DaveyDave
Superstar
b-bu-but flavor flav had a song called 'get off my dikk and tell your bytch to come here'
Ice Cube breh
When did conscious rap become "uncool"?
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Ice Cube breh
What!??!! That doesn't even make sense breh
He meant that 90s street rappers had better production post PE era. Mostly west coast influenced.
I mean 90s street rap had the best production in the history of hiphop. Talib, Mos Def, Roots, J Live, Souls Of Mischief etc. etc. had amazing production
Renegade47
Superstar
yo can duckworth's penis get any deeper down u nikkas throats
it became un-cool when it became synonymous with backpackers & incent-burners.
and then when kanye came thru and was given the conscious tag(even tho he doesnt rap about chit the vast majority of the time), it became a bunch of weirdos standing on a soap-box, mainly whining about how corny their lives are. so now its been dilluted to "every man" rappers being given the conscious tag even tho most of them really arent conscious.
from the mid-90s on out, most of the best consciousness came from street rappers.
theres no big conspiracy to this chit. people are gonna rock to whoever & whatever as long as their chit jams. conscious rap became uncool when dudes stopped jammin.
and then when kanye came thru and was given the conscious tag(even tho he doesnt rap about chit the vast majority of the time), it became a bunch of weirdos standing on a soap-box, mainly whining about how corny their lives are. so now its been dilluted to "every man" rappers being given the conscious tag even tho most of them really arent conscious.
from the mid-90s on out, most of the best consciousness came from street rappers.
theres no big conspiracy to this chit. people are gonna rock to whoever & whatever as long as their chit jams. conscious rap became uncool when dudes stopped jammin.
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When corny cacs started wearing African medallions and images of punks in Afrocentric gear were strategically placed in the media.
It had a revival in the late 90's - early 2000's so they just drowned it out under the noise of dancing minstrel jiggaboos that time.
It had a revival in the late 90's - early 2000's so they just drowned it out under the noise of dancing minstrel jiggaboos that time.
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THE MACHINE
night owl
When we started labeling hip hop "conscious rap" instead of hip-hop. Then gangster rap became hip-hop. We made gangster rap the norm and conscious rap the outsider.
Mac Casper
@adonnis - pull up, there's refreshments
Ya . . conscious rappers are freakkin neanderthals and just didn't have the resources to adapt
Its hard to make a hit when your roster is basically empty / there are very few rappers willing to make conscious music.
GPBear
The Tape Crusader
it never was cool, if there were lockers in hip-hop, that's where backpackers would be shoved
Tupac wasn't a conscious rapper so to speak. He had conscious themes but so did almost everyone in the 90's. A lot of rappers had one or two socially aware tracks or at least a few lines here and there. So Tupac wasn't of the mold of a strictly conscious rapper he was just a product of his time.
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