Have You Ever Had to Defend Hip Hop Nowadays with a non Hip Hop Fan?

[TheIraq]

He's right.......................................

 

[Infinite47]

So is there anyone nowadays that ya'll could actually bring up as an argument? Common? Maybe older Nas, J cole possibly? I think Drake during his So Far Gone days was an example of a rapper just letting you know his day to day life of an upcoming rapper in the game trying to make it.

 

[Jonas.dini]

Now? Not really because I don't really listen to many of the new artists. If anything I'm the one arguing that kanye and wayne are corny/wack (although in the white community people only jokingly like wayne as a novelty, and that is true of kanye to a lesser extent). But when I was a kid I used to be the only one of my friends that liked rap, in fact they'd always be talkinbout how it isn't real music and how anyone can do it, and I'd be like "na, these dudes are talented"

 

[white people like me]

Your friend is right. You can't even really defend hip hop anymore. The positives are so few and far in between. Also, none of the positives are even mainstream examples like how Public Enemy and such was back in the day.

 

[white people like me]

Every time I discuss hip hop with unintelligent people their only comeback is "oh you just mad he gettin' money"...

 

[Infinite47]

Lol speaking of Kanye, while I loved his last album sonically, is there anyone else that notices that every Kanye verse/song is ONLY about girls/fashion/girls? Give me a song of his recently where he didn't mention girls or fashion?

 

[JDSTAYWITIT]

if you say some shit like that ....(hip hop sucks now it does nothing for the culture ...etc etc) your either dumb or just misinformed ...i love when people try to throw it back to the 90's like ohhhh thats when everything was all good ... but in relality there was still bullshit being sold on the daily back then ...Hip Hop is far to vast and has way too many ave's to find quality shit for a person with some knowledge on the culture to make a statement like that .......so to answer your O/P ...nah not really

 

[hefty-vulturestatus]

If I'm talking to someone I've just met and they ask me what music I like I say "some hip hop, yeah it's mainly shit these days" then talk about other genres. It's honestly embarrasing what hip hop has become.

 

[Sep-00]

i tried to at work with the white guy that sits next to me. i gave up. i've learned not to voice my opinion on rap, religion, and politics. especially at work

 

[NothingButTheTruth]

I refuse to defend nowadays' hip hop cuz when ppl shit on it I agree with them most of the time.

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[soul rattler]

Hip Hop doesn't need defending. The music speaks for itself, for better or worse.