The Essence of Hip Hop Lost or Why Being From The Ghetto Is No Longer Cool

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Idiopathic Joker
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Do y'all agree? Is it now uncool in hip hop to be from the ghetto? Imo what made hip hop special was the uniqueness of coming up from the hood on your own hustle and the music matching your life experiences.

Do y'all think hip hop lost that? And is it good or bad for the culture?

Just want y'alls opinons
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  • tompetrez3
    tompetrez3 Members Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Rappers like jay z and his fans made it shameful to be poor and black for nearly 2 decades now. I told yall years ago that 2 jobs to survive diss line on can i get a and him dissing the suburbs on vol 2 was an out of touch attack on black working class. Thats why he got delusional broke ? on here bold enough to talk ? about Birdman having baby money.

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  • Idiopathic Joker
    Idiopathic Joker Members, Moderators Posts: 45,691 Regulator
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    I'm just asking y'alls opinions on the subject lol
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  • Turfaholic
    Turfaholic Members Posts: 20,429 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I hated that ? . Especially in the early 90s.
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  • Ear2DaSt
    Ear2DaSt Members Posts: 10,480 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Rappers got rich so they couldn't rap about the ghetto no mo ....

    so they controlled the rap game so they made rich be in style

    and many forgot the hoodz that they came from and talked down on it and people less fortunate

    it's cool i understand niccaz wanna cap but .. then start taking it to the extreme rapping about

    do you have any grey poupon and ? ...
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  • THE_R_
    THE_R_ Members Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I BLAME GENTRIFICATION TO A CERTAIN DEGREE.
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  • Ear2DaSt
    Ear2DaSt Members Posts: 10,480 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    the raw hood element has been left out the past 20 years

    they also cater to the rich mainstream

    now you got dudes thuggin out of beverly hills

    everything eventually starts catering to the mainstream

    you got to rap to what they relate to

    the powers that be took away the ghetto expression

    and manipulated it to make large profits

    big business took over once they saw what sells is catering to the mainstream more

    and shy away from relating to the ghetto,lower middle class,middle class communities ....
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  • Kwan Dai
    Kwan Dai Members Posts: 6,929 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It's not about being from the ghetto. It's not cool to be Black.. When Black neighborhoods had rich and poor people living in them it was still considered the ghetto.
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  • Matike85
    Matike85 Members Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The Rise of Social Media = Killed Street Cred in Hip Hop
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  • playmaker88
    playmaker88 Members Posts: 67,905 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Matike85 wrote: »
    The Rise of Social Media = Killed Street Cred in Hip Hop

    "STREET CRED" IS A CRACKERISM.
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  • Matike85
    Matike85 Members Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    playmaker88 wrote: »
    Matike85 wrote: »
    The Rise of Social Media = Killed Street Cred in Hip Hop

    "STREET CRED" IS A CRACKERISM.

    Crackerism created Social Media
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  • Listencloser
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    Aside from Drake, who is not from the streets?
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  • Listencloser
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    Black music is the blues. As long as we struggle we will make art.
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  • playmaker88
    playmaker88 Members Posts: 67,905 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Matike85 wrote: »
    playmaker88 wrote: »
    Matike85 wrote: »
    The Rise of Social Media = Killed Street Cred in Hip Hop

    "STREET CRED" IS A CRACKERISM.

    Crackerism created Social Media

    im pretty sure you dont know what i mean.
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  • 5 Grand
    5 Grand Members Posts: 12,869 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The whole ghetto/street persona took off around 91/92. I remember Naughty By Nature had a song called Everything's Gonna Be Alright (the same song was called Ghetto Bastard on the LP). At the end of the song he said, "If you never been to the ghetto/don't ever come to the ghetto/cause you wouldn't understand the ghetto"

    Between Biggie and Tupac the trend was rapping about growing up in a home with no father and rapping about the struggles of how they grew up.

    That was the prevailing style until rappers started being feminine about 5-10 years ago.

    Nowadays rappers wear dresses and dye their hair.

    I think confusion is the new style.
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  • leftcoastkev
    leftcoastkev Members Posts: 6,232 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2017
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    [Trillmatic] wrote: »
    Bein from the ghetto is only cool to people who not from there.
    Turfaholic wrote: »
    Because ? who actually grew up in the ghetto knew it was a place to escape. Not something to make seem trendy.

    For real tho.
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  • Ear2DaSt
    Ear2DaSt Members Posts: 10,480 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Real niccaz luv the ghetto ....

    the people that hate the ghetto are the rich folks

    down to earth people live in the ghetto

    snobby folk live in the upscale neighborhoods

    they spend their time trying to discredit those from the ghetto and the hoods

    the ghetto is peaceful it doesn't have to be dangerous

    the slums is tore down but not always dangerous

    now gang turn and sets,blocks etc that's dangerous

    when i hear people wanting to leave those dangerous areas i understand

    these days will all the assistance you can find a safer area if they wanted some like

    the gangster territory and do what they doin ....

    i live in a hood but i walk the streets where it's ghetto,slummy etc

    im not rich i just grew up around the ghetto and lived there at times

    i like it cuz people are down to earth ...i stay out of trouble tho
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  • Ear2DaSt
    Ear2DaSt Members Posts: 10,480 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2017
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    people assume the ghetto means drive bys, and gunshots but it don't

    not every ghetto is dangerous but there are elements to the ghetto u can relate to even

    if your not involved in the violent aspect ......
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  • OnnaThursday
    OnnaThursday Members Posts: 238 ✭✭
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    Ear2DaSt wrote: »
    people assume the ghetto means drive bys, and gunshots but it don't

    not every ghetto is dangerous but there are elements to the ghetto u can relate to even

    if your not involved in the violent aspect ......

    I disagree man the whole idea of a ghetto is supposedly some science experiment type ? . It just so happens that like many negatives introduced people were able to tragedy to triumph in a sense
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  • Midwest_Journalist
    Midwest_Journalist Members Posts: 321 ✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2017
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    If you from Hood rep where you're from.

    If you're from the suburbs rep where you're from.

    Why does the hood have to have a monopoly when it comes to talent in Hip-Hop?

    Just be yourself.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjiYyBnlg4o



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  • Ear2DaSt
    Ear2DaSt Members Posts: 10,480 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Im sorry i was raised on real ? ... and it happens to come from the ghetto and the hood ...

    Street Military,Killa ? ,S.P.C. and S.U.C. ... this ? is authentic real ? ... gangsta ?

    that's just the type of music i like the ? street aspect ?

    ..... to many people look corny and fake and come of soft

    that's why no one likes the type of Hip Hop head i am

    cuz they like all this weird ? ... im not trying to talk down but it is what it is ...

    I can't front like im feeling the ? if im not

    .....

    New York like they kind of Hip Hop

    Im from Texas I like the K-Rino type ? ... the Big Pokey type ? ...the Z-Ro & Trae type ?

    West Coast like they type ? ....

    There aint alot of luv for Houston ? rap that K-Rino & Street Military,Z-Ro,Trae alot of these type kats

    but Cali and NYC get plenty of luv for average joe's but our dope mcs get not respect .......

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