>>121132155>The aesthetics of hip hop are that the more obscure and coded the verse is, the better. Everything else is, inevitably, corny.this is just the old "We're insiders, you're going to have to learn what we mean to understand the cool thing" trope.
it's attractive to teens because they can feel like they know something olds don't know.
But it's been a thing in rap for so long it is obvious it's a gimmick, and that nothing worthwile came from it.
Jay-Z and Dre et al had to learn to talk business and culture to rich people without using slang.
NOT the other way around.
Drake and Kanye were already there.
They grew up well-educated and able to speak with anyone without seeming like ignorant thugs.
>coded and obscurejust an unsustainable gimmick, which is corny af