Will Black Entertainment ever move out of the DARK AGES???

[Shadow King]

Creativity in entertainment period isn't really the same, everybody is doing remakes and reboots

 

[Easy-E]

This is a good convo.

nikkas got so woke they don't know how to step out and being courageous.

Also--about Them--we're seeing the rise of creatives who black, but, lowkey hate what blackness is.

That's why people look back at Wayans Bros and Martin and see "c00nery," not black people making art without the binds of white eyes.

They don't know what it's like for black people to express themselves without white eyes.

 

[Standing on business]

We get stuck in nostalgia a bit to much, but for the last 10 years or so Black entertainment movie & show wise have flourished

Facts! It’s a lot of great black shows on Tv. Unfortunately nikkas will always be stuck in the past and not give new shyt a chance.

 

[Rozay Oro]

You can’t embed for shyt. I agree. fukk Saweetie and all these dumb birds.

 

[Rozay Oro]

We get stuck in nostalgia a bit to much, but for the last 10 years or so Black entertainment movie & show wise have flourished

You really threw in that gay shyt, bedwench film and two bedwench shows lol

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

there's really not much variety in the OP if we keeping it real.

 

[315]

Are we only talking about TV/Film?

 

[|r|e|a|d|]

It seemed like it wasn’t hard to make a simple fun movie back then. People be trying way too hard now. Like way too hard. House Party and movies like that were just straight and to the point. We have to get back to stuff like that.

nikkas got so woke they don't know how to step out and being courageous.

Also--about Them--we're seeing the rise of creatives who black, but, lowkey hate what blackness is.

That's why people look back at Wayans Bros and Martin and see "c00nery," not black people making art without the binds of white eyes.

You can't see anything black nowadays w/o it either devolving into sum intersectional cluster phuck or you need an accompanied reading list. Nowadays I find myself seeing who is hyping it up b4 I even bother to check it

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

You can't see anything black nowadays w/o it either devolving into sum intersectional cluster phuck or you need an accompanied reading list. Nowadays I find myself seeing who is hyping it up b4 I even bother to check it

 

[get these nets]

This is a good convo.

nikkas got so woke they don't know how to step out and being courageous.

Also--about Them--we're seeing the rise of creatives who black, but, lowkey hate what blackness is.

That's why people look back at Wayans Bros and Martin and see "c00nery," not black people making art without the binds of white eyes.

They don't know what it's like for black people to express themselves without white eyes.

Nah. They got called that in real time by some while those shows were on the air. If you don't go back that far, listen to Marlon talk about it.

 

[Vandelay]

The avenues that some of the artists are coming up through don't have the same vetting process.

There's too many artists who get hot off Instagram or YouTube. View counts don't necessarily equate to talent. Being funny, interesting, or talented for 30 seconds to 5 minutes is different than being that for 1 hour every week for years or for a 2 hour movie. Tweeting 140 characters and getting retweeted 10k times isn't the same as writing a coherent, thesis driven book for 500 pages.

The talent today is too microwaved. In my opinion that's the biggest problem. This however isn't an issue with just Black art, but it's hella noticeable with black people. Look at all the remakes we're doing, despite there being 1000s of untold stories.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Roughly twenty five years ago, the culture chose to run with criminality featured over creativity.

In the past, George Jefferson owned a series of laundromats, Fred Sanford operated a junkyard, Bill Cosby was
a gym teacher and a doctor, Martin was a radio host, Carl Winslow was a cop.

Now, some of the most-watched series on tv the past five years have featured Black men relegated
to just one industry: the drug trade.

We've fallen and we can't get up.

"Lucious Lyon" - Former drug dealer turned Hip Hop mogul on EMPIRE

"James "Ghost" St. Patrick" - Drug Kingpin/Club owner/Governor candidate - POWER

"Tariq St. Patrick" - College student/University drug dealer - POWER BOOK 2

"Franklin" - 80s/90s Los Angeles drug/crack dealer - SNOWFALL

"Bumpy Johnson" - Mid 20th Century Harlem drug kingpin - GODFATHER OF HARLEM

 

[sosayeth]

This is a good convo.

nikkas got so woke they don't know how to step out and being courageous.

Also--about Them--we're seeing the rise of creatives who black, but, lowkey hate what blackness is.

That's why people look back at Wayans Bros and Martin and see "c00nery," not black people making art without the binds of white eyes.

They don't know what it's like for black people to express themselves without white eyes.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is pen to paper my issue with black media produced over the last decade or so and why I pretty much dismiss all of it.

I don't want white people to "understand" me. I want them to fukk off.

"Shaft (2019)" wasn't a brain teaser, but I enjoyed it immensely, because it knew exactly what it was - a comedy by black people and for black people - and did what it was very well. Notice how our white liberal "allies" turned their noses up towards it, though.

 

[mson]

All I know is that we have a lot of creativity. I have seen so much awesome art and read some cool mythologies that were created by black artists. Im disappointed that we have not yet bank on mythological content in the film industry.

Links?

 

[Elim Garak]

I hope so but it's been really really bad for 15 years now.