I say "unbridled" but they're taken out by other mechanismms of the same machine. Juice WRLD died while being searched (on a private jet) and YNW Melly killed his labelm8s he had known since childhood. The freedom capitalism affords makes people think they're invincible to those who seem to hold less power, until something as small as a pill can kill a talent such a lil pipsqueak. The same system that created, elevated and lionized these artists also cut them down. We need to remind rappers the rules do apply to them and they are just a slightly more significant being to the overarching systems of power in the universe. Freedom is subjective but the raw brutality of capitalism and the systems of power at play are always very, very real
Originally posted by Jackrabbitpsych
I sang Gangsters Paradise ONCE and I'm surprised that the song itself did not implode from the total blonde white girl I puked all over it
My point I can't rap
what a mundane story that no one asked you to volunteer. Not everything is about you and thankfully so
the logistics of rap now is universal accessibility and communicability then idealizing a lifestyle of hedonism with introspection (the weeknd does this well but isn't dead because he's a nice boy from the GTA). The desire to be part of the machine eventually results in becoming a cog in it, which is why every second album is shittier. And then they die.
Speaking of Soundcloud/Youtube rappers. I dig what Crypt is doing. He's taking smaller artists with independent fan bases and puts them on a Cypher together. Like an independent label almost. It's smart. Everyone is generally good, the cross exposure pays. Therefore they have 'label loyalty'. Like Quadeca blew up into the million subs, but if someone from 'the label' wants to collab he's down.
Like just before he broke a million he did a collab with Joey Nato. Which was dope.
Originally posted by Sophie
Speaking of Soundcloud/Youtube rappers. I dig what Crypt is doing. He's taking smaller artists with independent fan bases and puts them on a Cypher together. Like an independent label almost. It's smart. Everyone is generally good, the cross exposure pays. Therefore they have 'label loyalty'. Like Quadeca blew up into the million subs, but if someone from 'the label' wants to collab he's down.
Like just before he broke a million he did a collab with Joey Nato. Which was dope.
Originally posted by Sophie
Speaking of Soundcloud/Youtube rappers. I dig what Crypt is doing. He's taking smaller artists with independent fan bases and puts them on a Cypher together. Like an independent label almost. It's smart. Everyone is generally good, the cross exposure pays. Therefore they have 'label loyalty'. Like Quadeca blew up into the million subs, but if someone from 'the label' wants to collab he's down.
Like just before he broke a million he did a collab with Joey Nato. Which was dope.
They do that at the BET awards every year which has a much bigger exposure than Crypt. I remember seeing one with the ASAP crew back in the day before they were big and I was like "who tf are all these people with ASAP in their names?"
That's basically all part of the same thang, a more powerful entity blesses them with the spotlight and allows the public to make a choice. It's more organic that way but still part of DA MASHEEN
wat u sayin that these men were the victim of managers pushing a certain image, having these fools make irrational decisions in a bid to realize the ideal promoted by their art but ultimately just a marionette dancing to sound of market demands?
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2. Use poetry (a 0 capital startup with no barrier of entry) to make millions articulating the socioeconomic struggles of your mileu and the desire for material possessions
3. Get killed by other impoverished individuals either out of jealousy or in an attempt to reappropriate your material possessions
I feel like I could write a second year economics textbook about how hoods are the means of production of music so capitalism necessitates jealousy and "just when I think I'm out they keep pulling me back in"
