Somethin ain't right, to be an MC, you gotta thug Or to thug you gotta be an MC, this shyt is bugged Krumb Snatcha on Gang Starrs Make Them Pay 1998.
IT IS enough to make a Nick Griffin ejaculate with sheer excitement. A culture ferociously endorsed by liberals, marketed by liberals and consumed by liberals which promotes the murder, subjugation and de-legitimisation of black people. Hip-Hop, as much as I love (d) it, has a lot to answer for. And so do the people who profit from it.
Long gone are the days when intelligent and skillful rappers were signed and promoted to multi-platinum status. You will never hear mental nourishment like songs from Moment of Truth by Gangstarr or Reflection Eternal by Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek or The Listening by Little Brother on your radio or TV.
Nowadays, the worst degenerate the ghetto of America can muster is picked, polished and held up as a role model to the young, poor and impressionable. To others they are simply entertainers.
Hip-Hop has always been edgy and aggressive. But things have now taken a turn for the sadistically worse. Case in point something called Chief Keef (real name Keith Cozart, 17) who purports to be a rapper, was embroiled in a feud with a fellow idiot called Lil Jojo (real name Joseph Coleman, 18). Both of these teenagers are from the worst parts of Chicago and appear to have gang ties.
It all started off with the clichéd diss record accompanied by the equally clichéd automatic gun-laden grainy YouTube video by Little Jojo. Then there was some form of verbal confrontation in the street between the camps of both rappers.
Days later Little Jojo was shot down in cold blood whilst riding his bike. In response to this tragedy Chief Keef took to Twitter and celebrated the murder. And probably implicated himself in the process.
This is a watershed moment. This is, as the writer Jason Whitlock called it, prison culture - a celebration of the moral, cultural and progressive destruction of a people.
We all know this is wrong. We all know this is absolutely disgraceful. Yet powerful commercial interests record labels and media organisations - which present themselves as liberal and progressive, endorse, encourage and invest in this Klansmans wild wet dream of a culture to no end.
These organisations create the impression that they are trying to help the downtrodden and persecuted by supporting the culture. They most certainly are not. They do this to make money. Dont believe me? Take a look at who occupies the more important and powerful offices in each of these institutions. Take a look at who they choose to champion.
In fact, forbid the thought but should Chief Keef be gunned down tomorrow in retaliation attack for Lil Jojos slaying, mark these words: executives from the record label and the media organisations which promote him would show up at his funeral for networking purposes only.
He is a product and once he is in decline they will move on to the next product. Or as Ice Cube puts it: they will have a new n-word next year. Id be shocked if they didnt coerce his grieving mother to do press for his album.
If perception is reality then imagery is everything. What they see is what many aspire to be and what most accept them as. In the thirties the Nazis portrayed the Jews as predatory and sub-human in order to justify what would turn out to be horrendous crimes against them. We seem to have leased out our image to interests that could not care less about us. Our misery is their profit and prominence.
They make money out of us and render many of our youngsters unemployable and prison-bound. But to be fair, we are eager collaborators.
We cannot seriously complain about racism if we are doing worse to ourselves than any modern racist could dream of. It was not the National Front, BNP or EDL who killed Lil Jojo and celebrated it.
http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/modern-hip-hop-your-favourite-racists-favourite-genre