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

[CarltonJunior]

Say what you want, but the best parties were during the snap area

Music was pure fun in the snap era

Produced the least classics but it was fun

 

[Stay Seeking]

Honestly, I can understand why the song's popularity is offensive to some, I mean, drugs and violence destroys so many lives, especially in the black and Latin community. Moreover it's almost egregious that the song reached the popularity that it did on mainstream radio. But this is America and America was founded through institutions such as democracy, and within democracy there's rights such as "free speech" and concepts such as capitalism.

However, the worldwide acceptance of this song, and the portrayal of the black community should resonate with ALL black Americans that the survival and health of your community is of no concern to non-blacks. While the song is enticing and the melody is hard not to like, it's an easy choice for me not to purchase the album, or attend the artist's shows or support this particular song financially.

 

[BK Breh]

It's not an "All time low for hip hop" ... I don't think you realize that mainstream music PERIOD These days is all garbage. No one is talkign about anything, only person breathing any life into anything mainstream is Kendrick Lamar (just my opinion)

But in the past 10 yrs music has changed, in all genre's. Pop & Hip Hop majorly... I don't see the problem. If you don't like it don't listen to it.

 

[BasedPrime]

At first I thought dude was Dangelo from the wire

 

[Citi Trends]

this fukking argument is so contrived and bullshyt
for the top 25 songs on billboard for rap only 2 are about drugs and that's trap queen and coco and if you go start selling crack because of those two songs you're a fukking moron or you were already doing it
i didn't see none of these hiphop is destroying us nikkas in the 90s and 80s when gangs, drugs, and violence were at an all time high and you had way harder gangster rap on the radio

most of these songs you guys make up in your mind to be so popular and bad fall off in less than a month and the rest of the rap charts are filled with partying shyt like the "pop" stations you listen to

the top artists right now are kendrick, drake, kanye, J cole, young thug, and after that comes rnb artists. are these the guys causing nikkas to shoot eachother?

 

[BlackManLiveFromLondon]

Gonna need that remix gif of in the Coco vid

 

[Tommy Sheppard]

Wow you're dense. Read my post again.

I stopped reading once I saw that nonsense.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

And to think about it...this is the spawn of a NATIVE TOUNGUES ALUM...smh

Man...fukk Busta Rhymes

Ever since that swagger Wagon garbage his hoe ass been chewed up.

 

[PhonZhi]

Don't you ever get tired of complaining about the same shyt? you make at least 3 threads a week complaining about hip hop

You obviously don't like the music, so why keep fukkin with it?

Damn dog, every time I see a thread or post by you, you on some crybaby shyt

OP is a fukkboy. Nikka stay on some crybaby shyt. If you hate hip-hop and its "effects on the balck community" take you ass off the site. We dont give a fukk about your analysis or you struggle.

Die a slow death and i hope your eldest son is a pillow biter.

Maybe you should make a positive/happy hip-hop appreciation thread.

Seeing as that's all you listen too it should be easy. @PhonZhi

Because they prolly already replied in one of the OP's other "hip hop is ruining the community" threads. Dude literally makes one of these threads every week and he never says anything new.

This is a serious issue that needs to be addressed in our community. So its ok to u that murder, cocaine distribution, promiscuity and gang culture is being so blatantly promoted to the black youth? Yall are ok with this? Yall or ok with the fact that old white and jewish men like Jimmy Iovine are dictating the direction of our hiphop? Let me guess: as long as the beat bangs rite? We are truly a sad, docile people

 

[PhonZhi]

Its already too late bruh. The systematic brainwashing of blacks is so deep that we ourselves call the BLATANT poisoning of our minds "entertainment"

so yall nggas dont wanna get serious about what this music is doing to youth...as always we gonna have to learn the hard way when its too late

 

[PhonZhi]

Breh, the scary thing about this poison is how good sum of it sounds. Im not denying at all that the beat bangs and that its catchy. And thats why its so effective!!! Dont yall get how mind control works? Its simple and has a hot beat. Easy to repeat by kids. This music is PURPOSELY being used to keep the black youth in a zombie-like mindstate. Music has a powerful affect on the subconscious. The image of the black man and woman is under attack . Thug is synonymous with the black male

I don't disagree with your post entirely, and haven't read through the whole thread yet, but the difference IMO between Laffy Taffy and Coco is that the former was bad music posing as Hip Hop. Where as Coco is good music with a very bad message. I'm as prejudiced as they come towards Southern Hip Hop, TRAP music, Drill music, pretty much anything that isn't from 90's I hate. Still, when I heard this song, and saw the video, I thought it was hilarious at first. Then I caught myself singing the hook, and repeating some of the lines. It's a catchy azz song and beat, can't deny that. I like his Touchdown song too, caught myself a couple times saying, "Touchdown Nikka, touchdown nikka!!" I facepalm to myself everytime it creeps in my head, but can't deny the music is catchy, even for a boom-bap fanatic like myself.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

so yall nggas dont wanna get serious about what this music is doing to youth...as always we gonna have to learn the hard way when its too late

Yeah rap music is the main problem killing the youth?

Not the gentrification of black neighborhoods, not police brutality, not poverty levels, not the poor school systems, lack of jobs, not drug addiction. But let's blame it on OT genasis and the GS9 click

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Breh, the scary thing about this poison is how good sum of it sounds. Im not denying at all that the beat bangs and that its catchy. And thats why its so effective!!! Dont yall get how mind control works? Its simple and has a hot beat. Easy to repeat by kids. This music is PURPOSELY being used to keep the black youth in a zombie-like mindstate. Music has a powerful affect on the subconscious. The image of the black man and woman is under attack . Thug is synonymous with the black male

What are you doing as a white man to help the black community stop rappers from putting out the music?

 

[PhonZhi]

People are unaware that music has a "spirit" to it and we are feeding our minds and souls nothing but negativity. This music is casting a dark cloud over the black community

Music can be a poison. Like drugs, it will make you feel good, but in the long run, be bad for you. It was explained to me once that the devil, was a musician. He played the most beautiful music and anyone who listened to it, loved it. It was one way he controlled you. If you believe in that stuff, same thing applies here. Music that is catered to our youth, sounds cool to them, but they are slowly digesting the words as truth as well. Knowing that many kids aren't really that bright, it helps to lead them down the wrong path.

 

[ShaneTheRogue]

This is a serious issue that needs to be addressed in our community. So its ok to u that murder, cocaine distribution, promiscuity and gang culture is being so blatantly promoted to the black youth? Yall are ok with this? Yall or ok with the fact that old white and jewish men like Jimmy Iovine are dictating the direction of our hiphop? Let me guess: as long as the beat bangs rite? We are truly a sad, docile people

You're sad and docile. That's why you're on the coli hoeing instead of doing anything worth while. Why do you self-loathing saps always talk about some "we?"

Motherfukk you. Calling me sad and docile. Look at you. A fukking web warrior. Always knows whats wrong with something but don't no how to fix it.

"We" Don't speak on some motherfukking "we" because you're clearly disillusioned if you think for a second that Black plight is a symptom of Popular hip-hop and not the other way around. "Coco" wouldn't exist if American Slavery and Jim Crow didn't exist.

"We" Nah you all alone homie.