WhatsGoodTy
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This title is stupid. Should be " Is Kanye the reason we have less gangster rappers, and more "normal guys" "
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Is Kanye the father of this era of "softness"?
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I agree with this.
autotune weezy era had more of an impact imo
It's a variety of things that have caused hip-hop to change. Chief among them is that the social environment has drastically changed over the last decade or so. For example there were 2000+ murders in NYC in 1993 compared to 583 last year. Projects have been torn down all over the country, gentrification of what used to be really dangerous places..........
It's just not as dangerous as it was in the late 80s and late 90s and I believe the music reflects that. I personally can't get with a lot of these new "soft" rappers, but that's not my generation anyway. These kids are growing in a much different environment than the one we grew up on in the 90s. It may actually be an improvement to the game that kids can now honestly express themselves artistically without having to put on a tough guy facade.
It's just not as dangerous as it was in the late 80s and late 90s and I believe the music reflects that. I personally can't get with a lot of these new "soft" rappers, but that's not my generation anyway. These kids are growing in a much different environment than the one we grew up on in the 90s. It may actually be an improvement to the game that kids can now honestly express themselves artistically without having to put on a tough guy facade.
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WhatsGoodTy
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FukkaPaidEmail
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nikkas talking about Pharrell but I kind of think early 2000's Outkast is getting lost in the shuffle.
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Well if we wanna be real about it than Native Tongues are the ones who really deserve the credit/blame..
Outkast, Pharell and Ye are all their sons...
Don't forget to add Gucci
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If you talkin bout trap rappers yes.
Urbanmiracle
Brooklyn the planet...
Kanye poised the question, does every rapper have to rhyme about shooting folks and selling drugs and being a poision to the community. Or can we have a rapper that rhymes about what regular folks go through which does include gettin played by girls, being broke, going to school, working a hated 9 to 5, and having emotions. Because not every black male is a super drug dealer, super pimp who fukks everyone's girl, a self made million from said drugs who never seen jail, a marksman with the ak and the glock, with no emotions and a heartless super masculine idiot.
Thank Kanye and Pharrell and lupe for that. Because thug rap gets boring after everyone tried to do it.
Thank Kanye and Pharrell and lupe for that. Because thug rap gets boring after everyone tried to do it.
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People are really acting Outkast didn't sell 10 million in 2003 though, their "non-thug" approach is overlooked.
FukkaPaidEmail
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Yeah but the Native Tongues movement wasn't strong enough to have an effect on todays music scene.In regards to Outkast i was referring to early 2000's Kast when they dropped Stankonia/Speakerboxx and the love below.Both were huge records that were critically acclaimed and both sold more than any Kanye album.nikkas are acting like Kanye showed up and gangsta rap died,it was a long slow transition.As far as artist impact I believe Outkast had a bigger impact than Pharell did.Hell,Kast might have fathered this shyt.
jilla82
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its just that Kanye has been the biggest thing in rap...shyt, he's one of the largest names in music period.
Add to the fact that he also influenced the dress of today...when he came out this is how people looked
shyt done flipped.