"Hip Hop went from selling crack to smoking it"

[LinusCaldwell]

@LinusCaldwell Yo, I'm gonna listen to your episode and write a blog about this same subject, do you mind? shyt, I lightweight wanna do a song about it.

Go ahead breh @DPresidential

 

[Whogivesafuck]

Nikkas in the 90's in Southern California rapped about smoking dust.

 

[DPresidential]

This. You have dusty hip hop heads who say shyt like OP posted to try and shyt on the new generation of lean and pill heads but it's not logical to think that the drug dealing wouldn't affect the community???

Did you read the article or the podcast?

Giving a negative perspective of this generation of hiphop is not what the premise was.

 

[bigrodthe1]

Nikkas in the 90's in Southern California rapped about smoking dust.

They wasn't the only ones.

 

[MajorVitaman]

Also went from "I need love" to "I don't love them hoes" to "it ain't tricking if you got it"

That's what happens when you let Khazars control the musical vibe of the youth. We fell for the shyt when rappers started making deals with cac record companies instead of keeping it black owned

Imagine how much more money/power/integrity bruhs/bruhettes would have in the rap game if we kept that shyt in house



you also wouldn't see nikkas like young thug & iggy caczalea etc getting any kinda shine smh

Ain't nobody ever promote smoking crack in hip hop, don't pin that shyt on the new school

nikkas ain't promoting smoking crack, but Adderall, Molly & Xans? shyt ya might as well...

The previous generation promoted selling drugs and they were selling drugs to the current generations parents.
Then wanna act like they don't understand why these kids are junkies now and days.

I'm sayin though why is everyone surprised? it was a slow transition, get nikkas into serving, chasing a pipe dream only to end up in jail. Now the next generation gotta deal with the other side of the drug war

Agreed. This shyt is a big reach.

Huge difference between hard drugs like crack & heroin and recreational drugs like lean and molly.

bruh you can't be serious right now. Heroin/Morphine/Percs/Lean etc etc etc are all opiates. All that shyt comes from Poppy and it basically has the same effect on your body. Molly and Crack are both extreme stimulants. Molly/Coke/Crack/Adderall all that shyt basically is the same shyt none of it is good for you.

You might as well say a blunt/bong/joint/dabs are all different

 

[1/2 Man 1/2 Hennessy]

i did heroin for 5 years dummy!!

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

 

[DPresidential]

Okay, let me come back to this...

Considering I've been a bit critical about this current era in Hip-hop, I originally started the article with

The imperfection of the father is a blessing when served as a warning to his son. So it follows that the disappointment of a flawed son is a tragedy in the eyes of that imperfect father.
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After actually delving into it from an objective perspective I changed my tune. I've since realized that a lot of the reason why current artists seem to thrive in the mainstream, with the content being so heavy on drug addiction, is because they themselves as well as their audience connect more with the idea of not feeling like there is help. Essentially saying numbness, from the pain and low self esteem, is the only solution.

I still have my issues with hip-hop; meanwhile I do believe it's the most powerful and influential form of music.

Hip hop is the poster child for music that is the soundtrack for revolution.

After writing the article, I've since added the qualifier in the tagline asking the question after the initial statement

The imperfection of the father is a blessing when served as a warning to his son. So it follows that the disappointment of a flawed son is a tragedy in the eyes of that imperfect father. So is the story of Hip-Hop in 2016, but should its evolution be considered a disappointment to Hip-Hop Historians?
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Believe me, I have the utmost respect for our art and our artists. We need to be able to discuss our art in order for it to be credible though.

 

[DPresidential]

That's what happens when you let Khazars control the musical vibe of the youth. We fell for the shyt when rappers started making deals with cac record companies instead of keeping it black owned

Imagine how much more money/power/integrity bruhs/bruhettes would have in the rap game if we kept that shyt in house



you also wouldn't see nikkas like young thug & iggy caczalea etc getting any kinda shine smh



nikkas ain't promoting smoking crack, but Adderall, Molly & Xans? shyt ya might as well...



