![]() ![]() ![]() Whether it’s manifested in the auspicious rise of Blueface, the 6ix9ine-Treyway legal debacle or in self-professed Blood member Cardi B’s rise to superstardom, these mortal enemies have been recemented on the commercial hip-hop map in a way that hasn’t been seen since the days of The Game & Lil Wayne’s “ Red Nation”. Just like any other point of reference, there have been ebbs and flows for their prevalence in the mainstream but we’ve found ourselves in the middle of a drastic upswing over the past year or so. Since the dawning of West Coast gangsta rap, the South-Central origins of both gangs and their inner-city warfare have been an omnipresence in the genre. So what is it about the psychology of my community that didn’t allow us to embrace our bad guys in that way?”Įntertaining and thought-provoking as it was, his social experiment discounted a major export of both cliques that’s taken them right into the cultural heart of America. Even the good guys, we want them to kick ass like a bad guy. “My Italian friends will proudly say that their grandfathers ran with the Mafia. ![]()
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