The Rap Game aint the same no more-J.Cole

Shawn Kelly

10/4/13

Loyola

Why rap is becoming better

Recently, I have noticed something different happening when I listen to new songs from new rap artists. I have actually started to like the music. This is a totally different change for me. I am use to hating new rap songs since they all sound alike and have new to say. This makes me pine for the days of 2pac, Biggie Smalls, and prime Jay-Z. The days when rap felt new and rhymes were always different and innovated. Now with rappers like Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, and Big Sean, I cannot listen to popular rap without cringing.

The biggest flaw with a lot of rap especially mainstream hip-hop was that in the 2000’s decade all rappers sounded alike. They all talked about the same things and hit the same talking points in their lyrics. I sold this much drugs/I had sex with this many women/I have this many cars/..It gets very old after a while. Rappers use to be different and unique-Now their all the same,

However, now when I listen to, new rappers that most people have never heard of like, Chance, the Rapper, Childish Gambino, and Macklemore, I get extremely happy. I am happy because I see a new generation of artists, who are changing the culture of rap by being themselves. They are not acting like fake gangsters and wannabe drug dealers who have never seen drugs before. . Now this new generation of rappers have decided to rap about, well, whatever matters to them personality. Macklemore rapping about how gays deserve equal rights is radically different from anything in rap ever before. Childish Gambino and Chance, the Rapper talk about being different than rappers before them in that they weren’t raise poor and they do not talk in Ebonics and how they have been criticized for “talking white”. Let’s not even talk about Danny Brown who is so different from anything in current hip-hop he might as well be his own sub-genre.  The differences in what rap was and how it is now is substantial and I love it.

Rap has become so different and that’s awesome to me. I love rap. I want it thrive, so these new artists who are doing good but are also making great music is definitely music to my ears.