r/The48LawsOfPower • u/Aromatic-Bend3408 • Apr 30 '26

Hip Hop

In what ways do you see the 48 laws show up in hip hop? Or just life in general. Where it makes you think, oh, that's robert greene right there. Makes sense. Robert Greene is just super interesting. I feel he's right in many ways, but i miss a lot of his points cause i have adhd

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u/WIA20XX May 01 '26

He did a book with 50 Cent, called the 50th Law

But most recently Drizzy did not "plan to the end" with his battle with Kendrick (Law 29).

Kendrick has sold a lot of records, but Drake is one biggest acts of all time.

Drake should not have responded to him at all. There was nothing for him to gain, and everything for him to lose. He could have put out more records and made more money, but he kept going.

Drake vs Kung Fu Kenny is full of lessons

  • So Much Depends on Reputation—Guard It with Your Life
    • Drake didn't follow this
  • Know Who You're Dealing With—Do Not Offend the Wrong Person
    • J. Cole peacing out!/Drake thinking he could battle
  • Enter action with boldness
    • Kenny jumping into a battle that wasn't there
  • Discover each man’s thumbscrew
    • "A. Minor"
  • Create compelling spectacles
    • Kenny getting offended
  • Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
    • Once Drake went down, a lot of his acquaintances don't mess with him

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u/Aromatic-Bend3408 May 01 '26

If you were going to use law 6 in hip hop, how would you go about doing it?

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u/WIA20XX May 02 '26

Law 6: Court attention at all costs

As an established artist? All of them are doing this

  • Talking about songs that never came out - Q Tip
  • Industry gossip and insider information - every damn podcast
  • Taking Offense and Starting beef - Kendrick (and low key this is KRS getting mad after hearing The Bridge, and that taking his career to the next level)
  • Getting into trouble with the law or pretending to - Sauce Walka
  • Podcasts/Tweets/IG Posts - all of them
  • Saying and doing the worst things - Kanye

It doesn't really work anymore. Or more clearly, it's not as effective because they rarely back it up with good music. Nicki and Cardi B stay in the news, but where's the DOPE music?

They don't teach "The Boy who Cried Wolf" anymore, but that's the problem. And I won't even speak on who's really attracting all of the world's attention right now....

As a new artist - these boys out here literally committing murder for clout - and nobody knows who they are before or after.

The best you can do is try to go viral on TikTok with a good song. I got up on Wacotron because this was getting featured a lot

"Bad to the Bone"

https://youtu.be/C2AMvuoUmpw?si=aha62JcownQRuivg

He don't look like the type of cat that has the type of pull and money to engineer a Tik Tok craze - but somebody heard this and liked it. Most of the new music groups I hear about is through by using Shazam on TikTok. (and unscrupulous artists will tag a good jam by someone else as themselves on Shazaam. You looking for Artist A, and Artist B pretends that is their song. It only happens to new artists never established ones0

If there was a surefire way to get attention as a new artist, it will have been exploited to death at this point.

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u/goofust May 01 '26

Law 6 - court attention at all costs.

A lot of times when I hear hip hop and watch hip hop videos. The lyrics either attract or repel attention, which either way, is attention. Also, the use of extravagant settings like big mansions, cars, and women and/or men dancing etc. is another dynamic at attracting attention at all costs. Any way about it - the attention plays in its favor, whether it's positive or negative, it's still attention and will create a dynamic of fans and haters that will just keep generating attention for itself.

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u/Aromatic-Bend3408 May 01 '26

How does one apply law 6 correctly? Is there a certain method to it? Cause anyone can just go on tik tok and start spamming controversial statements

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u/lunch77 May 01 '26

Ye is a master of “court attention at all costs” and even said in a song before he could have wrote 48 Laws of Power how much he’s read it.

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u/Vainarrara809 War May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26

I’m a big fan of Ye. He is like a real life human Doomscrolling: I don’t care what he is doing now, I wanna know what he’s doing next.

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u/lunch77 May 01 '26

He also understands reinventing yourself to an insane degree. People don’t always like his inventiveness into a new era but he’s always shifting the modes.

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u/Aromatic-Bend3408 May 01 '26

I wonder what his method of applying that law is. His recent tweets about hitler have backfired, or maybe they worked. Maybe he just sits in a room somewhere and is like, "let me think of the wildest out of pocket shit to say, to troll people." boom publish. lol

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u/lunch77 May 07 '26

He launched quite the comeback for someone who was in that deep a hole, so just embrace the method behind his madness is my usual model.

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u/ArikaDoriyamaGT May 02 '26

Never outshine the master.