Glasses Malone on Why Drake & Kanye are NOT Hip Hop 

Str8 from the boondox aka the suburbs-Erick Sermon

Bro why relegate yourself because you're not from the streets. I'm from Alabama I'm not of street urban culture I'm from the country. If they being that technical they are saying ppl like outkast and lil wayne are not of the culture. Granted both of them transcended rap but to say ice cube is not of the culture is crazy. That what he's implying.

@@seymourdollaz8424 they're doing what they're doing for their reasons, i'm doing what i'm doing for mine.. i don't rap about guns, drugs, or banging women and i'm from the burbs so im alternative.. anyone who hears my music knows im alternative hip hop

​@@cloudair4154 being from the streets don't mean you gotta rap about street shyt

@@IknowMoreThanYou i never said that

The thing with q-tip he always true to his roots he never crossover

​@@terrelljackson1995ur not answering question

@@LA-sv4wr he is hip hop so tf is you saying they not talking about q-tip it’s about drake and Kanye

@terrelljackson1995 he made a general statement saying if ur not from the hood, then ur not hiphop. N this guy brought up q-tip, which he came from middle class. U didn't made real response to it.

@@LA-sv4wr I never heard q-tip say he was from the suburbs all I know he from Harlem new York and he graduated from high school

Hip-Hop has NOTHING to do with "gang-banging/streets" in any way shape or form = those things are associated with Hip-Hop, not the other way around

You’re missing the point it’s about the struggle of coming up in an impoverished area the commonality around the globe

@@TonyStarks23 that has nothing to do with "gangs" be associated with "Hip-Hop/rap-music" = they gotta stop trying to associate them together when Hip-Hop's message has always been about "unity", not division

@@DaFactsNoNonsense1713 all hip hop is about division & it’s been that way since the early 90s. Nothing but drug dealing, killing, banging , pimping, & tricking has dominated hip hop. It started off positive though

@@ClaytonBigsby4 that's according to YOU because you're a child, who grew-up in the 90's/2000's, where morals, character, intelligence & education were not priorities to YOU vs. chasing the OPPOSITE because you're a FOLLOWER was = don't blame MUSIC for your own stupidity/ignorance

I swear!

Huh? 🤡

@@fas0288 obvious sarcasm

Slick tho. 👍

No one said it isn't

Who said anything about violence? sounds very racist

@@kmarcol1 according to him, only real hood niggas can make hip hop entertainment. That racist too.

Idk. I'm from the hood and I've work at the mall and I know plenty of ppl that has. He basically tryna say hip hop culture is street culture

Hiphop is a culture started in the streets of the Bronx. Rapping is an art form Hiphop is a culture. It’s 2 different things. You can be a rapping pop artist. Being that the culture comes from the ghetto it’s a certain lifestyle people in all ghettos across America have to deal with in one way shape or form such as bad schools low income housing government assistance no father or no parents highly populated communities heavy crime areas knowing of murders and other heavy crimes at a young age or seeing dead bodies or hearing of alot of ppl you know die from certain diseases being in middle school with girls getting pregnant the school having programs from girls getting pregnant a lot of people on drugs roaches rats knowing drug dealers high level drug dealers and killers growing up around them i can go on n on about the things normal people living in the hood just working and going to school can identify with more with the gangsters then middle class suburban people. He’s right in that sense although the music definitely does not have to always have a criminal element to it or praising that lifestyle.

@@djstackademikz we can agree it started in the streets but the expression comes in all forms. Styles, trends, etc. change with time. And further there were plenty of rappers from suburbs who fronted about their hometown orgins to claim the streets for credibility in hip hop. Atlanta it seems has a lot of them lol.

Those guys are from the ghetto. He isn't saying you have to be a criminal. Y'all are just simps Will Smith IS Hip-Hop. He is from the hood of philly. 🐑🐑🐑🐑

Does your skin have melanin

There is a difference between rap and Hip-Hop. Hip-Hop IS street urban culture. Period. End of conversation. Rap is musical expression of that. There are Hip-Hop artists that don't rap just like there are rap artists that are NOT Hip-Hop. drake is not Hip-Hop for MANY reasons.

No. YOU missed the point. Hip-Hop is street urban culture. You can be from ANYWHERE and rap. That doesn't make you Hip-Hop.

U sound dumb

Styles and fashion change with the times B. Look at the pioneers (all of them had the George Clinton look), then shifted to the Run DMC drug dealer look, to the streetwear of the 90s etc. The whole jerkin movement basically stemmed from Cali and the Bay.

@@jman1562001 i went to middle school in late 90s in South Los Angeles i got made fun of and fukd with for wearing vans and skate clothes and back then tight pants were wearing 501s youre size most ppl wore 3x bigger.

