The streets really don't have anybody right now.

[MeekMonizzLLLLLLe14]

The biggest issue is what do the streets want?

Do they want

A) Club Friendly/Shit that just bangs in the whip

B) Ignant street talk about cliche drug talk

C) Conscious voices about what is really going on/the struggle

D) Other?

I think the "Streets" just want club bangers that take them away from the street every thursday friday or saturday what have you. Because if the streets really cared about the gun talk keef, gucci, and waka would be flying of the shelves which they didn't. If the streets wanted a conscious voice to rep the hood then half the people on this site wouldn't call the conscious rappers boring.

What happened is the cliche bustin the uzi using the toolie street talk got old and played out. And the conscious rap had a point in the 90's but modern street cats don't care about the struggle cause its a different era. Cause lets be honest cats in the hood still be having i phone 5's big ass tv's and nice whips they just decide to stay in the hood less people are struggling (pending the city). But the 80's and 90's the crime rates were higher the drugs were deadlier.

 

[Ear2DaSt]

Street shit!

 

[tharealest561]

Times like this I wish Soulja Slim was still alive.

 

[A1000MILES]

The streets don't need rappers for guidance...The fuck...

 

[Ear2DaSt]

Jammin Street Military I aint trippn!

 

[R.D.]

*bumps 3hunna*

 

[DOPEdweebz]

I guess Maino lost.

 

[Lab Baby]

The biggest issue is what do the streets want?

Do they want

A) Club Friendly/Shit that just bangs in the whip

B) Ignant street talk about cliche drug talk

C) Conscious voices about what is really going on/the struggle

D) Other?

I think the "Streets" just want club bangers that take them away from the street every thursday friday or saturday what have you. Because if the streets really cared about the gun talk keef, gucci, and waka would be flying of the shelves which they didn't. If the streets wanted a conscious voice to rep the hood then half the people on this site wouldn't call the conscious rappers boring.

What happened is the cliche bustin the uzi using the toolie street talk got old and played out. And the conscious rap had a point in the 90's but modern street cats don't care about the struggle cause its a different era. Cause lets be honest cats in the hood still be having i phone 5's big ass tv's and nice whips they just decide to stay in the hood less people are struggling (pending the city). But the 80's and 90's the crime rates were higher the drugs were deadlier.

I think it's about balance and just speaking the real. You can't speak on just one of those things and not be about it. The one thing all those rappers T/S mentioned have in common is that they were really about that life, but they knew there was a better way and wanted to show the people that. The only person right now I can think of on that level is Lil Boosie, but let's face it... son got a voice for closed caption. He's not ready for the mainstream. I think too many rappers these days are trying to cater to a crowd instead of speaking from their hearts. I even be listening to J Cole sometimes with that "fuck outta here" face. He raps like he just watched an episode of A Different World, scribbled it on his notepad and created his life.

 

[A1000MILES]

I was gon say though...Boosie, Freddie Gibbs, Trick Daddy, Ice Berg, Glasses Malone, Ace Hood, Doe B, Jon Connor, Maino, Alley Boy, Trouble, King Louie, Dee-1, Fat Trel, Pachino Dino, LES, Z-Ro, etc...

The streets got plenty rappers still droppin thought provoking/relatable shit...

 

[tupacfan35]

There hasn't been anything good in the streets of hip-hop for years.

 

[MeekMonizzLLLLLLe14]

I was gon say though...Boosie, Freddie Gibbs, Trick Daddy, Ice Berg, Glasses Malone, Ace Hood, Doe B, Jon Connor, Maino, Alley Boy, Trouble, King Louie, Dee-1, Fat Trel, Pachino Dino, LES, Z-Ro, etc...

The streets got plenty rappers still droppin thought provoking/relatable shit...

I fucks with Jon Connor homes might not ever make it mainstream but he dope as hell

 

[H0esRcomeDumpsNotPPL]

the streets need to grow the fuck up and get a degree. studies show that most of these "street niggas" are dirt poor, frequently in jail, and brought up by single black mothers (and or some random stepdad that's fucking her).

 

[MeekMonizzLLLLLLe14]

the streets need to grow the fuck up and get a degree. studies show that most of these "street niggas" are dirt poor, frequently in jail, and brought up by single black mothers (and or some random stepdad that's fucking her).

Many rappers from the streets do have degrees or did have time in college then make lame catchy anthems to hook the streets. And fyi single parents ain't just an issue in the streets that shit is going on in the rurual areas the suburbs the streets that ain't gutter hood but aint suburban etc.

