we need more socially conscious hip hop, i love every music but i always see people on Yas Forums trash hip hop. Just drop some socially conscious hip hop.
>separate question is who do you think is the greatest Emcee? my opinion rakim and KRS-One for me are tied.
>KRS-One >pedophile >literally made a song about fucking a school girl and then her gay dad Wow, I didn't know Hip Hop had such socially conscious artists!
James Diaz
top 5 conscious are KRS ONE Chuck D Jeru The Damaja Mos Def/Talib Kweli
>>literally made a song about fucking a school girl and then her gay dad what song user?
Nathan Brown
woop woop sound of the police
Wyatt Collins
13 n Good
>top 5 conscious are >KRS ONE Oh yeah, making a song defending fucking a 13 years old girl is very conscious.
I knew about the bambaata shit and i disagree with him there too, but his notable work was decades before his comments. I also do not see the verse about 13 year olds in the song you replied with.
Ryan Reyes
he's severely retarded ignore him, probably jerking off draped in a confederate flag rn
forgot to add, his comments have nothing to do with his work. Kris has done stupid shit over the years like how he treated Scott la rock's son. doesn't discredit his albums.
Kayden Brooks
There are people who are still listening to KRS-One in 2020??? lmao. Dude there is still a lot of socially conscious Rap music nowadays that's much more relevant to the current context of the world than KRS-One's. KRS-One's message was good, but it was good in the 80s-90s. His message is outdated now. Nowadays we have new social issues, like social media and all that internet stuff.
Elijah Hill
Don’t listen to this user. We have the same social problems of racism, police brutality, poverty, and capitalism that we did in the 80s, they’re not different because of phones
Noah James
>things are just as bad now as in the 80s Nigger are you retarded?
Jonathan Wood
>Don’t listen to this user. We have the same social problems of racism, police brutality, poverty, and capitalism that we did in the 80s, they’re not different because of phones The problems are the same but expressed in new and different ways, and people who are familiar with those ways can't relate to KRS-One's message at all, even if you could say that message transcends contexts.
French doctors literally talked on live about killing people in Africa with a coronavirus vaccine test, as if they were guineapigs. Racism is well and alive, but racism today in my opinion is expressed in very different ways mid-80s racism was. So your typical zoomer might not relate to KRS-One and might even find that shit boring, but if they hear Killer Mike or more likely J. Cole say similar shit over a Trap beat while referencing things that are RELEVANT to the current context like Donald Trump's presidency and shit, they will be much more likely to like and relate to it.
Anthony Reyes
And of course, "phones" and the shit that surrounds them changed a lot culture and how people act, live and shit. It's not just a device you put on your hand. That shit changed a lot peoples' behavior compared to before
Michael Clark
>muh raycis white people and police targeting us unfairly >not muh black culture is a mess due to single parent families, never accepting responsibility and glorification of bad values and decisions
Levi Foster
Except conscious rappers like KRS-One do talk about those problems of self-destruction within the Black community too, though with much more substance than you people.
>>not muh black culture is a mess due to single parent families, never accepting responsibility and glorification of bad values and decisions They have single parent families because black men are disproportionately arrested and incarcerated for minor non-violent offenses to work as slaves in privately owned prisons who lobby to increase jail time and lower the age of which teenagers become eligible for harsher punishments.
Nathan Edwards
Lupe blows every other emcee out of the water
Aaron Garcia
KRS-One was good for his time sure but in addition to the pedophilia song he also made shit like that song about how le women are lying about being raped. His politics were also super liberal.
Jace Sanders
I like KRS. He's very flawed, but he fights for what he believes in, which is to empower the downtrodden. I don't need to agree with everything he says.
Tyler Hill
>Minor non-violent offenses You mean crimes. There isn't some mass movement to frame every black guy for a crime he didn't do, it's the lack of parenting. It starts with not having kids if you can't teach them how to be productive, law abiding members of society.
Austin Morales
yeah for sure the centuries of economic warfare and resulting poverty has nothing to do with crime in the black community it's all because muh culture
Aiden Hernandez
>There isn't some mass movement to frame every black guy for a crime he didn't do Actually, with the rise of private prisons who can force prisoners to work for free, there literally is a massively profitable movement looking to criminalize blacks in particular even harder. >it's the lack of parents If you lock up young black men for years for carrying weed and shit for personal use (while ignoring white people committing the same crime), those black young men won't be around to raise their children. The retarded War on Drugs is destroying all poverty-striken communities, white ones too, but black ones are still disproportionately targeted on top of being economically handicapped going back centuries. It's destroying Mexico as well, and no, the money in Mexican drug trafficking does NOT come from the ghettos, it comes from White America, which buys the more expensive drugs on top of being far more numerous, yet is far less targeted by law enforcement.
Ethan Baker
Plenty of others faced difficulties integrating into America. None have the cultural cesspool blacks do. Hell, Asians have been here for less time and kick ass in this country.
Brody Allen
How about NOT buying or carrying weed around if it's illegal (whether it should be or not doesn't matter)? How about NOT having children when youre still a teenager and or don't have your shit together? How about NOT stealing that blunt from the 711? These are all preventable actions that good parents teach their kids not to do.
Carter Roberts
>we need more socially conscious hip hop, i love every music but i always see people on Yas Forums trash hip hop. Just drop some socially conscious hip hop. Just dont care that much for hiphop that tries teaching me stuff. I read to learn and listen to music for enjoyment. I listen to hardcore/gangster rap predominately because i can relate to the representation of the streets and i find the battle rap lyrics enjoyable. However, i do like some conscious rap such as gang starr and outkast but thats more because i enjoy their flow and lyrical content despite it being conscious rap.
Easton Gonzalez
The Asians who "kick ass" are mostly recent immigrants who already had an academic inclination and plenty of options. We see a similar phenomenon with (Black) Nigerians coming to this country already educated and "kicking ass", but that can be easily explained by the fact that most of those Nigerians had an academic inclination before coming to the USA, and aren't descendants of slaves who were and are still systematically oppressed. They had options, people who grew up in the hood didn't.
Easton Lopez
Were asians enslaved? Were asians discriminated against as harshly in getting mortgages? Is it asians who are being targeted by the prison industrial complex? Why are right wingers so retarded?
Camden James
If I say "Prohibition was a bad idea," what's your opinion on that? >How about NOT having children when youre still a teenager and or don't have your shit together? This is not a racial thing, this is an educational thing which is again a result of the corrupt and disproportionate legal hounding of blacks that's taken a long long time to arrive at, it didn't suddenly appear out of nowhere. The worst developments were however somewhat recent, with manufacturing jobs moving overseas, which affected the black community far worse than whites since blacks were finally getting to earn some money, and at the same time crack cocaine began doing the rounds. Thank you, Reagan. >These are all preventable actions that good parents teach their kids not to do Which brings us back to how black kids have their parents stolen from them to do slave work for years in privately owned prisons.
Charles Bailey
hey can we talk about hip hop instead of this far-right politic shit? This Yas Forumstard is retarded just ignore him and post more recs.
