YorkeDaddy |
07-19-2018 07:23 AM |
What I like about the 80% of hip-hop that's NOT about drugs/money/women is that it's generally just about how hard life is, especially since a lot of the people making hip-hop are constantly prejudiced against by people who think and act exactly like Trollheart towards them. I don't know about everyone else but I consider myself lucky and ridiculously privileged that I didn't have to grow up in the poverty-riddled streets of craphole America like a lot of these dudes did, and the hardships of that is reflected in some of the very best hip-hop. It's like a window into lives that are different than mine in the best way they know to express it. Despite some of it coming across as brutal and aggressive it's actually beautiful to me that we have a medium where the less fortunate can have a voice.
I'm generalizing a lot in the opposite way that Trollheart did, and there are certainly rappers that rap simply because they love it and not because they had some awful upbringing that they need to get off their chest, but yeah. It's one of the most emotionally charged genres out there and that's why I love it.
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