#street rap

[earthquake-02]

Earthquake-Jacket

Check out my song Jacket

#muscle car #drag race #street style #street rap #street racing #dance #dance music #dancers #hip hop #trap #rapper #travis scott #utopia #feel good #feel great #entertainment #energetic #high energy

[da-ill-spot]

New Music: Planet Asia x Madlib - Cracks In The Vinyl EP

Hell yea! Vibe out to this quick 6 track project featuring Planet Asia wrecking shop over all Madlib beats!

#Madlib #Planet Asia #rap #hiphop #west coast #boombap #soul #vibes #Gold Chain Medallions #GCM #Bandcamp #street rap #lyricism #Stones Throw Records

[blackangelsxroses]

@sayzeesoyasauce - SAFE FLIGHT [PRODUCED BY @DJBLKLUOS]

#dj blkluos #toronto #hip hop #underground #music video #rap #sayzee #toronto rap #canadian hip hop #street rap #beats #soul samples #old school rap #new music video #sayzeesoyasauce #Youtube

[thelockin]

New to Youtube. Video trailer for the album "Urban Testimony" by Brooklyn rapper Justo the MC and Edinburgh producer Brelstaff. Releases through New Dawn Records on November 3rd, with a series of singles due to drop in advance.

#rap #hip hop #youtube #video #rhymes #rapper #east coast #underground hip hop #beats #brooklyn ny #new album release #hip hop producer #beatmaker #edinburgh #street rap #grimy bars #uk hip hop #music #indie hip hop #new wave rap #hardcore rap #lofi beats #lo fi #lofihiphop #lofi and chill #chillwave #new hip hop music #new rap #New Dawn Records #Youtube

[daisysgardenthoughts]

Who killed HipHop?

Recently Cardi B spoke during a livestream about the lack of “club music” being played in the club, and instead of songs made with the intention to party and have fun, it is instead filled with “depressing music and saying, “they all wanna die”. Whether she is referring to emo rap or street rap we can unfortunately agree that in recent years there has been a wave of rappers rapping about death in one way or another. We went from rappers like Juice wrld and xxxtentacion rapping about their declining mental health and need to self-medicate, to rappers like lil Durk and NBA YoungBoy rapping about street violence and their unending cycle of retaliation for their “dead homies”. One thing both have in common is an overarching theme of depression on a lively beat.

Growing up in the south in the 2000s most of the rap I heard was party music, listening to rappers like Trick daddy, Plies, Ludacris, and the Ying Yang twins, you could see that outside of a “thug holiday” and “100 years” the music I actively listened to were club songs. Songs that made you want to “throw it back” but now as a woman in her early twenties most of those songs are one, made by women like Cardi B, Megan thee stallion, and the City girls, and two ridiculed for not being “real rap”. When I think about all of the “hottest rappers” now they are pretty much all street rap. Which makes me question, why are they so popular?

I believe it is because a lot of people only like music that perpetuates aesthetics that feature a lifestyle they want to live but don’t for one reason or another. Like the great Andre 3000 once famously said “y’all don’t wanna hear me, you just wanna dance”. Look at albums by popular rappers that “flopped” to see how it’s a true statement. Two years after releasing what non cole fans dubbed as the “best cole album” 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. cole released 4 Your Eyes Only. This album featured slow melodies with thought provoking and heartfelt/ sincere lyrics, and it was seen by casual cole fans as the worst album ever and coles “fall off”, while also saying it didn’t have that signature “cole sound”. What I think made them hate it so much, no trap beat. The most streamed song from 2014 FHD was “No Role Modelz” with over a billion streams, the next with 700 million is “Wet Dreamz” and “G.O.M.D” with over 400 million. While the other songs have somewhere between 40 to 200 million, you can tell when people go to the album they only want to hear the “lit” songs. Even J. cole himself knew, in the song “G.O.M.D” during the second verse he says “this is the part that the thugs skip” before talking about the love he’s never felt before.

You could also see this in the height of the “clout rap/ soundcloud rap” era, where it felt like all of these “lil” whatevers were popping up out of nowhere to rap about how sad they were and their drug codependency. Once their audiences grew out of their “xanny” phase these rappers, if they hadn’t overdosed yet, watched as they were discarded by casual rap fans for the next trendy rap style, which was street rap. But these cycles will always continue. A style of rap will become mainstream, people who don’t lose anything from these dangerous lifestyles will instigate (see random people in lil durks comments telling him to avenge king von or a fan giving lil peep drugs that would ultimately kill him), and when something unfortunate happens like prison or worse death. These fans are able to move on because they realistically lost nothing. Personally, I believe this is also why R&B is “dead”. Artist singing about pain in strife to a beat that would force you to listen to the lyrics, people hate that. When you sit back and listen to these songs, they’re sad.

