I'm starting to agree with Phonzi about this music thing now.

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Can't lie. Since I've started to monitor the type of music I consume, I have a whole new outlook on life. As a black man, a lot me of that shyt is cancer to your subconscious. Stopped listening to the radio and had to delete most of the music off my phone. Unfortunately, I still listen to :demonic: shyt when I'm in the gym. Gates got the juice when it comes to workout music.

Yep, the power of your subconscious mind is incredible. I think we have a whole generation of black kids who believe the image of the gangsta rapper is what a real black person is supposed to be. :snoop: I don't even listen to rap anymore outside of some old school bangers.
 

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Breh, but we ain't in here trying to make the music out to be the boogieman. However, it would be negligent to not realize in a world where inner city youth need a soundtrack to their lives, as we all have, it's nothing but flagrant negativity. Nothing about the music inspires hope. At one point the joints were telling stories about the hood, now they have become stories as a means to get out of the hood.

If you look for an interview with Fredo Santana, there was one where immediately after the clique popped off, he mentioned how he wanted to help they youth and be the next milk and whatnot. Real shyt. Then you think about his song where he mentioned that "his lil n****s with the shyts will lay you down." Meanwhile he is making mony and can better take care of himself and family, but the black youths who don't have a pot to piss in are only being fed that in order to get what you need out of life, you gotta be ready to shoot another brotha down.

Again, hip hop isn't the problem, but it isn't the therapy some people wanna make it out to be. They out here making money by virtue of rapping about genocide. No moral to the story, no lesson, simply that you are a target. No rhyme or reason other than we live on different blocks. Adults are teaching this shyt to young'ns not only through actions in the hood, but also in the music that would otherwise be an escape from the bullshyt.

Agree but the music has always been a means to get out.

And breh, that's not even the only music out, y'all just give it all the attention.



One of the men in that film was offered a record deal in 1991 but didn't jump on it because he couldn't leave the streets.

Here's the thing, I know Fredo. He was my neighbor. He learned this shyt from his father.

I live in Englewood by the Lamron BDs and everybody ain't trying to live that life or listening to that shyt. That's some stereotypical shyt.
 

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Maybe it's just me, but I find it odd when people say, "I don't fukk with ____ except when I'm ____."

....then you fukk with it. It's on your phone or MP3 player or stream playlist and you enjoy it.

"Chemotherapy? Lung cancer? I don't even smoke cigarettes except when I'm drinking, Doc. I don't understand smokers and how they poison themselves." :smh:
Just because you watch pornography as an adult doesn't mean you have to be cool with it being accessed by kids and being displayed publicly by only one race.
 

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Maybe it's just me, but I find it odd when people say, "I don't fukk with ____ except when I'm ____."

....then you fukk with it. It's on your phone or MP3 player or stream playlist and you enjoy it.

"Chemotherapy? Lung cancer? I don't even smoke cigarettes except when I'm drinking, Doc. I don't understand smokers and how they poison themselves." :smh:

Exactly. nikkaz be trying to Jedi mind trick themselves :dead:
 

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Agree but the music has always been a means to get out.

And breh, that's not even the only music out, y'all just give it all the attention.



One of the men in that film was offered a record deal in 1991 but didn't jump on it because he couldn't leave the streets.

Here's the thing, I know Fredo. He was my neighbor. He learned this shyt from his father.

But the thing is, this is why people always want to check the authenticity of the artist. They want to know they live it.

Imagine a college graduate who never touched a brick in his life rapping about moving weight and fukking oodles of bit he's, when his ass could have been a mentor or social service worker or plumber or something positive? He is coming up off of tales of black youth's suffering! There is no mention of the bad that happens, only that this and that had to be done to get theirs. Music videos got women from places these young boys will never visit, and references to getting their through peddling poison. Why should that boy wNt to work a 9-5 when he can sell some nuggets and put food on his table.

But wait, most peeve dealing drugs make less than they would putting in the same amount of time flipping burgers. The rappers won't tell you that, only that they caught a lick, bought a foreign, fukked a foreign, and it only took them selling poison and ending a few peoples lives.

He won't articulate that while more money can be made working a real job, your neighborhood won't have those jobs due to racism and global economic forces. There is no education, no feel good message in the shyt.

Again, I am not condemning the music, but I find it wildly ridiculous that we can point to the toxic shyt that makes other cultures tick, but rap music has to be I this sacred cow. There has to come a point where we wonder why it became more profitable for blacks to make music talking about doing bad rather than good. No, it isn't all white people buying that shyt and attending shows,Plenty of blacks do as well. Positive artists just don't get the same support that the others get. Let's face facts. If some shyt is considered lame in the black community, it gets NO love no matter how good it would be.
 

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Sound like you need that monster in your life :myman:

When I put this, enter sandman, and "whoa" by black rob on my shyt:whew:Breh I was blasting reps.
Especially with monster I would do volume training and time my rests and reps with the breaks on he song. Go hard as fukk, rest maybe 10 seconds, go hard as fukk for 10 or so. After 10 minutes of that I was on swole everytime:noah:

There's no words. Lol.
 

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What about song like jumper from third eye blind that are suicide prevention sounds? You think ppl didn't pull the trigger after hearing that?

That's kind of a somber song though, not saying people don't commit suicide to sad songs but usually people will put on break up music or whatever type of song to have their feelings expressed for them since they either can't or happen to be alone. It's a way to get some feedback. That last resort shyt was kind of a banger though :laugh:

I remember the black drill/dance teams would even fukk with that on the low because it kind had that rock/rap vibe to it. To me it's natural to be sad about being sad/depressed...hearing kind of an uptempo, angry song about depression, to have it associated/anchored in with such an adrenaline rush was just strange to me. It's very active/call to action-like, which makes sense since some of the people I've known that do self harm actually do it to keep from having that dull, dragging depressed feeling. For a really popular song that was kind of wild.
 
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A lot of :flabbynsick: nikkaz in here

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Half the song is I wish you would step back from that ledge lol. Only said that because for @PhonZhi s point to be true the inverse must be true as well
That's kind of a somber song though, not saying people don't commit suicide to sad songs but usually people will put on break up music or whatever type of song to have their feelings expressed for them since they either can't or happen to be alone. It's a way to get some feedback. That last resort shyt was kind of a banger though :laugh:

I remember the black drill/dance teams would even fukk with that on the low because it kind had that rock/rap vibe to it. To me it's natural to be sad about being sad/depressed...hearing kind of an uptempo, angry song about depression, to have it associated/anchored in such an adrenaline rush was just strange to me. It's very active/call to action-like, which makes sense since some of the people I've known that do self harm actually do it to keep from having that dull, dragging depressed feeling. For a really popular song that was kind of wild.

:deadrose: good post bro
 
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