The Essence of Hip Hop Lost or Why Being From The Ghetto Is No Longer Cool

[playmaker88]

 

[tompetrez3]

Rappers like jay z and his fans made it shameful to be poor and black for nearly 2 decades now. I told yall years ago that 2 jobs to survive diss line on can i get a and him dissing the suburbs on vol 2 was an out of touch attack on black working class. Thats why he got delusional broke niggas on here bold enough to talk shit about Birdman having baby money.

 

[Turfaholic]

Because niggas who actually grew up in the ghetto knew it was a place to escape. Not something to make seem trendy.

 

[OnnaThursday]

Dudes just found out they didn't have to front and could be themselves. Everybody got a story, can't all be pimps and hustlers etc.

 

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[Idiopathic Joker]

I'm just asking y'alls opinions on the subject lol

 

[Turfaholic]

I hated that shit. Especially in the early 90s.

 

[Ear2DaSt]

Rappers got rich so they couldn't rap about the ghetto no mo ....

so they controlled the rap game so they made rich be in style

and many forgot the hoodz that they came from and talked down on it and people less fortunate

it's cool i understand niccaz wanna cap but .. then start taking it to the extreme rapping about

do you have any grey poupon and shit ...

 

[THE_R_]

I BLAME GENTRIFICATION TO A CERTAIN DEGREE.

 

[Ear2DaSt]

the raw hood element has been left out the past 20 years

they also cater to the rich mainstream

now you got dudes thuggin out of beverly hills

everything eventually starts catering to the mainstream

you got to rap to what they relate to

the powers that be took away the ghetto expression

and manipulated it to make large profits

big business took over once they saw what sells is catering to the mainstream more

and shy away from relating to the ghetto,lower middle class,middle class communities ....

 

[Kwan Dai]

It's not about being from the ghetto. It's not cool to be Black.. When Black neighborhoods had rich and poor people living in them it was still considered the ghetto.

 

[Matike85]

The Rise of Social Media = Killed Street Cred in Hip Hop

 

[playmaker88]

The Rise of Social Media = Killed Street Cred in Hip Hop

"STREET CRED" IS A CRACKERISM.

 

[Matike85]

The Rise of Social Media = Killed Street Cred in Hip Hop

"STREET CRED" IS A CRACKERISM.

Crackerism created Social Media

 

[Listencloser]

Aside from Drake, who is not from the streets?

 

[Listencloser]

Black music is the blues. As long as we struggle we will make art.

 

[[Trillmatic]]

Bein from the ghetto is only cool to people who not from there.

 

[playmaker88]

The Rise of Social Media = Killed Street Cred in Hip Hop

"STREET CRED" IS A CRACKERISM.

Crackerism created Social Media

im pretty sure you dont know what i mean.

 

[5 Grand]

The whole ghetto/street persona took off around 91/92. I remember Naughty By Nature had a song called Everything's Gonna Be Alright (the same song was called Ghetto Bastard on the LP). At the end of the song he said, "If you never been to the ghetto/don't ever come to the ghetto/cause you wouldn't understand the ghetto"

Between Biggie and Tupac the trend was rapping about growing up in a home with no father and rapping about the struggles of how they grew up.

That was the prevailing style until rappers started being feminine about 5-10 years ago.

Nowadays rappers wear dresses and dye their hair.

I think confusion is the new style.

 

[leftcoastkev]

Bein from the ghetto is only cool to people who not from there.

Because niggas who actually grew up in the ghetto knew it was a place to escape. Not something to make seem trendy.

For real tho.