Another rapper relentlessly criticized for his change in sound is Chance the rapper, who has “fans” saying things like they miss when he was on drugs because “his music was better”. To any normal person seeing someone sober, alive and happy, would be celebrated, but not within art. There was a popular post on tumblr about Van Gogh that said ““if van gogh had antidepressants, we wouldn’t have his artwo-” we’d have a lot more of his work, karen, and who the f**k cares about what we get from him he deserved to be well, karen”. This quote really hits my point home, fans have removed the rappers from their humanity. They see them as objects for their viewing pleasure and that’s it. If they die or get locked up, it means nothing to them to move on to the next rapper and the rapper after that. So, no I don’t blame the rappers for using art as a medium to speak about their struggles and their lives, I blame casual viewers who use their pain to get their fill of drama or material to cosplay.

Fans killed hip hop.

#hip hop #mainstream rap #j. cole #nba youngboy #street rap #emo rap #xxxtentacion #juice wrld #rap music

[boringcapital]

Mama Goes to Market by Skepta 

Source: Pause 

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#skepta #sothebys #art #artist #rap #hiphip #grime #ukrap #boybetterknow #bbk #street fashion #streetculture #pausemag #aestethic #photography

[freshthoughts2020]

#new music #JHarry #YouTube music #michigan music #michigan rap #streetwear #street rap #detroit rap #detroit hip hop #lyrical rap #lo fi hip hop #YouTube shorts

[theundergod]

#TheUnderGod x FonzFutura.com

#FONZ #Dope #Trill #The Under God #hip hop #street wear #rap #fashion #theundergod #fonz futura #art #digital art #illustration #design #graphic design #graphic art #graffittiart #grafitti #sketch #sketchbook

[theereina]

#megan thee stallion #meg thee stallion #thee stallion #black girl moodboard #black girl aesthetic #black women moodboard #black women aesthetic #black girl beauty #black women beauty #beautiful black girl #beautiful black women #black girl fashion #black women fashion #black girl fitspo #it girl aesthetic #it girl #black girl inspo #black girl hair #black women hair #female rap artist #female rappers #street fashion #street style #black girls are beautiful #black women are beautiful #black girl luxury #black women luxury #photography

[tygerland]

Jean-Michel Basquiat Riddle Me This, Batman. 1987. Acrylic & oil paintstick on canvas: 297 × 290 cm (117 × 114 in).

#jean michel basquiat #dc comics #1980s #punk #rap #art #culture #retro #alternative #comix #joker #graffiti #street art #black history #indie #batman #cartoon #film #chaos #the riddler #⁉️

[possible-streetwear]

#mf doom #hip hop art #rap artist #graphic #art #Affiche #hip-hop #hip hop #hiphop #rap #rapper #design #graphic design #street art #doom #rap music

[da-ill-spot]

Music Video: Don Trip - 28 Grams

#hiphop #music videos #rap #Don Trip #street rap

[blackangelsxroses]

TABZ SOS - CRACKS IN THE PAVEMENT [PRODUCED BY DJ BLKLUOS] (VISUALIZER)

#youtube #tabz #tabz safer off safety #dj blkluos #uk rap #uk rapper #hip hop #rap #toronto #uk #birmingham #underground #sleep when i'm dead #music video #visualizer #street style #street rap #bars

[thelockin]

New Hip Hop Single Release - “Lame Duck [Shahin Remix]” ft Tru Trilla, Fly Kwa & Prince Ak (video)

Another new remix from New Dawn Records, this time by label affiliate Shahin of the single 'Lame Duck' originally released in the summer of 2021 and taken from producer Ramson Badbonez' album "Lead by Example".

Classic funky drum and & bass loops underpin rugged and raw rhymes from New Jersey  trio Tru Trilla, Fly Kwa and Prince Ak.  Trading fierce bars and punchlines, an onslaught of potent hooks and jabs from the Brick City verbal marksmen are delivered to their targets in a series of lyrical body blows that leave contenders on the canvas.

#youtube #new music video #new hip hop video #underground hip hop #Lame Duck remix #shahin #tru trilla #fly kwa #prince ak #new single release #indie hip hop #real hip hop #new jersey #rappers #hip hop producer #hip hop remix #boom bap beats #rhymes #lyricism #street rap #alparslan #Muhammad Ali #gods of egypt #music video #rap video #newark nj #brick city #ramson badbonez #new dawn records #hard bars

[evitazxo]

MF doom poster I made in class today ( again ) help I am a poster making addict.

#mf doom #street skating #skateboarding #skatepark #hip hop #rapper #rap #tokyo #poster #music #cyber y2k #indie sleaze #technomusic #dj

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #music #sesame street #michelle obama #patti labelle #lupita nyong'o #hip hop #rap #queen latifah #destinys child #beyoncé #beyonce knowles #kelly rowland #ll cool j #michelle williams #pharell williams #pharell #stevie wonder #usher