Gangsta rap went from telling stories about the life I lived to telling stories about the life I'm living and "fans" now think you're a fraud if you're not killing and hurting people. I don't want to see the artists I like getting hurt or killed because of authenticity, I want them to live as long as possible so I can keep enjoying their music
Yes. Gangsta Rap is almost as old as Rap itself. I think the 90s was Gangsta Raps heyday and in that time Hip Hop was more vibrant than ever. You had Bloods and Crips tapes. It doesn't get more Gangsta than that. Hip hop is dying because it is getting over formulaic. In the 90s and 00s, there were alot of different distinctive genres which helped Hip Hop stay vibrant.
@@jsmacks11gangsta rap is killed it. Labels and fans don’t mess with you unless you’re a street dude with 20 bodies and beef with every gang in America. People aren’t as open minded either and the internet makes everyone feel their artist or style is more important than it really is.
@@Ilovemylightskinqueensnigga thought we would agree 😂 the only ass people on ts is E40 only La ppl can get down ta his shi fr but evb u missed bad foo 🤣
I think there should be a CLEAR differentiation between gangsta rap that tells about it WITHOUT glorifying it and then gangsta rap that does glorify mvrder etc
The ONLY reason Kanye won was because gangsta rap was dated at that point. It was stale. Same way dre and snoop blew conscious hip hop outta water in the 90s. Times change and trends change
Gangsta Rap changed the original narrative and trajectory of Hip-Hop and not for the better…imo Gangsta rap was only put here to fuck up Hip-Hop and take it off course…Gangsta rap arrested Hip-Hop music and cultures development…Since the second half of the 1980s, when Gangsta rap first hit the scene, it stunted the growth of Hip-Hop as an artform…Gangsta rap basically made mainstream rap music into an embarrassing minstrel show filled to the brim with nothing but stereotypes and cliches…Another Black artform ruined…mission accomplished…
Drake was not the first to combine rapping and singing. Nate dogg, akon, and max b all did it a decade before smh. Drake opened the lane for squares to be big in hip hop and its a dam shame. Hes a culture vulture
@@jaythescientist333 his first album "Boy Genius" had one or two tracks with sing style on it, actually a solid album too. His second album "A Day in the Life" had a few more in the style. A good album but his optics were soft compared to the gangster rap that was dominant so kind of got lost in the shuffle.
I just find it strange when I'm listening to a souncloud/backpack rapper, pop stars or r'n'b singers and they mention 'Opps'. It makes me think they consume so much gangster rap they can't help but write it into their music. The lines are blurring.
Healing Rap is next. That’s why most of the best artists are all coming out with therapy albums. A lot of these young heads out here ain’t gon be with it like that but it’s needed. Rap about to be Real again REAL soon
@@TheInfamousTyrell Rod wave is a gangster himself and whines in his music and has a big victim mentality. He stole from people then whined about Jeezy promoting trap or die
Hip hop is here to stay, just like rock n roll. It’ll only keep changing because it’s the voice of the youth. The entire youth of the world listens to hip hop.
What killed the true and pure essence of hip hop music in the mainstream, was when GANGSTER RAP totally took over the rap music industry by the mid 90s on both coast mostly through the record labels of DEATHROW RECORDS and BAD BOY RECORDS and the coastal beef that led to the murders of TUPAC and BIGGIE. That was the final nail in the coffin that destroyed the golden era of Hip Hop Music in the mainstream. When record labels, radio, and video networks started forcing most rappers to glorify the criminal lifestyle in order to get mainstream exposure, rap music went downhill ever since until this very day. And we can not blame NWA, because when NWA came out in the late 80s, mainstream Hip Hop Music was still balanced at that time between the negative and positive aspects of subject matter, vibes, style, and image. In the late 80s and early 90s, you still had humorous fun living rappers, like KID N PLAY, JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE, and BIZ MARKIE. You still had socially politically conscious rap groups like PUBLIC ENEMY, BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS, and X CLAN. You still had lyrical rappers like BIG DADDY KANE, KOOL G RAP, and RAKIM. You had rap superstars like LL COOL J. You had creative eccentric rap groups like TRIBE CALLED QUEST and DE LA SOUL. You even had crossover pop rappers like MC HAMMER, TONE LOC, and YOUNG MC. The bottom line is that mainstream rap music was balanced in the late 80s and early 90s, because rappers were encouraged to be more original in their own lane back then. That's what made it the golden era for rap music at that time. But starting in the mid 90s, the industry began to pressure rappers to only promote the criminal lifestyle in their lyrics. And by the time we got to 2010, it got to the point where lyricism, originality, and substance were no longer important or promoted in mainstream rap music. Now here we are in a garbage dump of mumble rap, drill rap, and trap rap. Thank GOD we still have at least two rappers left in the mainstream in 2024 who keep lyricism, originality, and substance alive like J COLE and KENDRICK LAMAR..
