Street Rap: What Happened To Hip Hop? Stunted Growth Music
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- To explain rap music today to a person living under a rock that’s never heard a rap song would be done how exactly? At one point it was easy to explain rap music because it was more of a relatable battle we all have or could face at some point as humans or a real picture of what it meant to experience life in the environments such soulful music could only produce. Yes gangster rap has always been around, but when it was done it felt a regrettable consequence of having to grow up poor and less fortunate, with a dream of one day getting out. Gangster wasn’t celebrated like it is today as a trendy thing to do. Nowadays it painted as cool to be a killer and the slimiest of kinds that would go to any limit to remove your enemy or even close friends and anyone else that gets in the way. Has Hip Hop/Rap music been reduced to trendy, un fact checked Rico rap? Or is there still a chance hiphop/ rap can make you feel something again? Street Rap: Is This What Hip Hop Has Been Reduced To? What Happened To Hip Hop Stunted Growth Music
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How long do you think "Street Rap" will dominate Hip Hop?
The rise of rap in the uk has kinda made waves in America
Not long
Uk drill is started in Brixton in 2012 Chicago drill was popular there
@@YoungRiaz it Looks like it’s only influencing New York. Every other city in America got their own sound & style
@@flygenyus2186 yes correct
Watching this video reminded me of a Confucius quote “If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.” I think this applies to Hip Hop perfectly.
Profound
Lol it gave u that Confucius vibe? 🤣 😆 🤣
So when was American music good and when did Americans morals be good?
Chuch ⛪
Confucius knew people would fw his name heavy
A lot of rappers back in the day said they were gangster but really wasn’t just doing it for entertainment
True. Studio gangsters was the term
Now it’s internet gangsters
@@galedribble9535 facts but the rapper's back then really new how to make music and could really rap
@@galedribble9535ain't that the truth.
This segment is probably one of the most thought provoking, unbiased and truthful one you've ever put up. Thanks for your insight and keep up the good work.
I think it's very biased. 50 Cent definitely tried to make it seem cool to be a gangster. He literally had songs like Wanksta making fun of fake thugs. The song Soldier with Destiny's Child and TI literally have women talking about how they want a street dude. This video is viewing the past with rose-colored shades
50 wasn't the first to make gangstas look cool, that was NWA
Hip Hop spent the 2000s/2010s abandoning the principals of the 80s/90s & started chasing commercial appeal & the money that comes along with it. A broad audience doesn't consume niche/artistic/meaningful material.
A pop/commerical audience is by definition the lowest common denominator. Easily accessible, easy to grasp concepts.
A rapper can't chase a lowest common denominator audience while making meaningful music.
Pac made meaningful music & the audience came to him as opposed to Pac chasing the audience.
100% agree! 👌
But single mothers and homosexuality KILLED the community and Rap Scene.
But NOBODY has the GUTS to wanna accept the TRUTH from it's original source.
@@lanemyer774 then pac with to jail, got out started hanging with bloods, stop making meaningful songs then sadly died
@@she_lovesbillzHe still made meaningful songs after that
Back then Rappers were trying to get out the street life through their talents in music. Now they're making music and still doing street shit. It's stupid.
Lot of rappers back then was never in streets shit they wasn’t even in the hood these rappers nowdays try to get everybody n they mama out of hood that why they end up dead
Look at ice cube, snoop dogg, Master p, geto boys ( Willie d, Scarface) 50 cent and so forth. Not only did they have no need to prove much more than what they were when they start getting the success, they had no need to fall back. And also they use every bit of that opportunity to progress and do more expansive things.
Where as now the artists or individuals feel as if they need be back in situations or the predicament just prove how much tied in they are. Let it be also known artists of yesterday only went back to the trenches or hood to only help inspire, give back or give an insight of their struggles and the environment that shaped and molded them, not glamorize or even glorify.
these waves last about 5 to 10 years I remember the 5 years ago it was mumble rap so thing will change once the market gets saturated and they get bored of a sound but hip hop will never die it will just keep evolving
It will die if the Jewish investor’s decides to stop funding it, it’ll be a dead genre just like R&B nowadays.
