So, Now middle aged cac high school teachers DECIDE Whats HIP HOP

[DrX]

Sad thing about hip-hop is...these cacs become so powerful, now artist have to kiss their ass .... u got cats from the hood thats rapping about their pain, and have some fat middle age drew Carey looking dike bytch tell him he need to step it because his beats r lacking.....fukk outta here man

this bytch is living well, this man done lost everything....been through hell.... she gonna tell him he need catchy hooks....aint that about a bytch!

Man idk how we always end up in a position of weakness smh... Dame tried to warn us, and ppl turned on him to protect masta

 

[cjlaw93]

Sad thing about hip-hop is...these cars become so powerful, now artist have to kiss their ass .... u got cats from the hood thats rapping about his pain, and have some fat middle age drew Carey looking dike bytch tell him he need to step it because his beats r lacking

Man idk how we always end up in a position of weakness smh... Dame tried to warn us, and ppl turned on him to protect masta

 

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

Dame tried to warn us, and ppl turned on him to protect masta

We didnt turn on Dame, it was just them.


I never really heard of a Black Person any Age or Generation or Era turning down real wisdom.


Thats "never" really the case

 

[tuckgod]

exactly. theyll hire people like her cause they appeal to their predominantly white male audience that loves black music but dont love black people. they dont want to listen to the opinions of black people who are invested and are working pillars of the culture cause they're racist at the end of the day. they dont respect black people cause theyve been conditioned all of their lives not to.

and you right...they are hesistant to hire black people to even write about black art and culture!!! wtf! its disgusting!

its the gentrification era of hip hop as i have said before. they want to have black art, black music, and black culture without any black people involved.

and the ones that are involved are eother emasculated, neutered, safe and pandering to whites, c00ns, or just gay. or they hire black women that know their shyt just to have a minority and a woman on the team...but then that sista and token brotha have to deal with the same pro white bullshyt using a vehicle for black culture. then they get pushed around cause they cant deal with the racially charged office politics and eventually they either quit or get fired.

its fukking colonialism.

 

[Brofato]

Honestly the list aint even that bad

I heard a lil yachty song the other day. It was terrible but his ad-libs made me laugh.

Only person I'm familiar with and have 0 problem with being on there is anderson .paak

Don't know the rest, honestly.

 

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

fukk Rap

 

[JustCKing]

They aren't deciding anything. It's one person or a group of people's opinion. It's up to the reader to formulate their own opinion. It's only when you're allowing their opinion to influence how you think when it becomes them dictating anything. In this case, XXL is hardly dictating anything anymore or even influencing anything. None of these Freshman covers have really been influential in anything aside from sparking conversations (most of them being people cringing on who made the cover). A lot of these artists are artists that were discussed long before making the cover. People already had an opinion of them before XXL decided to place them on the cover. More importantly, it's not like people are going to be swayed by a cover and an article vs. their own ears in regard to music.

Personally, I care more about the content more so who is creating it. If the content is garbage, everything else is irrelevant. Honestly, I'm finding that music journalism is falling off across the board. It lacks professionalism. A lot of articles aren't even being proofread. If it's not that, the headlines and titles are over-the-top and read like a teeny bopper wrote it.