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    1 year ago

    Or because many of these rappers came from poor and violent areas, where drug addiction, gang banging, and frivolous spending was what they knew

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      Except that a lot of early and grass-roots rap railed against those things, but that wasn’t what got large scale commercial backing in the long run

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        Can you suggest me songs from the early days that does this? I’ve always hated how much rap songs glorify those things.

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          De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Brand Nubian, Digable Planets, The Pharcyde, Digital Underground, Souls of Mischief, Del the Funky Homosapien, Freestyle Fellowship, Arrested Development, Goodie Mob, Outkast, Fugees…

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          Grandmaster Flash, De La Soul, and Public Enemy would be good examples of rap that was politically and socially progressive, I’m sure a bit of digging would give a long list

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      But why continue to sell destructive concepts to their people once they make it. But yeah it’s a conspiracy level thought.