we already have a thread for the original tweet

Is hip-hop just a euphemism for a new religion?

see u again

I was looking for that thread to throw this tweet in but I swear I was looking for 5 mins and couldn’t find it 😭😂

man i just hope yall got another sidehustle

i was producing since 2013, met dudes like danny wolf, had some opportunities with artists like tory lanez, was invited to move to atlanta

maybe cus my parents are professionals but they basically told me that s*** wouldnt work out, so i stayed in school

now im finna have a phd and i still get to make the music i love. f*** risking it all for a dream in music, imma just do what i love without expecting to make money

i jus say this cus a lot of black kids are being oriented towards believing they gotta make it big in some longshot dream when they rly should be working like normal ppl and building in a realistic way. s*** ik some rappers better than most of the famous guys who just live normal lives

having a livable income as a full time musician should not be an abnormal expectation when the music industry generates billions of dollars yearly and it also doesn’t mean one isn’t “living a normal life”

how about we don’t blame the artist and blame the systems that are broken, not the participants who also love the music just as much as you and had the art form pimped

Good, comercial success does equal quality. Now rap can go back to being our thing

U right, but the practicality is the system is broken, so why put all ur dice into a game that dont even work?

what’s to say your industry doesn’t suffer a recession tomorrow and now you’re out a job for 6 months to a year? there are many systems that can break at any point that we all put our chips into lmfao. musicians should be able to make a livable wage just based on what the labels generate

U right as f***, s*** finding a job post phd has been hell, u nailed it

I've been said and "exposed" all this n more regarding this btw

Since like late year early this year

and with that phd, in order to survive immediately, you might need to sell yourself short on income

kinda like artists selling themselves short by joining streaming cause they have no choice

Stop

Renting

Music

Spotify’s end goal is AI generated background music so they don’t have to pay artists

F*** it let em do it

They will crumble lmao

No they won’t

Youth already views music as background content. No incentive for a young star and no way for them to own any music

All they know is monthly subscription bullshit

I know KTT2 will claim this is "good for the genre" but I dunno.....

Having a new generation of rap fans completely miss out on the experience of mainstream rappers dropping classics and being able to rap well while having to dig underground for quality just doesn't feel right.

Remember, rock went niche too after the 2000's except for crappy pop bands like Maroon 5, Coldplay, and Imagine Dragons and nobody said Rock was in a greater place than the 20th century because of all the great Indie bands that came out or dropped good albums.

It has to be a nuanced convo where we acknowledge that sales don't mean quality but having at least some newer groups of mainstream rappers be capable of dropping classics or quality music still matters for the genre.

i feel like that’s a good thing? rather it be left alone and become more organic rather than exploited / manufactured by capitalist corporations

Or hip hop isn't making pop songs anymore

Speaking for myself. I feel like the genre moved so far away from “traditional” rapping towards more of a melodic half singing that I became more interested in singers in general. It’s like the rappers moved my tastes away from their own music,

Okay. Sounds like less cacs.