here's what happened. gangsta rap came out and it was a story we never heard before. then for the next 20 years we kept hearing the same story and we got sick of it. we wanted people to grow. and also, we saw the gangsta rappers become family guys and we saw that gang culture was not to be glorified but instead an ideology that needed to be helped and "cured". we got sick of our community circling around making all the worse things look amazing. Its corny now. the edginess is still attractive but it's a broken record that has different flavors of ice cream poured over it every year. black artists want to show that they are conceptual and creative and not just ghetto, thugs, and gangsters. people want to be liked and respected and not feared and Intimidating...

@glitzandgratitude1170

4 жыл бұрын

Well said

@desmondawele30

4 жыл бұрын

Ayy true

@Cbriggs502

4 жыл бұрын

Sometimes fear and intimidating is a good thing keeps soft ass white boys in line

@nrgrlsd9931

4 жыл бұрын

Well put. 💯

@Mrg524

4 жыл бұрын

I agree! I wish that even within gangster rap, there would be deeper, more intellectual explorations of concepts. Then, there would still likely be an expansion beyond the gangster (growth), but that would be an interesting base to start from, showing how some intellectual journeys may start from a gangster “origin.” Without the intellectuality, it just gets boring and confining to me. One could say that gangster rap is more “immediate” and “fast,” reflecting gangster lifestyle, so the ideas shouldn’t be too “deep.” However, I think there are a lot of complex needs and approaches to survival and humanity that go into that life, and that can be quite provocative if explored. However, many people who do gangster rap are either not really from that lifestyle, or they are not really into rap-just doing it for money. If a person really came from that lifestyle, and also really cared about rap, poetry, writing, communicating, etc., then they might make better and deeper music. I definitely don’t think everyone should do gangster rap, but I think that many (if not all) topics or genres, can have a more long-standing space in rap music, if they are taken up with more intellectual drive. Of course great music is also needed for an interesting song, and not just lyrics, but I don’t think that music in general is lacking in beats and composition, as much as it is in lyrics.

Gangsta rap didnt lose its cool, it died, it died because most of the rappers are locked up or dead or just don't do that music anymore.

@xclusive2807

4 жыл бұрын

If you wanna listen yo some gangsta rappers for nowdays. Here you go. 21 savage Tay k Ymw melly Chief keef Jay rock Yg Kendrick lamar(certain songs) Nba youngboy jid (certain songs) Bobby shmurda Lil durk Quando rondo Nle choppa Tee grizzley Cassanova Asap rocky

@xclusive2807

4 жыл бұрын

Personally for me gangsta rap was about police, living the street life or rapping about real hectic shit. But nowdays its about money and bloods and crips and its fake 9 times outta 10

@dougla96

4 жыл бұрын

Xclusive AF thats why all that gangsta shit is irrelevant n going to stay irrelevant in the 2020s its played tf out

@dougla96

4 жыл бұрын

Ooga Booga that’s exactly why n the 69 situation should show us that all that shit is played tf out now everybody is a wanna be

@2pacisgay955

4 жыл бұрын

Ir was about saggy jeans now it's about skinny jeans

I feel Kanye Ended the glorification of being Gangsta was the stat quo with college dropout

@Aj-bh6zy

2 жыл бұрын

Graduation ended it for good,tcd was a new sound but ppl like 50 cent were still topping the charts

@DonJulio1942

2 жыл бұрын

@@Aj-bh6zy that’s cause 50 cent dropped that gangsta persona he had for an entire career

@choiceda5920

2 жыл бұрын

College Dropout came out during 50’s prime, Kanye didn’t stop anything.

@namenotfound8747

2 жыл бұрын

Kanye didn't end anything. Gangsta rap was already on its last moments. Kanye just so happen to drop an album when it took a back seat from the mainstream. Kanye's Graduation was the writing on the wall, it was going to be different. Kanye was a sign of times. But Kanye did not make the times what they were. T Pain did more to end that era by a mile.

@NTEDOG561

2 жыл бұрын

@@namenotfound8747 he definitely shifted the landscape

If I listen to old gangsta rap, ain't nothin to it gangsta rap made me do it.

@jitni-9978

4 жыл бұрын

Midnight Club Still Cancelled Soz wtf r h talking about

@hai-linduckett3481

4 жыл бұрын

So you ain't listen to gangsta rap tf

@carldrogo9492

4 жыл бұрын

It's an Ice Cube song...everyone chill TF out!