 

[Paul Hate.]

Fuck the streets.

 

[StillFaggyAF]

There's plenty of street rappers, if you weren't a saltine colored faggot you'd know that

 

[H0esRcomeDumpsNotPPL]

the streets need to grow the fuck up and get a degree. studies show that most of these "street niggas" are dirt poor, frequently in jail, and brought up by single black mothers (and or some random stepdad that's fucking her).

Many rappers from the streets do have degrees or did have time in college then make lame catchy anthems to hook the streets. And fyi single parents ain't just an issue in the streets that shit is going on in the rurual areas the suburbs the streets that ain't gutter hood but aint suburban etc.

Not "many" rappers... yeah, there are some, but hardly any black men, in general, have attended and finished school. And, yeah, I know broken homes aren't just a problem for the streets. Broken homes are becoming the norm all across the country. It's just that... it usually leads to death and prison when a single black woman is the mainstay of broken homes. Many of them can't even really afford themselves, much less a child. This leads them to living in poor areas. And when they neglect their children (which happens far too often), "the streets" and "rap" ends up raising them.

You don't see whiteboys glorifying killing each other over dumb shit. It just bothers me that some people glorify "street" shit. It's basically self-genocide and black mothers are failing the community hard. Yet, people only harp on "dead-beat dads." Those dudes aren't raising these killers/losers. They're products of misfit mothers.

We need more positive music and to leave that thug shit behind.

/rant

 

[Paul Hate.]

Hardly any black men attended and finished college?so that's why there hbcus right?cmon man.

 

[Ear2DaSt]

This is Hip Hop Im not a human resource mgr. searching for a candidate to fill open positions in the cooperation!

Hip Hop is a way for minorities to be independent!

 

[MeekMonizzLLLLLLe14]

the streets need to grow the fuck up and get a degree. studies show that most of these "street niggas" are dirt poor, frequently in jail, and brought up by single black mothers (and or some random stepdad that's fucking her).

Many rappers from the streets do have degrees or did have time in college then make lame catchy anthems to hook the streets. And fyi single parents ain't just an issue in the streets that shit is going on in the rurual areas the suburbs the streets that ain't gutter hood but aint suburban etc.

Not "many" rappers... yeah, there are some, but hardly any black men, in general, have attended and finished school. And, yeah, I know broken homes aren't just a problem for the streets. Broken homes are becoming the norm all across the country. It's just that... it usually leads to death and prison when a single black woman is the mainstay of broken homes. Many of them can't even really afford themselves, much less a child. This leads them to living in poor areas. And when they neglect their children (which happens far too often), "the streets" and "rap" ends up raising them.

You don't see whiteboys glorifying killing each other over dumb shit. It just bothers me that some people glorify "street" shit. It's basically self-genocide and black mothers are failing the community hard. Yet, people only harp on "dead-beat dads." Those dudes aren't raising these killers/losers. They're products of misfit mothers.

We need more positive music and to leave that thug shit behind.

/rant

lmao at the bolded. you lost me after you said hardly any black men have attended and finished school. you must have not been to college if you think hardly any black men are finishing school. im black and not only did if finish school but i saw hundreds of other brothas finish school with me. as a matter of fact there are just as many white people and men of other races not finishing school but even tho they don't finish school they still make money. i know a brotha who is about 15 years older than me who never even finished high school but has a top not job at a radio station.

even as a cat that went to school you don't have to have a degree to be sucessful or be smart. and while i agree that there are ils in the black on black crime rate you got white people in rurual areas dying over crystial meth or dying from it at high rates. you gon drunk rednecks shooting each other up as well. not to mention those biker gangs out west where virtually all gang murders are usually white people.

I fucks with positive hip hop but its not that we don't need more of it. There is plenty of positive hip hop out there its just those who are up to trouble don't wanna hear that shit. but you sir need to educate yourself on the modern world cause you are very ignant if you think blacks are finishing college at high rates and single parent households only exist in black communities.

other quick side note for those single black mothers i think they doin fine seing that black females are among the fastest growing demographics when it comes to owning businesses

 

[Wild Self]

Streets and the negative behavior that they glorified got played the fuck out. 10 years ago, if you were some thugged out nigga from some hood on the east coast, bitches flocked to you on some Tupac shit. Now, let that old nigga try that shit, bitches will crack on him and call him 'dirty' or broke while they flock to the metrosexual swagged out dude. The world that oldheads grew up on been turned out on some dyke shit.