When did conscious rap become "uncool"?
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I feel you on all that. Where does gay sex enter into the picture?!?!?!
that was a Ice Cube song. Flavor was on the track before that, "I'm Only Out for One Thang"b-bu-but flavor flav had a song called 'get off my dikk and tell your bytch to come here'
lmao, it's actually an anti-drinking song. I swear some of you dudes are dumb as fukk
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After Pac died.. He was the last conscience rapper with mainstream appeal.. Then the jiggy/bling era began which we are still fighting our way out of..
It was never uncool, its that conscious artists pretend that their message is supposed to overcome the fact that their music doesn't sound good enough to be desired....unless it sounds good.
These guys would be better off writing books/blogs/lectures
These guys would be better off writing books/blogs/lectures
When Conscious rappers starting thinking that conscious hip hop was nothing more than a bunch of overly critical pseudo intellectual preaching almost devoid of any enjoyabillity. Whether people want to admit it or not gangsta rappers are usually better songwriters than conscious rappers and alot times better lyricist as well (Freddie Gibbs, Jay Z) the only thing conscious rappers have over non conscious rappers is content and even then most of that is contrived. The reason Kendrick is successful is because he has conscious content with non conscious flow, delivery & songwriting ability.
its because they don't appeal to everyone.It never became uncool, it's just not nearly as marketable as trap/party rap or anything else played on the radio
There isn't a shortage of conscious rappers or anything they just don't gain as much shine as some of their peers
Some of the most educated people I know don't listen to conscious music. Why shuold they? They're not trying to be preached to by artists who are ON AVERAGE not even college educated or well read into anything they're even trying to talk about. even further, most conscious artists don't invest in making their music sound good enough to hear more than once.
I forget when it dawned on me, but most of these rappers who are successful aren't idiots. They just know how to market themselves. You realize this when a lot of "hood/street" artists come across sometimes as better educated and well-read or informed about certain topics than the most highfalutin conscious artist who wants to pretend people need to be dancing to endless wordflips and its the industry's fault people aren't listening to his stuff.
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Doesn't make sense to me. I don't think you have to specifically be deep into the LA underground scene to understand the concept of tpab.
2pac before Death Row = conscious
2pac during Death Row= Commercial
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it's a figure of speech breh