@Andy_77799

4 жыл бұрын

Heya again

@qbeenzotherside

4 жыл бұрын

@@jitni-9978 song watered down but it's solid

Gangsta rap declined as the crime rate declined. Gangsta rap emerged in the 1980s during the crack epidemic and a national rise in homicides. The crime rape declined in the mid-90s, Pac and Biggie died, and gentrification began in urban areas. The younger generation didn't grow up in that time thus it's very hard to talk about heinous crimes and poverty when you don't live it. Gangsta rap grew a bit stale, but the rise of the black middle class also saw rap turn from tales of criminality to a wider array of topics.

@issaknife802

Жыл бұрын

Now gangsta rap back on top its just called drill

Nah it's easy. Prolonged exposure makes people desensitized to it. It's commonplace now.

@ultrararesabra6159

4 жыл бұрын

Vitale Tufuga I think u might be confused on what the word “prolonged” means

@supremeclientele83

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, same reason why heavy metal and rock singers singing about Satanism was taboo in the 80's now nobody gives a fuck. Or Eminem rapping about Kim and saying fuck you to the world now nobody gives a fuck. The internet just made us desensitized. The 90s, before the internet was what it is now, certain subjects were taboo because nobody knew much about them through the music you were taking a journey in to the artists' world. Plus the genre was still very young at that point, regular people didn't understand it. Now we're plagued with so much content, whether it be documentaries on criminals, Isis or serial killers we just do not care about people talking about shooting and fuck the police. Same way Colombine was a big thing but now people can't even remember the last mass shooting. Personally I liked boom bap rap for its simplistic sample beats, the bars and a rapper talking about how good he is technically or how he came up off the streets. That shit will always appeal to me but for the casual consumer it gets old. The 80s and 90s kids are getting old now. New generation's always have their thing. The drug rap will also fade away and become uncool as generation z ages. It's just sad because it will have destroyed way more lives than gangsta/thug rap ever did. At least gangster rap made a wimpy kid feel tough mentally, the drug rap makes kids thing substance abuse is the answer to life's problems. Too many kids walking around with tattoos on their necks and faces and haven't even established a career yet. Sad.

@user-zu6ts5fb6g

4 жыл бұрын

Gangster rap died after 50 cent lost to kanye west in popularity.

@sonokanda9436

4 жыл бұрын

Explain Kanye

@danmurphy8950

4 жыл бұрын

Go to high focus it's an English label but it's putting out the best hip hop right now it's old school but it's fresh it works in this era, I agree with some of your points about people getting used to it, I got sick of listening to old school 80-90s rap it just got to the point where I heard nearly every song and I felt like it wasnt as good from listening to it to much just had to find hip hop being released today that's just as good as the old school was.

Gangster rap still exists today in its purest and most unfiltered form: Drill.

@isaakfrmla

4 жыл бұрын

Yet drill is dying the days of glo boys is gone

@newjustice1

4 жыл бұрын

Nothing gangster about drill just a bunch of fakes no heart wimps playing hard

@zenith8417

4 жыл бұрын

@@isaakfrmla Too many dudes are getting locked up or killed. That's what happens when you rap about it and actually do it.

@StrictlyFactual

4 жыл бұрын

Drill is dying bro the artist so street they die or get locked up before they even get on for real shit was hot back in 2012 though

@lilahdog568

4 жыл бұрын

@Strictly Factual they either end up in jail for murder like rondo, or they drink too much lean and die like fredo. But fate isn't kind to drill rappers

The College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation and 808s & Heartbreak. This 4 album run shaped and influenced rap music for the following decade.

@musicisbae9480

4 жыл бұрын

Andrea Catalano 🤡

@musicisbae9480

4 жыл бұрын

Kanye isn’t the only one who shaped music today although he is a big part

@musicisbae9480

4 жыл бұрын

Andrea Catalano who ye? Ye is probably the reason music is so smooth, matter fact music is better now then it was before Kanye, sonically rap music wasn’t very great aside from pac, nas, big and jay

@masaaguilar8126

4 жыл бұрын

Music Is Bae What? Hip hop has always been great.

@musicisbae9480

4 жыл бұрын

Mochicho Aguilar never said it wasn’t, please read everything before u say stupi stuff like that, I said music is better today

Kanye West defeated gangster rap.

