Remember when Kanye, Common, Lupe and Rhymefest had us thinking Chicago was soft and full of poets?

[Sbp]

I thought it was soft because of Family Matter

You thought the Dragons was soft breh????

 

[Paper Boi]

chicago is a city that was built on violence dating back to the mob..

also lupe started as a gangsta rapper

 

[darealvelle]

Lupe’s image and his actual background have always been completely different

Yep Lupe early rapping days too. OP would have a fit if he heard Lupe rapping about clapping somebody.

 

[Chip Skylark]

Lupe used to sell crack and talk about LKs and GDs

This. Dude was literally rapping about drug dealing and shooting folks on his first mixtapes. Lol there’s literally court statements out from when he testified in court from his managers indictment

 

[richaveli83]

Who ever thought Chicago was soft.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Spoiler

Had to take it all the way back lol

The beat in that first video dark as hell

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I was workin wit a breh from Brooklyn and he used to joke to me about Chicago since he know my family from there.

He was like "yall still be on bozo the clown throwin balls in buckets for archway cookies?"

 

[keon]

Who forms their opinion on an entire city based on rappers? Who didn't know Chicago was the home of gangbanging?

When NY was going through it's most violent years in the 80's- very early 90's most rappers were about partying, girls, and Afrocentrism. The real gangsters weren't rapping.

this is why I wasn’t gonna even respond to this dumb ass thread

only a teenage suburban cac would think like that

 

[JackRoss]

People born the late 2000s say shyt like this. His mother has likely been ran through.

 

[Gator48]

Soft because you don't kill people that look like you... Ass backwards

 

[Wild self]

Soft because you don't kill people that look like you... Ass backwards

A lot of people cant admit it, but they desperately need therapy. Glorifying superthug rap is like consuming too much red meat ans having colon cancer in your brain. The "real nikka" mentality done fukked us up mentally and spiritually from the late 80s onwards.

 

[Kingshango]

 

[Wild self]

Not a shot at you but I find it very interesting how when nikkas mention “the real musical tastes” of their city, they almost always like to disqualify conscious raps and backpack raps for some strange reason.

Some people literally turn to KKK members for even mentioning the "soft" rappers or the socially conscious ones like Public Enemy or X-Clan. This thread is beyond sad.

 

[Rusty$hackleford]

Why would anyone make opinions about a city by a few rappers? nikkas knew that Chicago been wild. Especially nikkas that been there

Because tv raised these goofies.

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Twista, Do or Die and Crucial Conflict were all before them. Nobody ever thought Chicago was soft,

Those 3 groups wasnt on no tough shyt either