Rap About Nothing: Hip Hop Chat Thread

[Magic33]

You dudes get defensive about rap, but a lot of it is problematic and it's beyond just a representation of the communities.

Top Gun was a recruiting tool for the Navy.

Rap has been a recruiting tool for gangs and negative ****, because too much of it glamorizes and normalizes the ills in our community.

Juelz mentioned how dudes have opps and they don't even know why they're opps. They're somebody else's opps.

 

[executive76]

 

[tay1]

Joc was a legit hit at one point

Times are crazy

He only had 2

 

[Peep Game]

Yikes at the Yung Joc vid about the frontman for Hotstylz having to do 3 years for fraud at their peak ruined having Joc and T-Pain on “Blame It” instead of Jamie Foxx. That’s rough

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Yikes at the Yung Joc vid about the frontman for Hotstylz having to do 3 years for fraud at their peak ruined having Joc and T-Pain on “Blame It” instead of Jamie Foxx. That’s rough

"Puffy was doing the Janet Jackson rhythm nation and Michael Jackson remember the time dance in the studio"

 

[ace]

Say he killed him over some p*ssy

Makes sense. No other reason he would be way out in conyers.

 

[ace]

Dis ain't ordinary

Too soon but every time I hear Yung LA’s name my mind goes back to that video of DTE slapping him around

 

[a blinkin]

Over a woman. That’s wild as hell.

 

[finessence]

Yikes at the Yung Joc vid about the frontman for Hotstylz having to do 3 years for fraud at their peak ruined having Joc and T-Pain on “Blame It” instead of Jamie Foxx. That’s rough

Let’s be real…. NOBODY was checking for no damn hotstylz. That “looking boy” song was garbage AF. Bubble gum, terrible.

That 2007-2009 “snap, crunk, ringtone rap, etc” era was TERRIBLLLEEEEE. S*** was the worse

 

[finessence]

You dudes get defensive about rap, but a lot of it is problematic and it's beyond just a representation of the communities.

Top Gun was a recruiting tool for the Navy.

Rap has been a recruiting tool for gangs and negative ****, because too much of it glamorizes and normalizes the ills in our community.

Juelz mentioned how dudes have opps and they don't even know why they're opps. They're somebody else's opps.

We ain’t defensive. We just don’t CARE. Parents need to raise their kids man.

We know rap talks about violence/promotes violence… but so does the US Military (as you mentioned), movies, wrestling, etc.

ALCOHOL, drugs, etc brings violence out of people.

But again, parents aren’t raising their kids to know the difference between entertainment and reality.

In the grand scheme of thing, rap is a SMALL factor in the scope of things that started this epidemic of murder and violence in America.

Again, rap FANS allowed rap to lose balance. Rap fans allowed for all this stuff to happen.

Kanye, Common (we know he on that type of time though), Mos Def, Andre 3000, Lupe, Q-Tip/Phife, Devin the Dude, Curren$y, Big KRIT, Wale, De La Soul, Pharcyde, etc

Those are examples of some of the rappers who don’t even rap about much violence, all those guys have digestible, fly music…

BUT… rap fans, especially new fans don’t appreciate those type of guys.

 

[finessence]

The big alcohol brands don’t even get blamed for the ills they cause to society nearly as much as rap does

 

[6pac]

We ain’t defensive. We just don’t CARE. Parents need to raise their kids man.

We know rap talks about violence/promotes violence… but so does the US Military (as you mentioned), movies, wrestling, etc.

ALCOHOL, drugs, etc brings violence out of people.

But again, parents aren’t raising their kids to know the difference between entertainment and reality.

In the grand scheme of thing, rap is a SMALL factor in the scope of things that started this epidemic of murder and violence in America.

Again, rap FANS allowed rap to lose balance. Rap fans allowed for all this stuff to happen.

Kanye, Common (we know he on that type of time though), Mos Def, Andre 3000, Lupe, Q-Tip/Phife, Devin the Dude, Curren$y, Big KRIT, Wale, De La Soul, Pharcyde, etc

Those are examples of some of the rappers who don’t even rap about much violence, all those guys have digestible, fly music…

BUT… rap fans, especially new fans don’t appreciate those type of guys.