@safikadir4369

4 жыл бұрын

BboyDJFLIP Nah id say OutKast did

@loopseeker

4 жыл бұрын

this why kanye fans are the most annoying people

@user-hh2lo9fs5e

4 жыл бұрын

BboyDJFLIP Ye reflected a cultural change, he didn’t “defeat” it

@Historicutuber

4 жыл бұрын

He sure did

@2pacisgay955

4 жыл бұрын

Graduation is better than any gangsta rap album and mumble rap album

Once Kanye got going, then Cudi and Drake came out and finally rappers were rapping about experiences and feelings I could personally relate to

@BigMoney398

2 жыл бұрын

Soft white boy

@legendhustle503yt2

2 жыл бұрын

@@BigMoney398 ok edgy poser

@BigMoney398

2 жыл бұрын

@@legendhustle503yt2 edgy?? Lol gtfoh

@legendhustle503yt2

2 жыл бұрын

@@BigMoney398 okay pressed

@TheRealDarth_Vader

2 жыл бұрын

@@BigMoney398 Then what it is it if it ain't edgy

It sounds like the narrator is reading a script very slow.

@larrymcjones

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah sounds like a middle school project

@SnoozeTheRecluse

4 жыл бұрын

"blah blah blah, blaaaah, blah blah blah" that's his flow

@henrylam92

4 жыл бұрын

Watch it at 1.5x speed

@jacobhodder8079

4 жыл бұрын

he is. the description is just a copy paste from the script at the beginning of the video

@alexiv250

4 жыл бұрын

@@henrylam92 1.25 perfect

Jay Rocks Redemption album is a great gangster rap album in the modern era

@kings9724

4 жыл бұрын

redemption is by far jay rocks worst album🤣

@therealjohnwick4010

4 жыл бұрын

yung caterpillar it’s his most commercially appealing album but every song is still a banger and just bc it’s HIS worst doesnt mean the album isn’t good

@JJB855

4 жыл бұрын

TheReal JohnWick What a brilliant album, shame it’s kinda slept on.

@yulifadida6661

4 жыл бұрын

@@kings9724 truuuu

@yulifadida6661

4 жыл бұрын

If you want to listen to a real gangsta rap album from the 2010s listen to rock's first album i think its called follow me home or somthin or listen to YGs my krazy life

I don't think it lost its cool par se. I just think longevity is hard for someone branded as a gangster artist. Hip-hop is in a space where everyone has a lane so much so that even people who rap about gangster lifestyle don't have to be gangsters in the eyes on the current populace, I.e 6ix9ine and generation Z. When you're young it's cool then you grow out of it

@terrylittle329

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh yo video fire asf

@oscar2k755

4 жыл бұрын

Well said

@tgrjhit7203

4 жыл бұрын

bgt125 exactly rap niggas think this shit is cool or a trend that they can use to get fame people literally see a “gangsta” lifestyle as their only option

@tgrjhit7203

4 жыл бұрын

Max Fortune how am I dumb I wasn’t even speaking on your statement I agree with both of your statements wholeheartedly you were talking about how the majority of fans in gangsta rap grow out of the same lyrics with the same subject while the other guy was talking about artists and how they see being “gangsta” or “hood” as a trend while individuals with real lives have to do those things and live that life to survive in inner city environments there is no need to disrespect me because I didn’t disrespect you but if you finna go that route I can too

@MaxFortuneMusic

4 жыл бұрын

@bgt125 go back to school because your reading comprehension and basic analytical skills are just bad.

Ain’t nothing like the old school -2pac

@2pacisgay955

4 жыл бұрын

Fuck up

@thegeorgiaaquarius

4 жыл бұрын

Facts

@user-sp4sp2qd6p

4 жыл бұрын

@@2pacisgay955 u lame asf

@2pacisgay955

4 жыл бұрын

@Hyper Dragon Anaconda u an ebro walkin out here

@cjl-uda4048

4 жыл бұрын

Fucking oldheads just gonna ignore Griselda, Vince Staples, GKMC-era Kendrick and Freddie Gibbs then huh?

Freddie Gibbs is the best modern gangster rapper.

@kings9724

4 жыл бұрын

and Q

@tidusauron8384

4 жыл бұрын

yung caterpillar q blows

@marcuscuiriz3962

4 жыл бұрын

Y'all forget about Griselda

@bigsolo6952

4 жыл бұрын

“Gangsta Gibbs, nigga, thug life I’d trade this shit for wife and kids, nigga.”

@lyleanderson3430

4 жыл бұрын

Mozzy go hard sometimes too

This is easily the most enlightened video I’ve seen from you. You even pinpointed the exact day it all flipped.

