Rap Fans Have A Strange Relationship With Death

Death has always been intertwined with rap as a genre but the dynamic that fans have with it has changed in recent years. #rap #hiphop
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[@kyjuan]

Crazy that no one is really pausing at the fact that Megan thee Stallion could've joined this list of rappers but expect her to be easy about shaming her for surviving that trauma..

[@donotresuscitatetrampstamp]

black women have been talking about this since the day she was shot but no one really cares to listen to them unfortunately

[@texanarchy666]

@@donotresuscitatetrampstampone of the most ignored groups in america sadly

[@AnimalAlmighty]

She strong and independent. She gone be alright.

[@nefariouscloud]

I hate that shit

[@VonDecken97]

And now we ear she beat up peoples,molesting employees just like lizzo 😂

[@biggycheese2169]

Social media is just busted as a whole. I could go from watching a reel on IG of a guy dropping a grenade in a room filled with people to a women shaking ass. Even on meme pages, every video has a mf in the comments say “I POST GORE CONTENT” and other shit like that and it’s really is just insane how things like this is just “normal” in modern day

[@ceeitrus]

Newer rap fans don’t treat rappers like they’re human beings with issues, they’re treated like a form of entertainment, even death has become apart of the entertainment, it’s spectacle, and that’s not normal, there’s no reason why ppl should have access to king vons autopsy photos, why is there countless videos of these ppls deaths caught LIVE on camera, I don’t want to see a dead body lying in the middle of the street, that’s disturbing imagery and ppl treat it like it’s normal, why’re ppl using rappers corpses as profile photos, THATS SICK, and it doesn’t help when some of these rappers engage in that behavior to posture how “tough” they are, why is there a video of this guy crying over his friend dying and his opps are mocking him??? when did it become normal to disrespect dead ppl and mock ppl mourning, its all sick behavior

[@t-marri1017]

People act heart broken but really like it when artists die. People secretly like chaos. Gladiator colosseums would be filled with people to see men fight lions. Knowing damn well the person wasn’t gonna survive.

[@Kooladethekid]

Preciate the unique content since after the beef ✊🏼

[@ceeitrus]

The fact chief keef, A GROWN ASS MAN, made a song talking about smoking on a literal child is sick behavior and ppl thought was just normal 😭

[@404mali]

He wasn’t a grown man , when Keef was dissing Tooka (a 15 year old) he was 15/16

[@ceeitrus]

@@404mali okay well he’s a grown man NOW and the fact he’s still doing it is sick regardless

[@saimclaughlin9585]

@@ceeitrushe been stopped doing it lol blame the culture

[@desireeeeam]

Me realizing I’m officially an “old head” less than a min in. Hmmph!

[@ramzino]

video topics are always great bro 🤞🏾

[@LeoRising0416]

That last analogy is great, never thought of it like that

[@JohnShoez]

Very insightful as always, young man. Great channel frfr

[@tarajhii]

Bro you’re gonna blow up from great video topics like this🙏🏽🔥🔥🔥

[@Alex-vm6ef]

Pre-commenting bc I know this will be a great video, hope to see you blessed bro and I appreciate the quality content.

[@texanarchy666]

i love the nuanced way you look at topics like this

[@rtduncan4509]

Good video, man! So many topics in this could be a different conversation to different points and problems we have today in rap and even society. I got into hip-hop around the 50 cent, lil wayne era. when i was in like middle school. Then, when i was in high school, someone showed me chicago drill. It was almost like a different new fresh genre to me at the time. I started listening to multiple drill artists no matter what side they were on because I thought the music was entertaining and hype. Then, dj akademiks war in chiraq channel was recommended to me on my feed, and i didn't know it was as real as it was. But i did know at the time, what he was doing was toxic and didn't support it, but at the same time, i wanted to hear all the stories going on and i couldn't avoid the content out of curiosity. You summed up everything good in this video. I believe social media has desensitized and changed how people think and view things that are really serious, and it's sad.

[@scrilla4047]

I was just talking to someone today explaining why I can't listen to Chicago drill. I know there's a lot of rappers that talk street shit or live that life but it's way different hearing actual names of dead people being used in songs. As I white man who grew up in the suburbs and has been listening to hip hop for 15 years and loves it to the core; I have to deal with the fact that I am part of an industry based around the consumption of black trauma.

[@owningkoning]

Theyre litterly killing eachother for freaking bs nonsense. I think if you really lusten to the lyrics its legit kinda cringe

[@CrucialFlowResearch]

Not everyone is killing each other, there is hip hop without all this too

[@justinarzola4584]

This is mainly a drill issue,the rest of hip hop has some of this but drill is the main one glorifying "smoking of opps" and disrespect of the dead.

[@chrisonloc729]

@@owningkoningChicago has literally murdered most of its talent that would be on top shits sad

[@yuppppooooiiiuyyy]

Looking forward to your insight in this.

[@fa.n5704]

New subscribers here! U won me over man keep up the good work ❤❤

[@kayjhnny5602]

You know exactly what your talking about keep it up🦾⚡️

[@nijoelgreene851]

The war in chiraq was an era, Great video as always Pay 🔥

[@veliciarogers7347]

This video reinforces my opinion that we really live in a sick world 🤷🏽‍♀️🤦🏾

[@jalenwilliams8622]

At this point that’s really not an opinion it’s more and more evident every year

[@keikei1943]

Facts.

[@basedcommentor]

I think fans of rap are more like fans of True Crime. Look at The War in Chiraq and Trap Lore Ross talking about death.

