The Evolution of Hip-Hop Messages

The 2000s kept the trend of denigrating rap going.  The rappers with less overt and, in some instances, positive messages – Nas, Luda, Mos Def, Common – are all but gone.  This made room for the Lil Waynes of the world who talk about the most private of activities in the most descriptive ways possible.

Lil Wayne 2002

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How will the 2010s be chronicled?
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