YG and Nipsey gave a prime example of what conscious music is SUPPOSED to sound like

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

See this?

This is not corny.

This doesn't force a message down your throat

This doesn't string you along with attempts at throwing words in your face

This has swagger. This has flavor. This is the epitome of cool, calm, awareness. This is game.

This is not some attempt at using live instrumentation to make you resonate more with the music.

This isn't trying to put on airs by scraping bottom the barrel commentary.

This isn't avoiding topics by dancing around using certain terms.

THIS is what happens when you're truly talking about issues on your own pace, not fulfilling quotas to appeal to wide





This is something you can throw on at a party and STILL enjoy the message.

This is why I say conscious music usually sucks...it USUALLY sounds terrible.

I mean look at what Mos Def used to do...it sounded AMAZING because he focused on the song and sonics first, then the message.




Rappers gotta stop putting the cart (the lyrics) before the horse (the music)

 

[Colilluminati]

As much as I want to like Kendrick I just can't . This song is the perfect reason why .

 

[JetCruiser94]

reminds me of how Public Enemy did it

 

[( ິΦᆺΦ)ິ°˚(✿ *҉ manko｡✧)]

whats up with you and anti-intellectualism?

to be honest, I listen to turn up ignant kind of turn up music more than lyrical miracle stuff but if some artists want to represent themselves as "smart", I think it's cornier to try and shame them into being "cooler" just off the strength that they are black entertainers. Just like what you like and let others do what they want. I don't shame Katy Perry and Justin Beiber for singing the same boring, shallow pop shyt all the time. Why? Because that's their kind of music. I just don't want to listen to it. And I don't.

 

[SuburbanPimp]

It's solid, nothing groundbreaking but in this case it didnt need to be.. it cool to see a crip and blood rappers come together on some fukk Trump. Hopefully we will start to hear more rappers speak on it

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

this isn't conscious music.....and that's why u like the song........it's a regular YG song with fukk Donald Trump thrown into the lyrics....

 

[Escobar305]

YG gonna have a GREAT 2k16

 

[KravenMorehead™]

This has swagger. This has flavor.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

whats up with you and anti-intellectualism?

to be honest, I listen to turn up ignant kind of turn up music more than lyrical miracle stuff but if some artists want to represent themselves as "smart", I think it's cornier to try and shame them into being "cooler" just off the strength that they are black entertainers. Just like what you like and let others do what they want. I don't shame Katy Perry and Justin Beiber for singing the same boring, shallow pop shyt all the time. Why? Because that's their kind of music. I just don't want to listen to it. And I don't.

I'm not an anti-intellectual. I just want it done right. I want entertainment done properly. If you're trying to drop knowledge, go write a book, make a podcast, do a lecture, or all the other things that don't involve music.

This is why immortal technique can be a great guest on Joe Rogan's podcast but make infinitely shytty music worthy of being used in CIA black sites to torture people

 

[Steezy]

nikka sound like the oldest Jew at the label meeting.

 

[( ິΦᆺΦ)ິ°˚(✿ *҉ manko｡✧)]

I'm not an anti-intellectual. I just want it done right. I want entertainment done properly. If you're trying to drop knowledge, go write a book, make a podcast, do a lecture, or all the other things that don't involve music.

This is why immortal technique can be a great guest on Joe Rogan's podcast but make infinitely shytty music worthy of being used in CIA black sites to torture people

A lot of music coming out is shytty compared to the past, it just seems like you'll accept the warbled sounding party chant but not the stream of consciousness. Why?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

A lot of music coming out is shytty compared to the past, it just seems like you'll accept the warbled sounding party chant but not the stream of consciousness. Why?

I have books, degrees, and actual conversations when I'm supposed to be "learning" shyt. I dont need to listen to artists I know more than or know more about something than, to reinforce half-assed notions they don't know anything about.

Entertain me first and foremost.

 

[HeavyTheDon]

"I like white folks" is the first thing he said in this song. Now they screaming brown and black need to unite when those same Mexicans kill black folks just for being black in LA. Black people LOVE being someone else's mule and buffer while we remain at the bottom.

 

[( ິΦᆺΦ)ິ°˚(✿ *҉ manko｡✧)]

I have books, degrees, and actual conversations when I'm supposed to be "learning" shyt. I dont need to listen to artists I know more than or know more about something than, to reinforce half-assed notions they don't know anything about.

Entertain me first and foremost.

no offense but thats a really entitled and disrespectful way to treat entertainers...at the end of the day they are artists with things they want to expess. I'm sure if one of them heard you talk like that, they'd tell you to go fukk yourself.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

no offese but thats a really entitled and disrespectful way to treat entertainers...at the end of the day they are artists with things the want to expess. I'm sure if one of them heard you talk like that, they'd tell you to go fukk yourself.

So? Doesn't make it any less valid.

No one wants to be entertained by people who forget how to entertain.