Trouble situation looking like it has nothing to do with this so this all moot point if that’s where this still coming from

But we can’t act like wrestling, movies, video games, the military (itself, not Trump/good ol boy/right wing/alt right rhetoric) encourages people to go out and live violently in real life…COD ain’t directly encouraging ****** to go on “kill streaks” in real life the way these NY drill young ****** Will clown real life people for not shooting at them in public places (which creates knockoffs of the same energy in young ****** songs across the nation)

The socioeconomic root causes are there for what most of the subject matter in rap is about…but rap itself doesn’t do anything to help that and in some cases has definitely contributed to some BS happening. how will ****** blame Akademiks for his bs but then ignore the effect that rap itself has had? In terms of what it helps glorify?

But ****** have this convo bi weekly in here it seem like

 

[prodigiou$]

Rich N****, ****** transgenders, Can’t Deal Wit em

 

[mr jordan04]

The big alcohol brands don’t even get blamed for the ills they cause to society nearly as much as rap does

Weird but literally a buddy and I talked about this **** a couple days ago. Alcohol is sold everywhere. Bars/restaurants rarely cut anybody off (for being too drunk). Then 2 am hits, turn on the lights and everybody gotta go home. Ain’t my problem if you’re driving

In 2020, 11,654 people died in alcohol-impaired driving traffic deaths. That’s about 32 a day

But you don’t ever hear people talking about banning alcohol or we need to sue alcohol manufacturers **kanye shrug**

 

[Maximus Meridius]

He only had 2

As a solo artist probably, he was featured on some hits too. He had joints that was big amongst a certain crowd. Dope boy magic being one.

 

[Peep Game]

Let’s be real…. NOBODY was checking for no damn hotstylz. That “looking boy” song was garbage AF. Bubble gum, terrible.

That 2007-2009 “snap, crunk, ringtone rap, etc” era was TERRIBLLLEEEEE. S*** was the worse

Oh that no doubt was a stinky era, but Joc was still an in-demand dude and had his momentum killed terribly during that time.

 

[mplsdunk]

dude had people on nt thinking patron was a balcony.

 

[prodigiou$]

 

[executive76]

 

[finessence]

Trouble situation looking like it has nothing to do with this so this all moot point if that’s where this still coming from

But we can’t act like wrestling, movies, video games, the military (itself, not Trump/good ol boy/right wing/alt right rhetoric) encourages people to go out and live violently in real life…COD ain’t directly encouraging ****** to go on “kill streaks” in real life the way these NY drill young ****** Will clown real life people for not shooting at them in public places (which creates knockoffs of the same energy in young ****** songs across the nation)

The socioeconomic root causes are there for what most of the subject matter in rap is about…but rap itself doesn’t do anything to help that and in some cases has definitely contributed to some BS happening. how will ****** blame Akademiks for his bs but then ignore the effect that rap itself has had? In terms of what it helps glorify?

But ****** have this convo bi weekly in here it seem like

Ummm…. You know how many of these incels/mass murders are influenced to kill due to playing games like COD?

 

[finessence]

Old girl was 17/18 in the “Hot in Herre” in video?? Wow

 

[WASPS ANDD ASPS]

My dumbass thought that was Willie D

 

[maq25060]

Old girl was 17/18 in the “Hot in Herre” in video?? Wow

16. they did a making the video episode (or some network's equivalent) for that video and it was mentioned there that she was 16 for the shoot.

The math dont add up though so probably was 17.

 

[finessence]

16. they did a making the video episode (or some network's equivalent) for that video and it was mentioned there that she was 16 for the shoot.

The math dont add up though so probably was 17.

I just know she was minor. All these years I thought she was about 20-25 in that video.

But that’s Hollywood for you

 

[Magic33]

The big alcohol brands don’t even get blamed for the ills they cause to society nearly as much as rap does

because we accept people being killed from alcohol, but even with that you can't buy alcohol until 21. It's turned in to drinking and driving, not alcohol as a whole, because they know that's not possible. Alcohol is also an addiction.

Just like we accept young black men dying.

and it's spreading to public spaces like that shooting on South Street in Philly, because there are no rules anymore and everything is onsite.