LinusCaldwell
From The Eastside with Love
When did Hip Hop transition over from hustler to customer? 
The molly craze where nikkas rapped more about poppin pills than making money off dealing it. I read this article below and it got me the thinking.
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Rappers always rapped about doing drugs but it was never this mainstream and over diluted. How did we get to this point
Episode 6: State of Emergency for HipHop + How Cam Newton is being portrayed as a villain.
The molly craze where nikkas rapped more about poppin pills than making money off dealing it. I read this article below and it got me the thinking.
Where drug selling evolved from a place of warning to becoming a necessity of putting food on the plate before being fully perverted into being profession to embrace to the extent of protecting it with one’s death, drug use evolved from something you avoided overly partaking in as B.I.G stated as one of the “Ten Crack Commandments” to becoming the perfect way to avoid the pain of life as shown as the focus of the discographies of mainstream Hip-Hop’s current leader’s Future and Young Thug. This was a transition fostered by Lil Wayne in the early 10’s of the 21st Century.
But why the transition from highlighting highly risky drug dealing to embracing self-destructive drug use? One short and simple answer is dilution, in that everyone, including those who’s credibility have been questioned, such as Rick Ross, have adopted it in their music in an attempt to break into the industry as a leader. However, that still doesn’t explain why overt drug use has become so popular as an alternative or equal ingredient to other types of content in Hip-Hop.
The more complex and honest answer as to why self-destructive drug use has become credible and a staple is that an inability or fear of expression of vulnerability prevents many mainstream artists from expressing what’s really going on in their life as shown in their muse. When combined with the perception of women and the respect that they are supposed to garner, we see that a perversion of the definition of what it is to be a man has turned from being strong through vulnerability to being strong by swearing their vulnerability does not exist.
Of course, the adoption of being one-dimensional in character and expression is not just a fabrication in the minds of artists, it has its roots in how the youth have been indoctrinated to interact with one another in their own community. We can go back to residential zoning laws, lack of jobs and the destruction of the Black family to see how and why many youth in the Inner City are perceived to have a dog-eat-dog mentality and as a result of it going unchecked because of poor childhood development in school and lack of productive programs and organizations in their neighborhoods and because of feelings of low self worth, it has been intertwined in the music that offers them identity.
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But why the transition from highlighting highly risky drug dealing to embracing self-destructive drug use? One short and simple answer is dilution, in that everyone, including those who’s credibility have been questioned, such as Rick Ross, have adopted it in their music in an attempt to break into the industry as a leader. However, that still doesn’t explain why overt drug use has become so popular as an alternative or equal ingredient to other types of content in Hip-Hop.
The more complex and honest answer as to why self-destructive drug use has become credible and a staple is that an inability or fear of expression of vulnerability prevents many mainstream artists from expressing what’s really going on in their life as shown in their muse. When combined with the perception of women and the respect that they are supposed to garner, we see that a perversion of the definition of what it is to be a man has turned from being strong through vulnerability to being strong by swearing their vulnerability does not exist.
Of course, the adoption of being one-dimensional in character and expression is not just a fabrication in the minds of artists, it has its roots in how the youth have been indoctrinated to interact with one another in their own community. We can go back to residential zoning laws, lack of jobs and the destruction of the Black family to see how and why many youth in the Inner City are perceived to have a dog-eat-dog mentality and as a result of it going unchecked because of poor childhood development in school and lack of productive programs and organizations in their neighborhoods and because of feelings of low self worth, it has been intertwined in the music that offers them identity.
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Full link right here
Rappers always rapped about doing drugs but it was never this mainstream and over diluted. How did we get to this point
Episode 6: State of Emergency for HipHop + How Cam Newton is being portrayed as a villain.
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