How come there is a huge lack of black rage and problackness in rap music nowadays?
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Haven't listened to Ross seriously in years, anywho...
The way the average listener, let alone person in North America is being programmed in this current time... It's useless.
We must begin in the homes and not just tell our children "go to school, do well and you'll be fine." This game is much deeper than the average person seems to be able to even grasp. White supremacy, the prison industrial complex, the fraudulent money (more like debt) system, the so called war on drugs... Most people not even playing checkers, they playing tic tac toe, they'll never be playing chess.
Try speaking to these social media zombie children. Any new perspectives will get you attacked! Ridiculed! Really all the intelligent people can do at this point is speak to listening ears and hope the blind will one day see what we see.
I don't think Pac or Cube cared about making cacs feel uncomfortable. The beauty of what they did came from them not caring who was uncomfortable or comfortable with what they had to say. It came from a place of saying what was on their hearts and on their minds. It was the truth as they saw it and it didn't matter who had a problem with it.
The problem isn't the labels not green lighting music like Let's Get Free or Death Certificate. I mean how else would we even have those albums if labels didn't release them? The problem is the artist fighting for their art. No label is going to put on album that touches on real issues if the artist doesn't feel impassioned enough to fight them on it. For example, regardless of how people felt about Nas's Untitled, he let us in on the fight with Def Jam to release that album with it's original title. No, it wasn't released under it's intended title, but the content was still there.
Family Lives Matter
#FLM
Because despite the fact labels have black faces as the spokesperson whites sign the cheques so all we hear is what they want us to hear
And I don't believe that illuminati bullshyt I just think it's common sense
I'm sure if you searched sound cloud long enough you could find it
And I don't believe that illuminati bullshyt I just think it's common sense
I'm sure if you searched sound cloud long enough you could find it
I always fukked with BOB. He been on some other shyt lately tho, you seen his tweets about cloning centers and armageddon
I mean... In this game.. All us on this board are babies. These games of war, terror, thievery are much older and larger than us. I won't say I know shyt about what he's talking about (in regards to cloning.) but heck, truth is stranger than fiction these days. Just came across this track... Tell me what you think, dude said fukk it all and he's flowingI always fukked with BOB. He been on some other shyt lately tho, you seen his tweets about cloning centers and armageddon
PhonZhi
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Poh SIti Dawn
Staying Positive, Getting Better Everyday. Holler!
That's the problem though. Dudes want to be signed, this is the internet. Release your music online, stop trying to conform. If your really about the movement and not a check like a preacher should be, then you'll be good. Get your voice heard without signing contracts.
That's why most dudes move like fools. Too busy trying to be a part if something when we have the biggest tool ever to use for the sake of liberation. You Dont even have to have studio time!!!!
Most labels and radio stations are white owned.. A black rapper who has knowledge of self and talks about black empowerment and black ownership and is spreading that message goes against the interest of these white vultures who make and want to continue to make money off of black culture, hip hop and desperate poor black boys and men.
Hence why now you really only see rappers who are signed to small indie labels or upcoming dudes really rapping on that conscious shyt
Hence why now you really only see rappers who are signed to small indie labels or upcoming dudes really rapping on that conscious shyt
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It's the $. Rap was a just bonus money.
Then Puff came along and made it corporate.
Now, people doing any and everything to make it safe.
Long Live The Kane
Tyrant Titan
Uncomfortable truth, but it was just the trend of the times back then...and like all trends, shyt comes and goes...the suits that run these labels don't really give a shyt what artists rap about, and it's not like pro black messages or black rage or whatever else is a turn off to the white listener....white people loved public enemy and nwa (whose 'pro black' stance has been exaggerated to the point of parody at this point imo)...they loved dead prez in the early aughts...and they loved Kanye during his new slaves/black Skinhead era... Kendrick is basically an enlightened ascended master incarnated in bodily form let the mainstream white music media tell it
Far as I can tell we're actually in an in-time for problackness as far as the current trend goes...not sure why cole and kdot wouldn't count, they're the top 5 rappers popularity wise and pro blackness and being socially conscious are a core part of their marketed image...the "they're not angry enough" thing is splitting hairs imo..
Far as I can tell we're actually in an in-time for problackness as far as the current trend goes...not sure why cole and kdot wouldn't count, they're the top 5 rappers popularity wise and pro blackness and being socially conscious are a core part of their marketed image...the "they're not angry enough" thing is splitting hairs imo..
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@adonnis - pull up, there's refreshments
Wow, you've pinpointed a void . . men with actual balls would devise a way to fill that void
but you . . you just talk
but you . . you just talk
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Decolonizer
well they're really not. They're a parallel to BLM in terms of being assertively and unabashedly "pro-black".