I'm sayin though why is everyone surprised? it was a slow transition, get nikkas into serving, chasing a pipe dream only to end up in jail. Now the next generation gotta deal with the other side of the drug war




bruh you can't be serious right now. Heroin/Morphine/Percs/Lean etc etc etc are all opiates. All that shyt comes from Poppy and it basically has the same effect on your body. Molly and Crack are both extreme stimulants. Molly/Coke/Crack/Adderall all that shyt basically is the same shyt none of it is good for you.

You might as well say a blunt/bong/joint/dabs are all different

So wait...

before Easy E ever knew any... "Khazars"... you're saying that his content wasn't

She Started Talkin shyt, Wouldnt You Know
Reached Back Like A Pimp, Slapped The Hoe
Her Father Jumped Up And He Started To Shout
So I Threw A Right Cross And Knocked His Old-Ass Out

?


I'm not criticizing his content...I believe his speech and art is a reflection of a Gumbo stew of Zoning laws, destruction of the Black Family, poor community development,etc.


We can not blame record execs for the content that got NWA hot in the first place. We can blame the music industry and its focus on profit and not true art for creating an atmosphere where negative themed content equals dollars.

But don't we have to ask ourselves... That if certain niche content is blowing up all over Cali and people are going to NWA shows because of their content, do we see it as devious that a music exec pulls the trigger on signing them and promoting the shyt out of it because they believe it can sell all over America?

The most devious things about those Execs are the ways they pull the hood over artists head and take their money in convoluted contracts...not because they see a hot commodity and promote it.

I'm definitely not expressing any sympathy for Record execs but you're not going to come in here with Anti-Semitic rhetoric and act like execs like Diddy and Reid haven't done the same thing.

Actually...you can come in the thread and try it but be ready for honest debate, breh.

 

[MajorVitaman]

So wait...

before Easy E ever knew any... "Khazars"... you're saying that his content wasn't


?


I'm not criticizing his content...I believe his speech and art is a reflection of a Gumbo stew of Zoning laws, destruction of the Black Family, poor community development,etc.


We can not blame record execs for the content that got NWA hot in the first place. We can blame the music industry and its focus on profit and not true art for creating an atmosphere where negative themed content equals dollars.

But don't we have to ask ourselves... That if certain niche content is blowing up all over Cali and people are going to NWA shows because of their content, do we see it as devious that a music exec pulls the trigger on signing them and promoting the shyt out of it because they believe it can sell all over America?

The most devious things about those Execs are the ways they pull the hood over artists head and take their money in convoluted contracts...not because they see a hot commodity and promote it.

I'm definitely not expressing any sympathy for Record execs but you're not going to come in here with Anti-Semitic rhetoric and act like execs like Diddy and Reid haven't done the same thing.

Actually...you can come in the thread and try it but be ready for honest debate, breh.

I'm not denying anything you're saying. I believe in every artists right to express what they want to express how they want to express it. I don't want rap to be on some bubble gum and roses shyt...

I simply don't like cac ass KHAZARS making big bank off black labor. My views isn't limited to music, I feel this way about hollywood, sports, academics, and black labor/business in general. Especially when that labor promotes degeneracy.

 

[Ronnie Macho]

Also went from "I need love" to "I don't love them hoes" to "it ain't tricking if you got it"

To "M.O.B."...better believe it...

 

[Pitfalls0117]

DMX ain't smoke crack??

Wu and them weren't smoking dust and rocks either?

This "transition" you speak of did not suddenly happen, if it even was a transition, rather than a fact of life within hip hop...

There were addict rappers then, and there are addict rappers now.

 

[ThaRealness]

Can we just call this the deja vu thread

 

[poppajaro]

 

[Marc Spector]

We live in a more introspective age. Angst ridden. Quiet as kept the recession, the war, and the failure of our predecessors to hand us down a viable lifestyle had a pretty damaging effect on the overall psyche of the Youth Generation. So the notion of living fast and getting high to numb the pain became a bigger expression of our generation.