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.

Aggression

Hip hop culture has traditionally been a voice for people in poverty. Poverty usually increases crime. Although RapIndie's vision is an innovative rewrite of what it means to be a rapper, tolerance for the norms of hip hop culture is something we expect from our audience. It's ok to prefer the best of hip hop (we do), but we would like to ask for a little understanding for the worst of it.

Maybe Less IS More...

Quality is usually important. It's impactful, infectious, and evokes attachment. However, intentional lack of quality may be doing more good than simply making the world less critical.

1. In a world of digital art, real artists are often more inspired to try new seemingly easy things.

2. Are curator standards different than the casual audiences? Maybe people are satisfied.

3. Artists that blend in are more accepted and unified.

Unity

A while back, some people got together and over-powered exclusion. 

One of the biggest issues was that mob-mentality appropriation was inescapable in every community. Is the refusal to shout out "RapIndie" culture shock? Passive aggression?

The hip hop football team needs every position. Someone needed to showcase the potential of the culture, someone needed to use that potential to create a community, and someone needs to share/translate that community to every audience.

Bad Equality

Equality isn't always good. Lowering everyone to the bottom is worse than allowing different heights. There are also functional differences that are not about preferential treatment or prejudice.

Is it working?

Usually we trade ideas about achieving equality. However, it's just as important to ask the question, "are our ideas working"? Are people less boujee in 2025? Is the eco system in balance? Is equality truly the goal of the ideas? What's going on?