@hiphopmadness

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Gangster rap still exists, ex Freddie Gibbs, Benny the Butcher, Westside Gunn, Conway the Machine, Pusha T, etc

@janschonander9917

4 жыл бұрын

you really just named all the features on Bandana and somehow Alfredo lmao. I respect it tho.

@mojalefapitso9377

3 жыл бұрын

It still exists but not commercially

@32kirby32

2 жыл бұрын

Pusha??

@seanjohnson8910

2 жыл бұрын

Freddie Gibbs is coke raps. Like Nikatina. Not gangsta'

@bigourney1810

2 жыл бұрын

@@32kirby32 to a degree he’s a bit of a gangsta rapper, specifically within his time in clipse. But he’s more of a coke rapper

Freddie Gibbs is so underrated he can preform great hooks along with his flow and his cadence is unmatched dude can switch flows with a beat so smoothly

Everything fades away Just like Gangsta rap, Mumble rap will surely end after years Things just don't stay forever In the future we could also see some new artists pushing boundaries of Hip Hop to new extents

@bigourney1810

2 жыл бұрын

1st of mumble rap legitimately isn’t a thing 2nd point is that yes Trap appears to be declining in a way now, many new artists have came up who have a more lyrical style that took a backseat for trap aside from a few artists (Kendrick, j. Cole, kanye). I’m not saying trap is dying off in any way, but lyrical and melodic rappers are starting to appear more with artists such as morray and baby keem

@Realkeepa

2 жыл бұрын

ND THEN WE MAKE WITH AJIMALS AND DIGS

@HDitzzDH

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigourney1810 Anything can be a thing, mumble rap is just a way of describing a certain way of rapping in which flow and cadence goes along with it. It’s a style that certainly exists and has been a very popular trend, and whether you like the term “mumble rap” or not is a different issue, we could have called it Fred it we wanted to. Just listen to any song by Trippie Redd, Kodak Black, Lil Pump etc and you’ll notice a very common way of rapping, they are barely pronouncing the words and it’s difficult to understand what they’re saying and this is exactly where the term comes from, it’s not that hard.

Kanye West killed Gangsta Rap when he faced off 50 Cent

@ironohyes3644

4 жыл бұрын

That's facts fr

@noname-by9nj

4 жыл бұрын

Charlie Manson I mean tell me I’m lying ??

@jaspercooper5180

4 жыл бұрын

Agree

@michaelbrown9964

4 жыл бұрын

Yea sorry but he right kan ye killed n burried it back in 2007 I remember watching it live

@jhammaster

4 жыл бұрын

Period

Schoolboy Q.. Gibbs... Jay Rock.. Maxo Kream... Even Mozzy... Probably the most lyrical/conscious gangsta rappers ..

@coreysmalls4259

4 жыл бұрын

I most definitely fuck wit Q

@yopierre2048

4 жыл бұрын

Not Maxo he don’t got it

@elijahcesar4149

4 жыл бұрын

@@yopierre2048 nigga what? Maxo is up there..

@yopierre2048

4 жыл бұрын

@Elijah Cesar he’s good but not as good as Q Jay or Gibbs

@elijahcesar4149

4 жыл бұрын

@@yopierre2048 LYRICALLY? Yes. You must not heard what i heard..

Gangster rap hasn’t become marginalized. Eventhough it isn’t “the” most popular rap subgenre anymore, it still makes a tremendous impact through rappers such as Chief Keef and those other exceedingly popular “hood oriented rappers”

Rappers started taking drugs rather than selling 'em

@aleshapaustin4492

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent observation...

@kennethreed6938

4 жыл бұрын

Not coo to sell or take them u don't glorify either u do what u got to support ur family but u don't make it ur main image

You just don’t see MAINSTREAM gangsta rap these days that’s all

@djsoundztv823

4 жыл бұрын

What about 6ix9ine n Shmurda

@edforres1984

4 жыл бұрын

Dj Soundz 6ix9ine turned out to be a fake gangster

@djsoundztv823

4 жыл бұрын

@Da Funky Zookeeper they were singing about gangsta like topics in their music and we were all rocking with it regardless if 69 was a fake gangsta

I feel like the shock value that was originally in gangster rap is only present in Drill music atm

@barbsmit8152

4 жыл бұрын

drill died

@manutdfan710

4 жыл бұрын

Barb Smit maybe in Chicago. But it’s thriving in Brooklyn & London. The biggest hit out of NY this summer was a drill song

@barbsmit8152

4 жыл бұрын

@@manutdfan710 chicago is where its at and will always be at

@manutdfan710

4 жыл бұрын

Barb Smit maybe if this was 2013 I’d agree with you lol

@LThaPunisha

4 жыл бұрын

The UK drill scene is rude af, it either get censored by feds or taken down its mad.

