What unpopular opinions do you have? Hip-Hop/Rap edition
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Music Debate: The 10 Hottest Female Rappers Right Now
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Black Moon's "Enter the Stage" is better than "36 Chambers"....
I'd really love to hear some parents perspective of the following opinion....
Cleaned up versions of explicit songs, especially in hip-hop was an industry idea to sell sex to kids.
They'll all claim that radio friendly version is to boost the sales and marketability of the song/artist, but that a half lie. And all good lies have a nugget of truth buried inside.
I'm in NO WAY blaming Cardi B for the shit, cause the industry has been finding ways to sell sex to kids since at least the 50s. However, hearing little girls singing Wet & Gushy makes my skin crawl.
I NEVER thought of that way fam...
I'm gonna need a minute
But you make some very very interesting points.
Devil's advocate to a degree....
You don't think kids listen to r&b songs?? As kids we listened to all those songs in the 70s and 80s before they got really explicit trying to keep up with rappers.
How many songs talking about making love all night long to the break of dawn did you hear at 10 years old?
Cardis brand is raw explicit sex....it's what she leans into....the problem is a song called WET ASS PUSSY was number one on the mainstream chart... that's across the board. Kids arr exposed to it simple because it's dominating airplay on radio, streams and social media.
What can we do to safeguard kids childhood outside of making some watered down version that plays on metaphors rather than the straight raw lyric
Why I even watch that?
okay this is officially the end days. These fools need to stop now. Enough bullsh*t breakdown videos with false information.
Everyone wants to be Kendrick without doing the work.
Its a great song that's enough
now this is embarrassing.
these new Kendrick fans acting worse than the Drake fans they claim to hate so much
don't tell no lies about me I won't tell the truth about you
-The Drake beef has saved Kendrick from becoming overly commercialized. He’s going to get a Grammy for “Not Like Us” based off the strength of that song and the lyrics and beat being a MONSTER, and not just because white America has coined him “witty, complex, alternative” or whatever description they apply to make him a “safe negro” for the masses. Dude was always a good MC but his last album was trash imo yet got praised like it was some masterpiece.
Speaking of the West Coast still…..
-the reason the game wasn’t part of the West Coast contingent at the concert is simple to me. The Game was never a great rapper and never felt like a true West Coast MC in the vein of those that came before him and a few since. Dude was, IMO, basically planted to try and “revive” west coast rap as it’d been dead for a while while the south took over as hip-hop’s premier region. His lyrics always felt like someone who had fairly tales of being a California gangsta. JMHO.
Speaking of the West Coast still…..
-the reason the game wasn’t part of the West Coast contingent at the concert is simple to me. The Game was never a great rapper and never felt like a true West Coast MC in the vein of those that came before him and a few since. Dude was, IMO, basically planted to try and “revive” west coast rap as it’d been dead for a while while the south took over as hip-hop’s premier region. His lyrics always felt like someone who had fairly tales of being a California gangsta. JMHO.
LUCKI partly blames Lil Wayne and JAY-Z for young rappers not being able to distinguish between different rap styles
On Thursday, LUCKI suggested that the prolific outputs of Lil Wayne and JAY-Z contributed to a uniformity in rap music that has made it difficult for younger generations to distinguish between different styles. However, he suggested that Wayne and Jazzy did not do it on purpose. He wrote:
"They didn't even do it on purpose tho."
He further wrote, calling them the "two best rappers" and added that they have accidentally "misled" the rappers to think in a way that taking the time to write rap music is a "flaw". He further added:
"They're literally the 2 best rappers EVER.... So yeah they basically accidentally mislead every rapper from our generation to thinking taking your time & writing is a FLAW."
In 2022, in an interview on the I Am Athlete podcast, Lil Wayne recalled the moment he decided to stop writing songs at the age of 16. He revealed that the words and lyrics kept popping in his head, resulting in a headache. Lil Wayne revealed:
"The words keep popping up in my damn head, and that's when it really started happening, becoming a headache, a real problem. That's when I said, I'm not about to write no more."
On July 11, 2023, in a new interview with The Pivot Podcast on YouTube, Lil Wayne revealed that he stopped penning his lyrics inspired by Jay-Z, who apparently does not pen lyrics for rap. Lil Wayne said:
"When I heard that, the moment I heard it, I stopped writing down lyrics. I was like, 'I heard Jay-Z don't write, I won't write no more."
In 2010, in an interview with The New Yorker, Jay-Z was asked why hip-hop is not poetry. Jay-Z suggested that the comparison made hip-hop inferior to poetry. Jay-Z said:
"Alas, pleas to add hip hop to the canonical level of poetry assume that rap is in inferior to poetry, which it is not."
Moreover, LUCKI's claims about Lil Wayne and Jay-Z came after he supported Rich Amiri's walkout from the XXL Freshman Class 2024, a highly anticipated list of the 11 most promising rappers of the year.
On July 4, 2024, Luc voiced in a now-deleted Space on X about XXL magazine, implying that their Freshman Class listings prioritize engagement.
He suggested that the magazine becomes upset when artists decline to participate in their freestyle sessions, hinting at Amiri, as XXL seemingly called out the artist in their latest issue. Luc said:
"The fact that XXL could get mad that somebody don't wanna do their freestyle, Bruh, it's 2024. The fact that they still got the format the same as it was in 2013, that's how you know XXL is in it just for the engagement part. They know the freestyles is gonna be the most viral part."
LUCKI further suggested that now, people do not record or consume music the same way they used to in 2013.
LUCKI's remarks are his perspective on the matter, and it should be noted that neither Lil Wayne nor Jay-Z have publicly responded to his statement.
Better rap album, yes.
I disagree, however, the difference is not the "chasm" that many hip hop enthusiasts believe it to be. Big Boi is thoroughly disrespected.
As many times as you heard Tupac do it. The End.how many times can you rhyme HENNESSY with ENEMIES....
Nah, I had Pac at the top well before the downfall. You didn't hear his raps.........you FELT them.FOR THE RECORD... I never said Pac sucked or was a bad rapper....just in his and biggies lifetime they were NOT on anyone's top 5 list of greatest rappers and certainly wasn't trading off the 1 and 2 spots....until AFTER they were both killed.
ya'll know this so stop the shock and surprise.
I am in agreement with all of this, however, after recent develops...we might want to revisit the most recent developments...
From Day One. As much I supported Kim, my listener preference and allegiance was Foxy.
I would add it could be "Break 'Em Off Somethin'" and "Back That Azz Up." When that second record hit at the turn of the century, WHEW!
I don't think this is unpopular. I think it may be an agreement that those of us who enjoy the entire music process could and would agree on.
However, Gucci is undisputedly "The Godfather of Trap Music" according to the rappers out after him, in the whole of Atlanta.
He had to be villified in order for the social structure to push his business model on sh!tty/detrimanal music by unsuspecting or greedy artists.
Oh shit, you're right. So is 96 the best or one of the best yrs in hip hop?
Speaking of RD,being in ATL I was the only out of my friends that rocked it. Jay also said if it wasn't successful he would on some fuck rap shit
Wow. Where would you rate MATW?
Deuce may have his own reasons, but I take umbrage with his comments on this video.
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