ASAP Rocky - "Everytime somethin happens because I'm black I gotta stand up? What am I Al Sharpton?"

[Skeletor666]

He just wants your money he couldn't give a fukk less about black people is what he's saying, he's happy to accept your money but not do anything else

Who would of thought an entertainer was selfish and only about their own in this life.

He should get the Michael Jackson skin white treatment he's so c00nish

 

[Loose]

But his reasoning...

Just ugh.

Only cowards want to be excluded from being black

 

[A1aaa]

Rappers are some of the WOAT visible people in the black community

 

[Marc Spector]

And I'm done with ASAP Rocky.

Is he an activist or a scholar? Does he have documented and quantitative expertise on the matter? No. But neither do *I* or 99% of people with an opinion about it. Neither did Dr. King or Harry Belafonte or Jim Brown or Muhammad Ali.

I get it. He's a 1% now fukking white women and hanging out at fashion shows. But Blackness is beyond that.

Me? I spent approximately 3 years in the hood before my father enlisted in the Army. My parents are married and have been for 33 years. I grew up middle class, often times in mixed race or majority white neighborhoods. I have a degree (which puts me in the roughly in the 19% of Black males 25 and older who have degrees) and I have never been arrested. I have only one traffic citation.

What I'm getting at is my life to this point has been significantly different from that of Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Alton Sterling, Trayvon, Walter Scott, Tamir Rice, and a plethora of others. The only obvious factor we all had in common is that we were all Black.

And thats enough. Its enough to be killed over. Enslaved over. Treated subhuman over.

Blackness is inescapable. If someone asked me what being Black meant, id define it by saying its both beautiful and tragic. Beautiful because i can't imagine living life without the awareness and pride and "soulfulness" being Black is. Tragic because the remnants of something so ugly, so long ago still reverberate in destructive ways EVEN TODAY.

What really bothers me about what Rocky said is, sure he's not in the hood living under AS brutal of circumstances (because whether he knows it or not he is living under White Supremacy even as a millionaire entertainer)...I know many of his friends and family still are. Is he so out of touch that their suffering, the same suffering he endured for around 20 years, is a distant memory?

What also really bothers me is that Rocky isn't the only who feels like this. Every now and again I've held ALOT of spite for the current crop of rappers who are "my generation" (for ex: drake, Wale, Big Sean, Migos, Young Thug, Lil Wayne, etc.).

How they had the nerve to ONLY make songs about opulence in the midst of the biggest depression the Black Community has seen in modern world is appalling. But thats where we're at huh.

 

[George's Dilemma]

There's a certain irony to me with this, and it boils down to damned if you do and damned if you dont, especially here in TLR. So A$ap isnt interested in taking a public stand on social or political matters related to Black people in America. As expected , here comes the c00n accusations like clockwork. I get that.

Then on the other hand, other Black entertainers have spoken up, but what they said wasnt exactly the same as the typical talking points here in TLR. Thats especially noted when Black entertainers bring up Black on Black violence. Lets be clear too, they dont bring that up in the same way that white detractors do so in an attempt to undermine the spotlight on police brutality. No, Black entertainers simply recognize that we do have an issue that warrants equal attention. Both forms of violence harm Black people with intraracial violence far surpassing interracial violence in the form of police brutality. To TLR though, at least a certain segment of it, thats unacceptable. Hence Game being called a c00n for promoting Black unity and extending an olive branch to police in an effort to promote dialogue.

So going back to A$ap, he's a c00n for not wanting to be something he's not. That being an activist or at least expressing solidarity with those taking a stand. However, he'd likely be labeled a c00n on here just like Game was for not parroting the exact same message of a certain segment of folks active in TLR.

That said, why bother anyway?

 

[IWunD3r]

And I'm done with ASAP Rocky.

Is he an activist or a scholar? Does he have documented and quantitative expertise on the matter? No. But neither do *I* or 99% of people with an opinion about it. Neither did Dr. King or Harry Belafonte or Jim Brown or Muhammad Ali.

I get it. He's a 1% now fukking white women and hanging out at fashion shows. But Blackness is beyond that.

Me? I spent approximately 3 years in the hood before my father enlisted in the Army. My parents are married and have been for 33 years. I grew up middle class, often times in mixed race or majority white neighborhoods. I have a degree (which puts me in the roughly in the 19% of Black males 25 and older who have degrees) and I have never been arrested. I have only one traffic citation.

What I'm getting at is my life to this point has been significantly different from that of Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Alton Sterling, Trayvon, Walter Scott, Tamir Rice, and a plethora of others. The only obvious factor we all had in common is that we were all Black.

And thats enough. Its enough to be killed over. Enslaved over. Treated subhuman over.

Blackness is inescapable. If someone asked me what being Black meant, id define it by saying its both beautiful and tragic. Beautiful because i can't imagine living life without the awareness and pride and "soulfulness" being Black is. Tragic because the remnants of something so ugly, so long ago still reverberate in destructive ways EVEN TODAY.

What really bothers me about what Rocky said is, sure he's not in the hood living under AS brutal of circumstances (because whether he knows it or not he is living under White Supremacy even as a millionaire entertainer)...I know many of his friends and family still are. Is he so out of touch that their suffering, the same suffering he endured for around 20 years, is a distant memory?

What also really bothers me is that Rocky isn't the only who feels like this. Every now and again I've held ALOT of spite for the current crop of rappers who are "my generation" (for ex: drake, Wale, Big Sean, Migos, Young Thug, Lil Wayne, etc.).

How they had the nerve to ONLY make songs about opulence in the midst of the biggest depression the Black Community has seen in modern world is appalling. But thats where we're at huh.

Wtf??

 

[Marc Spector]

Wtf??

Ok so true Wale might be a stretch and so a certain extent big sean....

 

[BedRoomI'z]

What y'all expect from a nikka who looks like this?

I knew this picture was coming.

Lil girl ass nikka

 

[At30wecashout]

Better he say nothing at all than say something and damage his brand. To those who care, though, what he said will do exactly that.

Never looked to entertainers/rappers to talk about subjects that they aren't experts in anyway.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

LMFAOOOOOOO @ I live in Soho and Beverly Hills. fukking c00n

 

[BrehWyatt]

You don't like silence. You don't like honesty.


Some people can't win. Ah well. At least he was honest.

 

[Professor Mac]

Let that man live... why the black community always looking towards rappers and sports figures to speak up for them... Asap is right.. he ain't no mother fukking activist

 

[Thegospel]

Refreshing honesty

 

[Kowboy]

ASAP Racc00n

 

[YouMadd?]

ASAP Rocky flopped at coachella, he will disappear once he loses white people's attention and they find another shiny tooth slender man to rap about drinking heroin and eating mind control drugs.

With that said, I don't think he was wrong with his latest comments.