Post Mike Brown: Hip Hop doesn't feel right to me anymore

[10:31]

Would love for the CACs who post here to chime in (interesting to see how you guys feel)



In the wake of what happened to Mike Brown (Eric Garner) and still digesting the aftermath of Trayvon Martin the allure of hip hop as beginning to disinterest me.

I'm 31 and for the first time in my adult life I'm completely conscious/aware of the impact the images in the art have on the world. The youth movement that used to promote partying and strategic rebellion has devolved into a brainless animalistic genre that perpetuaes sterotypes.

Over and over and over

Is anyone else feeling a little jaded post Mike Brown?


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[BrothaZay]

I'm 31

 

[Food Mane]

I don't see a solid connection between hip hop and mike brown, to be honest.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Man , shut up

You have been on my nerves througout the entire mike brown ordeal

 

[MrFettuccinnePockets]

Mainstream

Underground is becoming

 

[10:31]

I don't see a solid connection between hip hop and mike brown, to be honest.

The redundant theme of violence and destruction that mainstream (and even underground) hip hop promotes without any real social commentary.

The idea that corporate america has built a system that generates millions of dollars of the destruction of the African image.

White cop sees black male and associates thug or criminal with him before human being.

Mike Brown has completely woke me up. All the minstrel entertainment owned by a Jewish CAC Conglomerate does is perpetuate sterotypes and keep them alive in everyone's mind..

Man , shut up

You have been on my nerves througout the entire mike brown ordeal

I don't recall going back and forth with you at all on Mike Brown?

If you can't express yourself beyond that bull shyt ass claim bounce my g..

 

[The Dust King]

I'm 31 and for the first time in my adult life I'm completely conscious/aware of the impact the images in the art have on the world.

mind you on you spent your 20's d!ckridin 50 cent

so now after countless others have died, terrorist attacks, a phony black president, voting fraud, hacker scandals, political uprisings, stop and frisk gone wild, gentrifications of major cities, lower morals and you now feel the pressure??

its ok, your not late but your also not going to blame hip-hop

 

[b@squ1@t]

you mean eric garner?

 

[10:31]

mind you on you spent your 20's d!ckridin 50 cent

so now after countless others have died, terrorist attacks, a phony black president, voting fraud, hacker scandals, political uprisings, stop and frisk gone wild, gentrifications of major cities, lower morals and you now feel the pressure??

its ok, your not late but your also not going to blame hip-hop

It's cool to attack my online image.. But it's really neither here nor there

If you read between the lines I'm not attacking hip hop fam.. I'm attacking the owners that enable it.

Hip hop didn't monetize itself and create a system that generates billions at the expense of black destruction. You feel me?

you mean eric garner?

Auto correct killing me.. I'm on my phone

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

You went from dikk riding 50 to dikk riding jeezy to dikk riding ross.



Now that ross flopped and is on the decline you feel lost and confused. You have nobody to dikk ride.


Dont worry someone else will come along for you to dikk ride.

 

[b@squ1@t]

all music can influence

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

I don't blame Hip Hop for violence or for anything post Mike Brown, nor am I really jaded as far as the music is concerned. I have a deep love for Hip Hop and really see it as a reflection, not a spark, with a lot of this negativity. At the same time while I respect it can bring a social change and social awareness, expecting this from everyone in Hip Hop at every instance isn't fair. On top of it being not fair, Hip Hop would be boring if everything was conscious or preachy Hip Hop. I love mindless shyt as much as everyone else when I am drunk and out. The problem is even when guys try to do something cool you have people complain, case in point Game recruiting all his Hip Hop buddies to put out a song that would help pay for the guys funeral and spread awareness better than just out right paying for it.

Now where I might be jaded is with the police because of where I am from. Police using excessive force, intimidation, black and latinos getting shot / arrested / "evidence" planted on them....that is just as much part of LA as the Lakers at this point. When the cops beat the shyt out of Rodney King out here Hip Hop didn't change in LA and I don't think you were jaded with Hip Hop then. Hip Hop wasn't the reason Rodney King got his ass beat either. That was good ol fashion racism.

People who want mainstream Hip Hop to have uplifting, powerful music are going to die holding their breath. It's like asking the news to only report on good things. That's not how it works. At least until everyone who is TRULY and REALLY upset with Hip Hop as it is starts supporting underground artists and ones who really speak on things they want to hear. I understand that music can influence people but do you blame the music or the parents? All of us here were raised on Hip Hop and many of the people I talk to are good, stand up, community chancing type peoples.

 

[Food Mane]

White cop sees black male and associates thug or criminal with him before human being.

..

Does that really have that much to do with hiphop though? I don't have any numbers handy or anything, but I'd wager that police harassment/unfair treatment/brutality/murder of African-American men is probably at its lowest points in history.

 

[10:31]

Anybody besides the Mindless CACs dare to contribute any response of real substance to the post? Maybe even answer the question?

Because one can grow and express his growth I guess certain users want to attack that or devalue it..

I never said I didn't listen to mainstream or underground hip hop. I said with a clear understanding that I'm tired of the messages the art form at the expense of it's owners is sending.

 

[NormanConnors]

There isn't any Public Enemy type music in the mainstream to speak on these issues, but it's been like that for a while now @bigrodthe1 just made a thread earlier speaking on the weakening of music, social awareness and etc.