Hip-Hop’s Silent Majority

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Hip-hop’s mainstream can often be confused with prosperity gospel, so it’s striking that in 2015, at least a couple of the genre’s biggest selling stars want nothing to do with such narratives.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your crooked smile of music, news and
0:07.2	criticism. I'm your host John Caramonica.
0:09.3	You know that feeling when you know you've been the bone for the first time.
0:13.5	I'm hoping that she won't notice it's my first time.
0:16.2	I'm hoping that my shit is big enough to the shit with.
0:18.8	And most of all, I'm praying God don't let me bus quick.
0:21.6	I'm watching Porneles trying to see just how to stroke ride
0:24.3	practice putting condoms on how we go right I'm in a crib nine
0:28.1	a pump sweat in that's wet dreams really more like a fever dream It's Jay Cole rapping about losing his virginity
0:34.4	in rather excruciating detail.
0:36.7	I have convened some real heavyweights
0:40.0	because I think it's important that we all talk about the elephant in the room of hip-hop,
0:45.6	which is the success of J. Cole, the anti-celebrity success of Kendrick Lamar, the idea
0:52.1	that we're starting to splinter in a way that feels
0:54.0	very mid to late 90s to me, except fault lines are the same, but the winners are maybe not
0:59.5	who they used to be.
1:01.0	So I'm going to go around the table and let's start talking. I have Matthew
1:04.1	Trammell from the fader. Matthew, I need you to put it on the line right now.
1:08.2	I need you to tell us what your favorite J Cole song is. There's dreams.
1:13.2	Can't remember what tape is on.
1:15.4	He's taught he beat some girl in the mall and is chasing her down,
1:17.8	then she has a boyfriend.
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