In a newly published interview with VladTV, Daylyt spoke on the skill required in today’s hip-hop landscape, saying it’s no longer a factor.
“When you go mainstream, it’s 100 per cent entertainment and fuckin’ zero per cent skill nowadays,” he says. “Let’s take a lot of rappers, like Chief Keef—let’s take Soulja Boy. Was Soulja Boy really skilled? Was he a skilled rapper? No, he wasn’t a skilled rapper, but he was very entertaining.”
“Let’s really look at all the rappers that can really rap, are they getting the airtime or the radio play that some of these niggas who can’t rap are getting? No,” Daylyt continues. “Lil B came up with an idea: ‘Y’all like stupid shit? I’ma go to the max with the stupid shit.’ And he went to the max with this stupid shit… Let’s be honest, skill is not a factor in today’s hip-hop scene. It’s not.”
Daylyt also addressed the repetitive use of gun-line bars in battle rap affirming that type of rapping “is a cancer.”
“All your whole verses are gun this, gun that, bro,” he explains. “If all you’re talking about is guns and all he talking about is guns [and] then the two people after that, [if] all they talking about is guns, y’all wonder why I stand out the most, man. I’ve learned from my Grind Time days that being a gun-line rapper is a cancer. It’s actually a cancer. It may be dope for the moment… [But] I’m beyond that now. I’m way beyond that type of rapping now.”
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Check out the full interview below:
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