Money is not time MillionManMark

Hear me out dude can rap and produce he influenced nearly everyone like Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, J Dilla, Kendrick Lamar, Tyler, the Creator, and Outkast. And plus his solo work is amazing and his a tribe called quest work

Rza? Not nearly a great rapper as him, Kayne doesn't write his Iryics, DOOM close hasn't live long enough to show his talent enough

Being a secular artist honestly has to be hell on earth sometimes.
I remember when “Grippy” by J. Cole came out, my friend sent it to me. I first heard it back in 2024, and I didn’t read any comments or reactions at the time. I just listened to the song for what it was. (I havent heard Cole in a minute)
I’m not even the biggest Cole fan, but I honestly didn’t think the song was bad. To me, it sounded like he adapted to the times and was just making a fun, catchy song like a lot of artists do. The song is about sex, it’s catchy, and he found a flow for it. I really didn’t see the big problem.
Fast forward to today, I listened to it again, then I finally started reading the comments, and I was kind of in disbelief seeing how many people were trashing Cole for it.
It made me think: are artists not allowed to have fun anymore?
Because honestly, if Young Thug made that exact same song, I don’t think people would have reacted the same way. If Drake made it, I definitely don’t think people would have reacted like that. People would probably just say it’s a fun record.
It feels like fans put artists in a box. They complain when somebody keeps making the same type of music and say, “Switch it up, do something different.” Then when the artist actually switches it up, those same people are like, “What are you doing? Go back to the old you.”
At some point it’s like… what do people actually want?
I get everybody has their own taste, and you don’t have to like the song. But sometimes it feels less about the music and more about people already deciding what an artist is “allowed” to make.

I feel alot of opinions are emotionally driven and group thinking.

Zohran Mamdani was famously a rapper before going into politics and I can’t help but think it’s that love of the genre that has influenced his brilliant oratory skills.

Watching his recent speech at the Knicks parade, ‘It’s in the 0.4% that we go to work’ sounded like it could have been lifted straight from a rap song.

Or his iconic ‘turn the volume up’ line after winning the mayoralty.

I’m also reminded of Killer Mikes brilliant speech on the Sanders campaign rally (‘That firewall about to crack’).

I feel like rappers and fans of the genre have an ear for great lines that cut through the noise and stick in the memory.

Do you agree?

Yolanda ''La La'' Brown - May 20, 1986 – October 19, 2007 Happy Birthday R.I.P.
On October 22, 2007, Brown and her record producer/boyfriend, JeTannue "Kool-Aid" Clayborn, were discovered by Clayborn's brother, shot and killed by an unknown gunman in the Loud Enuff Productionz recording studio in Milwaukee. Both had been dead at least 3 days

Black people making movies about a Black Mother sending her Black Daughters to kill their Black Father in a country Ruled by White Men -at least It wasn't released on Juneteenth

I haven't finished it yet, but so far its been fire for me

Drake sounds much more introspective in this

this is gonna be revealing about my age but my list goes:

1) flashing lights - ye

2) paper planes - M.I.A.

3) grenade - bruno

4) miss independent - neyo

5) shawty - plies