Unpopular opinion! Talented girls by the way its just that they need to stay in their lane , seriously. Lets start with Lisa. Lisa’s trying to slide into the Western female rap/pop star archetype—the Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, Megan, Ice Spice, Latto lane—but there’s a huge cultural gap there: Those women grew up in the environments they rap about. The slang, the flows, the delivery—it’s all second nature because it’s part of who they are. Lisa, meanwhile, didn’t grow up in that culture. She’s from Thailand, came up through the K-pop system (a highly controlled industry), and now she’s trying to do high-energy rap with no clear cultural base grounding it. Its not her, shes cosplaying. there’s no real voice, no identity, and definitely no cultural texture behind it. But- Lets start from the beginning... History of Rap . Rap didn’t just pop up outta nowhere, it’s got deep roots. It came from Black communities in the Bronx, New York, back in the late 1970s, at block parties, DJs would spin funk & disco records, isolating the breakbeats. Then ,dudes started hopping on the mic started rhyming, hyping up the crowd . That evolved into MCing. Now, we all know 1970's was hell for my Latinos & my Black folks, especially Black People. Rapping became the voice for the voiceless , its built on struggles. A way to say, “Yo, this is my reality.” That’s why early rap was full of struggle, pain, resistance, survival, and pride. You got people like Grandmaster Flash, Run-D.M.C., Tupac, Nas, Biggie, Jay-Z, Eminem —all came from rough backgrounds, and that hunger shaped their storytelling. Now , for Lisa she never had that struggle, she grew up rich and privileged ,Still talented in her dancing, but she never had that hunger besides wanting to get famous. This girl said the n word multiple times, a true rapper could've easily replaced that word with a filler . All she raps about is money and her status its all she knows, she only knows growing up rich. She’s not really saying anything —there’s no narrative, no perspective, no cleverness. It’s just bars for the sake of bars. Jennie and Lisa’s solo music is starting to feel like a copy-paste template: "I'm that girl, I'm hot, I'm rich, I'm luxury, I'm pretty" Its getting old. Jennie’s “SOLO” Image Was Never Really Solo Now , for Jennie Kimmm. Her solo era was about her "Doing it on her own", Thats a lie, a slap in the dace to every American artist who had to produce, write, make a studio to get noticed by a label. That’s the irony that people overlook—Jennie’s “Solo” was built by a whole army of YG staff. She was pushed as the “It Girl” of Blackpink from day one. That’s not inherently bad, but it makes all the self-made flexing feel disingenuous. Jennie singing about being a self-made queen hits different when you know her launch was corporate, calculated, and handed to her on a silver platter. Her Korean verse in 'Like Jennie' "My DNA run in all these artists"…while benefiting from Black culture, hip-hop aesthetics, and even being caught saying the n-word as a trainee? Just tone deaf. It’s one thing to be confident—but that’s not confidence, that’s delusion with a side of erasure. Black artists are the literal DNA of modern pop, rap, hip-hop, and even the luxury-streetwear aesthetic she profits off. Jennie and other idol rappers borrowing from that culture, then claiming to be the blueprint? Nah, that’s revisionist history. The sad part is: both Lisa and Jennie could be doing something much more meaningful. They’re two of the most famous female K-pop artists globally. Instead, we get luxury bars, cookie-cutter flows, and a growing sense of disconnect between their image and their impact. No hate though. Beautiful woman. submitted by /u/Top_Cookie_3554 [link] [comments]
