Those strippers started rapping when they realized they had a big part of hip hop. We used to hear rappers and producers from atlanta when it was at its height say "if the song don't hit with strip clubs it won't work".i think that the stripper rap argument shows the disconnect that the older rappers have today.
as much as jermaine dupre wants to act like he didn't have a hand in it, he needs to keep in mind that the same young rappers he's criticizing, they were watching videos like "welcome to atlanta" with him and ludacris. they had the models all twerking and looking pretty. cardi b, megan the stallion and all these wack female rappers basically grew up listening and watching all these artists that were popular in the last decade and all the shallow content they dropped. the music wasn't all that great either.that was what was hot in the streets at the time. they literally inspired a bunch of kids off of this shyt where they think that that was hip hop and rap. at one point in the last decade, the video models were more celebrated than the female rappers. folks stopped caring about the female rappers to the point you had the female rappers and singers having to compete with the video models where they had to sexualize themselves more to capture people's attention. now these older rappers are acting all shocked that the younger generation that were watching them are putting out the same shallow content they put out back in the day and are even personifying it. you reap what you sow.
Some lables hired strippers in a&r positions bc of it. More local artist went to clubs to get a stripper to dance to their shyt putting the stripper in a position of power. Strippers rapping now is a byproduct of that power. Why put his shyt on when i can put my own out? I remember discussions on here about strip clubs controlling hip hop.
Dj esco said "Once your song gets played, once people start to know who you are, you need to start throwing money at dancers whenever that song comes on. Radio deejays would arrive as well, listening to which new songs are making the club move and who’s beefing with who. Strip clubs are a big part of hip-hop culture down South. That's where a lot of strippers are in power positions to break new music. You've got a captive audience of radio guys and label executives in those clubs, so if the girls are moving to a particular song, they're going to take notice."
This was from 2005.
