Pete Rock Says ‘Chasing The Money’ Ruined Hip Hop: ‘The Bag Has Become The Problem’

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• CodexArcanum@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a degenerative cycle too. All those rappers pushing the idea of “hustle” and the need to get money by any and all means, have helped create an audience that only values the trappings of perceived financial success. Hustle culture isn’t hiphop’s fault but the two have fed each other for decades to reinforce a terrible system of exploitation at every level.

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  • Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When the only people in your neighborhood who ever have money are pimps drug dealers and hustlers what do you think you’d grow up to want to be?

    Rappers aren’t a reflection of rap they are a reflection of their environment and neighborhoods.

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    • Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As a shorty I looked up to the dope man Only adult man I knew that wasn’t broke, man

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• Bassman27@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rappers today be moving like Corey and Trevor from trailer park boys

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• Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The same could be said about nearly every industry.

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• Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  interesting article on the subject from Questlove

  web.archive.org/…/questlove-on-how-hip-hop-failed…

  vulture.com/…/questlove-on-how-hip-hop-failed-bla…

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  • kindenough@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for sharing these links

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    • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yup, just wanted to spread the… love

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• Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Driking thinking I’m stupid but deep in my heart I knew it Money and fame could lead to emcee murder You think you can escape but you can’t take it any further You call it writer’s block But you stop cause the vine is empty Hip hop’s not dead, it’s really the mind of the emcee

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• tygerprints@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You could say that about professional sports (and college sports now, too). It's only about the money. Not about the game. And who can blame someone for dropping out to make easy money in rap or selling drugs or in sports - our world revolves around money, money, money. Money is the only thing worth anything in life, if we're honest. If you have to kill cheat and/or compromise yourself, DO IT. Get that money at all costs, dammit!!!!

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  • wsweg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    easy money in rap or selling drugs or in sports

    One of these is not at all like the others. In what world is it easy making money from sports or rapping??

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    • tygerprints@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The world where I live. College athletes are now getting paid tons of money just to endorse products. And rap music (which is imbecilic to me) is apparently an easy avenue to make money. Oh you have to work a bit for it, sure - but it's lucrative.

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• cubism_pitta@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it’s amusing that we have gone full circle on Soulja Boy… I remember Ice-T had an entire mixtape dissing Soulja Bay more than a decade ago. I don’t listen to much newer music but I think that some of the older artists in any genre like to hate on some of the new guys.

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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why Hip-Hop Sucks In '96

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