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Originally Posted by Relaxx
Well neither does A Tribe Called Quest or Public Enemy, Slum Village or The Roots, or Black Thought, or Immortal Technique, or Pharoah Monche, or Hopsin, Cypress Hill or Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Queen Latifah or Arrested Development or Digible Planets and hundreds more. I’m sure plenty of them grew up in the ghetto. “Any other hip hop” surely doesn’t include most or many.
It would be great admitting that you have a very narrow perception of what Hip Hop and/or Rap is as a genre.
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https://www.billboard.com/charts/rap-song
Billboard Hot Rap Songs
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If you look all rap songs you can find thousands that aren't about guns or drug dealing or violence
but if you look at the popular songs in rap you see much more that brag about criminality
We can go into this list if you want. Just one example:
(excerpt)
#2
For The Night
Pop Smoke Featuring Lil Baby & DaBaby
AP, big rocks, in the hood with the 'rillas
Five K on the dinner, bring
300 thou' to the dealer
I did some wrongs (oh, oh), but I'm always right (oh, oh)
Said,
"I know how to shoot" (oh), and I know how to fight
If I tell you once, won't tell you twice
I'm real discreet, like a thief in the night
Got the game fully shine on my momma's son
Learn 'bout the triple cross when I was young
And I know I ain't goin'
so I keep a gun
Nothin' ain't seen, all this money on me
Hunnid racks in the bag, that's a honey bun
I just go Ray Charles, they can't see me
I'm in the Rolls Royce with a RiRi
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There's a lot of songs like this bragging about Rolls Royces, bags of money,
300 K to the dealer, I keep a gun, I know how to shoot
We can go down the list and find more songs. This is common, bragging about guns and drug dealing
flashy cars and money stacks in the most popular songs. It's a matter of degree and there is far too much of it in rap.
The videos are worse because they flash the guns, so that just adds to it.
Look at # 10, that's a pure gangster song
https://genius.com/Pooh-shiesty-back-in-blood-lyrics
Back in Blood, Pooh Shiesty Featuring Lil Durk
I got my own fire, don't need security in the club (Nope)
All that woofin' on the net ...., I thought you was a thug
I ain't got nowhere to go, I shot up everywhere they was
Yeah, you know who took that... from you , come get it back in blood
Extortin' ... just like the '80s, want something back, get it in blood
'Bout twenty some shots left up in the K, fifteen still in the Glock
Killed your mans, you keep on talkin', better get that....in blood
Now look at any other chart, the top songs and you are not going to see all this criminally minded stuff.
If you are lucky maybe you will find one violent song occasionally but in the most popular rap songs it's very common, look at Rockstar by Da Baby that was seven weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100., take a look at the lyrics
https://genius.com/Dababy-rockstar-lyrics
This is what's going on now. Or look at spotify, same situation, it's like advertising for being a gangster.
Tell me I'm lying or out of touch
That's just two of the songs on that link, you already know what it is