It’s time to face the facts good mainstream rap died in the 90’s. The image style and sound of struggling to climb the social ladder, and remembrances of living in poverty is long gone. Instead it is replaced by the new school. Rappers such as drake, Nikki Manaj, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and Kanye West who command the stage rapping about fast women, cars, living the good life, and blowing money on extravagant parties. Even many old school rappers like Snoop Dog and Eminem reinvented their image to keep up with the new social demands set forth by these spoiled 00’s babies. I’m not saying the subject matter is at fault. But in times of hardship the music of that generation should mirror the events of the time. The world is witnessing hardship in every aspect of life and the only subject that seems to be popular is rapping about how much money you have and how easy you can steal your audiences’ girls’ cars and money. Todays “artists” are spitting in the face of their audience and they are eating it up. Afro punk blogs about what happened to intelligent rap music bashing: Drake, Nas, Jay-z and Little Wayne, stating “Well honestly I scoff when I see t shirts that say hip hop is dead really. It does live in all the rock bands that have allocated our style and way of doing lyrics and also all the aforementioned folks I might have l sound angry about did what hip hop did best, grow, assimilate hit a new stride. This is why it lives. The music for me still lives in kids ten years younger than me who can listen to whatever is big now but know the furious five.
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