Gangsta rap never destroyed hip-hop, if gangsterism always existed in many hoods across America. It just dominated the airwaves, because people from the hood finally had music that represented their reality. Remember, hip-hop was born from a truce between gangs from the Bronx. IMO, it just made full circle from its origination. Btw, hip-hop is also DJing, graffiti art, and breakdancing. And those other parts of hip-hop is world wide now too.
Okay, it existed and gave a outlet to that sub culture. But now it's propped up as the coolest shit. And most these rappers never did a second of crime but rap about it. Its all hip hop is anymore. And you clearly see what it has done to the young generations. I mean it's clear as day. Ghetto culture is glorified and its sad. You have little girls under 10 singing Sexy Redd and the parents encourage it. If that doesn't tell you something is wrong, nothing will convince you cause you to lost in the bullshit
At a certain point it's at all just to maintain an image that you can sell... Imagine having millions of dollars and not needing to work another day in your life and THEN deciding to go shoot someone for disrespecting a few blocks of a neighborhood you no longer live in Yeah that's pretty silly but things like that have happened
Serial killer Rap was also in the 90s. There was its own genre Horror core Rap. That said most of it was so over the top, you could easily distinguish it from reality. I think now the Internet can add a new layer of realism than Rap in the 90s could as now you have self promoted Rappers vs Industry controlled Rappers as underground Rap was harder to achieve back then vs now about anyone who self promote themselves as a Gangsta Rapper can be more believable but on the flipside can be under more pressure to keep it real. It is a dangerous lifestyle though to get into as you can become an instant target.
😶😶Wow!!! Great work Boss. You did your home work and got it all in 18 min vid. I grew up deep in the beginning of the biz. Then I escaped the age of destruction. Thx for your work.
Im a lifelong NYC resident & Hip Hop fan.& I remember when Hip Hop was seen as a way to get AWAY from the streets back in the early 1980s..its INSANE how that narrative has been TOTALLY flipped! Btw i remember being a Schooley D fan back in the day..& his Saturday Night & PSK are STILL on daily rotation on my Spotify..who knew back then that GANGSTA RAP would end up TAKING OVER the game
It not really flipped but let be fr back in the day gangsta was really gangster doing thing that still exist today not really flip I would say some degree not all the way
Great mini doc but one detail left out is that KRS One dropped Criminal Minded in 86 I think. They were on the album cover with blicky’s which was almost unheard of in the 80’s and had a song called 9mm. This was before or right at the time NWA blew up. KRS is known for conscious rap but he is actually one of the fore runners of gangster rap. Ultimately Scott La Rock lost his life the same way.
Criminal Minded wasn't gsngsta rap though. It wasn't KRS saying he was ciminal minded. He was trying to teach the criminal minded that it was a path to destruction. Listening to the album he's talking to gangsters (probably mostly ones he knew in the bronx) and trying to educate them on the corruptors and colonizers of this country and why it's the way it is.. The album cover with the uzi is actually him imitating the image of the famous picture where Malcom X holds an ak-47 in one hand while peeping out of the window after klan members drove by his home, threw something at his home and threatened his family.
It went from if yu can rhyme then come a mc but have a new style more so the have fun and pure hip hop was the 80s Let beef up the material so it be more conversational but also take rap to a vet very deep place with messages if you listen. Was the birth of tru lyricism 90s. I'm skip the early 2000s. My friend in the 2000 said rap has a lock on it right now because the lyrics one again travel to a new level. Currently the game is on lock. Not because guys can't rap and aren't lyricist. Or maybe I'm wrong but this rap era having things locked has nothing to do with lyrics. It's on lock because people are afraid to get killed, or merked. Lol like if you become a rapper today you have to be fearless because you know what Come with that. Me as an artist loved music but always had this thought of how scary it can be. You become a target instantly. Everybody ain't 50. Shot 9 times and survived luckily. I'm not fif lol.
It went from gangsters trying to become rappers, to rappers trying to be gangsters. The younger generations got the messages of the OG rappers all wrong. And now they’re repeating their interpretations of the messages the OGs were trying to send.
Good video, I would say the title doesn't match the video or description well...This was a good history video but I didn't really see you drive "how gangsta rap destroyed hip hop"
@@tfoxg77ngangsta rappers destroying themselves and actually destroying hip hop are 2 different things. The title is off but it’s just to get clicks and views…
Violent crime is down 50% from the 80s and 90s. It's down 75% in big cities like NY and LA. These young kids don't know what violence on a mass scale is. 💯 Fortunately
@@FromTH-camApp You sound smart to a dummy. The problem for you is I'm not. I specifically said violent crime, not murder rates. In the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder, nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Violent crimes are defined in the UCR Program as offenses that involve force or threat of force. NY and LA were never that violent? The statistics say otherwise.
