- 13,673
- 11,708
- Joined
- Jan 7, 2003
Lmao what?
Your own experiences have nothing to do with what his point was
Just as his have nothing to do with mine
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: this_feature_currently_requires_accessing_site_using_safari
Lmao what?
Your own experiences have nothing to do with what his point was
If it weren't for Soundcloud, I'm not even sure I'd still be listening to Rap.You guys obviously don't even know how to use the Internet if you think there aren't some GREAT young artists out there.
If you let the masses dictate what you listen to that's on you but it's never been easier to find good music by young artists.
You ****** only wanna talk about the colored dread dudes but not Vince Staples, Mick Jenkins, Chance etc.
It's on y'all too, what's supported gets pushed.
I'm not saying every new artist and their music is awful but majority of it is though. It's dope seeing someone come out and say they don't listen to it. You see mad interviews where they front like they play it but you can tell they not playing this ****.
Artists need to start calling out the new generation for the garbage they're making. No creativity or originality. Just rapping over the same beats, with the same flows, with the same slang and the same look. **** is wack as ****. The expectation and quality of music today is so low. I can't believe some of the **** that is accepted today.
If today's legends called out the trash that's being put out it wouldn't effect rap today? I think it would. Em, Jay, Nas and a few other legends said some ****. Not saying rap would do a 180 and go back to 98 but I think it would be well received.
Why has it regressed? Because we're getting D4L bars weekly by clowns. Quality is at an all time low and it won't get better anytime soon.
If you on't like older acts, stop sampling and copying their stuff. Pay up, or zip your lips and ****
so yachty uzi and thugs existence counteracts chance, joey badass, herb, bibby, dave east, drake (@ times), sean, kendrick, cole, krit, kodak, etc.?Nobody has a problem with the yachtys or uzis, heck, we had vanilla ice, mc hammer, ODB, D12, Bone Crusher, Lil Zanes Chingys, etc. etc.
The difference was a BALANCE, and everyone typically listened to a variety. And didn't COPY. If you copied, you got called out and exposed.
Nowadays, you got unoriginal trying to proclaim their greatness and brag. How you bragging, but a copy cat? I don't respect that (you feel free to do so, if you want).
There has always been fun music in hop hop, nothing wrong with that.
And worse, you got radio jockeys (I don't listen to radio but when I'm riding with other people) I chuckle at them saying certain songs are the hottest and most buzzing tracks, knowing these songs are putrid. I don't care if it's their job,
Who has given them this stamp though?I'm 30. I unapologetically despise the colored dread, Vlone wearing, androgynous movement. They're all **** boys. IDGAF if that makes me "old" either.
And it's not ALL of the young kids either. There are plenty of dope young artists. Alot actually. But I'm talking about the ones who've been given the stamp to influence culture.
I'm not saying every new artist and their music is awful but majority of it is though. It's dope seeing someone come out and say they don't listen to it. You see mad interviews where they front like they play it but you can tell they not playing this ****.
Artists need to start calling out the new generation for the garbage they're making. No creativity or originality. Just rapping over the same beats, with the same flows, with the same slang and the same look. **** is wack as ****. The expectation and quality of music today is so low. I can't believe some of the **** that is accepted today.
There are no gatekeepers nor evil executives forcing kids to like what they like. 21 Savage is independently flourishing making murder music and Chance is independently flourishing making positive post-rap gospel. So what's the agenda and who's pushing it? When has Thug or Uzi really been on TV to force the man purses and colored dreads on our black kids?
I agree with you to an extent, but the main point to counter this argument is simple: Influence.
These young guys have an abundance of influence over the kids in the 14-18 age bracket. These are the kids who listen to these dudes talk about poppin Xans and sipping lean, then go ahead and do it. See the clothes these kids are wearing, then go cop them. Hear the **** they say in their music, and then go do it. It's honestly just the cycle of things and how teenagers just jump from one trend to another. It's natural.
So when people have concerns about the music being pushed out I feel like they're legit because of the way these kids get sucked into whatever is being shoved down their throats at the moment.
Word to Chief Keef and Drill music influencing most of our youth into throwing up gang signs they have no damn idea about and talking about "opps" and "gang gang." That's problematic no matter how you slice it.
This is all fine and dandy but science disagrees with you.Simple... RAISE YOUR KIDS. If you're a parent and not even a smidgen of a role model to your kids, therein lies the problem. Growing up, my household was never PG-13. They talked about the good and bad of the world, told us the consequences, and it was on you. I was 5, 6 years old, watching movies like New Jack City and Menace 2 society, listening to vulgur and uncensored music.
Moms always told me what the consequences of robbing, stealing, killing, and doing drugs could do. It's all real, I'm glad she told me and showed me what harm could be done, if I slept up. A lot of kids are green to society because they are coddled by their parents.
If you're kid needs Uzi or 21 savage to influence them on a personal level, not just see them as entertainers, parents screwed up in the head.
This is all fine and dandy but science disagrees with you.
It is a FACT that sound influences behavior. You can talk all about parents, right and wrong, blah blah blah, you release dopamine when you listen to music. When people broke out in tears and fainted in the presence of Michael Jackson...it's not because they were simply "entertained". Music moves masses of people. It is THE universal ritual.
When we talk about influence and how artists influence, there's a whole other side to this conversation besides what's on the surface.
Simple... RAISE YOUR KIDS. If you're a parent and not even a smidgen of a role model to your kids, therein lies the problem. Growing up, my household was never PG-13. They talked about the good and bad of the world, told us the consequences, and it was on you. I was 5, 6 years old, watching movies like New Jack City and Menace 2 society, listening to vulgur and uncensored music.
Moms always told me what the consequences of robbing, stealing, killing, and doing drugs could do. It's all real, I'm glad she told me and showed me what harm could be done, if I slept up. A lot of kids are green to society because they are coddled by their parents.
If you're kid needs Uzi or 21 savage to influence them on a personal level, not just see them as entertainers, parents screwed up in the head.
Which is why I said I agree to an extent because there's people like you who had someone to regulate them and let them know there's consequences to every action.
The teenage mind is a fragile thing tho. They're influenced every other day by something. If it's poppin and their friends are doing it, 9 times outta 10 they're going to too. There's kids out here right now on all types of pills and codeine, high as **** killing each other.
Yes, you could say that's "just the hood," but certainly listening to 21 Savage talking about popping a Perc and sipping some lean before he goes to kill a person doesn't help.