That’s what I’m saying… and he didn’t get a look until the cash money deal. The Compton dude guerrilla Black that sounded like Biggie probably had a better rap career back then.

funny you both say that cuz I helped him produce a music video that’s on his channel that hit over 2 million views last year and also his newest album he dropped in September has over a million streams and still counting that’s why he clearly titled it “Cancel Deez Nuts” cuz y’all comment has “canceled” written all over it you should go checc the album out big bro very much so still relevant 🤷🏿‍♂️

@@EDJK_ those are fake views and you are fake news.

Irrelevant

Why does that matter ? Why in only the black community do we put time stamps on our rappers

Thank you

Hip hop didn't even start out violent

Hip-hop started as parties to escape benign neglect from the government & theres a really good hip hop history lesson in the beat tips manual by Amir Said if anyone cares to read that because i love learning about culture so sharing it is worthwhile if i can provide someone the tools to edify their own future while many rap cats making songs kinda sleep on the knowledge aspect of hip-hop which is crucial to its history! Knowledge can edify&brighten the future so long as propaganda doesn’t harm street culture which it does a lot so knowing “whats what?” is hard without knowing the history i’m glad to share!✊

...he didn't say violent he said from the ghetto as in POV PARTICULARLY FROM AMERICAN POVERTY

He didn’t say that you niggaz dumb on purpose

& he touched kids

Being a hustler is

I not from Chicago so I wouldn’t know where that is but when I heard college dropout I heard a lot of things that made me feel like kayne was either from or definitely been around some of the run down parts of Chicago with lines like we scream rocks blow weed park or on the workout plan skit when they talking about at least pulling a dude with a car or on the last call when he talked about getting evicted. So I think Kayne spoke to the hood a lil more than glasses can remember

Shit I know a lot of people that went to high school in the hood still stay in the suburbs

@@terrelljackson1995ye from the city southshore

@@robstark9274 his family still from the suburbs his father is from the hood

Iont know about that but I do know is getting out the hood is the goal ya is hip hop mfs was supporting ya all threw Chicago of course when you get that type of money you move on and don’t look back that’s the goal

@glassesmalonetv according to your criteria. LL Cool J would not be hip hop. He grew up middle class with both parents and his grandparents. So if LL isn’t literally hip hop pioneer I dont know who is.

Drake was also raised by a white mom in a middle class home in Canada with universal healthcare. And he just happens to be an actor which would help him with playing a role, imitating a character. Kanye never took on a character, he came with his artistic expression from his hood adjacent, educationally privileged middle class perspective. I think he stretched the confines of hip hop and music period. Experimenting with new sounds and combining shit no one ever thought of. Drake fails to really come from any perspective tied to struggle or hustle or black power, etc-. And he hasn’t pioneered any new sound or flow that was dope and that heavily influenced the next generation like Kanye did before him. He feels like a pop artist who raps to me which is probably why you seem to keep him out with no difficulty

@@thej1615negga if drake isn’t hip hop neither is Kanye stop di( k ridin 😂😂😂😂😂 💯💯

Kanye grew up in south shore neighborhood in Chicago. Listen to drive slow on late registration, Chicago niggas felt that. Ye not a gangsta rapper, but you can’t compare him and Drake and how they grew up. But Malone did make me think on some of his points.

And will smith too

Not True, There's Nothing Middle Class About The Hundreds Area In LA. Your Not From LA

Negative. He grew up in the hood and was NOT a criminal. He is Hip-Hop

​@@KatkayzWho are considered will smith hip hop. He was the drake of the nineties

​@kmarcol1 go look at Will Smith's performance at the 50th anniversary celebration & tell us that ain't hip hop. Next you'll be telling us LL Cool J ain't hip hop either smh...

They're producers

No one. All these dudes just be talking

Or De La Soul or Will Smith. His arguments falls apart when you just look at the history of hip-hop alone. To much diversity. Even the narrative of the struggle imo is less important in today's rap climate. Materialism, aspiration for the good life/money, misogyny, etc. is way more appealing themes now!!!

Bs

@@robstark9274 because you say so? Lol. Bet your not “hip hop”

@@SkriptureMadeThisRemix glasses knows absolutely nothing about Chicago kanye grew up in the city of southshore drive he is definitely of the struggle

@@robstark9274 Kanye nor you know nothin about watts. Struggle defines watts. Watts is where glasses is from in case you didn’t know. Point is, glasses is qualified to speak on this and have his opinion. You aren’t. Can’t tell him he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Kanye definitely didn’t struggle either. You clearly don’t know Kanye’s story either. Or hip hop.

@@SkriptureMadeThisRemixhe doesn’t have the right to express his opinion either then? And you ASSUME he doesn’t know anything about life? How you know? You FBI?

Pop*

...you're white from the burbs. Stop

Drake was never in little brother he just paid phonte for features

@@Revengex19999negga wtf are you talking he never paid phonetic for shi get your facts right before you speak negga😂😂😂

Glasses don't know what the hell he talking about 😂

He's pop