Why isn't there any more smart hip-hop?
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Anti-Semantic - Quaerens Intellectum
ANSWERS: 5
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Look up the hip-hop artist Immortal Technique, he's smart hip-hop. :)
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Same reason there is not much smart music at all, at least in the Mainstream scene...
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corporate controlled media was the hitmaker's coup de grace...real hip-hop became hard to hear over the deluge of meaningless rhyme, coming off the assembly lines. "another silly sucker wants the champion belt but like a microwave these days I make em melt Return Of The Boom Bap means jus that it means return of the real hard beats and real rap" -KRS1
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because record companies have figured out what sells and what doesnt, there are still "smart rappers out there" there just not on major labels
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There still is, you just have to look for it unfortunately. The mainstream knows that people love that horrible radio music, so more people do it to make money.
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