O.T Genesis Coco: Was This A New Low For Hiphop/the Black Community?

[the artist known az]

WHIP THROUGH THE GLASS NICKA

WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOOP

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

If you can make it through this entire video without I gotta respect ya. Way too many potential gifs

 

[No_bammer_weed]

Looks like OP is running with his new gimmick as the resident Eeyore


This should be the title of his threads:

Fukk OP, dog. Fukkin moping ass nicca man....go tell ur cryin ass shyt to a therapist.




Talkin' about "nobody does kinda music but us"




Koreans turnin up out here.


Coco come on in the club and Im pissy, im goin LOCO!

 

[PhonZhi]

@really tho the 1st link doesnt open. Is it down? The 2nd opens right up

 

[Truth200]

It's just entertainment....

 

[PhonZhi]

Atlanta is dictating the sound of hiphop breh

Im most disappointed in NYC for rocking with this wow times have changed!

 

[I Lord Justice]

2014 was really the WOAT year for black ppl in the modern era & this played it's part in that

nikkas talkin about #blacklivesmatter in between chanting how about catchin a body bout a week agoooo and having baking soda, i got baking soda.

Suburban weirdo.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

his mannerisms in the video are hilarious...nikka moving his arms like he's singing opera or some shyt

 

[PhonZhi]

There acting like "black people" . They are acting and emulating how they think black people act

Looks like OP is running with his new gimmick as the resident Eeyore


This should be the title of his threads:

Fukk OP, dog. Fukkin moping ass nicca man....go tell ur cryin ass shyt to a therapist.




Talkin' about "nobody does kinda music but us"




Koreans turnin up out here.


Coco come on in the club and Im pissy, im goin LOCO!

 

[newworldafro]

OP forgot the low last year was "Hot Niggga" by Bobby Shmurda....a whole half of year of seeing people getting hyped on that garbage...just my opinion...

 

[PhonZhi]

Naw i aint 4get. But atleast that sounded like an actual song. Coco sounds like an Aries Spiers skit. But yea Hot Nikka is just as bad. The beat alone puts me in a dark mood

OP forgot the low last year was "Hot Niggga" by Bobby Shmurda....a whole half of year of seeing people getting hyped on that garbage...just my opinion...

 

[really tho]

@really tho the 1st link doesnt open. Is it down? The 2nd opens right up

lank worked on my phone when I clicked it, maybe your DNS is jacked?

try this one:

https://www.change.org/p/clear-chan...-off-of-regular-radio-rotation-on-urban-radio

 

[Get Right]

All time high for humanity, art and culture. Period.

The way he counted that fake money in the video, I knew he was mad real.

Nothing corny about the song, video, or him.Just genuinely good music.

 

[really tho]

2014 was really the WOAT year for black ppl in the modern era & this played it's part in that

nikkas talkin about #blacklivesmatter in between chanting how about catchin a body bout a week agoooo and having baking soda, i got baking soda.

this damn near became my sig, one of the realest posts on thecoli.com and I can't front. On one hand, "it's just music!" and on the other hand it's

----

http://www.dallasweekly.com/arts_an...cle_a697d47e-b6c7-11e4-90d5-4b789fc7cebe.html

The so called hip-hop radio audience would hear the song by OT Genasis called COCO, which is an ode to the sale of his drug of choice, that’s right cocaine. If you have not heard it lets analyze what is being said, because surely we would not hear on the radio which is listened to primarily by youth ages 13-24 a message and social diatribe giving the listener instructions of how to commit crime, inclusive of distributing cocaine.

Yes those are some of the lyrics. And as you can see they are void of any uplift to a community that is already ridden with crime and massive incarceration rates. Hell, they are even void of poetic lyrically ability and talent that is rooted in the element of emceeing which is a part of the true essence of hip-hop culture, but that’s more of another story.

Who benefits from such a song? The artists, who may sell hundreds of thousands of this single, yet receive a minimum financial return for such and in today’s music industry may never be heard of again? Or the record label that could make millions from the sale of a single, caring less if the artist is the next big thing or a one hit wonder?

Of course we know that hip-hop is the Black community’s CNN, as hip-hop legend Chuck D of Public Enemy so insightfully put it. Hip-Hop tells our story and with all the grime and grit found in inner cities worldwide, is this love for the coco present in the hood? Sure it is.

Yet the whole story is not being told on a song such as this one. The horrible conditions we live in is not reflected on, the disproportionate condition that yields to the fact that there are two Americas, One Black, One White, separate and unequal giving way to some in a community deprive to seek to survive and sold drugs to do so. No all we hear is the love for the COCO, and the glamour and glitz of such. The listener does not even understand the risk of being incarcerated and the trap laid by some in government and capitalist who seek to fill their prison industrial complex with bodies to enhance a 2015 new slave labor system. The fact that these prisons have to be filled is reason enough for this industry to promote a plethora of songs just like it to public that can be influenced by such.

Spoiler: Statistics according to NAACP.org

Racial Disparities in Incarceration

• African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population
• African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites
• Together, African American and Hispanics comprised 58% of all prisoners in 2008, even though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately one quarter of the US population
• According to Unlocking America, if African American and Hispanics were incarcerated at the same rates of whites, today's prison and jail populations would decline by approximately 50%
• One in six black men had been incarcerated as of 2001. If current trends continue, one in three black males born today can expect to spend time in prison during his lifetime
• 1 in 100 African American women are in prison
• Nationwide, African-Americans represent 26% of juvenile arrests, 44% of youth who are detained, 46% of the youth who are judicially waived to criminal court, and 58% of the youth admitted to state prisons (Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice).

Drug Sentencing Disparities

• About 14 million Whites and 2.6 million African Americans report using an illicit drug
• 5 times as many Whites are using drugs as African Americans, yet African Americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of Whites
• African Americans represent 12% of the total population of drug users, but 38% of those arrested for drug offenses, and 59% of those in state prison for a drug offense.
• African Americans serve virtually as much time in prison for a drug offense (58.7 months) as whites do for a violent offense (61.7 months). (Sentencing Project) Contributing Factors
• Inner city crime prompted by social and economic isolation
• Crime/drug arrest rates: African Americans represent 12% of monthly drug users, but comprise 32% of persons arrested for drug possession
• "Get tough on crime" and "war on drugs" policies
• Mandatory minimum sentencing, especially disparities in sentencing for crack and powder cocaine possession
• In 2002, blacks constituted more than 80% of the people sentenced under the federal crack cocaine laws and served substantially more time in prison for drug offenses than did whites, despite that fact that more than 2/3 of crack cocaine users in the U.S. are white or Hispanic
• "Three Strikes"/habitual offender policies
• Zero Tolerance policies as a result of perceived problems of school violence; adverse affect on black children.
• 35% of black children grades 7-12 have been suspended or expelled at some point in their school careers compared to 20% of Hispanics and 15% of whites.

 

[LezJepzin]