Destroy Lonely thinks Rap is in a crisis right now and social media "single-handedly, completely m*rdered" art 👀
"It's because there's just not a lot of pure, natural inspiration anymore. [...] I don't want to be pretentious or self righteous, but I feel like after the boom around the likes of me and Ken and other artists from our specific generation, it just turned into everybody wanting to be this. And everybody wants to be famous and everybody wants to copy whatever already worked and just do it as quickly as possible. It does a disservice to the culture and the genre. I remember when I started, it was just purely inspiration. I just wanted to share who I thought I was to the world. Not for money, not to look cool. It was just what was in me. Whereas I now feel like a lot of artists, new and even established, don't even care about the love for making music no more. It's just simply about a check or a show or a brand deal or to sell clothes or shoes. Everybody looks at it more so as a business now and there's just no inspiration or love for artistry anymore."
"I feel like social media single-handedly, completely m*rdered art. I hate what social media has done to music or art in general. And I am saying this even though I don't think I would be as prominent or exist as I do without social media. But there definitely are a lot of negatives that come with how fast everything moves." (via Numéro Berlin)