Blank Face is one of the best Gangster Rap projects from the 2010s.

The fans grow up and eventually don’t care they jus want a hot song

@seekerundue

4 жыл бұрын

1017 zoe fans don't grow up. Fan base increased because hiphop became commercialized.

@qbeenzotherside

4 жыл бұрын

Your both right let's just agree about that why don't we

@acidmack1041

4 жыл бұрын

and ironically all the "hot songs" in hip hop have been absolute garbage over the last 10-12 years

@qbeenzotherside

4 жыл бұрын

@@acidmack1041 listen to Rod wave ghetto gospel

@muhammadcushmeer8648

4 жыл бұрын

Hell no we don't... I don't Fuck with that new shit... I don't even remind myself of the names of the new guys

Gangster rap ain't never going anywhere.. They just changed the name. A Rose by any other name is still a rose..

Thank you Kanye. People can actually be rappers and rap their truth. They don't need to have any fake street cred or none of that. You can literally be raised in a house with loving parents and rap about anxiety and depression. Beautiful

@1RichPark

4 жыл бұрын

Niggas was rapping about everything b4 kanye none of these niggas are saying anything new

@inthedark8400

4 жыл бұрын

@G.A Vaughn Actually, not true. Curtis has sold 3 million copies worldwide. Graduation has sold 2.7 million copies in the US alone. That alone speaks volumes

@williamkeith7630

4 жыл бұрын

Haa........Gayyyyyyyyy

@inthedark8400

4 жыл бұрын

@G.A Vaughn not really. Check again

When they started dressing like their mamas.

@tatu8663

4 жыл бұрын

More like their little sisters.

@sage9338

4 жыл бұрын

Antonio Barkley it’s less believable when you dress like a female. And its not about having baggy clothes or tight clothes, people like young thug LITERALLY wear dresses. With a name like young THUG 😂

@sage9338

4 жыл бұрын

Antonio Barkley So why are you watching a video dedicated to that “ignorant and destructive shit” if you don’t like it? I interpreted your comment differently considering context 🤣

@davadreviewer5509

3 жыл бұрын

Andre Ricardo Bryant who doesn’t hate the government

@napmcdan3437

3 жыл бұрын

@Antonio Barkley I could have said it was when they quite rapping about positives, but that was a pretty brief period considering the 40-ish year history of rap. Otherwise, it has been about precisely what you cited. So, yes, it was more legitimate, _as an art form_ , to dress as a gangster while rapping about gangster sh*t!

Asap rocky: I'm not a tough guy Everybody: we know that 🙄🙄🙄

Great video! You provide enough background information, while also thoroughly explaining the tipping point.

Tell that to Cassanova or Griselda or School Boy Q*

@trent781

4 жыл бұрын

The butcher comin nigga

@itsZukka

4 жыл бұрын

Casanova is known for beefing with 69 and is self admitrlly not on shit

@kp7309

4 жыл бұрын

They played out.

@trent781

4 жыл бұрын

k P not even... Griselda hasnt even started yet

@kp7309

4 жыл бұрын

Trent exactly my point, there was only one griselda blanco and she brought chaos and pain to the community. Y’all shouldn’t be endorsing that. It’s played out.

Please don't stop doing what you do, you're the most informative hip hop journalist out there. Love all the way from Sudan 🤞🏾

Very informative and very true video. I like that gangsta rap is a relic of the past and that the 2000s opened up new rap.

@kevinscott59

4 жыл бұрын

Dhruv Bhatt Uh? The 2000s opened up the floodgates to the dominance of Trap,an offshoot of gangster rap. Commercial rap has always produced socially conscious and experimental alternatives within hip hop.

@avzarathustra6164

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevinscott59 Yeah. Standard lines are about pulling up "with the stick", "on the gang", "is gon be a robbery", etc. It's certainly not dead or uncool to them. Maybe not in the same form, but it's still here.

@victorespino5650

4 жыл бұрын

The 2000s was the king of krunk and dirty south music,

@kevinscott59

4 жыл бұрын

Victor Espino Not the underground/indie-music. A lot of that was being influenced by electronica.

@NTEDOG561

2 жыл бұрын

*2010s

Just found this channel, loving binging on your old catalog. Your vids have been good for a long time.

