The Cool Kids: "I thought I had to sell drugs to be a rapper before Kanye West"
- Thread starter Guvnor
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THe fukked up part is now the youngins feel like they have to DO drugs( hard drugs weed don't count) to be a rapper
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PhonZhi
Veteran
That mindset is a result of hiphop being taken over and being used AGAINST black folk. Young black kids growing up thinking they have to fit the stereotypical violent and criminal image that the white man wants broadcasted to the world in order to make it in rap. Black folk dont control hiphop or the major media outlets so of course that would be the main stereotype of blacks portrayed in hiphop.
Kanyes infulence in the rap game is like a double edge sword.Yes he made it cool to rap about other thing than selling drug,clapping a dude with the 45 and being your self but he also brought in alot of the fakkitry and shyt you see going on in music today
ZEB WALTON
ayo! - BEZ
Gives kids with no hard up bringing something to talk about.
Guvnor
Da Speculative Spectacle®
Facts, thats true. We would never see any of this weird shyt back in the gangster days of hiphop.Kanyes infulence in the rap game is like a double edge sword.Yes he made it cool to rap about other thing than selling drug,clapping a dude with the 45 and being your self but he also brought in alot of the fakkitry and shyt you see going on in music today
Mike the Executioner
What went on up there? Poppers and weird sex!
So are we still going with the narrative that the 90s were full of "gangsta, gangsta, kill, kill, kill, everybody gotta die" raps and no one represented the common man before Kanye showed up? 
dennis roadman
nuclear war in my bag
These dudes are clowns
macadomusic
Superstar
His parents failed him. There was plenty of hip hop that popped off before then. Tribe, Hiero, devin the dude, pharcyde ....... 
OnlyInCalifornia
Southern California/Vegas
The reason Kanye is getting those comments is basically those kids were coming of age when he got popular but it's not entirely true that he was the reason kids thought they could make non-gangsta rap...
Like Rawkus Records line up didn't have a whole mess of guys who were putting out music that wasn't gangsta rap? From 95 on....
Talib? Mos Def? Pharoah Monch? Xzibit before he also thought he has to be a gangsta rapper because of Dr Dre? High & Mighty? Mad Skillz?
Like Rawkus Records line up didn't have a whole mess of guys who were putting out music that wasn't gangsta rap? From 95 on....
Talib? Mos Def? Pharoah Monch? Xzibit before he also thought he has to be a gangsta rapper because of Dr Dre? High & Mighty? Mad Skillz?
Guvnor
Da Speculative Spectacle®
You had a common, mos def, De La Soul, Hammer, arrested devlopment and a few others but not that many. Gangster shyt was the cream of the crop.So are we still going with the narrative that the 90s were full of "gangsta, gangsta, kill, kill, kill, everybody gotta die" raps and no one represented the common man before Kanye showed up?
Guvnor
Da Speculative Spectacle®
They mention rawkus but Kanye influence is bigger then rawkus and kanye did it mainstream. That is what they meant.
OnlyInCalifornia
Southern California/Vegas
+Rep.
He used them to literally jump start his career by having them all over his albums and the Dave Chapelle block party deals...
Though yeah, I mean if you want to be a MEGA STAR on the level of Tupac, Snoop, Jay-z....him and Eminem proved you didn't need to be gangsta rappers/drug dealers.