While the Donald Trump era has brought about some less-than-favorable moments in the past year, Rapsody believes it’s still inspired togetherness in Hip Hop.
During an appearance on Larry King Now, the North Carolina MC was asked by this host if times like this make Hip Hop better or worse. Rapsody explained that artists from various sub-genres in Hip Hop, female artists and others have started to come together musically.
“I think musically it makes it better,” Rapsody said. “There comes a time, especially when it’s bad and you can’t ignore it, you have to speak on it because we’re all affected by it. Now, you just see these movements and people are coming together more. Even in rap.”
“People like to divide rap,” she continues. “From underground or socially conscious. But I see artists coming together now more. I see women coming together. So, these times, I think they definitely bring us together more. And when we’re together and we see our power with that, even musically. I think the best music is made with a bunch of people.”
As Rapsody continued to speak on division and unity, she also addressed her Grammy nomination in the Best Rap Album category for Laila’s Wisdom, one of HipHopDX’s Best Rap Albums of 2017. She’s the sole woman nominated in the category alongside JAY-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Migos, and Tyler The Creator.
Rapsody considers the nomination bittersweet due to the perceived “there can only be one” approach when it comes to female lyricists.
“I think there are less women on a mainstream level,” she said. “There are women in Hip Hop, but you have to dig and find them … This new era, it seems like there can only be one at a time. So, it’s bittersweet in that I wish that there are more women that get put in these categories with these men. And don’t get saved for ‘Oh, these are the best females of rap’ or ‘This is the best female of this year.'”
“So, it’s bittersweet in that moment,” she adds. “But at the same time, to be one of those women that breaks through and says that, ‘We can compete with men and we are just as good as men.'”
We’ll see if Rapsody takes home the Grammy for Best Rap Album when the annual awards show airs on January 28 at 4:30 p.m. PST.
FUCK TRUMP
But one can also argue that during the Bush era, a lot of hip hop artists united as well, blasting them. Plus, the Obama era as well, on an opposite note.
There’s only one thing that unifies the rappers and that’s my wife’s giant, gaping asshole.
I’m a gay boy!
Unity due to a common enemy is not really unity…once he’s gone it goes back to the way it was or worse. The USA was as unified as ever on sept 12, 2001…didn’t take long for us to get over that unity and go back to being pieces of shit.
Eminem’s Like Home is amazing. People need to hear that. Very precise takedown of Trump.
Eminem is a liberal cuck who hates his own white skin so much he probably wants his daughter to have a n i g g e r baby with some black thug from Detroit.
You must still be haunted by the nights you lay awake crying and stroking your lifeless cock as your girlfriend got pounded in the next room
Yes that’s just it. But Eminem still sucks.
The Trump era has also seen less blacks on government assistance and more blacks employed. Thank you POTUS.
Dx why u disable the comments section on the yougn ma article? I was finna go in like a beast haha Good luck to Rap she got a point thou
We are ⏰ up/ it’s the system and big corporations/ YouTube and Facebook took down my channel. They say my music is the deceptive. I dropped the song about the the corporation’s the Enemy of the State. People start checking for it they shut me down. I don’t use profanity and I talked about God and not the devil in my music. They can’t hide my music we waking up