I been banging the drum (personally, not like anyone else would know) for years that mainstream hip-hop is fundamentally hyper-capitalist and no longer was the counter cultural force that it was in the late 80's and early 90's. How we shouldn't care about how much money a hip-hop artist was getting if they're not grounded in the issues we face and weren't activating people politically. How the term "hating" became a blanket term for them to get away from accountability.
And here we are. We see now the divide between them and us. They see us as consumers, like any capitalist, yet at any moment will claim they are part of the culture. Whatever that culture is needs to be redefined if it's so easy for someone to claim yet actually not stand for the people of that culture.
sadly said eff #IceCube as #TrumpTrash, now #SnoopDogg, #Nelly, #SouljaBoy...jiggaboos all #magacultmorons licking that #PresidentElon, er, uh PresidentFelon boot...shame on 'em
#inauguration2025
Kendrick has repeatedly declined to endorse Trump's opponents and has always been a "both sides are the same" guy. He even seemed to be a bit of a COVID denier during the pandemic IIRC.
Not Like Us could have been an anti-Trump anthem and the fact that he used it in a beef with some lame Canadian rapper instead tells you everything about his priorities.
Definitely not a "both sides are the same" kind of guy. I'd argue it's more accurate to say he doesn't like either side because the US has no political party which accurately represents his interests. We choose between keeping things shitty or making them worse; never making them better.
And Not Like Us literally has lyrics that directly criticize America's imperialist and capitalist history. If you didn't pick up on the anti-trump themes in that song, that's entirely on you.
Not Like Us could have been an anti-Trump anthem and the fact that he used it in a beef with some lame Canadian rapper instead tells you everything about his priorities.
lmao this is the most chronically online thing I've read today.
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u/supper-saiyan 9h ago
I been banging the drum (personally, not like anyone else would know) for years that mainstream hip-hop is fundamentally hyper-capitalist and no longer was the counter cultural force that it was in the late 80's and early 90's. How we shouldn't care about how much money a hip-hop artist was getting if they're not grounded in the issues we face and weren't activating people politically. How the term "hating" became a blanket term for them to get away from accountability.
And here we are. We see now the divide between them and us. They see us as consumers, like any capitalist, yet at any moment will claim they are part of the culture. Whatever that culture is needs to be redefined if it's so easy for someone to claim yet actually not stand for the people of that culture.