Rap, as us old dudes know it, really is dead

Art Barr

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The generation after theirs literally all they do is diss. Even if it is rooted in real life street beef.

All these drill guys are from legit cities that have a stamp in both street shyt and rap.

I'm not a fan but banging on wax for the 25 and under cloud is what makes them relevant today.


Cole and Drake should have never been in position 2 begin with.



Drill is not hiphop.

It is house music made for gangstas wanting a hard alternative to bop.

As bop is house.
There is no one in the drill scene who gives a fukk about. Being an emcee. or hiphop culture.

If you said they were hiphop. Which they would hear as soft. It would be an issue.


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Awesome Wells

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Hip-hop is not over because a fraud from Toronto and a fraud from the Carolinas got their card pulled.


They're not hip-hop cities.

Kendrik if anything held it down and stamped that.

People just need to stay in their lane.


Cole, Drake, and Harlow are of the same cloth. They fukked up by thinking they could enter an arena they had no business in 2 begin with.

Truth.

Hip Hop in its true form and as a culture, can never die. It's too embedded in legacy, influence and classics. None of what's being pushed today and seen everywhere can ever touch that. We can't expect outsiders to live up to a standard they weren't born in or even a part of, from the jump. So there will always be dudes like Cole and Drake, but they will always have to operate outside of the real. Which is why they fall so horribly when they do. This is what happens when you're not authentically a part of something.

But Hip Hop will still outlast all of this bullsh*t and fakeness. It'll always be there, whether it's being lifted up daily or not. Hip Hop's first 25 years made sure to build a foundation that can't be broken. So all the losers and bums will definitely try to exploit it and sneak in, but they always get exposed sooner or later. And at the end of the day, the real culture of what this is and has always been, will still be moving forward. The lames will never run this sh*t.
 
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I'm 27 so I guess depending on how old y'all are I'm still young lol, this is my piece.

All Hip Hop needs is a younger purist. In every other genre in the US, they're currently being led more or less by lyricists. Hip Hop is the big outlier for some reason. If a younger purist comes along that can redirect Hip Hop "back on course" with the "core" values.

Personally, I'm fine listening to who I like no matter how many monthly listeners they have, but the health of the genre (as any) is reliant on its mainstream scene. If I gotta dig through 500 spotify playlists to find something good and it got 500 plays how is the genre healthy? That just doesn't add up atp.
 

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It's dead but not dead dead, like a Zombie..because that's what it looks like now.

Battling and Beef are two completely separate things. Battling is Hiphop, Beef is not.
 
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