@@FromTH-camAppYou Sound Dumb Asfk😂😂😂Mexican Gangs In LA Go Back To The 1890s -1910s Gangs In LA Been Around Since The 1910s , All Yall South States To The East Coast Midwest Were All Tap Dancing Singing The Blues And Doing Protests , In California Gangs Been Around Since The 1920s 😂😂😂Yall Late
very interesting video and good job on your research, glad you didn't forget schoolly D as the pioneer of gangsta rap. maybe the title of the vid isn't the best, i feel like a better title would've been "the evolution/rise, fall and rise again of gangsta rap" as you really didn't go into detail long enough on how it destroyed hip hop but that's just my opinion, i watched this at 1am while doing something else so i might've missed something lol
@@Chrispy he definitely is. And I personally don’t like a lot of these new rappers because they all sound the same, and they be trash as hell. But I remember the first time I heard Pooh Shiesty I instantly took it liking to him. I just hope he makes better decisions when he gets out. Because if he still has that same mentality, he will end up in prison for a very long time.
As a white guy who grew up with both rock and hip hop from the 80’s & 90’s I really enjoyed the music of that time. I look at what is left as a legacy of hip hop today and I gotta say, I absolutely hate it. I hate the culture, I hate the violence, I hate the robotic production line of “want to be” rappers trying to actually live an unsustainable lifestyle. While actual music, you know the kind you learn an instrument to play for, is suffering because rap is the quick dollar business. The intelligence level has taken a nose dive across the board and the way people act these days is pathetic, racist, greedy, materialistic, misogynistic, and finally anarchic. Looting and burning down businesses will destroy America and all you fools needing medical attention might find the hospitals gone soon too.
I don’t condone rappers killing each other, but I’d rather hear an authentic gangster rappin about gang shit rather than a dude who doesn’t know shit about the culture rappin about it
Cali took that to another level, but they were talking about what they knew. People took the music n emulated it. That's not their fault. People who did the latter are lost. The industry itself were only signing those artist after '93-94. Engineering
It also ruined being a real gangster. If some of your favorite rappers lie about being gangster and don’t life that life. Regular fans of those rappers will do the same big talk and end up getting humbled or worse hurt.
I love hip hop...ever snce it started in the Bronx...but I have to admit Drill music definitely destroyed lives...literally and thats a fact. Gangster music not so much unless it was on the west.
@migit6foot4..West coast gangster rap destroyed alot of lives because many kids from other regions of the US wanted to be a blood or a crip..Strange that gangster rap had that power during the cocain era in California...
People are rewriting history rap has been like this since the early 90s. Blaming rappers today is ridiculous considering they’re just carrying the torch. The hypocrisy is real it’s been like this since NWA if not before.
Mainstream destroyed rap music, got dudes dressing and acting like women, murderers telling on themselves, zesty behavior, dudes talking about being junk fiends 😂it’s many things not just gangster rap
7:25-7:28 All of them were gangster rappers; 8:26-8:37 T.I., Jeezy and T-Pain (if you can consider that “rap”) were all gangster rappers; 8:42 Chamillionaire is a gangster rapper; 10:11-10:14 Kendrick and Joey are both gangster rappers; 10:17 Mac Miller pushed drug culture which is gangster culture; 10:20-10:24 Again, those guys are trap rappers. Which means ALL OF THEM WERE GANGSTER; 12:10-12:44 Literally everyone you mentioned (except for Chance) is a gangster rapper! If you were a student in one of my classes, and this was your presentation, I would kick you out.
And the worst of it all.... DaBaby had the audacity to say he doesn't want to sukdiks... and you can talk about literally shooting your own homeboy in the head in front of his mama.... but don't you dare say f**
Gangs rap brainwashed in entire generation.. In the 90s, young men believed the BS rappers would say . Glorify losers, young man emulated what rap songs would talk about, but what real consequences in the end.
Issue is we have to many amatures blowing up and getting on big labels its one thing to cuss a few times and be dirty its another to straight up talk abt drugs killing etc almost every verse Artists like Josh A are at that level where they can be kinda gangster but dont fully commit to that title Then theres artists like NF who go hard and stay clean we need more artists like that and I think we can all agree theres to many gangster rappers
Gangsta Rap didn't destroy Hip Hop. Gangsta Rap is almost as old as Rap itself. In the 90s, Gangsta Rap was huge probably the hugest it ever was. Hip Hop showed no sign of slowing down. Over time Rap went in different directions sometimes toning down sometimes getting more Gangsta. If anything is destroying Rap, it is more the oversaturation, and becoming more formulatic.
Gangsta rap went from telling stories about the life I lived to telling stories about the life I'm living and "fans" now think you're a fraud if you're not killing and hurting people. I don't want to see the artists I like getting hurt or killed because of authenticity, I want them to live as long as possible so I can keep enjoying their music
All of it was created by the cia
Maybe just stop with the killing people lyrics
That's why I listen to likes of J Cole and Kendrick Lamar.
ongg
Facts
"destroyed" is kind of harsh. But I definitely think Gangsta rap has negativity affected rap, more than positively.
It did
Yes.
Gangsta Rap is almost as old as Rap itself. I think the 90s was Gangsta Raps heyday and in that time Hip Hop was more vibrant than ever. You had Bloods and Crips tapes. It doesn't get more Gangsta than that.
