I don't want to hear middle class rappers

[Mac Casper]

know nothing being poverty brehs

 

[SirBiatch]

If we wanna keep it a stack ever since suburban niccas became a high percentage in the game , shyt been type boring not implying you gotta be talking bout ooo-wops and runnin down on niccas but these niccas ain't never really face no type of adversity , which is exactly why the passion in their rhymes is lacking

Middle class rapper got more to talk about than a nikka who ain't left his block. Dudes making up duck tales about their lives just cuz they lived in the hood...

both groups equally killed it and feed off each other. Who do you think is the first to hypebeast typical gutter nonsense?

The reality is that rap at its peak came from working class/middle class Black rappers who often came from artistic families (Nas, Prodigy, Rakim, etc). A number of their parents had degrees (Prodigy, Camron). DJ Premier came from a two-parent household and went to university. Biggie wasn't dirt poor. Method Man had a decent upbringing from the little I've read. So they were close enough to the struggle to have something to talk about while being smart/creative enough to blow peoples minds.

I don't wanna hear dumb, uncreative hood nikkas rap. As much as they love to claim credit, they didn't really build this culture. Suburb cats (upper-middle to upper class) have absolutely nothing to talk about, and most importantly, never spent the years and intense competition (often in the hood) crafting their voice/flow/overall music. Suburb cats also choose to rhyme about meaningless shyt when they could actually rhyme about stuff that's a genuine struggle (e.g. breaking into the upper class, mental illness, the struggle to get a good education, etc). Not some silly angst bullshyt.

Chubb rock went to Brown university
Lauren Hill went to Columbia
Pras went to Yale
Mos def and talib kweli went to NYU


In either case they all could articulate the struggle in their music.

Didn't Biggie,Rakim,EPMD,Ice Cube and countless others grow up middle class

countless.

I have more in common with your average GOAT rapper than a lot of hood cats.

 

[Colin X]

Only poor black folks go through shyt?

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

:loldenzel2:

sounds like a drake bar

also rap can be fiction who said this shyt all has to be real and if you don't do either just spit battle type punchline heavy bars.

there is middle class and then there's corny they are not mutually inclusive