Message To the Black Youth.....You Don't HAVE To Like Rap Music. It's Ok NOT To F*kk With Rap Music.

[Antwon Mitchell]

How many times are y'all gonna keep making threads on this shyt it's like y'all get paid to keep the topic going...

Different poster, same topic.

Every damn day, same damn thing.

We get it already, goddamn damnit!

Just damnit already, shyt damn!

Another one.

 

[Matt504]

 

[Bar Razor]

I've listened to hip hop since I was a child, it became my defining genre even though I listen and love a lot of genres of music. This is because it was a music that blew up with my generation. I've studied its history, performed it, written rhymes as an emcee, etc. I'm old enough to remember when "crime rhyme" was just starting to take over the genre - when NYC sold out and emulated the West Coast because that's what the record labels wanted. When Jeru and a couple of others were the lone voices yelling in the wilderness trying to reverse the trend to no avail. Though I continued to like the music with the rise of these acts - because a lot of them had talent at what makes good hip hop - flow, lyrics, cadence, uniqueness, I never felt a true PRIDE in the music like I did before. It felt like a darkness fell over it, and its one that's never left. Once criminality became a central tenet in the music, I feel it started a downward spiral to where being "a real street n" started to overshadow everything else to a LOT of consumers. Where you had to be some form of a thug act to get signed to a lot of record labels. It was detrimental not only to the growth of the genre, but to the minds of countless people. Fast forward all these years later and it's a wasteland. The legacy of the music is that it went from being this completely new genre that took over the world with its innovation and originality and evolved into a stagnant soulless corporate co-opted product largely identified by pointless nihilism.

 

[semicko82]

Ironically this is posted on a hip hop message board

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

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[Kuma the Bear]

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[Black Magisterialness]

I tell black youth to be into whatever the fukk they want to be into. The issue isn't so much the pressure to conform by liking rap. Its the pressure to not like anything else.

 

[brickfare]

When yall ready to come over to a real man's music, come to the blues

Love Kingfish. Seen him live twice and I’m not even into the blues like that (despite being from Memphis).

Def feel breh who left it alone when Dolph died…but there’s enough grown man, reality based rap out now, you don’t even have to stick to the drilled out low vibrational music. I can see a lot of this popular stuff being really harmful to the young and impressionable. Glad I was grown as hell by the time drill really took hold

 

[Finesse]

The potential for Rap music is still there. It shouldnt be something that we give on up. Clearly its one of our most powerful tools as a community.

We just need to use it properly.

 

[Dameon Farrow]

What’s wrong with rap music?

It's the cause of all ills in the community. Even the ones that existed before rap. All that shyt gets grandfathered in.

 

[Anton]

 

[Dance_Like_A_Fiend]

I don't listen to rap music. My dad has it blasting in his car but I've been tuning it out for 20 years

 

[Marks]

 

[Child_Of_God]

Rap music has many different sub genres the same way Rock music do. I understand where OP is coming from but you can’t box all Rap music in like that and claim it is all toxic. A Kendrick Lamar, J Cole and Tyler The Creator song is vastly different compared to a Lil Durk, Fivio Foreign and Da Baby song.

 

[50CentStan]

I like country western ballads is that okay? The real hardcore stuff. Like toby keith types