How long are we gonna keep pretending hip hop culture as it is, is negative and a terrible look for the black community?

[Kliq_Souf]

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[Gritsngravy]

What you going to do about it

 

[Mindfield333]

fukk a look. The themes and images are good for our subconscious minds as a collective. It’s literally brainwashing cats. Porn is worse tho. Neither healthy. A majority of the media that’s geared towards us is negative. If a white rapper said that there’s drill rappers be saying… n-words and all, we’d call dude a Neo nazi. C Deloris Tucker wasn’t the enemy.

 

[Standing on business]

Listen to the audience go wild as Durk simulates the murder of a Black male.

lil Durk performed at Howard university today. Howard is a prominent hbcu. That how ingrained this shyt is in our culture

 

[Hey_zeus]

Lazy, immature parents can't even be bothered to not listen to vulgar music with their kids around,in the car, etc. We got generations that have been raised in this and will continue to not see the issue. They are in the thread already defending/deflecting

 

[DetroitEWarren]

I’m more concerned with the easy access to all the guns in the hood and the intentional things cacs did to create the never ending cycle of poverty. You dudes really have to stop being surface level thinkers. I promise if you care about the plight of the community you should be more concerned with politics than hiphop

You are right, but politics control that also. Rum DMC fans didn't ask for NWA (although necessary), PAC and Biggie fans didn't ask for the money, cars, hoes music from Cash Money and No Limit, Cash Money fans didn't ask for the drug dealing hustlers like 50 and Dip set, 50 fans didn't ask for Cash Money to resurface as a power house, Wane and Drake fans didn't ask for drug using music from Future, ect.

And the thing is, all those forms of rap had always existed, but the musical diversity of the radio died after 50 Cent. Early 2000's you didn't hear the sane 5-7 songs over and over and over and over again. All those 5-7 songs are always shyt that forwards a negative influence on fans. Young girl heard WAP 20 tines a day, hood nikkas hear shoot em up bang bang 20 tines a day.

All that shyt was intentional asf.

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

Better question is how long we gonna keep acting like we should be equal with the non black clowns that hate us?
Yeah modern day hip hop is bad, but I'm bypassing these rappers because they just the puppets. It's the same non black clowns that sign them for the sole purpose of making destructive music for us to keep destroying ourselves.

 

[Animal House]

Hip hop isn’t but that terrible drill rap is

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

The manipulation that got is here needs to be studied because they hoodwinked the fukk out of black ppl. Had us fighting to call each other nikkas, bytches, pimps and players. All under the guise of freedom of speech

the funny part about it is the speech is actually very limited by censorship (radio edits, parental advisory notices that place age limits on purchasing that content, lawsuits (see travis scott lawsuits), use of lyrics as evidence in court, etc.)

at this point the question is how far do people need to be handheld by the government or can they control themselves and their kids

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

Mainstream had a chance to bring it back to the glory days when Jcole, Kendrick and Krizzle came into the scene but the white execs were like “nope! Gotta keep dumbing down the youth!” So they started pushing drill, other ignorant rap and gave ratchet hoes a platform to destroy the female community.

 

[Fiji Water]

I mean... The stance is valid but generally speaking, no one is being forced to listen to rap, especially murder rap.

It's unfortunate that people, black and otherwise, view hip hop has a factual report on black culture.

And I ain't militant, but the issue isn't that people are being influenced to fight or rebel, the issue is the direction of the gun. In the right light, hip hop can be used to mobilize this world for the better. That's the sole reason the corporate, violent, hypnotic trash is being pushed to drown out the true spirit of the art.

 

[ThatTruth777]

The thing that gets me with the supporters is you think we have enough wiggle room to play around? To throw the dice and hope this music that carries a message doesn't persuade some stupid shyt? Why risk it?

 

[MajesticLion]

ha @ the constant harping on this trying to devalue it


Unceasing psyops.

 

[MasterThought]

The fact that this is even a "debate" amongst black people shows how dumb we are as a collective.

This subject alone has made me think that we may truly be a CURSED people.

Imagine a J*wish rapper rapping about spinning the block on other J*ws , flooding his own community with drugs and referring to J*wish women as "bytches & h0es".

That rapper would be viewed as a TRAITOR to the J*wish community and shamed & outcasted.

Meanwhile, over here in the black community, rappers who make songs like "my Choppa hates n1ggas" are worshipped and viewed as GODS.

That's the difference between one group of people whose at the top of the totem pole and the other, whose at the bottom.......one group values themselves and the other doesn't.

When you say "it's just entertainment", you're literally saying "I am amused and get a kick out of hearing black people sing about killing other black people....it makes me happy "

 

[CW_1991]

Hip hop is just entertainment. An art form, a genre of music. It's not a real culture. A lot of us really got that fukked up.

Somehow we've been convinced that it's representative of what our way of life is supposed to authentically be.

Most of the things that is synonymous with hip hop is a bunch of frivolous nonsense that should not be the standard of living