[@NormanHoward17]

That’s what I was gonna say… TRL really does his research and not every topic is about or around death in his video, it’s just the ones that broke the internet are two of Chicagos saddest cases.

[@daniel23_]

thumbnail funny af, trap lore ross looks like harry potter

[@Jesus23143]

I definitely agree

[@Rosenfeld.]

That TLR take was 👌🏾💯

[@liftaroonie]

When you separate from the crowd of non-thinkers and really take a moment to think about these rappers deaths, its depressing and dystopian. When Pop smoke died, there were people laughing about it in my school. For me, it was a dark moment because I got into his music heavily those 2-3 months before. I feel like some fans act like the rap game is a mall and go about as they please. I think of it as a museum where youre supposed to respect whats being presented. I just cant fathom that people are waiting for rappers to die as a gotcha moment, its sickening.

[@basedcommentor]

The War in Chiraq was A crazy time period

[@NormanHoward17]

IMO TRL is one of the only sources on hip hop that takes time to do full on research. And to say death in music is what gravitates people to his content then what we’re people doing when MJ died? They are whole books, think pieces and deep dives into Michael Jackson’s death. Hell, you just said the biggie and Tupac thing not realizing that both artists never met that success while living. They had to die to get the recognition they deserved

[@Veek2]

Justice keeps it real💯

[@GSicko]

diamonds at a hot dog stand

[@LongwindedShortstory]

I'm drom SoCal and seasoned enough to have lived through Easy, Trouble, T-ROY, Selena, Pac and Big, all the way to now. And I'm still tapped in. You're correct that now is more visual due to social media and phones. It's also true that my generation unfortunately facilitated this generation's violent tendencies. Many of which are because we made struggle and subsequent violence a trend. I hope, beneath the surface of recent history and current conjecture, your generation can identify how to heal what we didn't.

[@diamondlife8086]

Trap Lore Ross was doing documentaries on rap related topics that were getting several hundred thousand and millions of views prior to him even delving in to King Von and the whole Chicago drill scene. To act as if the sole reason he exists is because he started doing content on them just isn’t true

[@keikei1943]

Facts

[@lilcaint]

Yo vids be in the background wen im making beats

[@texanarchy666]

im glad 6 dogs death is still wrapped under mystery. i dont wanna know what happened to him

[@loneface]

We can go band 4 band

[@jmh20052]

I mean, the fans wouldn’t act like this if these rappers weren’t rapping lyrics like “smoking on tooka” or “Oblock pack get rolled up” 😂

[@user-qe4vm1tj5r]

It’s these guys thinking they are helping the community by instigating for money😂😂😂 and the idiots who watch it view it as “helping”

[@astargmoneynevaendz999]

Facts

[@pinkeyes1200]

Rappers (just talking about rappers, not rock music, not pop music not even r&b or country etc genres) Rapper glorify gangs and beefs and being in the streets selling dope and disrespecting women, etc. I do understand that all music genres have their problems. But again I’m keeping it to rap.

[@geogames7750]

I was a big fan of young Dolph in the summer of 2018 rest in peace Dolph 🐬

[@OutSideTheBoxYT2]

justice can you tell me everything will be alright and ill find new love

[@eddek844]

“tryna pay off this college loan”

[@Technicalectasy]

What else is there to see at the coliseum?? Of course everybody there want to see blood shed.

[@J0K32R]

Idk this is a bit of a stretch. We see more bodies because every has a smartphone and is filming. Did the officers record Kobe’s dead body because of the war in chiraq? This is a commentary about instant gratification which has more to do with smart phones then anything in the music industry.

[@trapadvisor]

Even if you’re right then he is just covering how this cultural change effects rap-the thing that he is familiar with.

[@kennykallday]

🤓

[@fizzle7625]

You listened to all of this and still said smartphones are the reason

[@SonglyWryt]

TLR was great before all of documentaries. He's been funny.

[@prettiestcocoa4064]

I kinda like trap lore ross omg

[@NStar9]

Music and death is something we are familiar with a lot of artist outside of rap speak about death to

[@404mali]

Yea but the other Genres don’t have multiple LARGE artist passing away every year and especially not by homicide. Usually in pop or rock it’s self inflicted or drug related. And with rap it’s almost always directly a result of the music they make

[@naaga7932]

When i see people go after trap lore ross its just stupid like tf are you doing besides just complaining online

[@Mainlymundane]

Video

[@Champ1up]

I usually enjoy your content but this video is down right bad.

[@tristnotris4240]

bro compared chicago to wwe, buddy this is real life ☠️

[@PRIDEATH]

I'm 100% going to assume you're someone who didn't live through that era because you even having a problem with that shows at lot because that's exactly what it was, that's exactly why AK gets shit on still to this day and they won't acknowledge that they were playing into it as well. Lil Reese WAS the Grim Reaper after time after time someone died speaking on him and AK's commentary 100% made it a WWE TV series, it's like you ain't even watch the video😂

[@tristnotris4240]

@@PRIDEATHnot reading that suck the hair off my nuts

[@jalenwilliams8622]

I was 12 in 2012 and I’m also a black man so I’m in a weird position of knowing how sad it is to see my people deal with the consequences of their generational trauma and racism and poverty and also chief keef is my favorite rapper and I swear I’ve heard more drill than anything else

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

I'm gonna come back and see if you talk about Afropessimism in this video... black people (esp. in America) are dead/death, and so they have a 'strange relationship with death' regardless of genre the same exact title can be made about dancehall, grime, drill...and what else?????

[@starboy_0_0]

Fell off