![]() ![]() First, I wouldn’t crucify Mumble Rap for its hedonistic, drugged and sexualised content. However, recent tweets from the award-winning American actor Samuel L Jackson help capture the disdain that still remains for this style of music “ Maybe if we under-paid these modern mumble rappers and over-paid teachers, we would have smarter kids and less shitty music”. Needless to say, there are artists today classed under this umbrella who have made commendable effort to add some real concepts and meaning to this sound. The phrase “Mumble Rap” was first used in 2016 by Wiz Khalifa to label this emerging style in Rap and mock it for its lack of lyricism, slurred and unintelligible vocals, drug heavy content, and it’s emphasising on melody over any meaning or real content. Plus, it really doesn’t help that rappers in this new Rap category seem to always have the prefix “Lil” added to their names, all adding to the caricature of mis-colored hair do’s and Lean sipping juveniles. This is the genre responsible for the Young-Thugs, and Lil Pumps of Rap, names sure to provoke the hearts of genuine Hip-Hop heads quick to draw on sand the chasm of artistry that separate these artists from, for example, the likes of Kendrick Lamar. With my focus here being on Hip-Hop culture, and its thesis the “Rap-genre”, we could say the rancid remnants of this decay in sound have now congealed to form the bastard of them all in “ Mumble Rap”: a sub-genre of rap and close cousin to Trap-music. The lamenting usually comes from the older generation about some deterioration in the artistry, nature and quality of sound, and overall content today. There has been what some would call a degeneration in Music today. Along with every genre past and present worthy of mention down to their amalgamation, I am a believer in music and its power for transformation and unification. ![]() Views 595 Dan Eboka discusses the decay of music in our generation and the criticism of Mumble rapįrom the grandeur of classical music, to the unruly harmony of jazz, the vile masculinity of Blues, the anarchy of Rock ‘n Roll, and the revolution that is Hip-Hop. ![]()
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