The overall de-evolution of hip-hop.
We allowed the majors label to buy in and dictate our cultural expression and we comply because we want the brass ring they promise.
Hip-hop used to be sonically creative, diverse, unifying and uplifting. It was also rebellious, challenging, and grassroots.
Hip-hop has never been some Sesame Street shyt. There has always been beef, drugs, violence, and street players involved, but it never tainted the art until recently.
Now all of the music literally sounds the same and the rappers proudly display the worst of Black culture for the world to see and gleefully promote the things put here to destroy us to our youth.
Our young queens devalue and sexually exploit themselves.
Our young kings fall prey to drugs and promote addiction.
They continue to glorify criminality and promote the the cycle of violence and death.
Rappers are the new minstrels based on cac stereotypes of Black people.
Even though this is my opinion, I'm spitting facts that can easily be supported and can debunk any argument otherwise.
It's so blatant, that a lot of us recognize it and call it as such. But a lot of us are still in denial.
This has nothing to do with age, musical taste, or generation gaps. It's simply recognizing the larger picture.
Cacs flipped hip-hop and have turned it into one the most potent weapons against us.
It's psychological warfare without question.
TL;DR - We let cacs in and pay us to c00n. They nipped the nation building element of hip-hop in the bud.
