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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
You sir nailed it. This era is all just lazy party music about excesses and debauchery more than its not... and hey, there has always been a place for that in rap and hip hop but it seems to me to be too much involved in the ratio now for my tastes
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besides the party beats there is also a HUGE undercurrent of crack-slingin' glorification, or at least description of the trap life.
I always try to explain it to my friends that when you are poor, when you grow up without material things to use as status symbols, you use non-material things to prove your worth, such as how many babes you bone, who bones the hottest babe, who sells the most dope, who steals the best car, who has been shot and lived, who went to jail and didn;t punk out. etc. You rap/sing about what you know about.
Those things do not mean shit to most of middle america, regardless of race, because their lives are about material possession without the stress of wanting things you can never have, like buying a new ipad every year, new iphone every year, which car mom and dad will buy you for your 16th birthday, who has the best threads,that mommy paid for.. etc. These people see the current wave of rap and find nothing redeeming in it, but fuck them. it is not for them.