Is Hip Hop Scary Anymore?

[Danny Up]

A song called "fukk the police" could not come out in an era where the biggest hip hop song is the world is called "hold on we're going home"

Right, because "Wild Thing", "Bust A Move", Can't Touch This" was so damn hard.

 

[Danny Up]

when was hip hop/rap ever scary?

 

[JayYoung314]

hip hop is the safest genre of music out right now

 

[TrifeGod]

not to defend drake..but why are nikkas actin like rap wasnt soft prior to drake

lets get to the bottom of it

 

[How Sway?]

TBH I dont think Rap has been "Scary" since like 05 give or take, So It's not like this is something that just happened out of thin air in the last year or two. And hip hop has always commercialized songs with mass appeal.

 

[PhonZhi]

i think instead of "scary" the word used should be "mystique" and i think that social media is the biggest cause. and the fact that we know so much about artists these days. personally the more i see an artist on tv and in the media the less i wanna fukk wit em. thats one of the reasons i will always Bone. till this day i still dont know shyt about their personal lives. (besides Bizzy being kidnapped as a youngin)

 

[Yoda]

you 90s wanna be thugs make me laugh

everything was so much tougher back then huh

it was scarier aswell huh

foh if youtube and wshh existed in the 90s every rapper would get exposed as wannabes FACT

 

[How Sway?]

the only "scary" hip hop right now is the shyt coming out chicago.

 

[Wild self]

you 90s wanna be thugs make me laugh

everything was so much tougher back then huh

it was scarier aswell huh

foh if youtube and wshh existed in the 90s every rapper would get exposed as wannabes FACT

pretty much. There were actual thugs back in the day, but the likes of Jeru da Damaja and Chuck D spoke out against it, but these wannabe thugs re-wrote history and brainwashed people into thinking that Hip Hop is all about being stagnant and all kinds of negativity. It lost its mystique when it became oversaturated and those thugs/ wanna be thugs became predictable. People just got tired of them and their lack of progression.

 

[razassin]

Fakkitz like lil wayne kanye n drake fukked it up

Fake nikkaz like ross yeezy n safe house negro like jigger did too

Thats shy i only fukk with gucci n chicago nikkaz right now

 

[NvrCMyNut]

new gen of cacs not scared of black ppl

 

[Danny Up]

new gen of cacs not scared of black ppl

When were they ever scared?

 

[Insensitive]

you 90s wanna be thugs make me laugh

everything was so much tougher back then huh

it was scarier aswell huh

foh if youtube and wshh existed in the 90s every rapper would get exposed as wannabes FACT

FALSE.
Every rapper wasn't fronting.

On topic :
I think a lot of it has to do with not wanting to step on any toes.

Back then Hip Hop was edgy,offensive and somewhat conscious.
And to a white person whose never seen a minority up close
it could potentially be "scary".
Not necessarily the genre itself but the image attached to it.
I mean right now there are people who fear the image
of Waka Flocka/Chief Keef which is just a 2013 version
of Snoop/Cube/Pac as far as what the image evokes.

I think one of the biggest things that has changed
is that what was new and edgy in Hip Hop THEN is
NOW normal.
"fukk the police" is now cliche, it doesn't have
the same sting it had back then because it's been co-opted by
misbehaving white suburbanites who scream it whenever the cops
get called.
It doesn't have the angst and general disgust with mistreatment
from those that are meant to serve and protect that it had when
Cube,Krs and Ice-T said it.

With that said I still think it has the ability to offend, enlighten
and entertain I just feel the average rapper isn't up to it.

pretty much. There were actual thugs back in the day, but the likes of Jeru da Damaja and Chuck D spoke out against it, but these wannabe thugs re-wrote history and brainwashed people into thinking that Hip Hop is all about being stagnant and all kinds of negativity. It lost its mystique when it became oversaturated and those thugs/ wanna be thugs became predictable. People just got tired of them and their lack of progression.

I don't think "Wannabe thugs" brainwashed people, I think it's just the
effect of a persons initial introduction to something/anything
When you hear "Country" you probably don't think of the various
sub-genre's within, just like the average person who hears "Rap" wouldn't
think Backpack/Alternative,Gangster Rap,Snap music etc.

 

[Corndog]

I'm just gonna leave this right here

 

[YouMadd?]