Black people aren't writing and performing rap music? Black people aren't the ones breaking the laws and getting thrown in prison? Black people aren't posing with guns talking bout how many nikkas they kill? Where's the accountability?
Yes the underground is better and its still alive.
I see what your are saying but I was feeling like that prior to Mike Brown over the last couple of years in particular. Its hard for me to listen to anything new that has those drug/violence/misogyny themes...BUT I dont have my head in the clouds like its a new phenomenon or its anymore prevalent then it was before. All the shyt that's nostalgic to me has those themes on overdrive. I cant shyt on the new generation of rappers when I got C-murder on my ipod. And if anything, it feels like this era is even more open to various forms of hiphop that don't promote the shyt I feel is detrimental to the black community. So I listen to thatWe're just getting older and seeing things with a mature mind is all. Its too easy to blame rap music for whats happening. I always go back to "okay, so what were slave owners and jim crow purveyors' listening too?" Seriously, violence,drugs and stereotypes didn't start with rap music and it wont end with it. White folks were still treating us like garbage when we were marching in suits and shyt. nikkas was gangbanging and selling drugs before any rapper said it on a record.Lets be reality.
But again, I get where you coming from. I cant digest the majority of this shyt anymore. Especially when its coming from fukking 30 and 40 year old millionaires.
But unless you're mentally unstable no music or video games will make you do no vile shyt like that. Look breh I see ya point on rap but KRS been sayin how the game shady since that Nelly beef. I'm only 24 but blaming a genre when humans been murdering, raping & pillaging since day one(show me a civilization who hasn't) is deflection tactics. Racists will be racist, serial killers will kill, world peace is never happening,war will occur & rapes will happen. You can say im pessimistic but history repeats itselfYou're fukkin stupid. This is so funny. Black man gets arrested for selling drugs. Why they locking us up, we ain't make it, we don't bring it in, we just trying to get paid. Black male makes negative rap, don't blame him, blame the white man, he the one payingem and promoting it. Where is the accountability?!! Where!!
I understand when I was 14 when "Kings of Crunk" came out & made a lil nikka wanna "hit you wit a louisville slugger bat"
nikka, you just stupid. Ain't no more to it.
Pfft that definitely aint it
I have mixed emotions about hip hop right now but I am leaning towards agreeing with the op. White people have felt black people were a threat long before our hip hop fore fathers were even a gleam in their parent's eye, so to rely on them for help us is absurd. The images we put forth are damaging to black youth. We criticize and complain when white people portray us as thugs on predominately white entertainment, as we should. We complain when black actors put on a dress which feminizes the perception of the black male to the world, as we should. We complain when we are seen shucking and jiving, as we should. But if we do this, we have to have the same resolve when we have a chance to put our own images forth. The way we treat black women in music and videos is absolutely disgusting. Can you imagine how many young girls are growing up with the images of Love and Hip Hop, Real Housewives etc. as their definition of women. The way we talk about our fellow brothers in music is absolutely disgusting. While we need to report on whats going on in our neighborhoods, we also have a responsibility to say how we can fix it. Violence sells in rap but it doesnt mean its the right thing to talk about for an entire album. Crack rap sells but it doesnt mean it should be the main focus of an album.The whole time the protesting was going on in Furgeson, I wonder how many voter registration tents were set up to register the 12% of black voters registered in the city. When we get the stage to make a impact, we have to drive the dagger directly into white supremacy. Images of black people doing the right thing on television and in music will spark change in our youth. Im all for building a black utopia within the US, but we need to take control of our image.
edit: they were registering voters a couple of days ago
Accountability. You made the choice. So if a nikka is sucking dikk for $25 a whop, that's cool because that more than he can make because he's a felon? Bullshyt.
