Ya' Cousin Cleon
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It took me a while , but I get it .
He's an entertainer and he packages information in a way that is easily digested by younger people.
In my era, Flava Flav's antics, Terminator X, and the Bomb Squad's production helped make Chuck D's words and messages more accessible to us.
Tariq has to play the jester himself to keep people's attention, so that's gonna take away from whatever points he's trying to make.
I used to blame Tariq and a lot of internet speakers/celebs for dumbing down a lot of issues and for deliberately misleading people about serious topics, but the end of the day, he's an entertainer who is catering to a certain demographic. If some of his listeners aren't inclined to read books and form their own opinions, then that can't be blamed on him.
I'm not sure if he has had an overall positive or negative effect on the community.
I take the good with the bad when it comes to Tariq, through he let me down with historical inaccuracies in Hidden Colors tho