Ezekiel 25:17
Veteran
Honestly I hate to say it, I don't even care. Just leave the hood and get with like minded black folks. Save yourself
Proliferation of switch handguns and hip-hop influence
Sleepy Floyd
Superstar
We're still blaming music in 2022 instead of refusing to take accountability?
Illuminatos
#OVOXO
2022 and people are still acting like hip-hop doesn’t influence young kids?
I'm in the field everyday lurking for da opps, on my brother's grave nikka2022 and people are still acting like hip-hop doesn’t influence young kids?
But it's only for entertainment purposes
BmoreGorilla
Veteran
I don’t think anybody is saying it has 0 influence. But to think it has more influence on the streets than the other way around is ridiculous when hip hop itself came from the streets. Most crimes are committed by people from impoverished areas where crime is already high. Kids are more influenced by what they see in their own neighborhood than music2022 and people are still acting like hip-hop doesn’t influence young kids?
A kid doesn’t just get a gun themselves. Someone has to sell it to them or as you said from a big homie.
In 2022 anybody denying the influence of rap music, I assume lives under a rock and has been for the last 40 years.
Here's an entire thread made recently of bruthas admitting to what rap music influenced them to do:
www.thecoli.com
Rap music GLORIFIES the street life as "cool". Cool to the point that even good, "square" kids are emulating the lifestyle because that's what's mainly presented to them as authentic "blackness".
Kids from good homes and hardworking parents are being influenced by rap music and peer pressure to appear and act "street" because it's EVERYWHERE. Good kids are influenced to smoke weed, start drinking alcohol, curse, use the Nword every sentence, put tattoos all over their bodies, etc.... because it's the main thing they see as being propped up as how a black man is supposed to look and act.
If It wasn't for hip-hop culture, the "streets" would actually be looked down upon. The streets would be viewed as a bunch of retarded , no skill having, low intelligent clowns with no future who shoot and kill each other. Without hip-hop, "the streets" would be nothing nobody aspired to emulate. They would be looked as lower than rats. Lower than dogs. Scum. Uncivilized animals.
Without rap, street dudes would just be dusty street dudes , but rap music (which is the most popular artform in the world) glorifies and popularizes it on an unimaginable scale, because it's backed by a scorching hot beat and most importantly...the media.
Street hip-hop culture is one of the worse things to ever happen to blacks and I would get rid of it overnight if I had a magic wand and let these street dudes become random dusties with no influence over our good kids.
It's anti-black at its core and pushed mainly by people who would NEVER push it on their own people.
It's mental and psychological poison.
Here's an entire thread made recently of bruthas admitting to what rap music influenced them to do:
Can You Give an Example of Some shyt you did/tried Soley because Hip-Hop Made it Popular?
First I'd say Rapping in itself. It made me want to explore making my own hip-hop and that's been very therapeutic. Hip-hop has helped me put my thoughts into words and it's helped me better understand myself as a person more through writing lyrics. I'd also say lean if I'm being honest. I...
www.thecoli.com
Rap music GLORIFIES the street life as "cool". Cool to the point that even good, "square" kids are emulating the lifestyle because that's what's mainly presented to them as authentic "blackness".
Kids from good homes and hardworking parents are being influenced by rap music and peer pressure to appear and act "street" because it's EVERYWHERE. Good kids are influenced to smoke weed, start drinking alcohol, curse, use the Nword every sentence, put tattoos all over their bodies, etc.... because it's the main thing they see as being propped up as how a black man is supposed to look and act.
If It wasn't for hip-hop culture, the "streets" would actually be looked down upon. The streets would be viewed as a bunch of retarded , no skill having, low intelligent clowns with no future who shoot and kill each other. Without hip-hop, "the streets" would be nothing nobody aspired to emulate. They would be looked as lower than rats. Lower than dogs. Scum. Uncivilized animals.
Without rap, street dudes would just be dusty street dudes , but rap music (which is the most popular artform in the world) glorifies and popularizes it on an unimaginable scale, because it's backed by a scorching hot beat and most importantly...the media.
Street hip-hop culture is one of the worse things to ever happen to blacks and I would get rid of it overnight if I had a magic wand and let these street dudes become random dusties with no influence over our good kids.
It's anti-black at its core and pushed mainly by people who would NEVER push it on their own people.
It's mental and psychological poison.
BmoreGorilla
Veteran
Idk breh. Kids been smoking weed and getting drunk since forever. You would have a point if crime was exploding in well off suburbs. But crime is high in places that always had high crimeIn 2022 anybody denying the influence of rap music, I assume lives under a rock and has been for the last 40 years.
