luke was talking about loyalty to your culture before and i think there is an element of feeling that political discourse is by and large a middle class parlour game. my parents social media is just awash with people complaining about brexit for example.
so you could even go so far as to (incredibly "problematically") argue that artists from certain backgrounds venturing into that kind of discourse are turning their backs on where they came from.
But also what you are describing are liberal politics whereas when rap music was political it was, as often as not, black seperatist, and as often as not, socially conservative. It wasn't at all acceptable to liberals, it was completely beyond the pale.
One of the things about hip-hops black capitalism or whatever, is that it is consistent with a long standing line of black seperatist thought. It is in line with the Nation of Islam's teachings for instance. The idea is to become self-reliant as individuals and as a community. Only once you have money are you able to gain some leverage against the oppressor.
What I was saying is there is a difference between we want to be treated fairly and equally within your system and we want to secede from your system entirely we don't want to live in a society with white norms and white values your universality is a self-serving myth.
on the surface yes. though by the 90s the NOI was becoming very much fringe (especially so in black american muslim theology) nothing like its dominance in the 60s-70s. these new generation of rappers are unlikely to have any folk memory of the noi in any tangible form to put to music.
And of course the story of noi's collusion with FBI is a well known one. aesthetics can't really be politics etc.
Well I won't try and speak for most black Americans living in contemporary capitalism today.