New rappers have lost the plot

The problem with rap is to stay a “real” rapper you need to be in the hood on the streets. This was the complete opposite back in the day. People used to rap to make it out of the hood now these people rap to make it into the hood. Go watch an older rap video. They actually have class. All this new stuff just feels so forced and unauthentic. It wasn’t cool in the mainstream back in the day to be a gangster. They were doing it because it was their life and it was raw, not because they want to cultivate some gangster image to sell records. It just feels so fake. It was never about proving how gangster you were. Nowadays it is and this negatively affects everyone. People who aren’t even apart of the culture try to act like they are some gangster wearing sheisty masks because that’s what’s cool in the mainstream right now. It’s so fake, they just do it whenever it’s convenient for them, it’s not their life. These new rappers are a stain on hip hop culture.