*NOOOOOOOOOOOOO*
This bs has been going on since MySpace got "popular".
If you were around back then, you'd know it was "free advertisement for Trash Rap". Biggest known rapper from then was Soulja Boi
@@deanbrooks7297 false. Hip-Hop is by the steets, and supposed to be for the streets but the “Jews” market to Middle class white America and that’s been the main difference.
@@rell4219 I understand your point however the mainstream aspect will go away if the hip hop Jewish investors stop investing into it.
@@cobrakainevereverdies6940 I don’t think it was this bad though. You had your select few but majority of the artist wasn’t following Soldier Boy.
I just hate what rap has become & what’s been accepted. Now anybody can rap without being talented or most Importantly actually love doing it. There’s so many interviews I’ve watched where people go “i didn’t even wanna be a rapper. I just heard this one song & wanted to do it then i got offered this amount of money to do walk throughs at this club”. “Influencers are now rappers, makeup artists & of course people like 69 are too. It just makes the genre a joke now.
I blame the "rap game is the crack game" ethos of the late 90s. Rappers themselves began telling audiences this is just a hustle. Fans began to accept it & a cynical dynamic was born.
Exactly. SMH
people say Hip-Hop keeps evolving; Hip-Hop doesn't evolve, it retrogresses. Sadly it's become a parody of what it used to be. I had been listening to Hip-Hop since 1992 when I was 14 but stopped listening to it many years ago.
I agree with everything you said.
@@bygonewaves Man you are speaking straight facts!!!!!
We’re living in the new crack era. It’s just words being sold as the poison. And when theses young people wake up out this slumber, it’s gonna be worse than the actual drug. This wave of entertainment has set black folks back 3-4 generations.
Facts smh
I dont call it entertainment its more foolishness.
I really appreciate your balanced coverage of the current issues Hip Hop is grappling with. Thank you for creating high quality content!
I realized that street rap has infected this generation because when kendrick dropped his last album those same street rap fans were calling his album “mid” and “boring”. all they wanna here is raps about lean, being the realest, designer fashion and taking out the the ops
This a bad example. Kendrick is highly over-rated when you actually break down the lyrical content and over-all song quality and everything that makes a rapper “Great”
Wasn’t just street rap fans that called it mid lol
Although I’m from Chicago I Honestly believe Trap music started it all. Drill music is just a carbon copy of trap but it was social media thrill. Many Chicago kats emulate southern kats like a Memphis, New Orleans and ATL. Even their accents.
The biggest selling “drill” rapper is probably 50 Cent. He’s the real blueprint but with ever-evolving beats.
@@rell4219 EXACTLY. this video is incorrect in saying 50 Cent wasn't promoting the gangster image. Dude literally has a video game promoting the lifestyle
@@Spectonimous all rappers was nwa,50 cent,snoop etc they always was doing it.snoop had crip shit all round him promoted his gang
@@Spectonimous crips was everywhere after the 90s
@@Imjustbored2023 Exactly and that's the point. I have to disagree with the video uploader. Most rappers were not apologetic about their gangster lifestyle back then.
The hip hop industry is wild. You have no idea, how many people you help with these videos. Keep preaching truth and positivity
Can we have a Petey Pablo stunted growth???????????????
No doubt
I respect this piece. Being a young rapper I didn't want to click on this because I thought you were going to bash us and be biased but you really broke it down and stayed open minded. This is why I rock with this channel.. I make some street music but I feel like we all just in a vibe, not caring about the politics or what people have to say. Having the freedom to be able to speak what you're going through in the streets and share it with your viewers is a form of therapy for us. Its also more accessible to get it out there now today than ever. Much respect fr . This piece really spoke to me 🔥🙏🏾
You should do Bone Crusher, Dead Prez and Dilated Peoples next
I think Bonecrusher has a simple answer as that he was just a one hit wonder (and maybe was mismanaged) ,though I heard some more of his stuff from his first album, and he actually did have a unique voice and delivery.