Hip hop is dying because it is getting over formulaic. In the 90s and 00s, there were alot of different distinctive genres which helped Hip Hop stay vibrant.
@@jsmacks11gangsta rap is killed it. Labels and fans don’t mess with you unless you’re a street dude with 20 bodies and beef with every gang in America. People aren’t as open minded either and the internet makes everyone feel their artist or style is more important than it really is.
yeah Uzi Tool by Dj Spanish Fly came out before My Philosphy by BDP@@jsmacks11
Destroyed is pretty accurate. Whatever’s left of pure true hip hop is somewhere tucked away underground.
Y’all letting any and everybody in is what ruined it y’all hype up the DUMBEST people
*drake lil wayne lil boosie E40 Rick ross
can’t expect intelligent people to blow up in a dumb society
Facts. Honestly black people should of gatekeep hip hop harder. And not any black people but real ones. Social media let the lamesx and weirdosx in.
@@Ilovemylightskinqueensall those guys have been around for 20/40 years what are you yapping about
@@Ilovemylightskinqueensnigga thought we would agree 😂 the only ass people on ts is E40 only La ppl can get down ta his shi fr but evb u missed bad foo 🤣
I think there should be a CLEAR differentiation between gangsta rap that tells about it WITHOUT glorifying it and then gangsta rap that does glorify mvrder etc
This is more of a timeline of eras than an actual dissection of gangsta raps influence. Still a good video!
I noticed the same thing, he told us nothing about how Gangster rap destroyed hip hop, but it was a cool video tho
Yeah was expecting somthing talking the topic in a new light
I'm surprise you didn't mention the Kanye vs 50 Cent sales battle, because that was a big story at the time involving Gangsta Rap.
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Kanye was wearing Pink polos and skinny jeans......
@@tmzz3609but 50 wasn’t
The ONLY reason Kanye won was because gangsta rap was dated at that point. It was stale. Same way dre and snoop blew conscious hip hop outta water in the 90s. Times change and trends change
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Gangsta Rap changed the original narrative and trajectory of Hip-Hop and not for the better…imo Gangsta rap was only put here to fuck up Hip-Hop and take it off course…Gangsta rap arrested Hip-Hop music and cultures development…Since the second half of the 1980s, when Gangsta rap first hit the scene, it stunted the growth of Hip-Hop as an artform…Gangsta rap basically made mainstream rap music into an embarrassing minstrel show filled to the brim with nothing but stereotypes and cliches…Another Black artform ruined…mission accomplished…
@jasonmassplayingmusic5533.Speak that Truth bruh ✊🏾
I mean it's human nature to like destruction... every genre a artist will do better when they destructive
Bro it's not that deep it's entertainment
@@playab2954it is that deep though
@@tiptop6906 how and why?
Drake was not the first to combine rapping and singing. Nate dogg, akon, and max b all did it a decade before smh. Drake opened the lane for squares to be big in hip hop and its a dam shame. Hes a culture vulture
Kwame did it before Nate Dogg did by at least 5 years.
@@PuffinPass idk who that is g
@@jaythescientist333 his first album "Boy Genius" had one or two tracks with sing style on it, actually a solid album too. His second album "A Day in the Life" had a few more in the style. A good album but his optics were soft compared to the gangster rap that was dominant so kind of got lost in the shuffle.
Don't forget Ja Rule, Nelly and TPain
@@Thespeedrap i mean more on g shit. but yea those guys deff paved the way for drake 💯
Nas is an East Coast “Gangsta rapper?” You lost me…
Thank you, Jay Z, 50 cent, Nas are street rappers. You can't link them directly to a gang
Horrible video
@pbillustrator...Nas is more so a reality rapper from the hood like a reporter..Nas aint like a Young boy or A lil Durk
Okay I'm like Scarface sniffing cocaine, holding a M16
NAS used to make mafioso rap, which was the east cost version of gangsta rap
I just find it strange when I'm listening to a souncloud/backpack rapper, pop stars or r'n'b singers and they mention 'Opps'. It makes me think they consume so much gangster rap they can't help but write it into their music. The lines are blurring.
I think that word has just transcended gangsta culture it's just a commonly used word now
All “opps” mean is opposition
@@Designa10ktrue, but opps is street slang for opposition.
I always say it 2016-2019 era was the one of the best eras for hip-hop when Pierre was making bouncy fun beats SoundCloud era >
I think it did more than destroy hip hop. It destroyed an entire culture. It destroyed multiple genres of music.
more than music, it destroy the comunitys, kids get what entertaiment industry tell them.
Jah Rule did what Drake did back in early 2000's
Nelly was the original Drake just without the sensitive soft shit
@@TheNadroj10Drake help young Rappers who on the com up tho💯sum the OG Rap niccas barley do , really don’t do 😂 put sum respect on Drake
@@TheNadroj10LL Cool J
@@TekkLuthorYeah, but at least he wasn’t singin’!
