Stop with the lies and revisionist history. It was the epitome of cool at one point.
When did conscious rap become "uncool"?
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Regardless of what you think of PE is way more conscious than both of those groups (I love all three) and they would agree with you. In fact they would cite PE as a major influence.
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
There isn't a shortage of conscious rappers or anything they just don't gain as much shine as some of their peers
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
when the same fans who preferred conscious rap also thought they were better than you BECAUSE they preferred conscious rap
GPBear
The Tape Crusader
show me the week
List of Billboard number-one rap singles of the 1980s and 1990s - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
longest reign since 89 was Me, Myself, and I 8 weeks for De La.
Tribe had Check the Rhime. Black Sheep. Longest streak at the time was OPP for 5 weeks. That's like 91-92.
Rebirth of Slick gets knocked off a 3 week run by Informer
and then after that gets killed by Nuthin But A G' Thang, that's basically the end of 'concious' rap in the charts.By 94, Funkdafied comes in with 11 weeks at number 1
Few weeks later Craig Mack has Flava in Ya Ear go for 10. And after the West/Bad Boy momentum gets going, Tupac and Big battle for like the next 3 years and the end of the decade was onto 'getting jiggy with it' and Ma$e, Missy, Jay-Z and shyt
tl;dr concious rap was never holding down the public consciousness, it's been underground
vaudevillevillain
All Star
What is wrong with some of you guys? Why does homosexual activity pop into your mind bc a ninja likes a brehs music?
i'm sick and tired of nikkas actin like kendrick is the second coming of god or something, i like him but he's not as lyrical as people make him out to be
vaudevillevillain
All Star
i would say pe was more pro black than anything. we'd have to delve into the definition of 'conscious rap' to really get to the bottom of this
show me the week
List of Billboard number-one rap singles of the 1980s and 1990s - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
longest reign since 89 was Me, Myself, and I 8 weeks for De La.
Tribe had Check the Rhime. Black Sheep. Longest streak at the time was OPP for 5 weeks. That's like 91-92.
Rebirth of Slick gets knocked off a 3 week run by Informer
By 94, Funkdafied comes in with 11 weeks at number 1
Few weeks later Craig Mack has Flava in Ya Ear go for 10. And after the West/Bad Boy momentum gets going, Tupac and Big battle for like the next 3 years and the end of the decade was onto 'getting jiggy with it' and Ma$e, Missy, Jay-Z and shyt
tl;dr concious rap was never holding down the public consciousness, it's been underground
It was the pinnacle of Black cool though. Sales don't reflect what was hot in rap back then. PE, X Clan and all the others back then had the attention of the Black youth. Now I'm sorry your cac charts don't record that but it is what it is...
Edit: The Pro Black movement went beyond music - T Shirts, a resurgence of Black Frats, African medallions, etc. all of which inspired Spike to make X and even TV shows at the time - like the A Different World, Fresh Prince and Family Matters noted it ...
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A clear definition at this point would be good.
TrifeGod
Chasing The Dragon
It's all in ya head.
Taadow
The StarchBishop™️
Explain this for me a bit more please