Dead Prez still makes music. Stic-Man released a workout album years ago and M-1 got married not too long ago.
They released their Information Age album years ago back in 2013 too
I got news for you. Rappers back then wasn't gangster all the time either. 🤣🤣 They just didn't have the internet to show it.
Everyone’s not a gangsta. Everyone’s a snitch
Most gangsters are snitch rats etc
Do a video on why rappers like drinking purple drank and all the consequences that come with being addicted to it
Are rappers still getting messed up on Lean?
@@kobiecamp1134 Some rappers are still drinking it
These cats need to check out the story of DJ Screw then.
Most of the OGs like Bun B don't indulge in that stuff anymore. No Texas cats do.
In Texas, they will have you locked up until the next coming of Jesus Christ if they catch you with a Styrofoam cup of Lean.
@@mackvelly8899 or Pimp C, he also died from drinking lean. Juice WRLD said he was inspired to try it after listening to Lil Wayne and future.
I am old school hip hop fan but mixed taste
Today's rappers sing more than rap
R&B rappers....
@@jamesgibson3716 truth
@@jamesgibson3716 Stop disrespecting R&B. It actually requires real talents and skills to be an R&B artist. These bum new school rappers wish they could be R&B artist but they are to lazy to develope strong vocal chords.
@@jamesgibson3716 wannabe rnb, reggae, afrobeats and Dancehall rappers
I feel like if it’s not Kendrick or cole a rapper that has something to say either isn’t taken serious or is seen as corny
The last rap song I heard about a real situation was Dae Dae's "Wat U Mean (Family To Feed)" after that everybody started talking about killing and roasting the poor smh. That is the worst thing to me because the majority of the fans are nowhere near as rich as the next rapper even if the rapper is not that rich. Most people don't even get to save 100k in their lifetime.
I feel like we are somehow going to slowly transition away this era of street rap. I’m not sure what is going to come out of it though. I think some of these guys are going to get tired of these lifestyles to a certain extent, especially with all these arrests and crackdowns, and deaths. Some of them are going to start listening to the ogs and “oldheads”.
I also think that people should start gatekeeping again. There’s too much shenanigans allowed. So many people are adopting these lifestyles or aspects of it, and of them don’t even come from those environments. So many people just emulating things made to look cool for views and likes. Outside cultures and industries infiltrating hip hop. Using the lingo, the imagery. Bad mouthing or discrediting the history. People getting accolades they don’t deserve, overshadowing the ones that do.
And honestly, that goes for different industries. The internet has been a blessing and a curse, allowing for networking and needed collaborations, new career options, but also a whole bunch of people and ideas that don’t belong.
Street rap will never die down because the things they speak about happens everyday and is glorified by even people that aren’t in the streets.. they called it “Gangsta Rap” in the 80s/90s right
I love your perspective man, you don't criticize the today's age. You just try to Explain in a way that everyone unnderstands where you coming from.
Makes me wonder what my associates who are 30+ who are still aspiring artists expecting. What if they actually make it/become nationally popular? Many of them work real jobs and as far as I’ve seen are FAR from street. They seem to do what they do for the love but many of the rappers these days (not to sound like a hater) really just want more attention and keep proving themselves to “fans” who are just going to move on to the next artist soon as they are no longer popular or become absent due to their decisions.
I just wanna be a real artist whos NOT conformed to whats hot, trending, from the labels, "competition" ( I'm really tunnel vision) and the industry I'm on a misson.
Yo, that was one of your best episodes - it was like a news channel opinion piece on current rap - keep up the great work - -
This is an amazing video ..we need more because these “rappers” are lost
I think it will go in waves. In the early 2000s, rnb dominated hip hop, then came 50 Cent and it was all about gangsta rap for about 6 years, then the more pop-oriented rap took over, such as Kanye West, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne etc, in about 2009 or so. Now it's messed up, it;s to the point that kids have to be embarassed that they didn't grow up poor. A prime example of this is a known swedish rapper who was a white kid from a creative family who ended up getting murdered because he so desperately tried to live up to the whole drill image and got himself into a life he wasn't built for or could handle. Which shows you how worldwide this negative trend in hip hop has become.
