Trinidad James recently spoke with HipHopWired about the contemporary state of Hip Hop. The Atlanta native explained how Hip Hop has become more negative in recent times, compared to the positive days of the culture’s earlier years.

“I feel like Hip Hop started extra positive, and now it’s completely negative,” Trinidad James says. “For somebody who grew up in a generation where we started on love songs about courtship with a woman, [to] now [where] it’s like, ‘Bang, bang. Get out of here,’ you know what I’m saying? It’s just the complete opposite. It’s the audience that accepts it. It’s the radio stations that play it.”

Later on in the interview, Trinidad James revealed that he doesn’t have a problem with rappers releasing negatively fuelled music.

“I don’t blame them,” he says. “At the end of the day it’s what you do [that] is your success, but you got to get it first. People be talented as a muthafucka and don’t get their chance, bro. So, bro, I don’t give a fuck if you the smartest nigga in college, [if] you figured out how to come up with a flow that can get you on [and] get you back to whatever kind of music you wanna make and make money from — my nigga do that shit. I’m with you. You’ve gotta learn to accept all types of music. Because it’s like art. It’s like all [of] the paintings around us right now. All of them [are] not my style, but when somebody painted it, this is just how they seen the tree, or how they seen the butterfly.”

Trinidad James’ full conversation with HipHopWired can be viewed below:

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