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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Why are you guys even bothering with this dudes opinion on the state of hip hop…..? I mean really?
NOBODY gives a shit what the creator of “downsyndrome rap” has to say about anything.
@Sety But he’s right though. He just cashed in on the ignorance of niggas around him to get rich. He doesn’t believe in gangbanging… He ran a fashion store, dis nigga was gettin money before the deal…
Of all the people HHDX could get to give their opinion on the sate of hip hop and you choose a short bus shawty rapper who had one hit.
I respect the man’s opinion. I do understand the polarization problem going on in hip hop. That’s why NY rappers are trying the shit, you gotta make money. But I wished we all could’ve just respected each other’s coasts and geographical areas, and just stayed true to making whatever style of music we like. I actually like some of it all, but not all of any one coast. We sold this shit to corporate America and they don’t know what hip hop is, they only know what makes money at any given moment.
who cares what this garbage rapper think about music..he rick ross and cheif keef are part of the reason its so wack now..lol.
Im broke yall.
This coming from a clown who can’t make a record that isn’t self-suppresive.
I actually used to like his song about the police…. I think Def Jam just didnt know how to market him. Somebody will sign him eventually
Did no one realize this man literally contradicted himself, one moment he says things ain’t what they use to be its so negative to shit you gotta do what you gotta do to get your money man
Then you ask yourself why def jam dropped your ass………you bobby shmurda,cash out,kirko bangz are a bunch of one hit wonders the label signs just to profit from your trending tracks
“I feel like Hip Hop started extra positive, and now it’s completely negative,”
This coming from a guy whose claim to (15 minutes of) fame was a song where he glorified drugs & material things