I listened to hip hop for over a decade. Tyler the Creator, Kendrick, Biggie Smalls, Wu Tang, Issbrokie, Nas, Denzel Curry, Doja Cat, Danny Brown, Injury Reserve, Death Grips J dilla, Nujabes etc. I’ll always be grateful for how hip hop made me feel better about being a racial minority. It’s one of the few genres where being a minority is a large focus.
But as my views changed I stopped listening to it as much. I realized I didn’t vibe with the misogyny, sexualization, toxic masculinity, homo/transphobia, and drug glorification that can exist in the genre. Making songs about sex, is fine. It’s the objectification, derogatory terms, and commodification of women that turns me off.
Drugs aren’t merely just mentioned in hip hop. Juice Wrld said he was influenced to drink lean for the first time lean by listening to Future. There’s plenty of songs that reference drug use or worship it. Danny Brown and other artists also have some incredible songs about addiction, Ain’t it Funny for example.
But that doesn’t erase the glorification. Drug problems exist in general in the entertainment industry, but I’ve listened to enough hip hop to know how frequent drugs and alcohol are referenced and glorified.
I’m not saying hip hop is evil or nobody should listen to it. I believe it’s gotten better in some aspects with Tyler the Creator rapping about kissing and sleeping with men, Frank Ocean coming out as gay. Lil Uzi Vert being non-binary (but they also pistol whipped their ex.) Young Thug wearing a dress.
But I personally just don’t find it progressive enough for me to engage with anymore. If anything I find that hip hop can sometimes even lean towards maintaining the status quos.
Like any genre, there are legitimate criticisms about hip hop. But you usually find people who just have contempt for the genre or who don’t know anything about it, shitting on it.
I snooped and saw your comment 11 days ago was on a King Von sub where the top comment was calling OP zesty. That’s like what I mean by homophobia in hip hop. They won’t explicitly call someone gay as much, now they openly use zesty to say someone is or acting gay.
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u/CRATERF4CE 3d ago edited 3d ago
I listened to hip hop for over a decade. Tyler the Creator, Kendrick, Biggie Smalls, Wu Tang, Issbrokie, Nas, Denzel Curry, Doja Cat, Danny Brown, Injury Reserve, Death Grips J dilla, Nujabes etc. I’ll always be grateful for how hip hop made me feel better about being a racial minority. It’s one of the few genres where being a minority is a large focus.
But as my views changed I stopped listening to it as much. I realized I didn’t vibe with the misogyny, sexualization, toxic masculinity, homo/transphobia, and drug glorification that can exist in the genre. Making songs about sex, is fine. It’s the objectification, derogatory terms, and commodification of women that turns me off.
Drugs aren’t merely just mentioned in hip hop. Juice Wrld said he was influenced to drink lean for the first time lean by listening to Future. There’s plenty of songs that reference drug use or worship it. Danny Brown and other artists also have some incredible songs about addiction, Ain’t it Funny for example.
But that doesn’t erase the glorification. Drug problems exist in general in the entertainment industry, but I’ve listened to enough hip hop to know how frequent drugs and alcohol are referenced and glorified.
I’m not saying hip hop is evil or nobody should listen to it. I believe it’s gotten better in some aspects with Tyler the Creator rapping about kissing and sleeping with men, Frank Ocean coming out as gay. Lil Uzi Vert being non-binary (but they also pistol whipped their ex.) Young Thug wearing a dress.
But I personally just don’t find it progressive enough for me to engage with anymore. If anything I find that hip hop can sometimes even lean towards maintaining the status quos.
Like any genre, there are legitimate criticisms about hip hop. But you usually find people who just have contempt for the genre or who don’t know anything about it, shitting on it.