It's going to get worse since 05 rap hasn't been the same i never thought I see the day that I hated rap completely and this was coming from a hip hop head at least I have different genre to listen too and got youtube 🎶
@@Jac735 Yeah 2007 was the year rap officially died in my opinion, when Kanye outsold 50 Cent with Graduation vs Curtis. It has never been the same since then, even though I do agree 05 was kind of the final year of real rap.
@@joebrat6809 yea funny thing was I graduated that year when I was in high school I was listening to old cats like slick Rick Eric b and Rakim krs one the whole 9 yards and I was a youngin now that's all I listen too and I'm 33 so I was about 17 listening to old stuff abd people thought I was weird
You mean Lil peep. The dude who died in 2017 at age 21 from sweeden?
@@mariowalker9048 no this was a guy who was raised in Sweden named Einar, he was basically our version of Tekashi 69 (not really from the street but desperately wanted validation from them) Lil Peep had swedish descent but was born in the US.
The record companies don’t care. All they care is making money off of these people. When one goes to jail or prison, the record companies just go out there and get another person to replace that person who went to jail or prison
Another Great Video 🙏🏽🔥
Please do a video on Quan. The guy out of VA that Nas cosigned a few years back. He seemed to have everything going for him and then nothing.
RIP Deezer D (CB4).....Another dope episode bruh!!!
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Brother you broke this down beautifully
Beautiful video as always man👍🏾💪🏾
Also, music platforms like SoundCloud and ect became another way to continue the commercial trend of rap. Also, recruiting breeding ground for the music industry especially drill, dirty rap, mumble rap and trap artists.
Couldn’t have explained it better, well done.
Very well needed commentary on this video.
Can you do some old rappers that we don't know nothing about 80s 90s it's a lot to talk about thank you have a nice day
I seriously think lil wanye ushered in the worst rap Era ever. He popularized claiming a gang when your not from the streets, face tattoos and mumbling on the track.
Chief Queef shouldn't be credited for nothing but adding to the destruction of young impoverished males who listen to his music or follow his footsteps.
Ain’t no young bm follow him lot of y’all live in false shit .kids are looking up to niggas in their hood
Facts he's the reason why music is like this now
Thank God I came up in the 80s an 90s when hiphop was great. No dig to today's era of rap I just think rap today sounds the same not alot of rappers sound different
As a student & prodigy of Hip Hop ill put it like this: Change the narrative been goin on far too long its repetitive played out and mediocre its dissapointing we need the real essence back in Hip Hop again we need balance, fun, talent, artistry, creativity, fire, motivation, passion, heart, I can go on & on all I"m sayin is Ima artist whos been on a misson to LIGHT THE RAP GAME BACK UP we need a bright light and I am one!!
Chief keef was the original of drill music. King Louie was the first to be known for drill.
I didn't know that about King Louie that was a fun fact to know
Actaully according to chief keef and chicago drill rappers, 50 cent's song called "Heat" was the first drill music song.
Although 50 cent's made drill music. Like "How you gonna take this" by 50 cent and the "Evil that Men Do" by 50 cent.
Those 50 cent songs were came out in the 90's.
90s had the best music and style
This is one of The Best Stunted Growth Episodes
I agree and disagree . ice cube , eazy e , dr dre , 2pac , snoop n.w.a , jay z , ice T 50 cent , wayne etc ... etc all sold gangsta street image before chief keef did He just amplified it . Now everybody wannabe a shooter.
I don’t think you were there in 2012 when Don’t Like dropped. There was a complete shift after Keef came.
