Dr. Boyce Watkins vs Dr. Michael Eric Dyson: Is Hip Hop destroying the Black community

[Isaiah Bradley]

They discuss the status of the hip-hop music industry and whether or not it's destroying the African American community


Great debate. Despite the hour plus time stamps, both presentations were about 15-20 minutes, the QnA is the majority of the discussion

Both men love Hiphop and recognizes the conditions that exist due to non-hiphop factors, however, they are measuring HipHop's contribution to the plight of the community

 

[Starman]

They discuss the status of the hip-hop music industry and whether or not it's destroying the African American community


Great debate. Despite the hour plus time stamps, both presentations were about 15-20 minutes, the QnA is the majority of the discussion

Both men love Hiphop and recognizes the conditions that exist due to non-hiphop factors, however, they are measuring HipHop's contribution to the plight of the community

Dope find. At work, will watch later.

 

[MewTwo]

Wow Soulja Boy really made that comment thanking the slave masters? The fukk?

Soulja Boy gives 'shout out' to slave masters

He may well inspire a dance that's worth 40m YouTube hits, but that doesn't mean Soulja Boy Tell 'Em is an expert in race relations. At BET's Hip-Hop Awards wrap event last week, the 18-year-old Atlanta rapper shocked the crowd by coming out in favour of slavery.

The shock statement came when BET correspondent and former Rolling Stone contributor, Touré, asked various stars which historical figure they most hated. After Soulja Boy failed to give a response, Touré tried to prompt him, saying "Others have said Hitler, bin Laden, the slave masters ... " at which point Soulja Boy said: "Oh wait! Hold up! Shout out to the slave masters! Without them we'd still be in Africa. We wouldn't be here to get this ice and tattoos."

The stars were answering questions based on the Proust Questionnaire, a series of questions popularised by French writer Marcel Proust. An adapted version appears regularly in Vanity Fair magazine.

"I thought [the Proust Questionnaire] would be a way to get beyond image and into who they really are," wrote Touré on his Daily Beast blog. "Most of the guys gave good, thoughtful, intelligent, sensitive answers."

The rapper's fans have claimed Soulja Boy's youth as an excuse, although many bloggers have been more critical. As 4 Cryin Out Loud asks, "How old was Ice Cube when he first emerged and was writing rhymes for Eazy - like 16?"

 

[MostReal]

Great post

 

[Blessings]

subs for later

 

[BlaKcMoney]

i like some of what watkins is saying and it needs to be said but we can't keep putting all the blame on rappers. Rappers don't even control their careers

i'd like to hear these dudes call out jimmy iovine, david geffen, lyor cohen etc.. those people are the real problems. No matter how many positive rappers there are, they will always find a poor black person willing to c00n for them.

But those people are alumni and connected to alumni of most of the prestigious colleges in america so speaking against them would slow down that speaking engagement money

 

[Self_Born7]

remember when hip hop had you rocking the black medallions, rocking Karl Kani, bc it was a great since of self pride. proud to be who where were

 

[Larry Lambo]

Is this needed at a PWI, though? I know they speak at HBCU's but why do it a white school.

 

[Diyhai]

ima have to listen to this at work
good find

 

[CACtain Planet]

Is this needed at a PWI, though? I know they speak at HBCU's but why do it a white school.

CACs are the biggest consumers of hip hop

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

No hip hop never does no destroying.It's drugs poverty. And the single mom epidemic.

 

[Diyhai]

No hip hop never does no destroying.It's drugs poverty. And the single mom epidemic.

and hiphop doesnt contribute to both