"We're not glorifying violence, we're just broadcasting what goes on"

[Buckeye Fever]

Rappers love saying that, but when you listen to the records, it damn sure sounds like glorification to me.

The best example of a song that speaks on the bad shyt in the hood and doesn't glorify it is



Along the way, we got songs instructing us on how to make crack, celebrating the killings of other Blacks, slippin' drugs in a woman's drink, disrespecting Black women, etc.


That "broadcasting what goes on" reasoning is bullshyt

 

[The Blackout]

“You gon hype me up and make me catch a body like that”

Drizzy is clearly broadcasting what’s going on.. he’s not glorifying being a killer at all

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

It's hard to keep up with the cliches people come up with.

One day it's broadcasting like music is the news or a documentary.

Then it's just "entertainment" which means you shouldn't take anything they say seriously and it's not real.

 

[Zero]

I'm just a hood reporter breh

 

[Swahili P'Bitek]

Some rappers are serial killer pablo chapo gotti status on their records yet say this, and that's a shame.DC and AMW cube ,MATW pac and a few others could have said this and it would have been somewhat true.

 

[Virtuous_Brotha]

The worse one is ' It's no different to movies and video games' as if there is any pressure for actors and software engineers to live their art

 

[mson]

Rappers love saying that, but when you listen to the records, it damn sure sounds like glorification to me.

The best example of a song that speaks on the bad shyt in the hood and doesn't glorify it is



Along the way, we got songs instructing us on how to make crack, celebrating the killings of other Blacks, slippin' drugs in a woman's drink, disrespecting Black women, etc.


That "broadcasting what goes on" reasoning is bullshyt

You saw the WU doc?

 

[agpxknt]

yea they be full of shyt when they say that

 

[Buckeye Fever]

You saw the WU doc?

No, i need to.

Speaking of Wu, I thought C.R.E.A.M. was a great example of telling the sad truth, yet not really glorifying it.

 

[jilla82]

We all know/knew its bullshyt.

Thinking back...I think folks just didnt want to say certain people/groups were/are right about the music.

 

[Supa]

The worse one is ' It's no different to movies and video games' as if there is any pressure for actors and software engineers to live their art

"Arnold Schwarzenegger kills 100 people in a movie and no one says anything"

Arnold doesn't leave the movie set and claim to really be a shooter

"I don't promote drug use"

Check their IG and see double cups, Sprite/Fanta bottles, and syrup in every other picture

I'm pretty much done with rap. I got a new phone and only put R&B albums on it. These new rappers are putting out nothing but gang gang, morally bankrupt music. I can't pretend to go along with the ignorance.

 

[FeloniousMonk]

The problem is-

Rappers used to rap in 3rd person like they are observing, introspectively.

Now rappers rap in 1st person like they are DOING the shyt, actively.

 

[Trot LaRoc]

It was always mostly BS outside a few ppl.
UGK always showed both sides of street life...not just the money and hoes and the fun shyt The depression...the struggle



Rappers know that super violent, nihilistic content sells esp to sheltered yt ppl who want to feel danger or grittiness of street life without actually being involved

So rappers have always overexaggerated shyt in music....shyt been like that since the early 90s so it cant just be blamed on "new rappers". The only difference now is many rappers now dont talk about the dark side of hustling...its all just the money, drugs n bytches. Everyones winning and nobody ever takes a L

Its America...sex and violence SELL

 

[Trot LaRoc]

"Arnold Schwarzenegger kills 100 people in a movie and no one says anything"

Arnold doesn't leave the movie set and claim to really be a shooter

"I don't promote drug use"

Check their IG and see double cups, Sprite/Fanta bottles, and syrup in every other picture

I'm pretty much done with rap. I got a new phone and only put R&B albums on it. These new rappers are putting out nothing but gang gang, morally bankrupt music. I can't pretend to go along with the ignorance.

There are plenty of new rappers who dont put out ignorant shyt but its easier to just follow that narrative. You dont have to dig deep either but mainstream media doesnt give them shine for obvious reasons

 

[Supa]

There are plenty of new rappers who dont put out ignorant shyt but its easier to just follow that narrative. You dont have to dig deep either but mainstream media doesnt give them shine for obvious reasons

I like J.I.D. and a few young cats but I'm older and rap just doesn't do it for me anymore