Chris Brown - Summer Too Hot

Contextual Hate

Can you honestly say you’re a hater based on the song you heard or article you read? Or is your hate just contextual and lifestyle convenience?

BIA - Millions

2023 Audiences

Let's be honest, 2023 is a tough crowd. However, it's often overlooked in favor of money and power. We think the audience matters. You matter. So what's new in 2023? "Identity" is dead. For a while heritage/collective identity was a common source of pride, but even that has now been over-shadowed by other values.

The nicest thing about concerts is you gather people that like you if you're doing it right. However even that can be fickle. In eras like this, one of the strongest 2023 bonds comes from hardship and abuse. The same "knock them down a peg" mentality that creates underdogs, is what makes us support them over and over again.

EZ Mil - Realest (feat. Eminem)

DOGTOOTH OUTTA TUNE

Key Glock - Chromosomes

Flo Milli - FLO MILLI

Unity

Cultural pride is subtle. 

It manifests itself in cultural advantages. 

Those cultural advantages are mechanical.

Those mechanical advantages are social.

Even though you have elders passing down traditions, the weight of social structure is on us. Our contributions will make the future's culture. Our opinions and choices are very relevant to our worth. Value yourself.

Travis Scott - MELTDOWN (feat. Drake)

King Von & Lil Durk - From The Hood

Creator Status

A while back, technology over-powered intelligence. This led to an elevated status for certain intellectual rappers that we would like to call "creator status". While RapIndie may be the fastest way to spread "creator status", there are some concerns.

1. Are they as friendly to other cultures or as interested in the music from them, as they seem to want in return?

2. Do the rappers focused on the street NEED that elevated status if they are merely interacting within their own culture?

3. Maybe a few "creator status" artists are enough to keep people's minds open to rapper's creative potential; because in culture a lot of people are not living up to their ethnicity's hype.