Problem: I only enjoy listening to the most hood gangster rap

I have a unique problem where I only really enjoy listening to gangster rap music. 


Like, my coworkers and MD may be talking about the newest alternative rock song, EDM, country music, jazz, classical music, etc, and I know enough to talk about it in conversation, but I don't enjoy listening to it. So for me to keep up, just feels like a chore.  


The only music I enjoy listening to is gangster rap like Gunplay, Polo G, Kodak Black, Pop Smoke, Fivio Foreign, Future, Gucci Mane, and local rappers in my city that are gang banging.

I vibe with the beats, but in the music realm, I just don't relate to the finance industry. I only enjoy listening to the most hood gangster rap, and don't enjoy listening to other genres. I'm already pretty senior in my career (2nd year Associate) but I recognize this is my Achilles Heel. What can I do or should I just not gaf? 

 

the stick up your ass is poking through your mouth, sir

 
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YoU ShOuLdn’t LiStEn To MuSiC from OtHeR cUlTuRes. If your white, which I assume you are, only listen to white music. Don’t culturally appropriate music. The blacks, whom are my niggas, are oppressed enough. They don’t need your white ass listening to their music. Probably a non target too.

 
Roger Sterling

What's the point of creating a fake problem? I have never heard anyone discuss the newest classical music lol

Dude, that new Chopin track is off the hook.  He totally blows Mozart out of the water.

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

This is not an issue. If anything, it make you a real street mf. Someone to respect. Keep this shit up, never look back, and remember “you cannot say pop, and forget the SMOKE”.

There can only be one Dirty Dan, the rest of you are Pin-head Larrys...
 

Don’t be sorry for it. I am (or was) in IB at a large MM firm and listened to nothing but real street rap. I try to follow real gang beefs through amateur artists (if LavD ever shows up on my block I’m popping out for Mozzy and that’s on Pebbles). I can’t explain why I like it, I just do, and it’s probably considered weird by most in finance. But they don’t know about it, and I like a ton of other genres, what I call “real” rap being my preferred. Just perform your job well, dress like the rest to blend in and don’t worry about shit only you can hear in your ear buds.

Gucci is a legend. Young Dolph is better today though. Who do you listen to that isn’t really on the radio or found on hiphopheads?

 

I have a unique problem where I only really enjoy listening to gangster rap music. 

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I'm not sure how much "gangster rap" there actually is in those artists you mentioned. Future sure ain't one, Fivio & Pop are Brooklyn drill artists, post-prison Gucci not making that type of music either.

I wouldn't even bother trying to branch out to other genres because you listed so many of em that there's little overlap in the group as a whole anyway. Maybe try to go a bit more mainstream, i.e. try to mix in Drake, Kendrick & J. Cole. They definitely don't have music that is as "lit" (my apologies lol), but they have songs that can fit into what it is that you're trying to listen. Just off the top of my head I can name about 5 Drake songs that would probably mix into a playlist with similar artists somewhat easily (Sneakin' feat. 21 Savage, Money in the Grave feat. Rick Ross, Nonstop, Gyalchester, Look Alive (BlocBoy's song), most of the mixtape with him & Future i.e. What a time to be Alive e.g. Digital Dash, I'm the Plug).

source: my main genre is hybrid mainstream to semi-mainstream rap

 

On god future is some hood rap

“You know you not 'bout that life, you wasn't selling that white, you wasn't toting that pipe”

Don’t get fooled by his singing and autotune

 

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