Addressing the negativity spread by violent rap, as a rapper/fan
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The Dust King
A Childrens Story
id say its more like for every 1000.
the media helped build up gangster rap and we never were the same again.
bombarded with sex and violence, music has been hurting for 20+ years.
hip-hops influence >>> money management
as far as I'm concerned music in general reaches far and deep into the brain. resonance is not even close to a physical object like money. we are talking mental frequencies.
to ZULU I second GhostUtmost post, you are going through a phase. hopefully you will molt into the true soldier you should be.
don't worry about forcing the rhymes. read more books, gain more knowledge and the rhymes and flows come natural.
its much harder to craft a rhyme specifically built around positive energy than it is to be generic (negative)
also know your lane. don't try to channel lupe or chuck D, try to channel yourself. your spin is unique and for all you know supercedes lupes best material.
also my advice is touch on different subjects, hip-hop is stagnant in this regard. even the underground artists.
sporticus
https://bit.ly/36fn72e
I'm honestly sick of rap. I only listen for the beats now....and they're played out and tired too. Every rapper out, with the exception of cats like Lupe, feel they need to talk some slick gunplay or try and be hard. Then you got dudes like Drake who make nothing but love songs and then talk tough to the urban audience. There's no art, no innovation. Every rapper has a million features and the same producers. It's all interchangeable.
I think all music has it's place. I just don't like to see the majority of the music sounding the same.
Violent music has it's place, (I loved "anti-up" but never made me wanna go rob someone...even though IM sure for some it directly resulted in their jewels being taken
) I just dont wanna see it become the hot new thing where everyone rushes to make violent music bc it's becoming popular.
Violent music has it's place, (I loved "anti-up" but never made me wanna go rob someone...even though IM sure for some it directly resulted in their jewels being taken
) I just dont wanna see it become the hot new thing where everyone rushes to make violent music bc it's becoming popular.
themselves
The Dust King
A Childrens Story
thank you brother.
something else I left out that I find critical in the metaphorsis is the duality of man.
yo ZULU, don't hold the person above the rhyme, you hold the rhyme above the individual.
what I mean is we are all human. if nas cheats on his wife/or his wife cheat on him, if chuck D is eating something processed, if dead prez have orgies, if talib watches love and hiphop, if KRS does charities for corporatons don't hold that to the rhyme standard.
too many times people put the artist on a pedestal instead of the rhymes. not every action someone takes is a direct contradicton to self. we all are human, no one is perfect.
we all have desires, fantasies, hobbies and different states of mind.
an example would be nas rapping about guns or murder when he has publically and lyrically advocated an end to gun violence. he is 30+ and how he moves through the industry and life is not indictive to how you should move.
the idea is to learn from nas and make sure your rhymes are almost gun-free.
and again ones music is not necessarily an indication to how the person acts on a humanly basis.
one of the hardest things to do is balance integrity with music.
Sucka Free
Rookie
Lack of parenting is to blame but so is the music, im from the Bay and these n1kkas are highly influenced by the music. It's not even a guess it's fact. Even n1kkas wit good parents become drug addicts and sh1t. More positive messages are needed, Death Certificate Cube type music PAC MATW is needed.
also I don't think it's fair to just be like "oh well
" if a kid got fuct up parents
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
When there was no hip hop, did that stop people like Fillmore Slim from existing?
take a look at Lupe, is forever trying to preach about positivity... hasn't done shyt to stop these chicago kids from playing GTA in real life.
The Dust King
A Childrens Story
there was music still, please read my quote at the bottom
â ZULU â
Rookie
Thanks you for the wisdom MC Metaphysical. I've made up my mind, i know it's going to be more a lot more difficult but i'm going to make my rap more righteous/positive (that was part of the reason i put the crosses in my name in the first place). I know its the right choice. I guess it's easier for me, because i started rapping strictly for myself.
So now its no longer Zulu Zombie oficially. It's † ZULU †.
letting it go
So now its no longer Zulu Zombie oficially. It's † ZULU †.
letting it go
DaveyDave
Superstar
i've been listening to it all my life and i don't smoke weed, dont kill people, not in a gang, etc i have done some bad shyt in my life but i didn't listen to a Brotha Lynch Hung song then turn around & eat some brains. i didn't listen to a Geto Boys song and run outside to beat/kill someone. i didn't listen to Snoop or Cypress Hill and start smoking weed that second.
if you're so weak minded that rap music can MAKE you do these things then you will do it because a movie says it or because tv says it. if one of your homies said "hey, here try this ice" would you be so weak minded to say "yeah ok" without thinking at all?
it's not on the artist to raise every child in the world, that's the parents job.
if you're so weak minded that rap music can MAKE you do these things then you will do it because a movie says it or because tv says it. if one of your homies said "hey, here try this ice" would you be so weak minded to say "yeah ok" without thinking at all?
it's not on the artist to raise every child in the world, that's the parents job.
no one's saying it's the root cause of crime. but it definitely glamorizes it, and makes it 'cool'. yeah, so do mafia movies and blah blah blah
there are a lot of factors involved, and I don't know what's the answer or solution to this, but I don't think you can deny that the music influences people