What do you think is gonna replace it that’s gonna be more to your liking?
Honestly: it may be a wrap.
We have seen the complete annihilation of our culture and it's the Young Thugs and Lil' Baby's that put the nail in the coffin.
The combination of
- Black artists STILL tap dancing for white owned major labels as if they are doing us a favor...
- With the bar being so low that "the beat" is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more important than what a rapper (not an MC) says...
- The rise of Social Media aka Where Fake (the opposite of Hip-Hop) runs the show and gossip culture fueled by people like Charlamagne, Akademiks and Envy
Is VERY hard to come back from.
Seeing things like Kendrick Lamar rapping for real and getting success is great - but knowing it's because he beefed with an R&B crooner in Drake suddenly makes it far less appealing or impressive. When he did his most creative work this dude was NOT doing no Super Bowls.
For all of us who lived through golden eras of rap from EPMD, Gang Starr, Wu-Tang's rise, Biggie, Tupac, Nas, Jay, Death Row, 50, Foxy, Wayne etc. the game is so watered down and the "niche underground" sound could be great BUT you can't experience the feeling of California Love coming on right after Pac got out anymore.
Being lame is excepted now. Having ZERO original aspects to your game is normal now. When I came up everyone wanted to be like rappers, now the LAST thing on Earth a smart/cool person would ever want to be is like one of these rappers.
What do you think? You think there's any hope
@Knucklehead?