What happened to socially/politically concious rappers

with the protest song "cash rules everything around me"

― un chill goon (some dude),

OH WOW you really jus went FULL DUMBASS with that shit you fucking Charlie XCX moron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa9LNPwZIGA

RT aren't you banned yet?

with the protest song "cash rules everything around me"

― un chill goon (some dude),

Can't quite believe you just KO'd yourself like this so easily. I knew it would happen you've been saying some pretty dumb shit even for a Minaj and Charlie XCX fan but this just proves you KNOW JACK SHIT of what you're talking about

You clearly have no idea about that song past the hook that you completely and hilariously misunderstood

Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan, next time you try to mock, make sure you know wtf you're talking about.

It's been 22 long hard years and still strugglin
Survival got me buggin, but I'm alive on arrival
I peep at the shape of the streets
And stay awake to the ways of the world cause shit is deep
A man with a dream with plans to make C.R.E.A.M.
Which failed; I went to jail at the age of 15
A young buck sellin drugs and such who never had much
Trying to get a clutch at what I could not touch
The court played me short, now I face incarceration
Pacin', going up state's my destination
Handcuffed in back of a bus, 40 of us
Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough
But as the world turns I learned life is Hell
Living in the world, no different from a cell
Everyday I escape from Jakes givin chase, sellin base
Smokin bones in the staircase
Though I don't know why I chose to smoke sess
I guess that's the time when I'm not depressed
But I'm still depressed, and I ask what's it worth?
Ready to give up so I seek the Old Earth
Who explained working hard may help you maintain
to learn to overcome the heartaches and pain
We got stickup kids, corrupt cops, and crack rocks
and stray shots, all on the block that stays hot
Leave it up to me while I be living proof
To kick the truth to the young black youth
But shorty's running wild, smokin sess, drinkin beer
And ain't trying to hear what I'm kickin in his ear
Neglected for now, but yo, it gots to be accepted
That what? That life is hected

at least I'm getting some display name suggestions out of this

hahahahaa this is TOO GOOD

what a freaking idiot "some dude"

This is what I'm talking about I'm dealing with Minaj morons here who have zero freaking clue about any of hip hop history acts even in the basic level.

Tell us about trainers again

tell us about gays and feminism and transgenders again

tell us about the our Zionist media again

tell us about how modern feminism has no purpose again

rolling minaj morons and charlie xcx fans 2015

"Can't quite believe you just KO'd yourself like this so easily. I knew it would happen" ::masturbates furiously::

RT do you post on any rap forums other than this one?

are you the martorialist trolling us?

OK, shooting fish in a barrel time, I'll leave you all to get on with it.

ilx ain't a rap forum... its a cRap forum

charli xcx doesn't make pop music, she makes poop music

#StopTanuki2015

i believe in us

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/TheCoupCoverLarge.jpg

Imagine if Kendrick Lamar ever wrote anything as good as this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPr1JLoYLW4

life is hected

In that Coup picture the WTC represents ILX and Boots Riley is Raccoon Tanuki, blowing the whole place up with his truthbombs.

RT where do you live in the UK?

Realhiphopshire

lol

a land without gays or jews or women

Realhiphopshire

― Οὖτις, Thursday, January 8, 2015 6:21 PM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait i just realized this thread needs whiney g weingarten and blood sausage stat

honestly, ever since i heard that rea shdrusmmmesr shit everyone's going crazy for i am kinda 100% on board with teh raccoon

http://assets.noisey.com/content-images/contentimage/25916/ukhiphop1.jpg

Why is the young buck selling such who never had much, Tanuki? Is it because he is an evil muslim perhaps?

Makes me long for Jay-Z / Nas hip-hop throw down? & other throw-downs? days. Popular and successful threads used to be more conscious back in the day.

(dad prez left in for that one song, that blew up majorly while being hugely political, that song wouldn't exist now)

lol that song peaked outside the top 40 on the rap singles sales chart and was basically only known for its five-word chorus getting played a couple times over commercials on mtv that year. i guess the influence u refer to = having some white rockcrits wanking over how its marginal presence on the charts at the same time as common's supposedly revolutionary love song signaled the inevitable 'return' of explicitly activist rap as the dominant form of rap. except oops, that didn't happen, since instead we got ja rule/murder inc/blissed out thug love jams dominating the cultural sphere for the next couple of years. hint: if you are complaining about the lack of any explicitly conscious/activist rap (that you like or see as politically aware -- who cares about wimmen and gays and 'transgenders') in mass culture these days, maybe the conscious rap u revere so much wasn't actually that influential?

the reason that dad prez song wouldn't exist now is because its content is thoroughly well-trodden and completely unexciting to anyone with a political conscience in 2014

<3 charlie xcx

if we're counting the Coup, Can Ox & Dad Prez as successful group then why wouldn't Run the Jewels count?

groups

because a raccoon said so

Despite some colorful details ("Handcuffed in back of a bus, 40 of us") Deck's verse on C.R.E.A.M. is more defeatist than political imo -- an older person teaches him the value of hard work ffs

"Fellow-traveler" hiphop, maybe

who did what now

― un chill goon (some dude), Wednesday, January 7, 2015 11:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pitchfork's Chris Ott takes No Prisoners

lmao "dad prez"

no way RT is Ott

xxp my previously posited ott-sock theory was mostly for lols

Why would ott pretend to be british

there are dozens of rap forums out there that are just a bunch of guys like RT calling each other soft batch

sloth pretty surprised you've resisted this thread so far.

Death Grips

as far as troll behavior goes, creating a persona isn't exactly uncommon, but yeah, my ott theory - which was like 25 percent serious to begin with - is most certainly inaccurate

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many of us should spend some time tonight looking critically at ourselves in the mirror

evan i saw no percentage in engaging w/ any of this stuff bc even people who bless their hearts were trying to give serious answers were getting nothing but dickish behavior in return, but i felt i should clarify the joke

has no one made the 'he will be a zing-flinging jaded ilx regular by 2017' post yet? no?

Anyhoo, I'll play along through all this bullshit because I'm bored, just to get facts straight because you're just using your fucked up raccoonesque perception of reality, the following are cold hard facts:
These were Metacritic's top rap/hip hop artists from the 00s (as you might be aware they have these scores by summing different review scores from popular zines):

http://i.imgur.com/DBVlge3.png

And this is the list of best selling rap/hip hop albums in the USA since 00s:

http://i.imgur.com/E8zXOVd.png