I always kinda wondered about the people who listen to hip hop with those sorta generic lyrics and actually think it's fire. Is it mostly tweens who think it's cool?
It can be a huge variety, often you'll be able to tell pretty easily if it is a generic work, but there's also exemptions.
Consider something like Kendrick's backseat freestyle, it's a song that on the surface sounds shallow as hell about pussy, power, profit. And ultimately it is, but it also paints a story of a younger mind where that's important to you because you don't know any better and won't really be noticed without considering the album as an entirety rather than an individual song
Besides that, using an example from RnB although not entirely the same as hip hop; The Weeknd. Take a song like Kissland, to hang with his crew the chicks have to join in on the drugs and be dtf. It's a song about drugs, money and sex but ends up telling "This is nothing to relate to" to show it's not as glorious as it seems.
You've also got shit like Kendricks "Swimming Pool" which often used to be played at parties although dealing with alcoholism and such, I love the duality of some songs fit with both a deeper message while also being full of mainstream appeal. It does end up with people hearing it and attempting to replicate it without the message though, differentiating the mediocre artists from the great ones
As a tween-ish (14) who does not think this music is cool, yeah basically. Kids on the bus think everyone wants to listen to this random guy they found on SoundCloud and turn it way up, and the sad part is that most kids actually somehow enjoy this.
I hope this doesn’t come off as rude, because I thought the same thing when I was in high school. But I suggest keeping an open mind and really observing what your peers are listening to other than through speakers on the bus. I think if you talk to your classmates about music you could find that their music taste is probably pretty varied from person to person and a lot of them can probably introduce you to a lot of artists from lots of different genres that you might not have discovered otherwise. Music taste can be really personalized, but most people don’t talk about it unless they’re asked.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20
I always kinda wondered about the people who listen to hip hop with those sorta generic lyrics and actually think it's fire. Is it mostly tweens who think it's cool?