Here are 10 hip hop songs with an emotionally driven message Post Malone

In recent interviews rapper Post Malone was quoted saying "Hip Hop isn't the music you go to for emotion or important things," immediately after this statement hip hop fans expressed their outrage. For over a decade now hip hop heads have pondered the direction of the genre. The release of the 2006 Nas album 'Hip Hop is Dead' forced the question of whether the genre is going, and 11 years later we hear the answer. Many like Post Malone believe that the essence and messages in hip hop are lost, but here are 10 modern hip hop songs that stir up several emotions, while maintaining their messages. The statement is disrespectful because Hip Hop grew based off of the messages it provided, and still to this day is used as a political voice. Rapper Logic song "1-800-273-8255" is the number for a suicide prevention hotline, the hip hop single 3x certified platinum.

1. Drake - Jungle (2015)
2. J. Cole - 03 Adolescences (2014)
3. Xxxtentacion - Jocelyn Flores (2017)
4. Kendrick Lamar - U (2015)
5. Joey BadA$$ - Christ Conscious (2015)
6. Kanye West - Ultralight Beam (2016)
7. Kodak Black - Too Many Years (2016)
8. Frank Ocean - Seigfried (2016)
9. Ab Soul - Beautiful Death (2012)
10. Chance The Rapper - Everybody's Something (2013)

I specifically chose the years 2012-2017 and these artist in order to show a 5 year time span, in which hip hop music has continually maintained a form of lyricism. Kanye West a multi Grammy winning rapper, whose been a major part in hip hop since 2004, to Xxxtentacion, a newer hip hop artist whose likely had similar influences as Post Malone. Over time hip hop has proven that the genre comes in all types of sounds and form, and has become the most nondiscriminatory music genre to ever exist. These are also songs that I genuinely enjoy during my emotion time periods.

There are over 432 frequencies that create tunes, and music itself have hundreds and thousands of different amplitudes and vibrations. People listen to music to feel emotions, whether it's happy, sad, or simply to match the occasion. What creates one feeling for you, may not generate the same emotion for the next person. Who am I to say how you should feel when you're listening to music, but just like there's thought provoking rock music, there's conscious hip hop music, or just like there's party/drug influenced rock pop music, there's Trap hip hop. There's some rock music that I feel have no meaning behind the lyrics. Regardless of the matter, if you're going to make hip hop music, you were in some way shape or form, emotionally driven by another hip hop artist.

Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg addressed the comments saying, "I'm done giving you passes," while mentioning prior incentive dialogue said by Malone. As a Caucasian American rapper, there are unspoken boundaries that we all know exist in hip hop. Eminem, the GOAT of white rappers and arguably one of the greatest rappers has maintained success without disrespecting the hip hop culture. If a person can reach that much success while being respectful to a culture, why push the limit on a lifestyle that you're mimicking. If Peter Rosenberg, another Caucasian American realizes that his entire persona is a disrespectful contradiction, why can't Post Malone.