What happened to socially/politically concious rappers

"shun girls"

this is a pretty um generous characterization of the rampant misogyny in Slick Rick, NWA etc.

Lord Jamar, is that you?

Not trying to be generous. Comic understatement in a post-#CharlieHebdo world.

fair dos

The likes of Common, Mos Def, Talib, Roots and Dad Prez

lmao this is actually a very apt typo considering the v significant intersection b/w ppl who like this stuff above all other rap music + dad-rock fans

Raccoon Tanuki is the drummer for Dad Prez

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/pop_playground/really-real-authenticity-and-hip-hop.htm

These rappers today, I tell ya. They bang out beats on their keyboards in 15 minutes, or they just get a hot producer to do it for them (please ignore my Neptunes-produced single that bombed). Then they just rap about girls and robbing folks – no positivity! They don’t care about hip hop’s history or culture (of which I am a vital part). They don’t even care about their whole album (which should be their art) – they just hope they have two or three jams that will get some play in the club.

that was from 2003 don't you have anything that was written in the last decade by someone under 40 to support your argument

#StopTanuki2015

i believe in us

outic don't you have anything better to be doing than this?

lol

tanuki study your lessons god u lack overstanding

#buildanddestroy
#clarence13x

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/80/44/72/8044726486437db85e963daa0520b2ed.jpg

I like these threads because people get to post raccoon pictures and gifs

https://animalnewsthepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/rascal_1899_10604157.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go3C4BL-lfs

though contra that drawing I think Raccoon Tanuki fulfils an important role in the ilx ecosystem

leave it to ILX posters to start talking about "Macklemore" and feminism and gay rights and transgenders. This is hilarious. Why do I even post here with you saps. I'm losing swag by the second with you lames.

great post

'raccoon rapping' is a v worthwhile youtube search

Great new dn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4tLrnlMxpM

We should use this thread to post DOPE current explicitly political rappers imo

I like mick Jenkins

Also raccoon t should check out the jacka whose new tape is packed with pro black agit prop

Underachievers don't rlly have a coherent message but they def incorporate lots of the imagery and iconography as a kind of hook

That Dizzy Wright track is really good.
Also, good to hear Nikkiya again, really like her voice, that SpeakHerLove album was fun...........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLEAT_kd4ns

This should do

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7bZ08RNUyM

Never did figure out the unambiguously explicit, content-based political rap embed game:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU

whoops, that was just the same link.

http://youtu.be/6lIqNjC1RKU

if he won't acknowledge that Vince Staples song as 'political' then idk we should probably start a new thread to post good songs into instead of losing them in this nonsense

Some of this concious stuff doesn't age that well, even at the time I used to wince at the KRS One tracks where he tries to chat like a ragga mc from the Yard. In recent times old lags like Juicy J and Gangsta Boo have released far better albums than anything from that era imo. At least in this era twats like Brand Nubians are recognised for what they are - completely fucking worthless hateful arseholes.

omg donk raccoon

are we all pretending Tanuki didn't drop the sock last week

outta Boston:

http://youtu.be/U_0hhrETT_8

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/LPd1CWChXUs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

blach i forgot how to embed the yootoobs

http://youtu.be/LPd1CWChXUs

http://youtu.be/zJolqxXqMzc

http://youtu.be/7s-pnyCVmyk

^all these are out of the 617

you don't have to look all that hard to run into this type of stuff, if you listen to local hip-hop at all. the local scene is laced with it.

so i pretty much disagree that "socially conscious" lyrics are not part of "the fabric of hip hop identity" (to quote the OP) anymore. not from where i sit, anyhow.

only young politically conscious rapper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH9kl6XZixo

leave it to ILX posters to start talking about "Macklemore" and feminism and gay rights and transgenders. This is hilarious. Why do I even post here with you saps. I'm losing swag by the second with you lames.

Haha. As an activist transgender black feminist rap fan, whose freaking day job is working with black youth (some of whom are aspiring rappers with explicitly political content) to help them navigate systemic -isms, and who has despised Macklemore for a good decade or so, fuck you and your swag.

Seems like the main problem is our poor racoon has never had his received wisdom challenged and flips whenever anyone brings a critical analysis to the table that doesn't align with the worldview he's already ingrained. Also, I'm not sure if he is a black racoon or a white racoon but he seems to think that only the interests of straight cisgender black men (and other clever mammals) can qualify as political, which is especially suspect if he is a white raccon.

I'd also like to point out that he is asking for artists that have appeared within the past ten years when the list of artists in his OP first appeared over a more than 30 year period, and a few of them only released their most political work after the 90s.

To appease the racoon tho: https://soundcloud.com/tef-poe/war-cry-produced-by-dj-smitty-jay-nixon-diss-record

are we all pretending Tanuki didn't drop the sock last week

― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Wednesday, January 7, 2015 9:18 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who did what now

the David Banner shout-out in the Tef Poe track rev posted reminds me that he hasn't been mentioned yet ITT

Xp: was wondering about that post myself.

(xp ... altho Banner was around before the mid-00s, which means he might be arbitrarily excluded from RT's extremely labile classifications)