The 1970s was the deadliest decade on some hood shit frfr
Couldn’t imagine getting chased down by one of them muscle ass 80s niggas 😂
Right!
I heard some cats would slide listening to the Whispers..
@@baruchwarrior2389 murder rates was at it highest in the 70's due to the government shipping guns in the hoods
It doesn't take music to affect crime rates.
70s had lots of drugs, and decaying cities.
@@jsmacks11he never said it did
9:41 Saying Drake is one of the first to get emotional on songs is crazy.. he’s just one of the first to make it part of his brand
not even that we had kanye do it before him
U forgot Pop smoke
That boy made music that white women in the UK listen to King Von made music for the trenches
we were all thinking of pop when he got to the NYC drill in 2019-2020 part. pop smoke was the pinnacle of drill
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Fun fact Creep by TLC samples Hey Young World
this video is amazing and keep up the good work
I hope gangsta rap stays out of fashion forever. Its not needed
Im glad you mentioned G Herbo because he's one of the most underrated rappers in the game and my favorite rapper
Healing Rap is next. That’s why most of the best artists are all coming out with therapy albums. A lot of these young heads out here ain’t gon be with it like that but it’s needed. Rap about to be Real again REAL soon
That stuff is depressing
@@juicemane7655 I mean, it can’t be too bad. People listen to Rod Wave. He’s not too far off
That stuff isn’t marketable to white suburban males.
That’s who all the gangsta rap is consumed by and who studio executives want to reach out to.
@@TheInfamousTyrell Rod wave is a gangster himself and whines in his music and has a big victim mentality. He stole from people then whined about Jeezy promoting trap or die
Back in the 90s when I was a teen I said rap will be extinct by 2050. I still believe that.
Hip hop is here to stay, just like rock n roll. It’ll only keep changing because it’s the voice of the youth. The entire youth of the world listens to hip hop.
Common old head L take
How old were you when you made that prediction? Cus looking at Rock, Funk, Jazz, I feel you'll be way extinct before hip hop.
@@DomeStik-he2gn '97 I was twelve. As a big fan hopefully I'm proven wrong. We shall see.
What killed the true and pure essence of hip hop music in the mainstream, was when GANGSTER RAP totally took over the rap music industry by the mid 90s on both coast mostly through the record labels of DEATHROW RECORDS and BAD BOY RECORDS and the coastal beef that led to the murders of TUPAC and BIGGIE. That was the final nail in the coffin that destroyed the golden era of Hip Hop Music in the mainstream. When record labels, radio, and video networks started forcing most rappers to glorify the criminal lifestyle in order to get mainstream exposure, rap music went downhill ever since until this very day. And we can not blame NWA, because when NWA came out in the late 80s, mainstream Hip Hop Music was still balanced at that time between the negative and positive aspects of subject matter, vibes, style, and image. In the late 80s and early 90s, you still had humorous fun living rappers, like KID N PLAY, JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE, and BIZ MARKIE. You still had socially politically conscious rap groups like PUBLIC ENEMY, BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS, and X CLAN. You still had lyrical rappers like BIG DADDY KANE, KOOL G RAP, and RAKIM. You had rap superstars like LL COOL J. You had creative eccentric rap groups like TRIBE CALLED QUEST and DE LA SOUL. You even had crossover pop rappers like MC HAMMER, TONE LOC, and YOUNG MC. The bottom line is that mainstream rap music was balanced in the late 80s and early 90s, because rappers were encouraged to be more original in their own lane back then. That's what made it the golden era for rap music at that time. But starting in the mid 90s, the industry began to pressure rappers to only promote the criminal lifestyle in their lyrics. And by the time we got to 2010, it got to the point where lyricism, originality, and substance were no longer important or promoted in mainstream rap music. Now here we are in a garbage dump of mumble rap, drill rap, and trap rap. Thank GOD we still have at least two rappers left in the mainstream in 2024 who keep lyricism, originality, and substance alive like J COLE and KENDRICK LAMAR..
Gangsta rap never destroyed hip-hop, if gangsterism always existed in many hoods across America.
It just dominated the airwaves, because people from the hood finally had music that represented
their reality. Remember, hip-hop was born from a truce between gangs from the Bronx. IMO, it
just made full circle from its origination. Btw, hip-hop is also DJing, graffiti art,
and breakdancing. And those other parts of hip-hop is world wide now too.
Okay, it existed and gave a outlet to that sub culture. But now it's propped up as the coolest shit. And most these rappers never did a second of crime but rap about it. Its all hip hop is anymore. And you clearly see what it has done to the young generations. I mean it's clear as day. Ghetto culture is glorified and its sad. You have little girls under 10 singing Sexy Redd and the parents encourage it. If that doesn't tell you something is wrong, nothing will convince you cause you to lost in the bullshit
At a certain point it's at all just to maintain an image that you can sell... Imagine having millions of dollars and not needing to work another day in your life and THEN deciding to go shoot someone for disrespecting a few blocks of a neighborhood you no longer live in
Yeah that's pretty silly but things like that have happened
Great video. Time well invested on my behalf.
