Pete Rock Says Drill Rap Is Trash: 'It Disrupts The Soul'

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Lil Bape the PostGod said:
The first era of hip hop was a bunch of nikkas saying “throw ur hands in the air, and wave them like you just don’t care”
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That's because they literally invented the genre dumb nikka. The fukk, you expected some multis in 1981?

Like, what's the excuse of these new nikkas sounding even more basic than those old nikkas?
 
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DontEemTry said:
Difference being that this is the first era of hip-hop where rap skills really don't matter.

It's pure garbage.
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I wrote a post a long time ago about how hip hop got co-opted by The Machine and it hollowed it out from the inside:

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Will it change? Unlikely. Here's why:

Back in the days the labels were playing catch up to an organic movement that could and did switch directions easily and effortlessly depending on what the streets were feeling. Now the machine is in full effect with its top down control of platform and they'll always put in the least amount of effort possible to generate the largest return on investment.

This is why its all so basic and cut and paste because there is no artist development as they aren't looking for longevity or growth, just a quick flip, give fiends the hit then onto the next one. Also because the genre is now a global culture that is aimed primarily at adolescents (plus the grown but still dumb) the churn is phenomenal so whilst it sounds stale to us its fresh to the kids.

99.9% business. 0.01% show

The current trap era is an all out money maker for labels because its pure profit:

Sample clearance? Nope
Mixing? Eh, if you can be bothered
Mastering? Lets run a loudness filter through it
Distribution? All digital, all profit

Not to mention the 360s and all the rest of that jazz. The culture has been hollowed out from within in front of your eyes and the shell will be used to sell genocide rhymes until the end of time or people get wise. What rap is now isn't what it was then. Not at all.
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Back in the days it was a fresh and fluid artform that prized being unique over everything else. Thats why it thrived during its not one but two golden ages. The legend of the fall off was immense and its just got worse and worse in terms of content. Mainstream speaking that is, you can still find the real if you go looking for it.

Hopefully one day we'll see a renaissance on a larger level but I doubt it as its the defacto global culture now and thats always been about keeping the lowest frequency possible as the most viable option.
 
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homiedontplaydat said:
He's right. That music is demonic
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I love Pete Rock and Im in my late 20’s so Im not some 18 year old drill fan or anything but man, he should chill man. We live in a demonic world, where violence and debauchery sells. If you don’t fukk with it mind your business and don’t listen to it .Do shyt to raise your own frequency. They were stamping on gangsta rap Cd’s in the 90’s this shyt ain’t going nowhere
 
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I agree 100%. Drill rap is literally music about the death and destruction of black people.

No offense to anybody reading this (we all walk different paths in this life and come to enlightenment at different rates, so I'm not judging none of you) but if you enjoy drill rap , I assume you're either A) not black B) young (in which you get a pass) or C) you have little to no "racial pride" as a black person.

I get it, it sounds good. The beats bang. Trust me, I get it. But the CONTENT should disturb you as a black person. You shouldn't be able to listen to it. It shouldn't sit right with your spirit being the original man.

Think about this for a second: imagine if I wrote and recorded a diss record about your grandmother or anyone you love dearly. Imagine me rapping about pulling up on ya mother and turning her house into swiss cheese over a scorching hot beat that "bangs in the whip"......would you still enjoy it?
Would you ride around bumping a song about the shooting and killing of ya own loved one?


No, you wouldn't because the song is about someone you LOVE. I personally can't stand drill rap and alot of other rap in general, because I LOVE black people. I LOVE us , so this music doesn't sit right with me no matter how much it bangs.

I hope that we as a people someday raise our collective consciousness so that we will look back someday and cringe that we ever liked that type of music in the first place :scust:

If a Jewish rapper made a song about killing other Jews the song would be scrubbed from the internet and the rapper would be outcasted from the community. He would be looked at as a traitor and would have to apologize publicly to his people to be let back in.
 
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