Here's an entire thread made recently of bruthas admitting to what rap music influenced them to do:
Can You Give an Example of Some shyt you did/tried Soley because Hip-Hop Made it Popular?
First I'd say Rapping in itself. It made me want to explore making my own hip-hop and that's been very therapeutic. Hip-hop has helped me put my thoughts into words and it's helped me better understand myself as a person more through writing lyrics. I'd also say lean if I'm being honest. I...
Rap music GLORIFIES the street life as "cool". Cool to the point that even good, "square" kids are emulating the lifestyle because that's what's mainly presented to them as authentic "blackness".
Kids from good homes and hardworking parents are being influenced by rap music and peer pressure to appear and act "street" because it's EVERYWHERE. Good kids are influenced to smoke weed, start drinking alcohol, curse, use the Nword every sentence, put tattoos all over their bodies, etc.... because it's the main thing they see as being propped up as how a black man is supposed to look and act.
If It wasn't for hip-hop culture, the "streets" would actually be looked down upon. The streets would be viewed as a bunch of retarded , no skill having, low intelligent clowns with no future who shoot and kill each other. Without hip-hop, "the streets" would be nothing nobody aspired to emulate. They would be looked as lower than rats. Lower than dogs. Scum. Uncivilized animals.
Without rap, street dudes would just be dusty street dudes , but rap music (which is the most popular artform in the world) glorifies and popularizes it on an unimaginable scale, because it's backed by a scorching hot beat and most importantly...the media.
Street hip-hop culture is one of the worse things to ever happen to blacks and I would get rid of it overnight if I had a magic wand and let these street dudes become random dusties with no influence over our good kids.
It's anti-black at its core and pushed mainly by people who would NEVER push it on their own people.
It's mental and psychological poison.
murksiderock
Superstar
It's shortsighted to focus the conversation on switches, there's always been ways to modify your guns....
Today it's the "switch", 20-25 years ago it was sawing off your shotties with pistol grips, 30-35 years ago it was the introduction of Uzis, there's always the "new" firearm or firearm modifications of choice. The switch on pistols is the natural evolution of a trend that is multiple generations rooted in Urban America, the idea itself isn't a novel one...
The problem has been and remains that regardless of what the new trend is, how prevalent firearm access continues to be in a country that has the most gun violence of any rich civilized nation is the real issue that the "powers that be" won't fix...
As far as hip-hop's influence, look, it's more influential than it ever was even a decade ago, and certainly in decades past that most posters here grew up in. And it was influential then too, but it's the most popular audio art form globally now, so we don't gotta pretend it isn't influencing people into trends at a higher rate today. It is...
At the same time, because gangster rap is the most popular rap, we should question why that is and why so many gangsters, real or perceived, are allowed to be the voice of our culture. Streets do influence hip hop more than the reverse, but the reverse has the reach to spread the message beyond local borders....
Ultimately, we're voting with our money and our time. We keep these messages alive because we support the music that glorifies these things. If those of us BLACK people, the few of us with real pull and clout in the industry, pulled our dollars and support from messages promoting black genocide, we'd see a trickle down effect, I truly believe this. No, we can't get the guns off the street, that's the USA's job because we aren't the ones bringing them in and distributing them...
The USA will never get tired of mass shootings and black cannibalism...
So the best thing you can do as a Regular Joe is avoid the people and surroundings that permeate the violence and influence those you love around you away from the BS. Guns are massively overrated, I'm sick of hearing about em and sick of inaction on our country's part but I can only do my part, I don't expect any legislative change. All this shyt could change if there was unprecedented legislative action...
Today it's the "switch", 20-25 years ago it was sawing off your shotties with pistol grips, 30-35 years ago it was the introduction of Uzis, there's always the "new" firearm or firearm modifications of choice. The switch on pistols is the natural evolution of a trend that is multiple generations rooted in Urban America, the idea itself isn't a novel one...
The problem has been and remains that regardless of what the new trend is, how prevalent firearm access continues to be in a country that has the most gun violence of any rich civilized nation is the real issue that the "powers that be" won't fix...
As far as hip-hop's influence, look, it's more influential than it ever was even a decade ago, and certainly in decades past that most posters here grew up in. And it was influential then too, but it's the most popular audio art form globally now, so we don't gotta pretend it isn't influencing people into trends at a higher rate today. It is...
At the same time, because gangster rap is the most popular rap, we should question why that is and why so many gangsters, real or perceived, are allowed to be the voice of our culture. Streets do influence hip hop more than the reverse, but the reverse has the reach to spread the message beyond local borders....
