HipHopHeads

The first track off of Tribe’s critically acclaimed Midnight Marauders, where the group introduces themselves and their uplifting lyrics. Also, the song is named after revolutionary anti-apartheid activist, Steve Biko, notable in the anti-colonialism and anti-oppression community worldwide.

https://genius.com/A-tribe-called-quest-steve-biko-stir-it-up-lyrics

In the seventh song off The Eminem Show, Em details his dealings with the law because of his weapons charges, and boasts his fearless nature with them–which is contradicted a song later.

This song is middle of the story started with “The Kiss” and concluding with “Say Goodbye Hollywood.”

https://genius.com/Eminem-soldier-lyrics

Drake definitely wins if he had Kendrick rapping about stuff he was fed, but for whatever reason I don’t even believe him. Even his talking at the end sounded like he was trying to act.

Metro Boomin woke up and chose violence, culminating in this beat. He says whoever drops the best Drake diss over this can have a free beat 😂

Vince is consistent AF. He's been a voice of anti-capitalism in the music industry.

Vince with some sobering thoughts

Edit: another one

Now is a tremendous time to be a Hip-Hop fan. Not only is Hip-Hop global, but it's international. By that I mean not only are we seeing music released everywhere for everyone across the globe, we're all hearing from artists across the globe and seeing collaborations with artists all around the globe.

Now you might say we always had that, but the level of quality has gone up. The pockets of sound are more pronounced and it's a beautiful thing.

But with that global reach, comes global exposure. This has been a crazy year for Hip-Hop and a couple weeks ago, when the Chris Brown track was posted, some felt the need to malign him. Hip-Hop is a community that welcomes everyone and Hip-Hop Heads is a community that welcomes everyone, but Hip-Hop has a rich history in speaking out about the injustices that beset the disenfranchised.

If people ever want to criticise someone that's being spoken of in this community, you're absolutely free to. But please be consistent and self-aware. You can't in good conscience shit on Chris Brown and not equally shit on Eminem. They both have chequered pasts. I always implore people to ask themselves why they're happy to act one way to one artist but not to another.

Hip-Hop is about bringing people together and giving voices to people that don't ordinarily have voices. Best of all, Hip-Hop is so diverse that there's something for everyone. Sometimes things just aren't for us and sometimes they're just a spectacle. But all the time, Hip-Hop is for the people. Hip-Hop will make you laugh, cry, dance, speak up. For every Eminem verse, there's an Brother Ali verse and for in reverse, for MF DOOM verse, there's a Chris Brown verse.

Sometimes, as a community we need to do better and call shit out, but we need to do that as a community and consistently.

Ultimately, there's a lot of fun to be had in this community and I'm really looking forward to hearing new music and seeing you alls reaction to new music.

I just wanted to say that there are intricacies to this genre, but ultimately it's fun and I'm glad we can enjoy it together.

I felt I needed to put this out there with some of the allegations that are floating around and I truly hope that should there be any truth to any of it, justice is served. Independent of Hip-Hop or music, everyone deserves to be safe.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15005474

Christopher George Latore Wallace A.K.A. Big, Biggie Smalls, Frank White, Notorious, Big Poppa, . . ., freestyling at a Brooklyn's st corner at Bedford-Stuyvesant when he was 17 years old.

These rappers really be having FBI levels of information on each other 😂

The official video of "Kick, Push" by Lupe Fiasco from the album 'Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor'.

The comments on yt, hahahaha

Kendrick already dropped a response.

Drake responds to Kendrick

Tech joins forces with some of the finest rappers from the Third and Fourth Coasts, Atlanta’s Killer Mike and Minneapolis' Brother Ali, and gets an assist on the hook from Mr. How-Low-Can-You-Go himself, Public Enemy’s Chuck D

https://genius.com/Immortal-technique-civil-war-lyrics

The Rap Royal Rumble continues with Kendrick dropping another Drake diss.