's doubling down on the machismo was a direct reaction to the rise of West Coast gangsta rap in the late 80's-early 90's
In the aftermath of Straight Out of Compton, the East was embarrassed to realize that their current reigning champs were the Native Tongue crew and acts influenced by that vibe
So NY rappers went about butching it up to defend their street rep

Musically, Boom Bap was reactionary in the sound of the music itself.
When the reviled West Coast gangsta emcees embraced funk music, Boom Bap reacted by dismissing funk and any other groove based music even though they had been cool with it previously
Boom bap chose to sample jazz and eventually anything abstract because the drums were the main focus
Boom bap tried to make the music as dark and menacing sounding as possible to back up the attitude of the emcees and their subject matter
By doing so, they squeezed all the soul and groove out of the music
B-boys couldnt bug out to this music. Women were displaced altogether
The hardrocks loved it.
Because of the underserved audiences left behind by boom bap, Puff was able to easily slide in and dominate by serving both audiences at the same time.
To this day, he has not been forgiven by certain segments of hip hop society for quashing the dominance of Boom Bap with his fairly obvious brainstorm

TL;DR - Boom Bap was destined to be short lived because it was for and by street dudes and left everyone else in the cold. Because of that flaw, boom bap will not dominate again like it once did for a brief period post Golden Era

This is a great post.

I absolutely hate that it's the truth, but it is.

you can't sit there and worry about the HOES and DRUG DEALERS that already are LOST

but what you can do is DO ALL YOU CAN TO TRY TO PREVENT YOUR DAUGHTER and SON from becoming the next HOE and DRUG DEALER

Unadulterated facts.

 

[Illuminatos]

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.

They always jumped on Trap beats especially Drake but their main sound isn't Trap.

 

[Ghpstface]

At this point, I realize yall only read the title of this post and filled in the rest with your minds.

 

[3rdWorld]

Trap has a couple of beats but the rappers are pure garbage..id say the producers offer more than the rappers

 

[315]

I enjoy a lot of new music and almost none of it is trap

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Crazy how all those people put thwir differences aside and form a Voltron effort to stop black empowerment songs from ever being on the air again.

And even if those positive songs get on the radio even 5% of the time, the ratchet heads will feel threatened that thwir whole foundation would crumble.

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.

 

[satam55]

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.

Can you elaborate?

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[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.

And every generation gets worse.