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I don't listen to rap, but are you saying the record labels have turned rap music into a commercial money maker, and the old school rappers are not the driving force behind the genre anymore?
White people are working behind the rap industry now. Most of the rap managers are, indeed, white.
at the time I liked these songs. of course I was in junior high. they seem quite corny by today's standards. there is a lot of negativity in mainstream rap music today, but consider who is buying and selling it.
Who`s addressing white on white crime or don`t you care?
Addressing white on white crime gets you called racist....because you are only caring about white victims.
(We've had several theads about this around here about this like how missing black children don't get enough attention etc).
Rapping about Black on Black crime has never really sold as well as rap music that glorifies being violent, selling drugs, and sleeping with multiple women.
There is socially conscious rap music. Sadly, people put out what sells. Socially conscious music doesn't sell as much compared to mainstream rap music. Many ask what happened or why rap music has so much glorification of violent behavior, promiscuous behavior, and drug dealing. Money is the main reason. It sells.
Rappers still address black on black crime today. They just don't get a lot of radio play. Or the songs where they address those issues don't get radio play.
You should be upset at A&R's and Mitt Romney. They control a lot of what you hear.
I've been trying to get some people to understand this. The stuff that plays on the radio, that plays in the clubs, that so many people listen to, it sells. It is about the love of money.
Cue the "For The Love of Money" song by The Ojays.
Rappers still address black on black crime today. They just don't get a lot of radio play. Or the songs where they address those issues don't get radio play.
You should be upset at A&R's and Mitt Romney. They control a lot of what you hear.
Radio stations play whatever sells. Record companies put what sells out there. Sadly, drug dealing, murder, and promiscuity sells.
LMAO...stick to talking about Miley Cyrus. Leave the hip hop discussions to the experts.
Not surprisingly, Miley Cyrus sells much more than rappers talking about Black on Black crime. Alot of listeners don't want to hear it. Many people want to hear the really stupid stuff, rather than the socially conscious stuff. Alot of people don't understand that hip-hop started out as a socially conscious movement. It turned into alot of the bad we see because some rappers were offered big money to rap about bad stuff.
LMAO...stick to talking about Miley Cyrus. Leave the hip hop discussions to the experts.
Who are "hip hop experts"?
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