Recommendations

Scouting talent is hard. RapIndie is a great example of the talent in hip hop, but it isn't a complete encyclopedia of hip hop. We would like to humbly ask for help finding your favorite artists from social media or emails; RapIndie is a taste of what's out there but it's nearly impossible to cover artists that are not relatively known and therefore it's not everything that's out there.

Flaky

Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival is right around the corner. "Don't Tap The Glass" and "Chromakopia" have been big successes. Tyler, The Creator has been a sanctioned "plus one" of indie culture for so long, that he can gather audiences looking for convenience. While that is good for him, his audience can be flaky. When his audience is flaky, he returns the flaky sentiment.

The social-mechanical limitations of his cultural mixes are a source of pride for some people. I would like to challenge him to implement his golf(everybody wins) message into his relationships a little better.

Actual Equality?

In life, everyone has something good about them. When people try to accentuate those qualities, it quickly turns into something negative. "Should people prolific on the inside need to be prolific on the outside and vice versa"? 

People say equality all the time, but they don't really think about how empty that word is in today's society. In God's eyes we are all equal. All appearances, intelligences, and financial statuses are equal, but is anyone really teaching that in 2025 or very boldly the opposite? Is there even an evolutionary argument for equality? 

Mechanical acceptance divides even with equality, and there's mechanical inequalities without prejudices. Do you believe all people are equal or are you simply trying to change how we're assessing them?

Focal Point

Being the center of attention has its advantages. It provides a functional protection from secretive people and it patents your ideas as fast as you create them. 

The problem is right now, power is everything. Hip hop is being weighed by its effect on the culture. 

The positive side of making culture appeal is fine. The problem is every positive reason to love the culture is twisted to augment social filters. And because no one is visible to be accountable, the artists are taking blame for everything.

Technology and Music Interest

Technology has given a voice to countless artists. However, it has drastically weakened the impact of that music on their audiences. How do you measure music's importance beyond it's problem solving efficiency? 

Concerts send a strong message and defy politics if only for a few minutes. Artists give hope for relationships that are organic and emotionally satisfying. Songs that are imperfectly targeted can reach people that are overlooked by everything else. Music is important and technology is vital to sharing it well.

Algorithm Irony

People seem so critical of thug culture, and yet they feel perfectly fine pushing the most aggressive and negative artists in rap. Now it's important to showcase the culture in its entirety, but what you glorify with success will be what people will imitate. We all have dreams.

Criteria

The standards are so much higher for white rappers than black rappers. The standards are so much higher for younger rappers. The standards are so high, and yet allow such average content to be accepted and even celebrated.

Default

Society claims to be afraid or boldly unafraid whenever it's convenient for hate. Society is bitter about universal problems, but warp those problems to target convenient targets. RapIndie is very inviting and friendly, but all we can do for bitterness is display artists with the same bitterness you have for the same problems.

Uniformity

If you don't want to exactly adhere to a pattern, then why not keep people that lighten your pressure to adhere to a pattern?

Back to Elitism

Being anti quality-control only works with noble intentions. All or nothing inclusivity is not resulting in "all". Empowering simplicity: good. Empowering poverty: good. Empowering mediocrity: not working.