I laugh at the homie who said Black power type dudes need to shut up.... Man....... that type of shit just makes us look bad. Its like brothers forget the struggle that we still facing everyday. Mac Miller and Yelawolf and Eminem and all them dudes man.... Those dudes aint been through nothing. Em came up kinda bad I guess, Yelawolf might've been in them trailer parks, but the rest of them dudes aint been through shit. Rap used to be the voice of the streets/black life/urban life, just like how Country was for the trailer parks/white america. Same with rock somewhat too. Hip Hop in latter years has just been a means of conformance, fabrication, and a horrible representation of black culture. Theres a shortage of street poets, gangstas with lyrical music, or street related hardbody shit. I dont think that's a good thing for the music. And dude who said it's moved onto to positive shit? Come on now, a bunch of white rappers who mostly aint got skill selling more records than the brothers who make good ass music? Theres a problem there. But its not even the artists fault. Its the general public. The general public consumes what the industry gives them. Whats positive about Odd Futures music? Whats positive about Wiz Khalifa shit? That Black Power/Revolution shit is more positive than all of that shit. The gangsta rap is positive only cause of the fact a nigga been through hell and back, and now a nigga making music and telling his story. I mean street/gangsta shit to me it's all relative. Someone mentioned Slaughterhouse and them dudes spit some hardbody shit and consider themselves i'm sure gangsta rappers.