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For me : Trippie Redd's "!" Is actually a great album

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

a lot of hip-hop that essentially glorified a lot of horrible traits was just what a lot of old, rich white dudes figured would make them money.

Arrested Development touches on that in at least a few of their recent songs. This is one that immediately springs to mind, but there are others:

do i have to tell you how this industry goes down

they wanna promote us as the lowest things around

stereotypical images of blacks all around

police beat us to the ground

do i have to tell you how this industry goes down

promote the thugs with the criminal sound

stereotypical images and white supremacist images of us never innocent it kills

kills, snitches and witnesses

i guess the business is exploit us sexually

but keep us intellectually primitive

sedate the sensitive

nullifying all their initiative

to ever unify, just relying on representatives

our english is now seen as this, opposite of geniuses

the truth is meaningless

they deliberately been deceiving us

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Edit: Realized the lyrics site had a couple words wrong.