Thread by @MUSICANDBUILDS

THE BLACK MANS
OBSESSION WITH THE RAPPERS IMAGE
NOT THE RAPPERS SKILL OR TALENT
BUT HIS IMAGE..

See growing up
I liked Dmx because he could rap
I liked nas because he could rap
I liked Jay z cuz he could rap
I liked 2pac cuz he could rap

Y’all new niggas be liking rappers… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Let’s start here..

The Wayne era

Wayne was a real mc like him or hate him objectively Wayne can rhyme
And he put the 10,000 hours in
To perfect his skill

He was huge from 2004-2012

However many of his fans fell in love with his image more than the appreciation of his skill… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

I was in the streets in this era
And I’m not gone hold you
More niggas even wanted to become bloods
During the Wayne era
Argue amongst yourselves lol I seen it

Anyway

Wayne started rapping about eating pussy and all of a sudden other
Local rappers started rapping about it more… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Wayne started using the auto tune
Around the time of
“Lollipop”
And he dumbed down his music
To a degree lyrically for radio hits
And it worked!

But his stans found a way into the rap game without having to actually put the 10,000 hours in of perfecting their skill
by… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Wayne says rappers are not really tryna
Be like him
Because if they were
They would Be trying to become a great lyricist too

He’s saying that they are more into trying to look like him and bite his image

And he takes it as a compliment

Before niggas used to sit around
And get blitzed watching YouTube videos all day

We was watching these DVDs
Gettin blitzed making swerves all day

This was before the high end designer
Foreign car era so the materialism was more realistic
For the normal nigga to attain

But… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Bringing us to the Keef era!

For record this not just you young niggas era lol me and fredo was the same age
Reese and dirk 2 years younger than me
Anyway lol

We was on these niggas
We respected the way they
Used the internet to blow up
the only difference is
The younger… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

THE WAR IN CHIRAQ

I was in the streets myself at this time
so honestly I didn’t even know this shit existed
But years later found out that
It was a Internet personality
That was basically documenting
The realities of the rap beefs in Chicago

And kids that watched YouTube all… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

We pause for a intermission..

We got a couple more slides to go
Family

Real niggas around the world seen
Keefs success
By way of the YouTube hood authenticity video
And ima be honest
Drill was like trap or crunk
You didn’t have to be a great lyricist
You didn’t have to put 10k hrs in to perfect the craft

You just needed to be authentic
In image… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

First off I gotta be honest
The aiming guns at the camera
In rap videos started in that hood dvd era
I was telling y’all about

Street niggas in the south loved
prime boosie
Because he could rap
And when they found out the shit was authentic too it was a plus degree

He got… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Hov could really rap
Hov put the 10,000 hours in
He loved the game enough to perfect his skill
He studied the greats

He just happened to be a real dope boy
Too..
And the authenticity made certain ppl fall in love with his story
And his hyper materialism worship

However the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

The battle of the ACTUAL SKILLED MCS

The only difference is Nas won the battle

Because it was based on skill on the microphone

It was not based on who had the most money

Who had had the baddest bitch

Who had the best fashion

Who had the best car

Who had the biggest house… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Real gangsters in the rap game go all the way back to the 80s

Here’s Rakim with the real 50 cent
Who the legendary rapper is named after
Yet Rakim was respected for his skills on the mic nothing else

AZIE who the film paid in full
Was based on was also a rapper
And he was as… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

BACK TO MORE PRESENT TIMES

The super high end fashion era of rap

Asap and Kanye really brought this in
2pac was the original but we’ve covered that

Asap Kanye and future
Really brung this era in

And regular black men who really couldn’t afford the fly shit before
Really… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

The social media era
Brought in embarrassing talking points
From new male rap fans

Like

“Who got the baddest hoes”
“Who got the most money”
“Who got the most followers”
“Who got the best cars”
“Who take the best vacations”

It would teach young rap fans
That rap is not about… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Growing up we liked rappers music
And we respected their skill
As poets and that’s it

If we seen them niggas it was never on
No groupie shit
It was a dap small respects and keep it moving
Same with athletes

We let the women be groupies
And watch their money and cars and ice… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

1 more nugget
before I close this classic masterful thread out

For you fools that’s in denial
In the south back in the day screw tapes
Was making their way around states
And they didn’t always have covers
So we didn’t know what the rappers
Looked like or dressed like originally… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

More and more rappers have been killed
In this era..
And it’s usually by another local rapper
Who’s jealous or obsessed
With the rappers fame and lifestyle
And what they see on social media
And it makes them want that lifestyle
for themselves
Or they want to kill the successful… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

So let’s end it with this!

Many Black Americans do not know
How to use ART
Or are ART

Art is not just designed to “keep it real”

The power of ART is that you can
Draw through your imagination fully!

Art should be judged by skill!
Nothing else just like the film industry etc… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

“Hit dogs will holler”-black southern proverb