@hiphopmadness

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate that 🙏❤️

@BWalsh737

Жыл бұрын

@@hiphopmadness Dude, cant stop watching these vids, ha. Been watching them non stop since my comment. A month old, 3 yrs old ect...just everything recommended. They are dope.

i still hear lyrics all the time about gangbanging, selling drugs and everything talked about in 80-90s rap. i find there's just more importance on melody and interesting flows now.

Between the rise of rappers like Griselda and DaBaby and ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock, and Nipsey having albums/songs nominated for Grammys I would say gangsta rap is doing alright.

This video fills me in on a lot of what happened in rap during this period. Thank you

Gangsta rap is still around but mainstream too stupid to listen to the lyrics ....

@ericclements3667

4 жыл бұрын

This. I hear it on the radio but censored. A little imagination is all it takes. I prefer it to all the emo rappers talking about popping pills.

@maristar22realboii

4 жыл бұрын

Sob x rbe talks about gangtsa raps bc they are tellin a story but it doesn’t go mainstream

you did your thing on this video! very well worded...

Bro, snitch9ine blew because of gangster rap, it may not be as popular as it was back in the 90's or early 2000's but it's still quite poular

@GeneFOX70

4 жыл бұрын

69 is trap rap

Appreciate what you do. Good work.

The College Dropout, 2004.

The death of pac and big killed gangster rap..

@relog5946

3 жыл бұрын

Nah

@acaptainnachoz2111

2 жыл бұрын

Nah

@Paratzu

2 жыл бұрын

I think it started the end of gangster rap. But it was being held up by a large margin. It could have actually made gangster rap more famous because of there influence.

We need more Freddie Gibbs and TDE collabs

This video is so right. Such a good video; had to subscribe.

very well put together video bro!

I cant believe that MF DOOM was mentioned in a HipHopMadness video

Streets still listening to gangsta/ drill/ trap music speak for yourself

I think it's great that hip hop is more than one genre it's interesting to see more than one type of rapper succeed because music like all art is about the artist's message and how you interpret it not about upholding the status quo

Sign of the times...I welcome it

The appeal is still there. Hardcore shit from Benny the Butcher, 38 Spesh, Conway and others are still getting love.

I almost fell of my chair when you named Post Malone. Post Malone...smh

@ryanmurphy7782

3 жыл бұрын

Dude literally said “I’m not a rapper.” Hes 100% a pop star

Great page. Just subscribed.

We need more testosterone in the rap game. Rap too fruity and melodic now

@leb7663

4 жыл бұрын

-white suburban kid

@randyb637

4 жыл бұрын

Heres your testosterone boi🍆

@elnino0841

4 жыл бұрын

Well what do you expect. They love to dress like women nowadays.

Honestly I listen to ol school hip hop each and everyday I prefer the depth and story telling that’s why TDE resonates with me so much!!

People started getting more fake depressed... 😧

@m_winewood

4 жыл бұрын

But doesnt all the fake depression reflect a genuine depression somewhere deeper in the culture? Otherwise who are the fakes copying?

@SFtheflash

4 жыл бұрын

Why do people think the depression is fake, we’re the generation born after the crack era kinda makes sense that depression plagues the generation born from it

@michaelwoods3799

4 жыл бұрын

@@SFtheflash true shit.

@blowingsmokesittingindians2916

4 жыл бұрын

SFtheflash holy shit bruh, never thought bout it that way

@DannyLopez07

4 жыл бұрын

@@SFtheflash he didn't say depression is fake he said that some people are fake depressed

Maybe because minstrel shows aren't really acceptable any more

Wow u said it all with facts and real knowledge

“When fans now in turn to melodic flow and rhyme schemes” uhhhhh have you never heard of bone thugs, Snoop Dogg, warren g, etc?????

@boris2853

4 жыл бұрын

Gotta mention Nate Dogg the legend aswell

@mayaandlyon

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah but they weren’t melodic in every song and it wasent as prevalent for every artist. Nowadays you can’t even be a rapper if you can’t sing. Even Kendrick had to make songs like Love and Loyalty because people don’t wanna listen to 4mins of straight bars anymore (idk why that’s what I always liked about hip hop)

@Chester-mz2ep

4 жыл бұрын

mayaandlyon I like hip hop the reason why those types of tracks don’t really get that much plays from me are because I enjoy a hip hop song over bars, people now are more attracted to the musical aspect and less with the words, the words compliment the music, not the other way around

