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CMV: Rap has become less about talent and more about persona

I mean, come on. Most of the artists I see today have poor lyricism, unrefined production, and terrible flows, and yet still manage to make it onto the top charts consistently, as if they aren’t pumping out garbage. There are some shining examples of those who have broken that mold and become legends, but that doesn’t excuse the amount of utter shit that gets churned our year after year. We see artists living crazy lives, doing the most wacky things possible to get attention, but can’t actually back up their lives with good music. Everybody wants to be the next Lil Wayne, and yet nobody who tries to copy that lifestyle is actually on that musical level, but I feel like the culture has become so accustomed to that type of personality that it allow others who act like that but with subpar music pass right through, clogging up the Billboard, Freshman List, whatever you look at with rappers that can’t really rap. If you could prove to me that somehow there is some nuance to these people, go ahead. I love rap as a genre, and love new music, but some parts of this genre are truly hard to listen to.
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Rap has always been VERY about persona. Thats why rappers have always strived to be looked at as real. Tupac and Biggie are immortalized, as they should be, but their early lyrics took hold because of this persona they built up and the legend that followed them.

Em, 50, Jada, NWA, whoever you want to name: rap has always been incredibly about persona. If anything, these days its LESS about whos real and whos not. Weve got The Weeknd rapping about people trying to kill him, laughable. You think a motherfucker who starred in Degrassi would make it in rap in the 90s? Drake is a star, hes damn good at what he does, but that wouldnt have flown because he didnt have the real persona.