Mumble rap is embedded in capitalism---artists’ focus on money disconnects from the original goal of education

I’d say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. With capitalism comes power and capitalism has corrupted hip hop. That’s my answer to that question. It’s unfortunate to see what it’s become. It’s been hard to watch how it’s veered from education to purely entertainment. I’m sort of like a purist really and I’m just not pleased with the direction that his gone. I think there’s still an outlier of people trying to bring it back, you know some of the people from New York, like we spoke about earlier Kendrick Lamar, and the J Cole’s of this world. Even I’d argue that Drake has something very few people have. He’s invented a lot with his time signatures and structure and narrative in ways that a lot of the mumble rappers can’t do, and really just don’t care actually. That’s the most important thing you know? They seem to just want to make money and think that it just doesn’t matter. They’re disengaged. To me that speaks to the sort of disenchanted way lots of millennial view the world. They don’t think about the real ramifications of their actions, they think nothing really matters and just think the world will sort itself and for me that’s tied in with politics. Hundreds of thousands of people voted against the war in Iraq and nothing happened. Young people just think there’s no point in anything because when people raise their voices and just nothing happens. That whole attitude carries right through to artists to the point where we have art that doesn’t want to say anything, that’s disinterested, that’s disconnected and you ultimately end up with mumble rap. You end up with people who are making music with no respect or awareness of repercussions to what they’re doing.