Ever notice rappers promote vices not virtues?

[timothy_strickland]

you think cac hair metal rockstars in the 1980s promoted good values and healthy virtues lol?

even nirvana promoted nihilism, anarchy, depression, heavy drug use and suicide.



cac rock music glorified and still glorify demon worship and indulgence in sinful activities...but rappers are the only ones promoting reckless and vicious behaviour?

 

[newworldafro]

Everything changed after the Telecommunications act of 1996:

How the Telecom Act of 1996 impacted Hip-Hop

The Effects of Media Consolidation on Urban Radio | Future of Music Coalition

Telecom Act of 1996 – The Angry Black Rant

all of the hip hop that crossed over easier to colonizers was promoted and pushed to the forefront

Thank the (1st) [Black] President

 

[ADK]

 

[BlackJesus]

you think cac hair metal rockstars in the 1980s promoted good values and healthy virtues lol?

even nirvana promoted nihilism, anarchy, depression, heavy drug use and suicide.



cac rock music glorified and still glorify demon worship and indulgence in sinful activities...but rappers are the only ones promoting reckless and vicious behaviour?

Orders of magnitude more white people listen to Taylor Swift than Hair metal. Stop talking about irrelevant things that doesn't apply.

 

[WaveGang]

Cliffs on this?

Everything changed after the Telecommunications act of 1996:

How the Telecom Act of 1996 impacted Hip-Hop

The Effects of Media Consolidation on Urban Radio | Future of Music Coalition

Telecom Act of 1996 – The Angry Black Rant

all of the hip hop that crossed over easier to colonizers was promoted and pushed to the forefront

 

[Luxury Tax]

Most rappers neither promote nor practice principles of any kind except getting money, buck-dancing, flexing, fukking girls and other general buffoonery and distraction

But yet, amarosa is a c00n & a detriment to the black community.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Cliffs on this?

Sure: the act dissolved all small black radio stations across the country, thus making it harder for urban divisions at these record labels to promote or even see a need to have certain artists on their rosters.

Also a lot of those stations were bought by corporate entities that gave us watered down syndicated radio - like Tom Joyner

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Thank the (1st) [Black] President

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

Vices are more entertaining

 

[get these nets]

When's the last time you ever heard a rapper say "go to school, stay away from drugs and women are worthy of respect?"

When's the last time your heard a rappers lyrics promoting hard work and productivity?

How many times can you count shots being fired on rap tracks or those rappers mentioning killing other black men?

Ever found it funny that some of the wealthiest blacks got wealthy by constantly promoting negative, shytty stereotypes about black people and white people seem to love them and go to their concerts in droves? Whites ask them to go on interviews, invite them to parties, and roll out the red carpet for buffoons with gold teeth, goofy chains and ignorant ways of speech. A modern minstrel show. Ever thought that was suspicious?

Ask yourself does the average black person get treated this well?

These are all questions we should be asking ourselves. How every other route to black wealth seems limited in scope, but if you promote poison and buffoonery to your own people we'll throw you unlimited cash, and give you all the girls, drugs and whatever else you could ever want.

Something to think about.

I'll leave you with "4 ways to piss off white supremacist" by Neely Fuller. Notice everything he says is the opposite of what rappers promote.

I get your point but I can't ignore the obvious reaching going on here.

"Wealthiest Blacks got wealthy by promoting negativity"...uh NO....you'd have to ignore the 2 Black billionaires...and the other titans of industry & business men/women who are, in fact, the wealthiest Blacks in America.

Jay Z, Puffy, Dre,Baby just happen to be in the spotlight, and their net worths are inflated for magazine/internet articles

Rappers and entertainers appeal to youth market who is rebelling against their parents,order, society.
Some of them promote the opposite of what parents are telling the kids. It becomes a problem when it becomes more than music/entertainment.

 

[get these nets]

OH.....and bury me with this record...

 

[T'krm]

Supply and Demand. Theres music out there like that, its not as popular for a reason. There are a thousand other ways to encourage postivity in our community. I think its more effective, for example, to give a speech on why you should do well in school. The venue would be formal, and people would be more receptive of a message.

Making a track called "Read A Book" is just corny. You dont reach people by being corny. You CANT make a song about reading a book thats not corny. You play music to have fun, or relax. Theres nothing fun or relaxing about "go to school" track.

Bottom line, let go of this fantasy where you only here conscious rappers in the mainstream. And stop believing that just because the music may be too vulgar for you, that its a sign of the end of times. And detrimental to our community.

It just isnt. There are a thousand more important factors contrubuting to holding us back as a people, than the latest Lil Xan mixtape.

Stop it yall..

Someone ignorant to how iinfluential music is, cultrally...

 

[Majestic]

Because modern rap is a weapon of white supremacy.

 

[Isaiah Bradley]

The truth is, it's hard to hold accountable popular nikkas making money , so if you can't beat them or change them, then cape and excuse their behavior

It's amazing how much support promoting degenerate behavior to a beat gets, while later complaining about it when done locally. Local Cardi vs TV Cardi, both should be shytted if you feel away about any of them

Everything changed after the Telecommunications act of 1996:

How the Telecom Act of 1996 impacted Hip-Hop
The Effects of Media Consolidation on Urban Radio | Future of Music Coalition
Telecom Act of 1996 – The Angry Black Rant
all of the hip hop that crossed over easier to colonizers was promoted and pushed to the forefront

Within the same year of the act being passed, over $700 million was exchanged from buying and selling of stations. Locally-owned and African-American operated stations were almost eliminated. Many of them were bought out by the dozens and reprogrammed as “urban” stations by national conglomerates. The number of radio station owners dropped significantly from approximately 5100 owners to 3800 only five years after the law was signed.

By this time hip-hop was too big of a genre to completely ignore, but they did limit the type of Hip-Hop songs and artists that were played. If you ever wondered why radio stations played the same songs all day, every day, the Telecom Act of 1996 is the root of the problem. When smaller stations became part of a corporate machine, the DJs, program directors and music directors no longer had curative control. Market researchers and consultants have determined what songs to play, eliminating the chance for new independent and local talent to be heard on the radio.

With the mergers of smaller radio stations into bigger companies, the music being played became more commercialized for radio, which caused Hip-Hop artist to make music for the radio and not for the listeners, which turned a lot of Hip-Hop heads away from listening to the radio. The music has become extremely formulaic. Rappers now feel that they have to sound a certain way and have certain artists featured to get radio spins. This creates a lot of artists who sound like each other.

Supply and Demand. Theres music out there like that, its not as popular for a reason. There are a thousand other ways to encourage postivity in our community. I think its more effective, for example, to give a speech on why you should do well in school. The venue would be formal, and people would be more receptive of a message.

Making a track called "Read A Book" is just corny. You dont reach people by being corny. You CANT make a song about reading a book thats not corny. You play music to have fun, or relax. Theres nothing fun or relaxing about "go to school" track.

Bottom line, let go of this fantasy where you only here conscious rappers in the mainstream. And stop believing that just because the music may be too vulgar for you, that its a sign of the end of times. And detrimental to our community.

It just isnt. There are a thousand more important factors contrubuting to holding us back as a people, than the latest Lil Xan mixtape.

Stop it yall..

Stop it. Talent and creativity will allow a person to make a hit song about "Reading a Book"

All genres of music is suppose to be based on some talent and creativity. Why does rap have the same subjects covered by different artist from different regions

Didn't MJ make a song about a fawking rat that shyts on alot of these R&B songs today

 

[T'krm]

they won't hear your breh, whole thread if it continues will just be a game of avoidance

At all costs.