![]() Company Flow’s classic Funcrusher Plus notably took a break from dense rhyming for El-P to hauntingly remember his abusive stepfather. Cole -even when male emotional introspection and mental health weren’t part of the dominant narrative. Many other rappers have embraced vulnerability in recent years, including Freddie Gibbs, Kanye West, and J. Someone needs to talk you through why you’re feeling these feelings.” “Three of your brothers are dead and your mother used to beat you,” he said in one of his Footnotes episodes. ![]() Jay Z -who once rapped about being hard in the pursuit of hard cash in 1996’s Reasonable Doubt -became one of the main voices of that shift during the 4:44 campaign. Still, treating that pain as a mental health issue has been a recent development. ![]() The bleakness feels natural for a culture that grew out of urban plight and the trauma of impoverished people of color it makes sense that at least some of the lyrics reflect those misfortunes and their lasting effects on the psyche. ![]() After all, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five’s 1982 classic “The Message” wasn’t exactly a joyful number. Hip-hop has been cranking out living-it-up bangers for decades, but the average historian is (or should be) aware that dark thoughts aren’t a foreign concept for the genre.
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