The rap game already has a bad rep without insiders labeling the genre as “dangerous.”
Now, Waka Flocka is warning critics and players in the hip hop community against using the label to create a false narrative.
The Atlanta rapper took to his Instagram to tell his followers that all this talk about rap being “dangerous” will actually end up harming artists’ careers, ultimately affecting their bottom lines.
In the Instagram video, Waka Flocka, who is about to drop his final album later this year, pointed out that if artists start going around saying that being a rapper is dangerous, show organizers and promoters won’t be able to book rap acts for shows.
” I’ve got to say this real quick, I’ll probably—and I’m gonna delete this sh*t, but- please stop saying rap is dangerous,” Waka said into the camera while he was driving a car. “Y’all niggas is falling into the trap. ‘Cause if hip-hop is dangerous, they gon’ stop booking shows around each state, stop making hip-hop popular. The f*ck are y’all doing, bro?”
Waka explained that the true dangers aren’t the rap game but gang culture and the drug trade. “Hip-hop ain’t dangerous, bro. This sh*t making more money outta any genre in the world. Hip-hop is beautiful, bro. To be a gangbanging rapper is f*ckin’ dangerous, to be a drug-dealing rapper is dangerous, anything that’s negative is dangerous, idiots. F*ck is y’all talking about, bro? … It ain’t dangerous, y’all folks really about to cut y’all fuckin’ hustle out. Fool-ass niggas, man.”
The discussion comes in the wake of the death of Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke, who was killed last week in Los Angeles at the age of 20.
Waka’s comments also come seemingly as a response to those of rappers like Jim Jones who spoke about the rap game, equating rappers to soldiers fighting in a war. Jones’ post caused some controversy as many, including a former marine debated with him over whether or not the two could even be compared.
“Here are facts every nigga I grew up with is either dead or in jail, so u wanna compare death tolls it won’t add up,” Jones wrote in his defense. “U went to army n met niggas u never knew or grew up wit. I grew up wit all these niggas all my life, so it hit different.”
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