I cant believe you didnt mention pop smoke
He mentioned "lil mosey" 😑🤣
Drake created NOTHING
But there is a huge difference between ganster rap and murderer serial killer rap, these new boys aren’t gangsters, they are literally murderers.
nah they're still gangsters, just more reckless
Serial killer Rap was also in the 90s.
There was its own genre Horror core Rap.
That said most of it was so over the top, you could easily distinguish it from reality. I think now the Internet can add a new layer of realism than Rap in the 90s could as now you have self promoted Rappers vs Industry controlled Rappers as underground Rap was harder to achieve back then vs now about anyone who self promote themselves as a Gangsta Rapper can be more believable but on the flipside can be under more pressure to keep it real.
It is a dangerous lifestyle though to get into as you can become an instant target.
What do you think a gangster is? Do you think gangs like to hang out in the library and read stories to kids?
I mean what about scarface and geto boys?? horror rap has been a thing but I doubt people actually done half of what they say in their lyrics
@@jsmacks11Horrorcore is very much alive and well it’s just underground
😶😶Wow!!! Great work Boss. You did your home work and got it all in 18 min vid. I grew up deep in the beginning of the biz. Then I escaped the age of destruction. Thx for your work.
Can't wait for the premier😮😊😊
I wish Jazz or funk was our mainstream genre instead.
sick bro i wish i had 27 million dollars
Me too
😂😂😂 FOH
@@troublemanjerm😐
Then we’d have us some gangsta jazz😂
Don’t forget drakeo the ruler he wasn’t gangster rap but he brought in that nervous music that was a huge wave from LA 🗣️💯 LLDTR WE KNOW THE TRUTH
nervous music?
So pretty much the biggest artist of the time determine where the wave goes
I’m surprised no one mentions rio or Detroit rap. That’s a whole different type of rap right there
Im a lifelong NYC resident & Hip Hop fan.& I remember when Hip Hop was seen as a way to get AWAY from the streets back in the early 1980s..its INSANE how that narrative has been TOTALLY flipped!
Btw i remember being a Schooley D fan back in the day..& his Saturday Night & PSK are STILL on daily rotation on my Spotify..who knew back then that GANGSTA RAP would end up TAKING OVER the game
It not really flipped but let be fr back in the day gangsta was really gangster doing thing that still exist today not really flip I would say some degree not all the way
y'all seem to forget that Gangsta rap is HipHop Like Hip Hop woudn't have such a big place in the culture today If it wasn't for Gangsta rap
That's cap hip hop was already big before the 90s gangsta rap wave
Great mini doc but one detail left out is that KRS One dropped Criminal Minded in 86 I think. They were on the album cover with blicky’s which was almost unheard of in the 80’s and had a song called 9mm. This was before or right at the time NWA blew up. KRS is known for conscious rap but he is actually one of the fore runners of gangster rap. Ultimately Scott La Rock lost his life the same way.
Criminal Minded wasn't gsngsta rap though. It wasn't KRS saying he was ciminal minded. He was trying to teach the criminal minded that it was a path to destruction. Listening to the album he's talking to gangsters (probably mostly ones he knew in the bronx) and trying to educate them on the corruptors and colonizers of this country and why it's the way it is.. The album cover with the uzi is actually him imitating the image of the famous picture where Malcom X holds an ak-47 in one hand while peeping out of the window after klan members drove by his home, threw something at his home and threatened his family.
It went from if yu can rhyme then come a mc but have a new style more so the have fun and pure hip hop was the 80s
Let beef up the material so it be more conversational but also take rap to a vet very deep place with messages if you listen. Was the birth of tru lyricism 90s. I'm skip the early 2000s. My friend in the 2000 said rap has a lock on it right now because the lyrics one again travel to a new level. Currently the game is on lock. Not because guys can't rap and aren't lyricist. Or maybe I'm wrong but this rap era having things locked has nothing to do with lyrics. It's on lock because people are afraid to get killed, or merked. Lol like if you become a rapper today you have to be fearless because you know what Come with that. Me as an artist loved music but always had this thought of how scary it can be. You become a target instantly. Everybody ain't 50. Shot 9 times and survived luckily. I'm not fif lol.
It went from gangsters trying to become rappers, to rappers trying to be gangsters.
The younger generations got the messages of the OG rappers all wrong. And now they’re repeating their interpretations of the messages the OGs were trying to send.
That was an amazing history of hip hop in chronological order damn
You didn't mention bone thugs and you forgot the snitch era and gucci
He covered the “Snitching Era” two videos ago!!!
