>>14070170
>this is zoomiest post i've ever seen, imagine thinking rap in 2019 is music.
Regardless of your opinion on rap, it is used as an insanely effective tool on messaging and communicating to the rest of the community of the politics of the culture. In the US, we have free speech, to the point where you can tell Trump to go kill himself and even create imagery of him embarrassed, humiliated, killed, decapitated, etc, and you'll still have your freedoms. This isn't the case in other countries where speaking out against the government gets you jailed, flogged and possibly killed. Rap, in spite of the consequences, is used to to fight against their respective governments. It's gotten to point where the Chinese is commissioning rap videos to spruce up people's opinion of the government and even Vladimir Putin acknowledge how powerful rap is and that censoring it is futile so they should control it.
Our budding, but abrasive and obnoxious rapper does have a point. Not that his posts ever reflect on the significance of rap.