Key Takeaways:

• Lola Brooke reacted to Denzel Curry’s declare that industrial rap is “dead.”
• She highlights her monitor “Pain,” which samples Mary J. Blige, as a nod to hip hop’s roots and evolution.
• Her response provides a recent voice to the continued debate concerning the future and authenticity of mainstream rap.

Lola Brooke is weighing in after Denzel Curry claimed commercial rap is “dead” final week.

In a narrative revealed by TMZ on Tuesday (Nov. 18), the outlet requested the “Don’t Play With It” rapper about Curry saying, “OGs got no respect for the younger generation,” whereas the “new generation [doesn’t] care ‘bout the craft.” Brooke harassed that she’s “living proof” that isn’t essentially true, as evident in how she approached her Mary J. Blige-sampling document, “Pain.”

“Mary cleared my sample for ‘Pain,’ and I made sure that I gave that woman her props, and I gave that woman her space to clear the record,” she defined. “I’m learning from her and she’s embracing me.” Brooke went on to acknowledge that Curry’s feedback “could be true,” however on the identical time, “two things can be true at once.”

For anybody who missed it, the “Ultimate” rapper argued that music simply isn’t “interesting anymore” on Wednesday (Nov. 12) in a string of Instagram Stories. “I may sound like a hater, but s**t, you need a hater to tell the truth,” Curry wrote. He additionally claimed hip hop doesn’t want “another Big Three” (Kendrick Lamar, Drake, J. Cole).

Rap followers had been understandably divided, as they normally are at any time when somebody dishes out a “hip hop is dead”-type argument. That mentioned, artists like JPEGMAFIA, Lil Yachty, and Travis Scott have beforehand shared related criticisms concerning the style’s supposed lack of originality.

As for Brooke, she launched her sophomore undertaking, iight guess!, final Friday (Nov. 14). It housed “Get Money,” a lone function from N3WYRKLA on “Invest,” and “Pain.”

Reflecting on the final monitor, the New York native mentioned, “Mary bought a lot music about pushing by means of and overcoming, so her phrases within the ‘No More Drama’ pattern — and simply who she is generally — actually introduced a particular layer to the music.”