We lost rap music to CACS once our artists stopped being race conscious

[Swagnificent]

Remember when Hov said this on Moment of Clarity?

I dumbed down for my audience to double my dollars. They criticized me for it, yet they all yell "holla" · If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense But I did 5 mill' – I ain't been rhyming like Common since

Not blaming Hov but that sort of thinking is why 7 of the top 10 selling rap songs right now are made by white artists. Once rap music became solely about silly materialism like how much money you got it became easy for cacs to mimic it and be successful. Yes rap was not only about conscious music. It was also party music and about having a good time in the club. But think back to all the top artists of the past. Even hardcore gangsta rappers like Tupac were highly conscious and made music that had a strong component of black consciousness. Some of Pac's biggest hits were conscious tracks about uplifting the black community.

Now with everything being about trapping and where actually living the life of what you're rapping about no longer matters, are we surprised that CACS could come in and quickly take it over? Once we started giving fakes like Drake passes to rap about catching bodies, are you surprised even bigger frauds like Post Malone came along?

Pro-blackness is something CACS couldn't have mimicked. Once our music stopped being pro-black, we lost it. PERIOD.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Yup.

I've been said this.

Even NWA talked about police brutality and racism on nikkaz4Life

Ice Cube, Ice T, Geto Boys, etc. . . .talked about racism and White supremacy constantly, even sprinkled in the talk about guns, bytches, and drugs.

But now, there's almost ZERO talk about that shyt with the exception of Kendrick, J. Cole, and a few dudes like that

 

[YamakaSmacker]

I just heard a ballout(who?) song where he said he had 30 shots for a broke ******. The hard R was a part of the rhyme scheme

 

[CoryMack]

We lost everything when we stopped being race conscious.

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

There's plenty of conscious artist:nawnikka:

 

[ba'al]

Ya'll nikkas lost rap when you sold it to them folks for corporate dollars. But it's still conscious artist

 

[I Really Mean It]

Conscious rap is still heavy in the underground. It just isn't promoted. Once whites began consuming rap, labels made a pivot and instructed their artists to promote mindless degeneracy, knowing the white consumers weren't interested in hearing KRS rhyme about police brutality.

 

[Marti]

Conscious rap is still heavy in the underground. It just isn't promoted. Once whites began consuming rap, labels made a pivot and instructed their artists to promote mindless degeneracy, knowing the white consumers weren't interested in hearing KRS rhyme about police brutality.

Basically this

A lot of these signed black artists are well aware of this and they sell out just for a dollar.

Cacs love turn up music. White people between the ages of 12-30 are some of the biggest consumers of ratchet rap music. And these black artists are giving them just that.

Mainstream Rap music is no longer apart of black culture.

 

[ThatTruth777]

lets not act like people weren't calling it out as it was happening, yall just didn't give a fukk

 

[focusloco]

I just heard a ballout(who?) song where he said he had 30 shots for a broke ******. The hard R was a part of the rhyme scheme

I heard a song on the radio by 50 cent where he said he had a banana clip for a black boy ....no radio edit or anything....50 was biting the Klan tough with that shyt

 

[AlainLocke]

Hip Hop like most things...was tainted when it became popular and profitable...

If you wanna keep something pure...don't do it for money...

 

[yardman]

We lost our music way before that. Once we went to cacs for record deals they seized power right there. Any equity black people had got snatched right then and there. We've been maneuvering through their channels since god knows when.​

 

[Majestic]

Conscious rap is still heavy in the underground. It just isn't promoted. Once whites began consuming rap, labels made a pivot and instructed their artists to promote mindless degeneracy, knowing the white consumers weren't interested in hearing KRS rhyme about police brutality.

Hasn't the underground been phased out? I remember the days where blu, binary star, black star, ugly heroes, people under the stairs, atmosphere, quasimoto, elzhi murs etc were the forefront of underground hiphop and actually had buzz. No one gives a fukk about underground hiphop today. Does it even exist.

 

[Majestic]

@PhonZhi

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Funny how rare it is for the hooks of these songs to be about violence towards white people.

Nope but they can say shoot a nikka rob a nikka nikka nikka nikka.

How about slap a Cracker, Jack a cracker crush a cracker type shyt? Why we don’t hear that?