True Gucci the whole reason people want to live their raps and catch bodies and Waka Flocka created the drill lane with his sound
@@michaelwalker865 ok,i missed it
Good video, I would say the title doesn't match the video or description well...This was a good history video but I didn't really see you drive "how gangsta rap destroyed hip hop"
He did by telling u how that style of rap gets u locked up or killed fr
He even said it comes in cycles so the last cycle of gangster rap that was late 10s early 20s with king Von at the fore front making the noise
@@tfoxg77ngangsta rappers destroying themselves and actually destroying hip hop are 2 different things. The title is off but it’s just to get clicks and views…
He doesn't, it's click bait.
@@john.f.remedy.237 wtf r u talking about clown
Falling off because they keep dying thiers more to rap then killing
Violent crime is down 50% from the 80s and 90s. It's down 75% in big cities like NY and LA. These young kids don't know what violence on a mass scale is. 💯 Fortunately
@@FromTH-camApp You sound smart to a dummy. The problem for you is I'm not. I specifically said violent crime, not murder rates.
In the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder, nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Violent crimes are defined in the UCR Program as offenses that involve force or threat of force.
NY and LA were never that violent? The statistics say otherwise.
@@FromTH-camAppYou Sound Dumb Asfk😂😂😂Mexican Gangs In LA Go Back To The 1890s -1910s Gangs In LA Been Around Since The 1910s , All Yall South States To The East Coast Midwest Were All Tap Dancing Singing The Blues And Doing Protests , In California Gangs Been Around Since The 1920s 😂😂😂Yall Late
Now were are entering the new era of sound - the explosion of R&b soul, 90s essence of rap. And alot more sampling of old school 90s and even 80s.
Mam, I thought I was the only person that noticed the switch since gangsta rap took over Hip-Hop...
This dude didn't mention the Based God at all
steeze is more of a lyricist than joey badass
Thugnificent once said "The music industry is trash 🗑️".
very interesting video and good job on your research, glad you didn't forget schoolly D as the pioneer of gangsta rap. maybe the title of the vid isn't the best, i feel like a better title would've been "the evolution/rise, fall and rise again of gangsta rap" as you really didn't go into detail long enough on how it destroyed hip hop but that's just my opinion, i watched this at 1am while doing something else so i might've missed something lol
Shiesty finna be out soon
hot take but pooh shiesty is probably of the best rappers to come out in the 2020s
thats not good
@@bbyponk yes it is
@@Chrispy he definitely is. And I personally don’t like a lot of these new rappers because they all sound the same, and they be trash as hell. But I remember the first time I heard Pooh Shiesty I instantly took it liking to him. I just hope he makes better decisions when he gets out. Because if he still has that same mentality, he will end up in prison for a very long time.
@@bbyponk At all
As a white guy who grew up with both rock and hip hop from the 80’s & 90’s I really enjoyed the music of that time. I look at what is left as a legacy of hip hop today and I gotta say, I absolutely hate it. I hate the culture, I hate the violence, I hate the robotic production line of “want to be” rappers trying to actually live an unsustainable lifestyle. While actual music, you know the kind you learn an instrument to play for, is suffering because rap is the quick dollar business. The intelligence level has taken a nose dive across the board and the way people act these days is pathetic, racist, greedy, materialistic, misogynistic, and finally anarchic. Looting and burning down businesses will destroy America and all you fools needing medical attention might find the hospitals gone soon too.
Nah greed/capitalism is what really did it.
I don’t condone rappers killing each other, but I’d rather hear an authentic gangster rappin about gang shit rather than a dude who doesn’t know shit about the culture rappin about it
Why does it matter? If the music slaps it slaps…
A little from column A, A little from column B
Authentic or not, if he’s not talented and original I don’t care to hear it. That’s the problem. Every knucklehead running the streets wanna rap.
@@trappnoutw3st32 it matters because it’s my opinion, I’m allowed to have one
Good video but Crazy how lil b was never mentioned in it. He definitely paved the way & inspired a lot of mainstream musicians
SKIP
Save your time and go to the next one. This is the narrators opinion and memories. Or its extremely poorly researched.
Gangsta rap sucks. It has been nothing but detrimental to the culture. Main reason hip hop is unbearable nowadays.
New rappers influenced a lot of crashouts, kids who think they’re something they aren’t. It’s unfortunate really
Don’t let them fool you! A rapper = actor! The question! Do you believe! What the rapper is selling you!
Cali took that to another level, but they were talking about what they knew. People took the music n emulated it. That's not their fault. People who did the latter are lost. The industry itself were only signing those artist after '93-94. Engineering
All these names that I never effing heard about. This genre got real silly, real fast. What a bunch of clowns.
destroyed? hasn’t gansta rap been around since the 90s?
Nah 80s
It also ruined being a real gangster. If some of your favorite rappers lie about being gangster and don’t life that life. Regular fans of those rappers will do the same big talk and end up getting humbled or worse hurt.
I love hip hop...ever snce it started in the Bronx...but I have to admit Drill music definitely destroyed lives...literally and thats a fact. Gangster music not so much unless it was on the west.
@migit6foot4..West coast gangster rap destroyed alot of lives because many kids from other regions of the US wanted to be a blood or a crip..Strange that gangster rap had that power during the cocain era in California...
