I think you're wrong. I say the justice system is set up that way regardless of our culture... we only need to change to culture because we play into their hands. The drug game is allowed to exist to fund the drug laws
Also, without going into too much detail.. as a youth I saw more money than I do now. I saw things and parts of culture that didn't come out until Jeezy n those guys started making records. The culture is exploited not created by record execs- Their CAC counterparts put the social-economic situations in place first as fertile ground for groups to create subcultures.
One on side I'm like "that's some degrading ignorant music" on another note I'm like "that is the street w/o the music, plus the beat goes hard". I remember pulling up to the Southfield Star theater w my nikka in his 00' benz.. and it was 99' - kids had more money than our parents grandparent aunt n uncles combined and we were fukking kids.. Materialism and all that crazy culture that it comes w it is not because of the music. Black people did similar things in the 50-80's. NTM mention the part that you Always seem to forget!!!!--is that the situation that allows lil kids to make money while the community suffers is All part or the plan, and how can you tell a 12 year old who is hungry (mostly due to history he wasn't around for) not to participate. You damn sure don't tell him by using the D. Tucker lingo.
Detroit invented making it rain years before it was 'our stupid culture' on rap albums. There is so much of the culture that comes from being in a fukked up social economic spot- vacuum minded -in a foreign land, that you didn't immigrate to, that hates you and your people -and only though of you as humans in recent times. It's not a victim mentality unless you allow it to be. Not being a victim =/= to not knowing the situation your people are in.
Education is key. I don't say throw most of our community in the bushes because that's not how you save the masses. That's how you end up on Fox News as a talking head. Or end up as a community antagonist like D. Tucker. I made str8 A in HS, good grades in college( beyond my first year).. and I listened to rap music throughout. fukk that individuals educating themselves shyt. It not about the individual. Malcolm X didn't randomly decided to stop being little. Most people aren't going to do that. There are street nikkas by night, studious students by day. But focusing on shyt like that is how we end up with 1 Oprah and millions of Jonni Blaze bytches. We fail that way as a people.
well i dont agree with what you are saying because you havent really said anything except complain and you havent proposed any real solutions
at the end of the day black people have to change the way we do things if we want to have prosperous communities, i dont think it matters what white people or what the system does, its a free country, everybody can do whatever the fuk they want to do
if somebody wakes up in the morning and engages in illegal activities that is on them as an individual, if detroit was "making it rain" and studious students became "street nikkas" at night then that would explain what a financial hell hole detroit has become, im not sure why you think its important to identify those things as your culture and also suggest there should be no consequence for those actions
its like you dont want to acknowledge that being a "street nikka" means destroying your community and killing and terrorizing black people, i as a black person do not have to respect it, even if its packaged by corporate america and sold back to me as my culture
i dont see how you can blame delores tucker, delores tucker lost the battle, everybody ignored here and continued doing what they were doing
my beef with delores tucker and her type is entirely separate, i think her generation which includes coleman young in detroit is that they confused fighting racism with an actual economic plan, they had no real plan to economically revitalize black america, they had a mindset that said that if we enforce civil rights, integrate and reduce racism black people would magically rise, that was wrong, black communities need to develop real actual economic plans based on capitalism, small business and education
that being said when it comes to culture delores tucker was 100% on point, because culture is the fundamental determinant of a communities future