ASAP c00nY speakys on black on black crime

[Forlife44]

We might not quite be in a golden age for political rap (for everyKendrick Lamar, there are tenMigos), but in a year's news cycle dominated by anti-police brutality protests across A$AP Rocky's home country, you might expect his mind to turn towards the streets at some point when he writes.On new album,A.L.L.A., Rocky made small forays into political and social commentary ("Gentrification split the nation that I once was raised in/ I don't recall no friendly neighbors face on my upraising"), and when asked whether he felt a duty to rap politically, he told the students:
"Not everybody should be like Kendrick or talk about political things just to stand out. Also, not everybody should be like A$AP Mob and talk about drugs and girls and clothes. We don't all have to talk about the same topics."
Rocky was pushed a second time on his opinion of the anti-police brutality protests, but said "I have been recording an album in London for a year, so I really wasn't there [protesting] so I can't speak about it." But his further criticism is unlikely to win many activist friends:
"Why are we exploiting the beef between the urban community and the police force when 60 people got shot on a Friday and Saturday [on July holiday weekend in 2014] in Chicago in black-on-black crime?So one cop shoots a black person... that kind of shyt is inevitable. Not to glorify it, but that's nothing new. Let's talk about the black-on-black crime. If you're not gonna talk about the main topic, then don't talk about it all."http://uk.complex.com/music/2015/06...asap-rocky-talk-at-oxford-university/protests
http://uk.complex.com/music/2015/06...asap-rocky-talk-at-oxford-university/protests

 

[smokeurobinson]

Why am i having De ja vu?

 

[Treason]

fukk that kewn

 

[Capo Dei Capi]

@SirBiatch come defend ya boy

 

[Prince Akeem]

It never fails.

Add another to the list.

 

[FreshAIG]

We might not quite be in a golden age for political rap (for everyKendrick Lamar, there are tenMigos), but in a year's news cycle dominated by anti-police brutality protests across A$AP Rocky's home country, you might expect his mind to turn towards the streets at some point when he writes.On new album,A.L.L.A., Rocky made small forays into political and social commentary ("Gentrification split the nation that I once was raised in/ I don't recall no friendly neighbors face on my upraising"), and when asked whether he felt a duty to rap politically, he told the students:
"Not everybody should be like Kendrick or talk about political things just to stand out. Also, not everybody should be like A$AP Mob and talk about drugs and girls and clothes. We don't all have to talk about the same topics."
Rocky was pushed a second time on his opinion of the anti-police brutality protests, but said "I have been recording an album in London for a year, so I really wasn't there [protesting] so I can't speak about it." But his further criticism is unlikely to win many activist friends:
"Why are we exploiting the beef between the urban community and the police force when 60 people got shot on a Friday and Saturday [on July holiday weekend in 2014] in Chicago in black-on-black crime?So one cop shoots a black person... that kind of shyt is inevitable. Not to glorify it, but that's nothing new. Let's talk about the black-on-black crime. If you're not gonna talk about the main topic, then don't talk about it all."
http://uk.complex.com/music/2015/06...asap-rocky-talk-at-oxford-university/protests

We give stupid nikkas way too much publicity.

 

[Codeine Crazy]

how is he wrong?

 

[Da King]

"Also, not everybody should be like A$AP Mob and talk about drugs and girls and clothes."


As if everyone wasn't already rapping about that before them

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

how is he wrong?

It's not that he's wrong, it's that he's choosing to use his celebrity status to undermine a real (and long-ignored) problem by pointing to another real problem that gets a lot more play in the media for the wrong reasons. In effect he's a black celebrity that, though maybe unintentionally, is justifying the fact that black people are most often victims of police brutality by suggesting between the lines that we deserve that. His young white fans are the ones most likely to get the worst impact out of his statement (i.e. it's coming from a black man whose opinion they actually care about). They don't necessarily care to have the real problem broken down to them by a Cornell West or Michael Eric Dyson or etc. so the fact that the black men and women they do listen to undermine the problem means that they don't see it as a real problem either.

 

[ROFL_GUY]

 

[Art Barr]

This goof ass nikka,....
All those situations are heavily weighted issues, you clown koon shoes ass nikka.

Art Barr

 

[Concerning VIolence]

So one cop shoots a black person... that kind of shyt is inevitable.

....

 

[SpacelySprockets]

@biscuitsnbangers how do we feel about this

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

We give stupid nikkas way too much publicity.

^At the end of the day it's this though. I understand why Rocky said that, if you lost somebody or more than one to the streets before and you feel like YOU or your brothers could be next (never mind the fact that he probably avoids the fukk outta Harlem) and you're in a young mindset where you're putting yourself out there then yeah it's gonna be a bigger issue to you. But why do we give young minded mothafukkas the grown people platforms to speak on national issues... Same with Thugga when he was talking about Ferguson. Being young minded doesn't have an age the same way being grown doesn't have an age... You can still tell one from the other though and the media wants to portray the issue as if it's happening on a simpler level than it really is. If anything the media gives these rappers a platform to talk about this issue because they're making a direct comparison between these young rappers and the (largely) young men that are being killed as a result of police brutality. It's a false comparison though... the mentality of these kids is not the central issue here, it's the mentality of these cops.

 

[Codeine Crazy]

It's not that he's wrong, it's that he's choosing to use his celebrity status to undermine a real (and long-ignored) problem by pointing to another real problem that gets a lot more play in the media for the wrong reasons. In effect he's a black celebrity that, though maybe unintentionally, is justifying the fact that black people are most often victims of police brutality by suggesting between the lines that we deserve that. His young white fans are the ones most likely to get the worst impact out of his statement (i.e. it's coming from a black man whose opinion they actually care about). They don't necessarily care to have the real problem broken down to them by a Cornell West or Michael Eric Dyson or etc. so the fact that the black men and women they do listen to undermine the problem means that they don't see it as a real problem either.

slime....Black on Black crime is a bigger issue than police brutality

not that they arent both important but he isnt wrong

look at all the poor areas

kids dying every day

its to the point they dont even report all the killings in my area anymore

Police Brutality is the media flavor of the year