It was and people always said that "the streets" didn't like black empowerment songs anymore, despite with dope rap and dope beats with solid content.
Maybe "the streets" hated seeing intelligent black folk get shine.
when did black nationalism lose its seat at the black table?
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It was and people always said that "the streets" didn't like black empowerment songs anymore, despite with dope rap and dope beats with solid content.
Maybe "the streets" hated seeing intelligent black folk get shine.
When NWA blew up, it was the hard headed nikka dream come true. They repped street knowledge over knowledge of self, and that made a lot of execs very uncomfortable.
Cabbage Patch
The Media scene in V is for Vendetta is the clue
[QUOTE="saturn7, post: 13925840, member: 2714] I won't solely blame west coast style gangsta rap.[/QUOTE]
You should.
You should.
Cabbage Patch
The Media scene in V is for Vendetta is the clue
Hitler is same shyt different day to the Diaspora. He was not an anomaly, he was business as usual. Those not within the Diaspora who don't want to acknowledge whom his tactics were first practised on, and by whom, ... won't.change isn't always positive
cause it can lead to this
Cabbage Patch
The Media scene in V is for Vendetta is the clue
I got negged for making that point. But I also got dapped.
As for political leaders, I didn't get woke til the Bush years and Hillary's narcissistic search for relevancy and the history books. Instead of serving black folk, nikkas acted like feminists and served the party regardless of the real needs of those they represented. No integrity, lots of grift.
The black church fell apart when women outnumbered men in the pews but not the pulpit, and the prosperity scams took root to prey upon them.
Black schooling fell apart when nikkas used schools as daycare instead of taking charge of children's education. If you can't be bothered to follow up on your child's life beyond cursing the admin out for discipline, there's a problem.
What would it take to get more black folk certified to home school? All them bytches with nothing to do in the projects... Why not make this their something to do? Kill two birds with one stone.
you promote evil
Sauanaffe Tustunnagee
Banned
i'm an 80s baby(whom grew up in the 90s) from the South so even when the black nationalism was mainstream in the 80s to early 90s i wasn't conscious of it
if i had to guess i would say whitey being disturbed about blacks taking pride in themselves/heritage being promoted to the masses and decided to end all that by changing the direction of popular black culture into gangterism we still have today
btw..while it precedes the black nationalist scene of the 80s/90s is my favorite Pan Africanism song
and all those they not really talking about nothing i dig the jazzy Erykah Badu Afrocentric vibe of this song from these 2 sisters i found while looking up Yoruba gods last year
if i had to guess i would say whitey being disturbed about blacks taking pride in themselves/heritage being promoted to the masses and decided to end all that by changing the direction of popular black culture into gangterism we still have todaybtw..while it precedes the black nationalist scene of the 80s/90s is my favorite Pan Africanism song
and all those they not really talking about nothing i dig the jazzy Erykah Badu Afrocentric vibe of this song from these 2 sisters i found while looking up Yoruba gods last year
MrPentatonic
Superstar
Gentrification is one of the best things that can happen for a dealer with social skills who still live in that area. New upmarket clientel with more spare cash to spare with the developed liberal drug habits they picked up from college.
That, but that's just a part of ....
Black Nationalism was already dead before it even reached our rappers. It died with our intellectual elite decades before Brand Nubian were born.
Sbp
Superstar
The first question should be, "What is Black Nationalism?"
Because that wasn't answered then, and that's why it fell apart. There was social consciousness, anti-authoritarianism, and Afro-centrism. There was also admiration of Black leaders.
And that was it.
So the rappers talked back to, and occasionally defied the police. So they grandstanded on stage and made long-political speeches. So they dropped good tracks that talked about systemic issues.
That was it.
There wasn't an endgoal - any goal, really. They were sitting around, reading good literature and smoking weed.
The 5% added an ethno-religious aspect to it, but they didn't do anything but "drop knowledge" and occasionally donate Christmas presents to the hood.
The whole movement in music and thought (outside of the Marxists and Maoists, who were just extensions of the Black Panther Party), wasn't setting out to do anything. It was a bunch of circle jerking that didn't lead to much change in the community at large
Because that wasn't answered then, and that's why it fell apart. There was social consciousness, anti-authoritarianism, and Afro-centrism. There was also admiration of Black leaders.
And that was it.
So the rappers talked back to, and occasionally defied the police. So they grandstanded on stage and made long-political speeches. So they dropped good tracks that talked about systemic issues.
That was it.
There wasn't an endgoal - any goal, really. They were sitting around, reading good literature and smoking weed.
The 5% added an ethno-religious aspect to it, but they didn't do anything but "drop knowledge" and occasionally donate Christmas presents to the hood.
The whole movement in music and thought (outside of the Marxists and Maoists, who were just extensions of the Black Panther Party), wasn't setting out to do anything. It was a bunch of circle jerking that didn't lead to much change in the community at large
CriticalThought
All Star
It's coming back slowly but surely. Just have wait and be patient is all.