@Anthonydu01630

4 жыл бұрын

Right like they weren’t melodic lol. You don’t have to fucking sing on autotune to he melodic, a good flow is melodic with a good voice and beats are fucking melodic, biggie, snoop, pac, andre 3000, 50cent, Kendrick, lil wayne, Asap Rocky, ODB are very melodic . And then you have singing rappers like GUNNA, lil uzi vert, trippie red ect who are not melodic. A good melodie is just a good rythme, tempo, note, flow (cadence, tons, pitch) ... A simple beatboxing can be more melodic than the most complicated beats listen Blue magic beat, drop it like it’s hot beat, dirt off your shoulder beat, hard knock life beat or ruff ryder beat .. they are very simple but very melodic. I guarantee you girls will move their ass more on a song like bad and boujee than rock star of post malone lol

@nathanaelharden4330

4 жыл бұрын

Tony Sanchez bro you clearly have no idea what ur talking about lol. A melody is the principle line of harmonic music (so a background beat CANT be melodic). Melody has almost nothing to do with flow or rhyme scheme because the only components of a melody are pitch and rhythm. At its core, rapping is just rhythmic talking, and it’s obvious when looking at old school rappers who would put bars over a beat without much pitch variation in their voice. They relied more on their bars and flow to give life to the music. Nowadays artists use greater pitch variation in their voices and put less emphasis on lyrics. Thus the two components of a melody (pitch and rhythm) are satisfied to greater degree by newer music than old music. Rap nowadays is more musical, while in the 90s it was more poetic.

I guess yall never heard of drill music. Chief keef, lil jay, durk, king louie. All that shit is gangsta rap in its realest form. Niggas was really dying. All these new edgy rappers wanna be like them.

What’s the instrumental at the beginning???🔥

It’s a great diservice to equate Kodak Black , 21 savage, and Chief Keef and those other “hood oriented rappers” as marginalized exceptions. You could argue that Chief Keef is one of the most influential rappers of the 2000’s and he is very much in the vein of gangster rap

@AYOMAINMUSIC

4 жыл бұрын

chief keef is drill not gangsta rap.

@teddybear698

4 жыл бұрын

@@AYOMAINMUSIC Now I'm confused, isn't gangsta rap just niggas rapping about that streets life? That's basically the whole point of drill music or even trap

It didn’t lost it’s appeal, it just became trap music.

@cjl-uda4048

4 жыл бұрын

David Awonaike Trap has been around since 1991 so like... nah

@davidawonaike1188

4 жыл бұрын

Charlie Layton not really.

@cjl-uda4048

4 жыл бұрын

David Awonaike it has though, if you look at basically the whole scene in Memphis and also how MC Mack alone been rapping since then

Kanye defeated gangsta rap when he took over from 50 in 2007 with Graduation. He put backpack rap back on top and that paved the way for Drake, Wale, Kid Cudi, Big Sean, J Cole etc.

@2pacisgay955

4 жыл бұрын

Graduation is the best kanye album hands down

@legendary9689

4 жыл бұрын

Marvin Amankwa-Dei That’s exactly what happened nothing more nothing less Kanye opened up the door for those rappers that you listed.

@user-qd6im2hp2e

4 жыл бұрын

M A C K 215 🤣

@jellyfishrock-hers7888

4 жыл бұрын

The past 7 years prior to 07 were basically soft and just atrocious. Not all that gangsta.

Very nice summary!

There were about 4/5 gangster rap albums that outsold graduation in ‘08

If a gangsta rap artist or group appears that is equally strong and exploitable then it will appear again to mainstream. There are simply too many self acclaimed internet rappers to believe this genre will die completely. Another way to look at this is gen z is far less interested in the darker tones and aggression necessary to this genre. At another spectrum this genre can only go darker to remain itself.

It’s played out. There’s only so many times you can hear the same type of bars, only so many ways I can talk about how I kill and hustle, before it gets old.

I loved gangsta rap growing up. But too many Brothers still locked in prison for life due to the influence of its words. Music is powerful.

Simple, people never stop listening to music and craving more ways to enjoy it. With biggest influence in culture change.

Natural progression, nothing stays hot forever...... no surprises and doesn’t need explaining 🤷‍♂️

"Yo they fcked hop hop up....tru story

Great video

Dope work

HipHopMadness: "How Gangster Rap Lost It's Cool" Freddie Gibbs: Am I a joke to you??

@enregalia5033

4 жыл бұрын

James Scott haha yh and griselda

Hello what is Trap Music, but Gangster Rap 2.0 . . . .

