Glory Boyz Ent - Chief Keef, Lil Reese, Lil Durk, Fredo Santana, SD
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Would you prefer it if they were on the electro-pop BS? I'd rather have them doing what they're doing now
If one does not take trap music too seriously, it can be good entertainment. I don't listen to trap music expecting the artist to be a real trapper (because, of course, 1) hardly anyone is really doing the kind of things talked about in trap music, certainly not to the same cartoonish extent, and 2), even if someone was doing those things, he wouldn't be bragging about them on record). So once we get the expectation that the people behind the music are accurate reflections of the music itself out of the way, we can just enjoy the music, if it is good. Sure, there was a time when that was a reasonable expectation, even if it was met much less frequently than people thought, but it's not that time anymore. It's not as if this is the first time this is happening in music - for example, the most extreme forms of heavy metal music are usually done by some emo-looking kids that bear no resemblance whatsoever to the image of evil looking muscular 6'5'' tall men with long hairs that the music traditionally invokes.
The positive thing about trap music is that it has a distinct identity and it hits hard; we haven't had a style with a defined identity in hip-hop in quite a while. I can easily see how 10 years from now we will be looking at the years around 2010 in a similar way that we look at the g-funk era of the mid-90s. Just as there is a small but vibrant community of people who fetishize the portamento synths and talkbox sound effects for that era, 10 years from now there might similarly be people reminiscing over the Lex Luger snare rolls and lamenting the sorry state of hip-hop at the time after whatever even more gay trend than autotunne and electro pop (and I am sure someone will come up with such a thing between then and now) has taken over. Yes, there is a major difference between the g-funk era and the trap era and it is the level of the MC-ing but, first, the style does not lend itself to sophisticated MC-ing by the very nature of the beats, and second, as I said above, it is infinitely better than Nicki Minaj and Drake.
If one does not take trap music too seriously, it can be good entertainment. I don't listen to trap music expecting the artist to be a real trapper (because, of course, 1) hardly anyone is really doing the kind of things talked about in trap music, certainly not to the same cartoonish extent, and 2), even if someone was doing those things, he wouldn't be bragging about them on record). So once we get the expectation that the people behind the music are accurate reflections of the music itself out of the way, we can just enjoy the music, if it is good. Sure, there was a time when that was a reasonable expectation, even if it was met much less frequently than people thought, but it's not that time anymore. It's not as if this is the first time this is happening in music - for example, the most extreme forms of heavy metal music are usually done by some emo-looking kids that bear no resemblance whatsoever to the image of evil looking muscular 6'5'' tall men with long hairs that the music traditionally invokes.
The positive thing about trap music is that it has a distinct identity and it hits hard; we haven't had a style with a defined identity in hip-hop in quite a while. I can easily see how 10 years from now we will be looking at the years around 2010 in a similar way that we look at the g-funk era of the mid-90s. Just as there is a small but vibrant community of people who fetishize the portamento synths and talkbox sound effects for that era, 10 years from now there might similarly be people reminiscing over the Lex Luger snare rolls and lamenting the sorry state of hip-hop at the time after whatever even more gay trend than autotunne and electro pop (and I am sure someone will come up with such a thing between then and now) has taken over. Yes, there is a major difference between the g-funk era and the trap era and it is the level of the MC-ing but, first, the style does not lend itself to sophisticated MC-ing by the very nature of the beats, and second, as I said above, it is infinitely better than Nicki Minaj and Drake.