For me : Trippie Redd’s “!” Is actually a great album

  • OmgItBurns@discuss.onlineEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    I felt that was true for a long time. There are a lot of sub-genres out there that don’t promote that kind of thing. Honestly, and this is probably me wearing a conspiracy theorist hat, a lot of hip-hop that essentially glorified a lot of horrible traits was just what a lot of old, rich white dudes figured would make them money.

    Counter example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhMwGT55A8k (sorry about the YT link, but that’s where I know this lives)

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      a lot of hip-hop that essentially glorified a lot of horrible traits was just what a lot of old, rich white dudes figured would make them money.

      Arrested Development touches on that in at least a few of their recent songs. This is one that immediately springs to mind, but there are others:

      Full lyrics here

      Song here

       

      do i have to tell you how this industry goes down

      they wanna promote us as the lowest things around

      stereotypical images of blacks all around

      police beat us to the ground

      do i have to tell you how this industry goes down

      promote the thugs with the criminal sound

      stereotypical images and white supremacist images of us never innocent it kills

       

      kills, snitches and witnesses

      i guess the business is exploit us sexually

      but keep us intellectually primitive

      sedate the sensitive

      nullifying all their initiative

      to ever unify, just relying on representatives

      our english is now seen as this, opposite of geniuses

      the truth is meaningless

      they deliberately been deceiving us

      …

      Edit: Realized the lyrics site had a couple words wrong.