Gangster rap forms a feedback circuit with late capitalism that mythologizes the real

Evidence

Gangster rap neither merely reflects pre-existing social conditions, as many of its advocates claim, nor does it simply cause those conditions, as its critics argue – rather the circuit whereby hip hop and the late capitalist social field feed into each other is one of the means by which capitalist realism transforms itself into a kind of anti-mythical myth. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 27

Categorization

• XREF: The anti-mythical myth formulation connects to the Frankfurt School account of Enlightenment reason becoming myth, and to Barthes on mythologies. — connects to: Hip-hop authenticity claims encode a depoliticised acceptance of capitalist reality — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1536; Myth lends force to mafia reality rather than reality being plain; Hip hop’s ‘real’ became identified with precarity’s death of the social — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 26 (+1 more)

Related

• Gangster culture’s brutal authenticity becomes marketable realism that legitimates capitalism (similarity 0.86)
• Hip-hop authenticity claims encode a depoliticised acceptance of capitalist reality (similarity 0.84)
• Hip hop’s ‘real’ became identified with precarity’s death of the social (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Hip-hop authenticity claims encode a depoliticised acceptance of capitalist reality #complicates (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1536
• Myth lends force to mafia reality rather than reality being plain #expands (0.80)