He also stated in the video Gangster Rap has always been here but it was a subgenre of music. Also, all those rappers you named had a gangster phase or was apart of their package. 2Pac with AOEM, Jay-Z with Vol. 3 and Dynasty, Lil Wayne from Cash Money - Carter 2
@@stann.3408 yes I’m from the Bronx i was a freshman in high school in 2012 once he got got the whole Bronx wanted to be Chicago
Do one on the stunted growth of conscious rap
Also hard-core, political rap, Lo-fi, underground, freestyle, and alternative hip hop.
Great video
Very well put.. I'm not the only college graduate I see... great job man
Very telling video.
So agree! I remember when you had your street rap, conscious rap, dance rap etc! Now-a-days if you ain't banging your ain't heard!
This is an interesting concept
This is a good one
I think it’s the opposite. Back in the day, you could paint whatever picture of being Gangsta you wanted to be and people believed it. Look at NWA. Cube wasn’t in any of that stuff but he sure rapped about it. These new rappers actually living that life and basically trying to make legal money running gangs in open sight while and it’s all based off believing the lies told from the older generation.
Nah there were real killers and gangsters around then too and it was more violent back then.Eazy and Ren were crips.Back then you didn’t want ppl to know if you were doing dirt.
I think you using Cube here doesn’t work because Cube has always been on record that his raps were always a reflection of his environment and the things he saw while in that environment.
@@IncreaseMatter nah, I was alive and listening at that time and he only said that stuff in interviews that were mostly on cable which many ain’t have access to so people thought he and others were really living that life. So it does work and there’s a reason I said it
@@biglex42 thank you life 50 cent didn’t have a whole movie n couple of videos games bout that life
@@biglex42 ice cube never claim to be that tho
What happened to Hip Hop ? Well, let me put it like this....Hip Hop was a chick born in 1978....she was conscious, Afrocentric, sometimes bragadocious, sometimes does parody rap. After years yearning for the limelight & success she was introduced to a pimp name corporate, but on the streets they called him 'Big Corp". Big Corp sold her a dream....she be rich & famous, but the catch is to change her persona...drop the conscious & the Afrocentric rap to do gangster rap, twerk rap & sexuality. After years under "Big Corp" guidance & controlling her, Hip hop she lost her soul. She lost her moral fibers, her message, ultimately her way...& was never the same......After 97' she died due to a broken heart....and now her children taking on her legacy.....💯❤♠️♥️♣️♦️💯
Bruh...I always say real hip hop ended around 96'. You the first person I seen to say it as well.
@@ignaciofuentes2642 Fam....you already know....I missed them days where you had to.stay up.late nights tapping rap mix shows....."The Wake.Up Show with Sway & Tech, Future Flava With Pete Rock &.Marley.Marl, Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito Show.....them days......
HIP HOP WAS CREATED BY ALPHA MEN IN NEW YORK. ITS NOT NO.CHICK, IT WAS MEANT TO BE A POWER BUILDING MOVEMENT.
Yea this shit wild a lot of these fake gangstas basically run rap…none of these dudes will try to harm a cop like they do they own ppl smh
It always been like that since 90s when have a gangster fuck wit a cop
Modern day Hip-Hop is an embarrassing minstrel show...🤦🏿♂️
I knew I wasn’t the only person who felt like this
After watching this video, you can ask is a quality message appreciated, especially in Hip Hop? Please continue this amazing content. Lets share this man's videos
"They want us to kill ourselves" - Furious Styles (Boyz N The Hood)
Preach!!
Your overall point is correct and much needed for hip hop RUclipsrs to talk about. But you were too generous to the 90s gangsta rappers. A lot of the issues we see now are also what happened back then. And while they said it was just "reflecting" a lot of it was glorified and exciting and entertaining and gave young kids something to negatively emulate. Even 2pac leaned into the gangsta thug image once it got hot despite not actually having that past if we gonna be honest
Definitely leaned into it. Seemed like he felt like - if you're gonna call me a thug I'm going to show you what a thug is. Even he said he didn't have a record until he had a record deal. From there things played out kinda crazy of course. Shooting two off duty cops and walking free on it. Getting shot and living. The fights and studio incidents that are kind of reported on also.
