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![MUSICANDBUILDS Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1345879784358891521.png) MASTER STUDENT🤲🏾 [@MUSICANDBUILDS](/creator/twitter/MUSICANDBUILDS) on x 31.7K followers
Created: 2025-07-21 17:07:51 UTC

RAPPERS IN THE LYRICAL RAP GENRE
DON’T LIKE HELPING EACHOTHER OUT..

Gillie spoke on feeling the need to gatekeep his position in the game
Instead of helping the next man get in the game also
This is a old mentality in the black community when we get to a high position
Instead of helping another brother
Now that we can.. we feel like he may
Take my spot or my fans..

Joey Badass tells him that we shouldn’t think like that because that’s what’s holding our community back
And that’s very true..

I’ve worked with great lyricist some of the best in the world sometimes I’ve paid
Sometimes the verse was given for free

But when the song releases 
These black artist don’t want to promote it to their bigger audience out of fear that
They may be helping a newer artist
Take their spot or some of their fans

This is a sick mentality and it exist heavy in the lyrical rap spaces

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