0:40 a what statement?

@KolydoscopeMusic

4 жыл бұрын

CrucifyMe “artistic statement”

If i click on this video again, ain't none to it gangster rap made me do it

Where does Tay K fit into this? I feel like his persona was very gangster esque

@glorysake

4 жыл бұрын

Tay k wasn't a gangsta rapper,Tay k was a psychopath who rapped 💯

@xerpy3798

4 жыл бұрын

@@glorysake Tay k was a drill rapper. Drill rap is an evolved more harsh form of gangsta rap.

Yo why you puttin yo school project on here. I felt like way too much reserch was done on this

@witkneemenyon5612

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@Malik_Hakim

4 жыл бұрын

They make us do projects in school so we learn how to make stuff like this

Why was J.Cole in the thumbnail??

Where????

I was a black pre teen /teenager in the 90’s and I always thought gangster rap was negative. I was listening to Outcast, KRS ONE and The Roots. My friends and I were considered weird because we didn’t pretend to be a bunch of fake gangsters (we lived in the burbs). I actually appreciate this new generation of artist because they’re diverse, creative, and have a broader range of topics.

It’s still here just in melodic form

I think its more like its sorta between lyrical and gangster rap are moving up more than gangster rap is, u saw hi-rez made a song with vinjay, thats one sign, while we got dababy doing songs and making them about whatever the heck he does, the point is, some things people do when it comes to rap can kinda take it to far, not really enjoying it as much nust putting it out there, at least thats what i think

Hip hop was never really about gangsta rap, gangsta rap came once the west coast started to rap about their hood life and rap sheet is when it started to blow up.

I feel like the turning point was when graduation outsold curtis

It was like listening to my reality rapped by Artists, so I could relate to it, but that's no longer my reality so I lost interest. I got the message back then to try better yourself, better the decisions, and move up and on. Sadly not all the homies made it. It was Reality before it was Gangsta🤙

Ahhh, I think Gangsta rap still has a place & always will have one. It just saw a period of time where it was more popular than other sub genres.

@kennyg.6608

4 жыл бұрын

It really always has been whatever sells!...if some shyt ain't selling change it up

Get rich or die tryin wasnt one of the best debuts. Its still the best and high selling debut and one of the best rap albums of all time. Literally he put out more hits that one album than most people do their entire career. STILL.

gangster rap is still mainstream. just modern. trap music.

@xcm0505

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, it just that still they used that tipical lyrics of gangsta rap with trap beats.

Should have made it documentary style(give years). U know but nice video

Hip Hop is alive and well. You must read between lines to receive the message and learn. Rise up! In the case of Immortal Technique he often blatantly verbalizes these messages.

Bro this era now like dissing mumble rappers by lyrical rappers.this era like xxxtentacion.kamikaze.

@foeloko

4 жыл бұрын

CD Yo Style what?

@croppedinpeace

4 жыл бұрын

What?

I think your missing the point that Trap Music is the new gangster rap and that sells very well still... like Migos, Young Thug, 2Chainz, 21 etc

Whoever put this together deserves to get fired

Gangsta rap has pretty much evoloved into UK and Aussie drill

I think too many people were faking in the gangsta rap genre! With the introduction to the internet many people who ‘talked that talk’ were exposed with good ol 240p mobile phone footage from the early 2000s to crystal clear 4K mobile phone videos of your favourite rappers getting their ass beat/chain snatched ... also the big gangsta rappers started to chase money and doing rnb/ pop songs features and it leads to fans questioning their moves (I know, cause I was 50 Stan 🤷🏾‍♂️) and now anyone can be gangsta on a trap beat so as long as it has a cool melody bouncy 808s and a crisp snare oh and don’t forget dem hi hats.. anyways it just seems inauthentic to its audience

@creepa_8991

4 жыл бұрын

factss

@Abstru5e.

4 жыл бұрын

yup since the beginning of gangsta rap its been like that. example, rappers like dr dre and ice cube were never gangsters/street dudes.

@algernonlee6419

4 жыл бұрын

Cube always said he wasn’t 🤦🏾‍♂️ he always stated “ he a reporter of the neighborhood”

@songoku4742

4 жыл бұрын

@@Abstru5e. so you believe everything you hear in music?

@legendary9689

4 жыл бұрын

Son Goku Anybody who believes 50 worked with the cops can’t speak on hip-hop I don’t get how anybody in there right mind can believe or listen to Irv he’s a DJ he’s not a street dude.