Iirc, Aaron MADE reddit. spez coattailed him the entire time. There was a wonderful (but very sad) documentary about Aaron’s life. He was fanatically pro 1A and saw reddit as a true free-to-speak platform. But as other people said, they pinned shit on him for being an activist for genuinely GOOD things, and he killed himself over it.
Then spez probably unhinged his jaw and ate his body, idk. But reddit in its current state is quite obviously not what Aaron wanted - quite the opposite, and he was fighting over ensuring it wouldn’t turn into what it is now.
I hated hip hop and rap for a long, long time, so I get where you’re coming from.
There was that video with a bunch of rappers that got invited to somewhere to do some sort of business deal with the prison industry; to make music that would encourage behavior toward incarceration. Even before I found that, I always knew “fuck shit bitch nigga” rap was, well, kind of not music, haha. Worse, it was very clearly mentally detrimental to anyone who listened to it - by design of course!
HOWEVER! If you look around, there are some pretty good rappers. You gotta truly hunt for them though as nobody is gonna tell you what’s good, you gotta feel it in your heart. On Bandcamp there is a sort of sub-genre called ‘conscious hip hop’, and okay, a lot of it isn’t great, but some of it is absolutely phenomenal.
Here, I’ll give you a few examples that really hit with me. The first two are lyrics by Godfather Don, one of the best underground 90s rappers, and imo the best rapper I’ve ever heard in my life.
https://youtu.be/uVr6vrGeYYY?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/z1lcqUTCH30?feature=shared
This other one is by Mathematik. I don’t really know him all that well but I think he’s really good. Hope you like them! I’m sending these because I think they’re great examples of what rap should be.
https://youtu.be/eh0fMl6Gqe8?feature=shared