Imagine a world without Hip Hop

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First off you wouldn't associate those two words with "Your bytch and the clique you claim"
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nor the rest of the lyrical wizardry that flows through your dome piece with its ingenious use of rhythmic vocabulary laying down neural traces.

Second, no Coli which (possibly) means no Smileys and incessant stream of F-ery.
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Third global culture as it stands would be totally different currently in that BBLs, twerking, making it rain, shinin, ridin, getting high and bouncing cars along with drum heavy grooves wouldn't have gained the inroads by going from underground to mainstream they did. Fourth but possibly most important of all:

The voiceless would still remain unheard as their souls burn in concrete jungles where they're packed tight as herds compared to those living lavish in the burbs.

Fifth the faces of sports would be totally different.

Sixth, at least to me, tatts would never have become mainstream because this was another street turned corporate AKA @Tupac in a Business Suit kind of thing that the hip, the hop started rocking and got poppin. Speaking of:

Seven you'd never, ever see conspicuous consumption to this degree and the obsession with luxury that pretty much defines the modern times.


Its crazy when you think about it, isn't it? Two turntables and a mic and here we are, chopping it up via screens. People of all races and hues from all around the globe who disagree on pretty much everything yet can't help but nod their heads to a dope beat or say "Run that back again" when some extra crispy bars make an impression on their dome and have em looking like this:

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Doesn't it just blow your mind?

 

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It would be a very boring world

Oh indeed. Just going off the first point I was thinking of the sheer amount of lyrics that are in my head and its amazing. No other genre really prompts this level of lyrical exercise because only rappers are that sharp when it comes to pushing the pen.

Somewhere in the multiverse there is an Earth on a timeline that descended from grunge because that was the era when hip hop first started making real inroads into the commercial. I genuinely can't picture what that world would be like because the cultures influence on absolutely everything is so pervasive.
 

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I think shiit Wood still be fly without hip-hop. Go-go would’ve blown up, funk & soul would’ve still been a thing. Electro would’ve popped off a little bit heavier. Way more musicality live instruments much less bullshyt and blatant exploitation.

And most of all a lot less weak minds to get involved in fake gangster bullshyt.

In my opinion hip-hop has had its run.
 

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Go-go would’ve blown up funk & soul would’ve still been a thing. Electro would’ve popped off a little bit heavier. Way more musicality live instruments much less bullshyt and blatant exploitation.

Interesting point but I get the feeling we'd have seen way more white dominance in terms of art even though rap literally took the worst aspects of ADOS culture and caricatured them for commercial gain.

Stuff like funk, soul, electro and true R&B were still niche back in the 90s and not mainstream chart smashes. Just look at the barriers MJ had to break in the 80s and that speaks volumes about the nature of gatekeeping. Its interesting that they not only allowed but promoted the insidious aspects though because you could argue that the entire genre of Rap was the original industry plant par excellence.


Quite fascinating if you look into it and think.
 
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