I can prove gangsta music destroy live
@@Adrian-xb1rxthank you
People are rewriting history rap has been like this since the early 90s. Blaming rappers today is ridiculous considering they’re just carrying the torch. The hypocrisy is real it’s been like this since NWA if not before.
Back pack rap like pharcyde souls little brother we need that kind of rap
Mainstream destroyed rap music, got dudes dressing and acting like women, murderers telling on themselves, zesty behavior, dudes talking about being junk fiends 😂it’s many things not just gangster rap
What about the s80-90 rapper that were murderer too no one wanna talk about how mass killing spree back in a day
This shit is not gangsta rap. That’s West coast music made from a certain style. This shit something else
Anyone got a playlist of influential early rappers? All I’m familiar with is probably mid 90’s to modern
King von rap about storys and one of the best story tellers
Gangsta rap needs to end like seriously it’s not good for society at all
movies needa go too and video games aswell
@@MTownBaby music that glorifies death and destruction is not good for nobody you know that lmao
@@kooldawgGTA promote the same thing. Are you advocating for that to end as well?
@@Revereran gta ain’t influencing ppl to kill ppl music is
@@kooldawg Kids have committed mass shootings due to the inspiration of GTA, stop it. You are being a hypocrite.
7:25-7:28 All of them were gangster rappers; 8:26-8:37 T.I., Jeezy and T-Pain (if you can consider that “rap”) were all gangster rappers; 8:42 Chamillionaire is a gangster rapper; 10:11-10:14 Kendrick and Joey are both gangster rappers; 10:17 Mac Miller pushed drug culture which is gangster culture; 10:20-10:24 Again, those guys are trap rappers. Which means ALL OF THEM WERE GANGSTER; 12:10-12:44 Literally everyone you mentioned (except for Chance) is a gangster rapper!
If you were a student in one of my classes, and this was your presentation, I would kick you out.
And the worst of it all.... DaBaby had the audacity to say he doesn't want to sukdiks... and you can talk about literally shooting your own homeboy in the head in front of his mama.... but don't you dare say f**
Rap is here to stay
Free Pooh Shiesty 👣💯
Gangs rap brainwashed in entire generation.. In the 90s, young men believed the BS rappers would say . Glorify losers, young man emulated what rap songs would talk about, but what real consequences in the end.
What about Bun B n Pimp C 8 Ball and MJG n Paul Wall. N New Boyz started the wave of skinny jeans n my opinion. Plus many more.
Maybe unpopular opinion: Logic is very talented
People really don’t give ICP their credit yes some of the new stuff is a lil corny but their story is inspiring
Y'all that listen to that shit and haven't lived it are the same type of people that play GTA RP servers pretending it's kinda sad
Lol.
Dudes have been saying this since the late 80’s.
Just listen to what you like and don’t listen to what you don’t like. 😂
gangsta rap did start hip hop. (atleast popularized it)
but the new wave of gangsta rap ruined it.
Issue is we have to many amatures blowing up and getting on big labels its one thing to cuss a few times and be dirty its another to straight up talk abt drugs killing etc almost every verse Artists like Josh A are at that level where they can be kinda gangster but dont fully commit to that title
Then theres artists like NF who go hard and stay clean we need more artists like that and I think we can all agree theres to many gangster rappers
Gangsta Rap destroyed proper Music in general.
Gangsta Rap didn't destroy Hip Hop.
Gangsta Rap is almost as old as Rap itself. In the 90s, Gangsta Rap was huge probably the hugest it ever was. Hip Hop showed no sign of slowing down. Over time Rap went in different directions sometimes toning down sometimes getting more Gangsta.
If anything is destroying Rap, it is more the oversaturation, and becoming more formulatic.
Gangsta rap started in 1985 with just ice and ice t
wait…😂 chamillionare don’t make gangsta rap, damn I thought ridin’ dirty said enough😂
Hope it goes back to 90s sample style that would be nice after all the garbage
Already happening and y'all still don't listen to it.
Dre didnt create GFunk but he defo was first to bring it to the mainstream
How come Kool G Rap name never comes up as part of the beginning of Gangta Rap? He had real street songs
Gangsta rap was supposed to be a sub-genre. Like Death metal to rock.
Death metal shouldn’t even exist all they do is scream😂
@@Ziggyhere57 somebody enjoys it lol I’m sure there are ppl who only listen to it on occasion
Did gangsta rap started 80s or 90s
"HOW GANGSTA RAP DESTROYED A GENERATION" should be the title
the only genre that glorifies violence, and artists die by that very thing, and it great numbers
17:48 wtf Carti is this what we’ve come to? lmaoo
Drill kept rap alive. Might not like it but lets not pretend
Yo, you are going to have to check out the northern California side of hip hop [ Ebk Jaaybo] , [ Mozzy] , [ Db bouttabag]
They had Stop the Violence on the East Coast because all the Gangs wanted in!!!!The Warriors movie told the story
According to this narrative, hip-hop died in the early 10s