Is the rap game all in our heads when it comes to mattering?

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Aside from the internet and the demographics it touches consistently I don't think anybody really cares or is even listening. It's starting to remind me of the Pokemon card collecting craze. It was huge for the kids participating and it was newsworthy for the craze it created....but it didn't matter. I feel like we're just rooting for random winners and losers, then there's the filler in between supplied by tweets Instagram photos beefs and performance controversy. Hip hop used to be something i felt playing and going on even when the music went off. Now it just seems like some kind of novel sideshow in pop culture.

The discussions and debates try to lend it some weight and give it back some sense of reality but it feels like a delusion now. I look at some of these threads and when before I felt the need to express my point of view I just digress. I know in and few days the same exact argument will resurface as a spinoff.

I still enjoy the music. This doesn't have anything to do with how I feel about the quality of artists or the music created. It just dawned on me that it's importance to anything valid is disconnected. Yes this is entertainment but it used to be anchored to a legitimate source. It had a quality about it that drew you in. I used to sit down and think about certain records and verses without them playing. I didn't have to be entertained and hooked up to something to be involved with it. Now we're being trained to focus on the melodrama constantly and respect that as apart of what makes it real. We're the only genre that does it this way. Pop rock and country do not do this to the extent we do. It's become a cheap experience. Nobody cares about this shyt. Not even the people who make it.
 

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I feel like we're just rooting for random winners and losers, then there's the filler in between supplied by tweets Instagram photos beefs and performance controversy. Hip hop used to be something i felt playing and going on even when the music went off. Now it just seems like some kind of novel sideshow in pop culture.

This is exactly what I've been wondering over the last few months or so. I'm still not sure if this is the case, or if it's just me getting old. It seems like 99.9% of these records don't really mean anything to people. Every couple of months there's some new rapper or album I'm supposed to be excited about, but the push and hype behind the product (coming from the media and fans - I'm not questioning the motives or realness of the artists themselves) rarely seems genuine.
 

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What are you talking about man... i cant even decypher what the point is you are trying to express. learn how to write better.

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This is exactly what I've been wondering over the last few months or so. I'm still not sure if this is the case, or if it's just me getting old. It seems like 99.9% of these records don't really mean anything to people. Every couple of months there's some new rapper or album I'm supposed to be excited about, but the push and hype behind the product (coming from the media and fans - I'm not questioning the motives or realness of the artists themselves) rarely seems genuine.
 
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Aside from the internet and the demographics it touches consistently I don't think anybody really cares or is even listening. It's starting to remind me of the Pokemon card collecting craze. It was huge for the kids participating and it was newsworthy for the craze it created....but it didn't matter. I feel like we're just rooting for random winners and losers, then there's the filler in between supplied by tweets Instagram photos beefs and performance controversy. Hip hop used to be something i felt playing and going on even when the music went off. Now it just seems like some kind of novel sideshow in pop culture.

The discussions and debates try to lend it some weight and give it back some sense of reality but it feels like a delusion now. I look at some of these threads and when before I felt the need to express my point of view I just digress. I know in and few days the same exact argument will resurface as a spinoff.

I still enjoy the music. This doesn't have anything to do with how I feel about the quality of artists or the music created. It just dawned on me that it's importance to anything valid is disconnected. Yes this is entertainment but it used to be anchored to a legitimate source. It had a quality about it that drew you in. I used to sit down and think about certain records and verses without them playing. I didn't have to be entertained and hooked up to something to be involved with it. Now we're being trained to focus on the melodrama constantly and respect that as apart of what makes it real. We're the only genre that does it this way. Pop rock and country do not do this to the extent we do. It's become a cheap experience. Nobody cares about this shyt. Not even the people who make it.
Culture been dead breh


It's all about profit now.
 

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Aside from the internet and the demographics it touches consistently I don't think anybody really cares or is even listening. It's starting to remind me of the Pokemon card collecting craze. It was huge for the kids participating and it was newsworthy for the craze it created....but it didn't matter. I feel like we're just rooting for random winners and losers, then there's the filler in between supplied by tweets Instagram photos beefs and performance controversy. Hip hop used to be something i felt playing and going on even when the music went off. Now it just seems like some kind of novel sideshow in pop culture.

The discussions and debates try to lend it some weight and give it back some sense of reality but it feels like a delusion now. I look at some of these threads and when before I felt the need to express my point of view I just digress. I know in and few days the same exact argument will resurface as a spinoff.

I still enjoy the music. This doesn't have anything to do with how I feel about the quality of artists or the music created. It just dawned on me that it's importance to anything valid is disconnected. Yes this is entertainment but it used to be anchored to a legitimate source. It had a quality about it that drew you in. I used to sit down and think about certain records and verses without them playing. I didn't have to be entertained and hooked up to something to be involved with it. Now we're being trained to focus on the melodrama constantly and respect that as apart of what makes it real. We're the only genre that does it this way. Pop rock and country do not do this to the extent we do. It's become a cheap experience. Nobody cares about this shyt. Not even the people who make it.

This is exactly what I've been wondering over the last few months or so. I'm still not sure if this is the case, or if it's just me getting old. It seems like 99.9% of these records don't really mean anything to people. Every couple of months there's some new rapper or album I'm supposed to be excited about, but the push and hype behind the product (coming from the media and fans - I'm not questioning the motives or realness of the artists themselves) rarely seems genuine.

I feel you breh. Wholeheartedly.

Ultimately though, I feel it comes down to the bolded. When I was 16-19, I felt like everything mattered. Everything was important. Records made sense to me. I was involved. It felt like everything that was going on hip-hop was real life. Now, at 21. I don't feel like that at all. Nothing has actually changed though, I feel it's just us growing up and things becoming more important at this stage in our lives.

Cycle of life breh :manny:
 

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I feel you breh. Wholeheartedly.

Ultimately though, I feel it comes down to the bolded. When I was 16-19, I felt like everything mattered. Everything was important. Records made sense to me. I was involved. It felt like everything that was going on hip-hop was real life. Now, at 21. I don't feel like that at all. Nothing has actually changed though, I feel it's just us growing up and things becoming more important at this stage in our lives.

Cycle of life breh :manny:


I'm not sure about that because when I was a teenager it was the nikkas in their mid to late 20s who were the most hype about everything in hip hop. I just turned 28 and it's not that the music doesn't make sense. In fact it's the most simple and basic it's ever been. There are messages in certain records that still do inspire but it's the environment and industry that circulates and spins everything on a daily basis that drowns out the music. The hip hop movement is being overshadowed by the commentary that's based off nothing. Why am I supposed to care what Wiz Khalifa wears every other week or how many kids Weezy has. Why the fukk are grown men and women commenting on Blu Ivy's hairstyle and then wanna switch back to debating classic records. nikkas on here can name the last 3 bytches they fukked faster than they can name his last 3 singles. What the fukk is going on?
 
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