How do you guys feel about it?
Conscious Hip-Hop
Ian Cox
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Logan Moore
It's introspective and personal when done right,but preachy and annoying when done wrong
Benjamin Watson
Can definitely be good.
One of the problems with hip hop is that it's not about highlighting your insecurities, just about bragging and basically pretending they don't exist. Of course that has its place but what that creates is something impervious to any kind of imperfections because no one can ever criticize it.
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Noah Cruz
If conscious means
>Ayo nigga god did 9/11 white girls fuck dogs bitch nigga fuck is up
it's shit
Carson Ward
this for sure. if it's "conscious" about "issues" it's generally dull after a few listens, but a rapper talking himself through himself is a great thing to listen to
Colton Rodriguez
The first attempt was actually the best.
Charles Bennett
Generally sucks.
I remember back when electroclash was a thing, a lot of electro/house acts were making songs criticizing the Bush presidency.
I'm cool with politics, and I'm cool with dance music. Write your political thoughts in a blog, be thorough, and cite your sources. Make your dance music mindless and fun.
When you mix issues and dance music, you end up with shitty dance music and a piss-poor examination of the issues.
Rap is dance music, and it's no different.
People are talking about how self-exploration in rap is different and better. I agree. I like mopey emo rap just fine. I like Drake fine.
Oliver Reyes
It depends on who's doing it.
If they generally always do conscious hip hop it works well.
But if they do shit where the conscious tracks are the singles:
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And then shit like this...
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It can be a little weird.
Mason Price
Depends what you define as conscious
If it's self-reflection then I feel like it's one of if not the best course of hip hop
If it's philosophical done right and in a non obnoxious way then it's up there
If it's societal issues that isn't muh mike brown and #BLM then it's tolerable
If it's about conspiracies and the gubmint then it gets old quickly
Thomas Howard
Completely agree. And oftentimes when it's preachy it's especially annoying because they're...preaching to the choir. You're not telling us anything we didn't already know, but you're being pretentious about it.
Eli Ramirez
>If it's philosophical done right and in a non obnoxious way then it's up there
So, Eyedea?
Brayden Rogers
fpbP
Isaiah Russell
most good hip hop is "conscious"
most conscious hip hop (as a genre, not an adjective) is shit
Xavier Murphy
Why do you fuckers do this? Has there ever been a song anything like this that was done unironically? I bet you're a fucking dadrocker
Gabriel Smith
His mom probably left his dad for a big dick nigga
Charles Rivera
Not him but there's a lot of dumb conspiracy theory rap, and I like lots of hip-hop
Jack Fisher
>this type of music can only do one thing over and over and never progress or even attempt to break the mold otherwise its shit
also hip hop started as dance music but its moved in many different directions
John Gomez
Haven't listened much to Eyedea but probably
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Joshua Foster
>Haven't listened to much Eyedea
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Do yourself a favor
Charles Hall
Fpbp, shut down this thread
Jack Turner
There's a lot of great music in the genre but usually when a rapper is congratulating themself for being educated or enlightened they 1) don't actually know that much about politics/history 2) don't have anything interesting to say
It's a much better medium for an artist to express their own experience through a political lens (Public Enemy), not try to be the school house rock of oppression (ahem J Cole)