Post by @AlexanderVI@stranger.social
So who is young and making smart ("conscious") hip-hop right now? Like, who is the modern equivalent of Talib Kweli, Mos Def, and that crowd? (If that's even a reasonable question)
@alisynthesis I hope you get some good answers - I'd like to know, too!
I can't shake the feeling that they're as likely to turn up on an AriAtHome stream as in the charts these days. Probably MORE likely based on the current chart music I've heard.
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Okay I'm finding a few entrypoints by searching around. Just checking out SA-ROC and Armand Hammer for the first time, both are really cool.
SA-ROC seems like a badass MC so far. I'm geeked that she has so much music I can check out.
(I have zero idea how popular these people are or if everyone knows them bc I have no way of knowing that. But I currently have a streaming subscription for the first time in ages, so I'm popping around checking out stuff.)
Allow me to second that you NEED to check out AriAtHome's streams if you have not.
Oh, yes, you have got to hear it. The streams are usually an hour plus but he has great editors that turn the raw footage into very tight short form videos.
This dude is more on a Wu-Tang vibe but as an example of the kind of random bystanders wandering around NYC who regularly turn out to have insane bars he's one of my faves.