NYPD is one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet.

Just to be clear, slavery is 100% legal in the United States if it is punishment for a crime. Read the 13th amendment. Many people already see the prison system as an abhorrent extension of slavery. Legally speaking, it literally is.

Also, Christopher Columbus was tried in Spain and imprisoned for his atrocities in America. There was never a point in time where slavery was unanimously accepted. Institutional racism was born because enslavement between two equal humans is so clearly wrong. Slavery was so clearly a big deal that one party needed to be dehumanized to justify it.

We could start with a little more time off

I know this criticism depends a lot on ones personal views on a couple things, but: Travis Scott played a small (but not 0) part in the Astroworld deaths, and he doesn’t deserve interpersonal hate for his role in the tragedy. That Said, Dave Chappelle deserves every ounce of hate for his recent controversy, and him saying “I FORGIVE MYSELF” as the crescendo of the song ruins PARASAIL for me, and detracts a handful of enjoyment from the album overall.

But, it’s a good album. My expectations of Travis Scott tend to stay pretty low, but he usually handily exceeds them. MY EYES is prob his best verse since Antidote. The opener is great, and TELEKINESIS reminds me of 3500, where Travis and two features all bring the absolute best out of each other.

Any recommendations from true up-and-comers? I feel like even folks who I’d consider the current “new school” have been active for several years now, like JID, Saba, Smino, JPEG, etc. (billy woods’ career has certainly bloomed recently but of course he’s got nearly 20 years in the game at this point.)

I can think of redveil and Paris Texas for sure, plus Chika’s current album rollout is crazy. I really thought she was done making music, but now she’s 3/3 on singles and the Freddie Gibbs song is an instant classic.

Snotty Nose Rez Kids have also been releasing music for a few years now, but I feel like that whole Vancouver-area Indigenous scene definitely feels like a fresh new locus of hiphop. Kimmortal and Dioganhdih being a part of that too.

Of course part of the situation too is that the barrier of entry to making/publishing music is so low that even new names have music out there from when they were like 16. redveil, Paris Texas, and Chika have all released short projects throughout the past few years but it’s hard to call that an established career.