For me : Trippie Redd’s “!” Is actually a great album

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    7 months ago

    a lot of hip-hop that essentially glorified a lot of horrible traits was just what a lot of old, rich white dudes figured would make them money.

    Arrested Development touches on that in at least a few of their recent songs. This is one that immediately springs to mind, but there are others:

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    do i have to tell you how this industry goes down

    they wanna promote us as the lowest things around

    stereotypical images of blacks all around

    police beat us to the ground

    do i have to tell you how this industry goes down

    promote the thugs with the criminal sound

    stereotypical images and white supremacist images of us never innocent it kills

     

    kills, snitches and witnesses

    i guess the business is exploit us sexually

    but keep us intellectually primitive

    sedate the sensitive

    nullifying all their initiative

    to ever unify, just relying on representatives

    our english is now seen as this, opposite of geniuses

    the truth is meaningless

    they deliberately been deceiving us

    Edit: Realized the lyrics site had a couple words wrong.