It almost felt like a totally different genre:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYp28tEAVvsWhat happened to those vibes? That 80s satirical, borderline cartoonish Rap?
>>128709846CIA got afraid and decided blacks need to kill each other instead. And whatever dumb wiggers and roasties who latched on to it were just acceptable casualties.
>>128709846that was just the 80s, it was a goofy comic book-like culture. the gangsta takeover was in the 90s when the culture at large got a more serious and cynical.
>>128709846There is a new de la soul album
>>128709846the message grandmaster flash stands out a lot more when you compare it to other early 80s shit like kurtis blow
>>128709990i'm talking from a mainstream standpoint. OP's MV was all over the place and charts in 80s and there was like 20-30 rappers making stuff like that.Try to drop something like this somewhere between 2000s up until today and see if you barely get a half a million views:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjNTu8jdukAPeople will laugh their ass off, call you a retard, weirdo, corny... every degrading name existing under the sun and call your music weak.
>>128710032i think gangsta rap just kinda took over the image of what rap "represents" in the eyes of mainstream america so they demand stuff that's "hard" and anything else is "corny"
>>128709992Grandmaster Flash mourned over the streets though. Not celebrated like modern rap retards.Same with all of them, if they knew about it.>I need money, I used to be a stick-up kid>So I think of all the devious things I did>I used to roll up, "This is a hold-up, ain't nothing funny>Stop smiling, be still, don't nothing move but the money">But now, I've learned to earn 'cause I'm righteous>I feel great, so maybe, I might just>Search for a nine to five, if I strive>Then maybe I'll stay alive
>>128710052the bling rap era was way more cartoony than the 90s tbqh
>>128709975>the gangsta takeover was in the 90s when the culture at large got a more serious and cynical.then WHO made it this way in the 90s? What happened? What turned something that used to be laid-back, chill, comical and funny, into something violent and self-destructing?
>>128710093The 80s was a Republican dominated decade and the 90s was when Democrats were back in power and thus 90s culture was more pretentious and self-important.
>>128710052One of the biggest rap hits of all time was a guy in 2012 talking about wearing your grandpa's clothes from Goodwill.
>>128710093It just so happened to coincide with corporate prison takeover, harder and harder drug wars, and even more destruction of black families from the above. Don't question it.
>>128709949That theory doesn't really hold up, since the US murder rate peaked in the year 1980, when rap music was incredibly clunky and corny.
>>128709846Biz Markie, Digital Underground, Slick Rick...They took that from you
>>128709975Gangsta Rap to Hip Hop was what Grunge was to Glam Metal.
>>128710120Stuff started getting way stupider and cheesier in Clinton's second term even though there is some weight to that theory.
>>128710154the peak was 1990 though?
>>128710245Nope. But it is true that the 50's had the lowest murder rates.
its the culture of the 80s, rock, metal, rap, pop, in the 80s was about having a good time and partying.Then in the 90s things shifted, rock and rap got edgy as a reaction against the 80s culture, so you got grunge and gangsta rap
>>128710276Everybody wants to party or at least just be left the fuck alone. People largely don't enjoy dying. lol
Vanilla Ice talks about doing a driveby in Ice Ice Baby
>>128710141right, but macklemore didnt really have "cred" or real respect
>>128709846It was garbage, you like it because youre a dork whats next zelda super mario osts I guess?>>128709949The cia didnt need rap music to destroy the black community, drugs, guns, alcohol the complete abadonment by the government and financial institutions, the removal of the father from the family unit, no access to quality higher education for several generations, etc were already doing a great job. Rap music emerged naturally from these conditions jews and other whites just profited off it they didnt orchestrate it and gangsta rap brought such shock value and spike curiosity amongst whites and that it made the genre global and probably the most popular music genre of all time
>>128709846this is about as seriously as rap should be taken.but man the rhymes were fucking shit back then, goddamn.
>>128710684Rakim is still one of the best, cool voice, cool flow.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TN-kDEKxF0Afrika Bambaata coolest style. Cyberpunk nigga in the early 80s. Too bad he's a worse degenerate than Diddy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J3lwZjHenA
