You can blame Hollywood for dumbing down a whole generation and making black ignorance a social norm. You can blame my generation for selling Hip Hop out to the corporations for the mighty dollar. We are talking about the whole drugged out, degrading culture that rides with it which is darn near every challenge you see on Instagram these days. When we are talking about “mumble rap” we are not just talking about music. So, this has absolutely, nothing to do with age but everything to do with a certain mentality.īut let’s be clear ,as Dead Prez would say, “It’s bigger than Hip Hop. But today, even following a year of the most political unrest in American history, the average rapper is still talking about swipin’ his grandma’s sleeping pills and chasing them down with cough syrup.Īside from rap, remember that Lil Bobby Hutton of the Black Panther Party was only 17 when he was murdered by the cops and Fred Hampton was only 21. We can never forget the conscious rap era of the late 80’s when rappers in their early 20’s were breakin’ down complex social and political ideologies with crystal clear clarity. #Death to mumble rap plus#If you go back and listen to any record by the young Funky Four Plus One More you can understand every single word they are articulating without the use of an urban dictionary. We must remember that even in the earliest days of Hip Hop, the 16 year old rappers were more articulate than the rappers today who are pushing 30. While some may just write this off as overly nostalgic hatin’ by someone still stuck in the 80’s, an AARP card ain’t got nothin’ to do with this discussion. Now, after hearing the latest mumble rap, you don’t know whether to fight, head for the nearest exit, or hit the floor and commence to twerkin’. However, after a long rambling rant by the rapper, the confused men in the crowd started swingin’ on each other and the women took out their smart phones and started doing the Bussit Challenge…īelieve it or not, there was a time when you could ,actually, understand the words that were coming out of your favorite rapper’s mouth. The keynote speaker was Ty Codeine who was supposed to give the crowd their marching others to execute the next phase of the revolution. It was billed as the largest black rally in history, as over two million people gathered in Washington DC to express their outrage over George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. “Many of you are educated/open your mouths and speak”
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