Is it time to shame black entertainers?

[Reality]

I was reading @PhonZhi 's thread about how we make being something other than a rapper/entertainer "cool", and I started to think: how do we make being a young thug, a future, etc "uncool"? how do we make it embarrassing?

i think we all agree on these things:
-black entertainers are often enriched at the expense of black consciousness, health, and identity
-black entertainers get paid to further black stereotypes
-black entertainers are able to live lives somewhat removed from the consequences they create for our communities

how do we point this out on a MASSIVE scale and make this embarrassing whenever it's happening?

one of the things i was thinking about is the potential of black twitter and social media and how it could help.

one of the great things about black twitter is how, to some extent, it's pretty cohesive in terms of black unity when there's an outsider threatening or overstepping blackness or black culture (Macklemore, Iggy, Rachel Dolezal, police shootings, etc). it borders on being a machine in terms of chewing up and spitting something out when it decides to.

how do we get folks to see that young thug, future, etc, really are outsiders? or at least behave in ways that further white supremacy? and how do we do this in the comedic and digestible way that makes the message/theme contagious?

it's easy to call some of these guys c00ns, sambos, etc, but i think that would miss the mark. how do we shame them in a way that holds them accountable and provides incentive (emotional and material) to behave in more responsible/accountable ways?

memes are powerful...

anyway, i dont want to ramble, but it'd be dope if we could have ~100 coli posters on Twitter who could serve to be on the same page in calling out the sell-out/white-supremacy-in-blackface moments we notice. there just needs to be a critical mass of folks who catch & share a message for it to be viral.

the challenge for me would be...this shyt is all very serious to me. i'd honestly have a difficult time making light of it, but i know some of you guys are better in that regard than I.

interested in hearing your thoughts...



@Truth200
@Wild self
@ridedolo
@Emperor_ReinScarf
@Dotcom
@Buckeye Fever
@ChicaGORILLA_Jay
@Slang Dussain Ali
@Originalman
@keond
@Althea
@wild100sboy
@At30wecashout

 

[Dotcom]

Yes, Rappers like Young Thug and Keef chief is detrimental and demonic to the expression of Black music, they promote the death of youth and brainwash them into gang violence. I think we could do without these muscians if they can't change the message or even tone it down for the youth, all these clowns can goto jail n rott or kill each other because thats what they doing destroying your childrens children and anybody who don't agree is working with the ones who are doing this to us all.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Im down, but twitter suspended my acct.

I made a new one though @Buckeye_fever

 

[MikelArteta]

folks are indoctrinated. could never go against their precious rappers or black entertainers who make em laugh

 

[Bugatti Biceps]

By whenever someone brings those nikkas up, I let people know I don't fukk with them due to their content and how they act outside of music and its detrimental effects on young black adults. When they try to argue back I let them know it aint up for discussion and if you want to be over there listening to black men fukk up themselves and the community while bemoaning the state of the black community, be a hypocrite away from me. I'll be chillin listening to Ronald Isley.

 

[Dotcom]

folks are indoctrinated. could never go against their precious rappers or black entertainers who make em laugh

Sometimes we forget who out number who...

 

[Truth200]

It's all about the next generation being better than the last going forward never backward.

We always here the excuse bu bu but Mobb Deep, Tupac, Biggie, Nas, Jay-Z, N.W.A made music about guns and violence..

But after Tupac & Biggie got killed people continued to keep making music about guns and violence for 20 years.

Now in 2015 we keep hearing the same sad story last month was Chinx Drugs this month was Capo from Keefs crew.

So the question becomes why are black people still making rap songs about selling drugs and killing each other?

And you can't blame the environment or deflect and say "it's just entertainment like Arnold in the Terminator".

Because it's not just entertainment it's a culture when you are expected to keep it real and live your lyrics.

 

[CHICAGOrilla]

Im torn, on one hand I understand that their music is toxic but at the same time I listen to it because it sounds good to me. We gotta learn to stop looking at these rappers as leaders of black people. We need leaders in our communities so we won't have to look at some bozo on TV n admire them.

 

[philmonroe]

Im torn, on one hand I understand that their music is toxic but at the same time I listen to it because it sounds good to me. We gotta learn to stop looking at these rappers as leaders of black people. We need leaders in our communities so we won't have to look at some bozo on TV n admire them.

The only reason I can't get with this shyt because truth be told majority of,these cats on this shyt acting like bytches hating on dudes for getting bread and or "that" nikka that's sooo above it. shyt gets on my nerves if you don't listen, buy it cool but you not going to stop others from buying it unless they don't want to period. Also not many people outside of people that are probably lost already look at these dudes as leaders because if its like that why don't any of these oh so special nikkas that post here follow these dudes?

 

[Truth200]

The only reason I can't get with this shyt because truth be told majority of,these cats on this shyt acting like bytches hating on dudes for getting bread and or "that" nikka that's sooo above it. shyt gets on my nerves if you don't listen, buy it cool but you not going to stop others from buying it unless they don't want to period. Also not many people outside of people that are probably lost already look at these dudes as leaders because if its like that why don't any of these oh so special nikkas that post here follow these dudes?

People just hating.........huh

It's not because these rappers talking about killing nikkas, destroying the community and got little kids throwing up gang signs.

 

[Dotcom]

The way we can decline the destructible cult like genre of homicide,violence,and social massacre of gang culture is to basically replace the "Message" ... If the idols that one would be a fan of, would be subject like a "Worshiper or Follower" Hems the expedition of reforming a different mystic to the volume and marital of the platform artist base of whats HOT, so in terms we would have to "CREATE a NEW COOL" the new "Cool" would have to have the mertics of a Speaker like "Kendrick" but the "swag" of someone like "Future" hence the message of someone positive like "KRS-ONE or "Tupac Shakur" .. The influence of positive would have to carry like a wave not just in motive messaging but also the "MUSIC must appear to mass to overwhelm the Message that a clean glass of water would multiply your fruits times the bad dirty work infecting the process of your own and seeds BRAIN..

 

[philmonroe]

People just hating.........huh

It's not because these rappers talking about killing nikkas, destroying the community and got little kids throwing up gang signs.

Thats not all I said but cherry pick to feel better about yourself

 

[Barnett114]

The main focus needs to be on cleaning up black neighborhoods.

You can get rid of all the outside bullshyt but when a black neighborhood has broken families, a 33% unemployment rate, long established gangs, drugs and guns, underfunded schools with bad teachers, etc, many of the same problems will persist.

 

[PhonZhi]

The main focus needs to be on cleaning up black neighborhoods.

You can get rid of all the outside bullshyt but when a black neighborhood has broken families, a 33% unemployment rate, long established gangs, drugs and guns, underfunded schools with bad teachers, etc, many of the same problems will persist.

When these highly influential and visible rappers GLORIFY and make long established gangs, drugs and guns seem "cool", then OUR own mindset towards those things wont change. Sorry, but your constant caping for black genocide music is getn more pathetic every thread. How bout wanting these rappers to rap about NOT joining these long established gangs and STOP flashing guns in vids and rapping about molly and lean? How bout they start rapping about the white supremicts that PURPOSELY flood black neighborhoods with drugs and guns and bring awareness to that? Would u have a problem with that or would u prefer them to continue GLORIFYING those things and taking attention AWAY from the white supremicts who are responsible and the root of the problem?

 

[TheSpook]

Worry about entertainers while you do nothing brehs.


If you are doing something I'm not talking to you.