Ultimately, we're voting with our money and our time. We keep these messages alive because we support the music that glorifies these things. If those of us BLACK people, the few of us with real pull and clout in the industry, pulled our dollars and support from messages promoting black genocide, we'd see a trickle down effect, I truly believe this. No, we can't get the guns off the street, that's the USA's job because we aren't the ones bringing them in and distributing them...
The USA will never get tired of mass shootings and black cannibalism...
So the best thing you can do as a Regular Joe is avoid the people and surroundings that permeate the violence and influence those you love around you away from the BS. Guns are massively overrated, I'm sick of hearing about em and sick of inaction on our country's part but I can only do my part, I don't expect any legislative change. All this shyt could change if there was unprecedented legislative action...
African Peasant
Veteran
The influence here is the influence of Hip-Hop on the youth. It basically became an ambassador for the street.
Rap is basically the internet for the streets. If you think it's not influencing these kids in every corner of the country...
The whole "Rap is a mirror" has always been a copout. Rap is more than a reflection, it's a signal booster. A multiplier.
The whole "Rap is a mirror" has always been a copout. Rap is more than a reflection, it's a signal booster. A multiplier.
Mandarin Duck
Majestic and Highfalutin
That negative Behavior existing prior to the artform of hip-hop doesn't negate how that artform influences people of today.
You Win Perfect
bow down
What’s your point. Everything potentially influences behaviors, especially with children. Why are you fakkits so obsessed with rap music or is that just code word for something else like “what about Chicago” is .But we're seeing kids who aren't street turn street because of rappers
They got drill music and murder popping from safe ass Toronto to God damn Italy
You stupid fukks, hip hop has always influenced culture WORLDWIDE . Still rappin about the same shyt everybody was rappin about in the 90’s. There was kids doin the same shyt they doin now. This same rap music being bad media propaganda been going on ever since they created the term “gangster rap”. No different than “drill music”.
*streets > rap are ya stupid?
*The street influence has always been grounded knee deep in this shyt from day one. Word to Rakim's debut album back cover.
*matter fact it was even worse back in the day.
*you had legit druglords, kingpins and serial killers parading as music managers and industry dudes.
*Henchmen,Jack,Preme etc. Shoot even Top from TDE is one of the OG members of the bounty hunters bloods in watts .
*Street shyt has always been hand in hand with hip hop. What you are seeing nowadays is America's infatuation with it play out in the digital space.
*These nikkas have always been around, it's just now you can click on their YouTube videos and instagram and check em out.
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*The street influence has always been grounded knee deep in this shyt from day one. Word to Rakim's debut album back cover.
*matter fact it was even worse back in the day.
*you had legit druglords, kingpins and serial killers parading as music managers and industry dudes.
*Henchmen,Jack,Preme etc. Shoot even Top from TDE is one of the OG members of the bounty hunters bloods in watts .
*Street shyt has always been hand in hand with hip hop. What you are seeing nowadays is America's infatuation with it play out in the digital space.
*These nikkas have always been around, it's just now you can click on their YouTube videos and instagram and check em out.
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Hip hop has had influence on and been the voice of the streets since it’s existence. This thread is focusing on switches. And ain’t no rap song making nikkas who wasn’t already on some hot ass shyt to get a switch. nikkas not dropping out of honors programs and getting face tats after attending OTF concerts.
I almost refuse to have any serious discourse on here when it comes to topics like these, because the majority of the board be overstating the fukk out of the impact rap has. Damn near equating every black issue to rap music. Every one will concede rap music influences the youth. It’s the level that it does that y’all be ODing with. nikkas was walking around with baseball bats and chains and shyt beating the shyt out of nikkas way before rap. Then, with all due respect, most of y’all never been in the streets and half of y’all not even from no urban environments like that to have real perspective about the impact of hip hop on black youth. A quarter of y’all nikkas not even from the damn US with all these elaborate ass opinions about what’s going on over here.
I almost refuse to have any serious discourse on here when it comes to topics like these, because the majority of the board be overstating the fukk out of the impact rap has. Damn near equating every black issue to rap music. Every one will concede rap music influences the youth. It’s the level that it does that y’all be ODing with. nikkas was walking around with baseball bats and chains and shyt beating the shyt out of nikkas way before rap. Then, with all due respect, most of y’all never been in the streets and half of y’all not even from no urban environments like that to have real perspective about the impact of hip hop on black youth. A quarter of y’all nikkas not even from the damn US with all these elaborate ass opinions about what’s going on over here.