True
Thanks!
Thank you!!
Can you please do Vic Mensa and Chance The Rapper
Great vid💯another problem is that the Leaders like Dot Cole nd the real hip hop figures don’t drop as much so ppl just gonna continue to make microwave music till the next 🌊 hits
Thankfully we still have Kendrick Lamar's in the world that street rap is a joke was a joke when it came out and it's not going to be remembered years after like hip hop has been regarded in the past
True
The music industry secretly investment into private prisons gangsta rap is the gateway
Dolph ain't say shit but keep your paper up. I'd say that's somewhat positive
Do a video on The Cool Kids!!
Street Rap is over atleast the authentic kind
Rap today is dumbed down and self destructive. Hip Hop was born out of a cultural movement to end street violence and today's rappers are actually fueling violence. Mocking killed people in songs is a new low. Someone has to call out what's wrong.
Street Rap to some level is fine as long as it is not too overglorified in interviews, reviews, reactions, and take ons yeah
Too late for that
Do u still do basketball I been seeing a lot of music stuff from u lately the basketball videos was 🔥tho
I am more interested in the uk rap scene
You GOTTA follow this up with a “Gangsta” Gibbs video now lol
1992: “Gangsta Rap”
2022: “Street Rap”
There's a few of us holding it down keeoing it true and real 💯album drops in 3 days stream it everywhere
Do one stunted growth on uk grime
it's sad SG
Do Danny Brown and Yelawolf
I'm falling up flights of stairs,
Scraping myself from the sidewalk,
Jumping from rivers to bridges,
Drowning in pure air.
Hip hop is lying on the side of the road,
Half dead to itself.
-Saul Williams, Telegram
No mention of ScHoolboy Q, YG, Vince Staples, The Game, or Jay Rock? Actual gang members that make music you can feel.
Also, really light on Southern rappers. All love to Soulja Slim, B.G. Juvenile, Scarface, Geto Boys, Yrick Daddy, Plies, Webbie, Three 6 Mafia, Killer Mike, Gucci Mane, Pusha T, 2 Chainz, Yo Gotti, & Jeezy.
Oh, and Freddie Gibbs.
Literally left out all the real niggas.
When us young ppl made N.W.A. popular back in the day that was the beginning of the end smh
You should do Young Dro
this is agr8 bday present 2 me king
Do one on Jody breeze MyG
You should do one for Tha Outlawz….I wanna know your take on that
Pac died. The end
@@slycooper1979 basically. And Yaki Kadafi
@@slycooper1979 That's it in a nutshell.
Nah, this drill/kill music is not fun. I don’t like it at all. It’s too aggressive for no reason, other than to promote killing. I didn’t think it could get worse than trap, but it is. And the lines are definitely blurred between real and fake. Kids that don’t live in the hood, are getting involved with this violence. Sadly, part of the reason why Kendrick is ALWAYS so successful is because his music is always a breath of fresh air. He outsells them every time, just by being the opposite of what they are/pretend to be.
You need to do a kurupt from the dogg pound
Do a video on the decline of R&B/Hip-Hop groups. Or do a video on the dancing song rap era
Can we get Juvenile and Mystikal,
Good ones I also request Bone Crusher, Dilated Peoples and Dead Prez
Listen to 50 cents mixtapes in the 90's. Juvenile is on those. 50 cent used to tour in the south im the 90's with Cash Money and No limit records.
A littile bit of everything - 50 cent ft juvenile
Ny to No- 50 cent ft Juvenile
Can we get a T-Pain episode?
I'm tryna give feeling to the music but they don't like to feel no more
Can we pretty pls get one for riff raff
100 guys in a video shirts off in very close quarters of each other NO women drugs guns prop money instant rap star now 😂🤣😅
Do 1 on Shoddy Boi plz
Its strange i know all the names of these new artist but never heard a song by them. I have to say i live on the other side of the globe and all American Entertainment kinda disappeard from my radar.