Black People Sold Out Hip Hop; So Hip Hop Exploited Us

Bro out here quoting himself 😂

The old heads predicted this would happen. They've been warning of this for literally decades

The Boondocks predicted the deterioration of hip hop before the current landscape occurred.

Commercial hip hop is like pharmaceutical medicines. Profitable and well marketed but comes with a bag of undesirable side effects.

Isn't that how colonization occurs? Some of the natives sell out themselves to the colonizers and it effects the rest. The British didn't rule India by sheer numbers. The local leaders worked with the British to create the British raj and profited from it while the majority suffered in many ways.

I’ll be real, hip hop should’ve kept its gatekeepers.

Nobody gone talk about big Sean getting violated multiple times 😂

Hiphop turning into what it is today was inevitable due to the nature of capitalism. Rock music went through the same rise and fall in the mainstream. So long as the driving force behind big record labels, music platforms, and the industry at large is profit, artistry and authenticity aren’t required.

C.R.E.A.M. was the biggest warning that people did not take to heart. What happened to the Wu in late 70s through the 90s is happened to each rap generation even worse right now. Cash really does rule everything around us, that's why rap is fast food now. Good food died with DOOM. It's legit tragic I've seen pretty much ALL my favorite rappers/hip hop artists die; Sean Price, Prodigy, Nujabes, DOOM. Even some young mooks like XXXtentacion, FBG Duck, Young Dolph and Young Pappy.

Dropping a 50 minute video out of nowehere about the exploitative WHILST the Hip Hop community is more divided than ever.....This guy is a VILLAIN! 🤣🤣 Dope video as always. We await the NY and Chicago drill fans to come after you for saying the UK produces the best drill music

TPAB literally addresses this and this can relate to sports as well like the NBA

Hip Hop was not always a sport. Hip hop started as POETRY, as an expression of the community… and in the beginning it was not competitive (outside of battle rap) until CAPITALISM sunk its teeth into it. J. Cole didn’t let hip hop down. He’s just not a battle rapper. Period. Not everything is about battle. Sometimes it’s just about art for art’s sake, and that’s where Jermaine excels.

I ain’t even gotta watch the video to co-sign your thesis

These conversations always speak to one element rap. As if raps success or failure solely determines the whole of the culture. Meanwhile, Bboying has became an official Olympic event. Meanwhile, a Graffiti artist is the most celebrated artist of this generation. And some of the greatest Dj's are selling out shows and producing hits. So when we talk about the direction of the culture singularly. We are in fact complicit to its destruction. Rap is not HipHop. Its part of collection of artforms that make up a culture ...a culture depending what element your fan of, is either excelling or trash

I saw someone say J.Cole out Draked Drake when he apologized.

No lies told, but I believe the beauty of hip hop is that it is an art form, like many others and the cycle of art is destruction to restoration. Rap is still there and the sound is still there but you got have an ear for it from whence it came. Sum artists grow up their sound matures completely from their SoundCloud era, others are underground but still tempering the flame with unique sounds, I’d say hip hop isn’t dead. It’s just the camera is directed towards the wrong artists, the real ones stand out of frame.

As a 40 year old man, I just want to mention that I appreciate this video, and I appreciate you and your awareness. Keep your foot FIRMLY pressed on the neck of the BS.

As a brother who listens to very wide band of genres across the vast generations of music and I had never fully recognized the deterioration of hip hop and rap til it happened

Let's be honest. Rap has been a cringeworthy, partially self-inflicted, nightmare for a very long time now - decades, if not a quarter of a century.

21:51 Bro ain't have to do Sean like that💀😭