Hip-Hop Thread [ARCHIVED] Genre • Page 688

Not something that I'll come back to a lot but I can see he was very talented

 

I prefer his flow to the typical UK rap/grime ones lol

 

Ankhlejohn tapes are cool.

 

Grime has always received more attention than rap from the UK that isn’t grime, but quite a lot of the latter is similar to this

 

Tekashi 69 video crashed YouTube and had 600K views in minutes smh

 

Maybe its people looking for clues on how to find him

 

I don't see how he doesn't get murdered in 2020

 

If there's any justice in this world, Corona would take him out and no one has to face charges for his death

 

2 MILLION viewers on his IG Live.... terrible

 

Andre Harrell Dead: Music Exec Who Signed Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs Was 59 – Variety

Andre Harrel did a lot for Hip Hop. R.I.P.

 

The new Mozzy record is really good.

 

Yay someone else that likes Mozzy

 

I like mozzy so that’s rude

 

Well maybe you should post about him more then Cobra

 

I only post about Vince Staples, Denzel Curry and brockhampton we know this

 

True

 

the reddit starter pack

 

hell yeah

 

This man can still rap

Just when it couldn’t get worse, R.I.P. Fred The Godson, life is hard son

 

Don't forget JPEGMAFIA and Death Grips

 

A lot of the UK stuff that gets attention is just grime-adjacent. Actual UK rap rarely gets the attention it deserves. There are legends of the scene like Jehst, Verb T, Task Force, Jam Baxter, Black Twang, Rodney P, London Posse, all of whom have never had much of a following outside the UK.

I’ve always found it odd how US rap is widely accepted over here, but outside a few grime artists with a US rap co-sign, hardly any UK rap breaks through over there.

 

The US doesn't import much culture at all though. Our entertainment industries are cultivated with production as top priority. We don't prioritize translating books or movies and our record labels are not at all incentivized towards publishing international music. It makes it hard to access foreign art and culture and it allows Americans to carry on the false impression that we're the only creators that matter. Sorry you probably didn't want anyone to go off on a tangent from your post but a specific genre from a foreign country has basically no shot at gaining exposure here and it sucks and I hate it

 

Part of it is simply due to the fact that many Americans only speak one language. Now that more and more people speak Spanish, Spanish music seems to be becoming more and more relevant. That's why I also always wondered about why more British music doesn't make it in the US, because it is in English after all.

 

Speaking of UK

 

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