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yea. I'm like that with Kendrick Lamar. can't stand his delivery tbh

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Me against the world and machavelli are top tier pac id say

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“ You don’t need to relate to it to process it and feel something deep about it ”



Thats a mic drop for me 🤘

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I’ve definitely grown away from Kendrick over the years. The most annoying thing about him is his delivery/all his different voices he does. Really off putting a lot of the time

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"You don’t need to relate to it to process it and feel something deep about it." Great take here, Drift.



But yeah, street life is FAR from fantasy, at least for the people that make the music and a lot of the people that listen to it. But we all come from different walks of life and relate to things in different ways. Imagine 21 Savage rapping about how his friends got shot and some 16 year old white boy in the the burbs is like "Wow, this is so fucking GANGSTER." lmao

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I didn't call rap fantasy music smh

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it's real for (most of) the rappers, it's a fantasy for (most of) the listeners

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one of those "shaking hands" memes and the two sides are "viking metal" and "gangster rap" and they agree on "fantasy music"

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💀💀💀

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why would it be a fantasy, that implies the listener would like that to be their life lol



like Million said, you're not supposed to listen to it and go "wow that's so cool" but "damn that's rough"

there are plenty of dumbasses who react like that when listening to hip hop lol

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Idk, saying "most of" the people listening to it regard it as fantasy might even be overstepping. Like idk, I've had friends that got killed or arrested. Not a lot, mind you, but a few. Friends that sold drugs and a cousin that was deep into gang shit when he was mentor figure to me, when I was 5 and 6 years old. Lmao a lot of people actually just relate to the music.

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yeah I just mean fantasy as in "you don't actually relate to it, but that's what makes it interesting"

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hmm it's an interesting highly fraught question but I think you gotta consider the factor of pleasure and thrilling to the extremity of the rapped situation: when Biggie does "gimme the loot" I don't think the entirety of our response is, "yeesh, glad that's not me"



maybe you're not saying thats not true though

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those people are a minority Million most people haven't experienced that

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That’s the whole reason NWA made Straight Outta Compton they were trying to tell the world about the horrible situation they were living in and the onslaught of other rappers doing the same around the country showed just how real it was. That and the Rodney King beating.

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"Yeah I'm from Iowa lmao"



say hi to Aiwaz 4 me

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I guess "gimme the loot" might be an outlier because he establishes a sort of fictional-feeling framework whereas sometimes rap [like NWA? not so familiar with them] is more documentary or frames itself that way. idk!

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Aiwaz is from iowa????

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I become Biggie in that moment, breaking down someone's door and stealing their loot