Black barbershops being lied on again.

[Thurgood Thurston III]

Isn't this just entertainment like rap music?

Rappers are portraying criminals.

This bullshyt is inaccurately portraying barbershops.

That's the difference.

 

[breakfuss]

That's not what I say on here often.

My question is where is this same energy for rap that celebrates the death of Black men, why is THAT entertainment but a barbershop scene is where the line must be drawn, why isn't this also entertainment?

Resorting to whataboutism is weak, my dude. It's generally understood (or at least should be) that hip-hop is hyperbolic fantasy laced with a shyt ton of machismo. The framing is such that I wouldn't expect people to actually believe those dudes are out here doing any of what they talk about. That doesn't mean it can't have an effect on some impressionable minds, but that's whole ass different conversation. I suspect this show (haven't seen it), while fictional, is framed in a way that purports to give a "glimpse" of black life. It shouldn't come as a surprise people are sensitive about it, especially when it comes to an institution like the barbershop. If it was blatant comedy/parody then it likely wouldn't be drawing this type of reaction.

 

[Batsute]

Cop pleas for shyt writing. I’ve seen tons of lesbians in black barbershops and never seen them treated differently.

Except barbers do spending extra long on their edge up, but they done with me in seconds .

 

[Matt504]

Rappers are portraying criminals.

This bullshyt is inaccurately portraying barbershops.

That's the difference.

So the inaccurate portrayal is simply bad tv then, no worse than a Tyler Perry movie. Entertainment but poorly written, right?

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

Man nikkaz talk about lebron, lil baby, and how much they hate their baby moms in the barbershop.

Sounded like an SNL skit
“Then I tittyfukked the hoe”

 

[Brandeezy]

Lol who says "I skeeted on her face" in 2021



No one talks like this in real life

 

[Matt504]

Resorting to whataboutism is weak, my dude. It's generally understood (or at least should be) that hip-hop is hyperbolic fantasy laced with a shyt ton of machismo. The framing is such that I wouldn't expect people to actually believe those dudes are out here doing any of what they talk about. That doesn't mean it can't have an effect on some impressionable minds, but that's whole ass different conversation. I suspect this show (haven't seen it), while fictional, is framed in a way that purports to give a "glimpse" of black life. It shouldn't come as a surprise people are sensitive about it, especially when it comes to an institution like the barbershop. If it was blatant comedy/parody then it likely wouldn't be drawing this type of reaction.

that modern rap is generally understood as hyperbolic is flat out bullshyt and a lazy cop out. These guys are literally out here rapping about dead people and always reassuring their listening audiences that they're not really rappers. You concede that this barbershop scene is fictional, and ostensibly concede that it is also entertainment. But it's very apparent why you'd frame rap as something understood as "fantasy" by audience, even though that's bullshyt, because the argument you go on to make about the barbershop scene would be laughable otherwise. (although it still is)

 

[Cuban Pete]

You could tell a gay nikka wrote this on God. Might as well have thrown Queen Latifah who you calling a bytch as background music with this hamfisted foolishness

 

[Actually6Foot3]

Bruh I've been going to barbershops my whole life and there's no way you'll hear language like that, let alone cussing I'm front of women

facts. If anything the barbers turn simp and cater to them

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

So the inaccurate portrayal is simply bad tv then, no worse than a Tyler Perry movie. Entertainment but poorly written, right?

Basically.

Still don't like it. I don't like majority of current rap either btw.

 

[Capital Steez]

What makes this so bad is you have shows like ATLANTA that exist which probably had the most accurate black barber depiction ever.

 

[The Fade]

This show is for tragic mulattos with two black parents

intersectional minstrel show

 

[Son Goku]

Lol who says "I skeeted on her face" in 2021



No one talks like this in real life

@skeetsexternal

 

[Jekyll]

Well you're being obtuse then. Black people trying to curb the negative perception of themselves within barbershops is a piece of their image. Let this one go and there won't be an end to it.

Y’all try hards sound stupid as hell. Between Lebron and Ice Cube and countless black shows/films the barbershop has been well represented for what it is.


One nothing ass streaming show by some nobody crew is influencing anybody but y’all peons love focusing on irrelevant shyt. As you were

 

[breakfuss]

that modern rap is generally understood as hyperbolic is flat out bullshyt and a lazy cop out. These guys are literally out here rapping about dead people and always reassuring their listening audiences that they're not really rappers. You concede that this barbershop scene is fictional, and ostensibly concede that it is also entertainment. But it's very apparent why you'd frame rap as something understood as "fantasy" by audience, even though that's bullshyt, because the argument you go on to make about the barbershop scene would be laughable otherwise. (although it still is)

Even if you want to make the argument we should be applying the same amount of scrutiny to rap, I don't see what it has to do with this scene. You sound like one of those folks hollering, "where's BLM now?" whenever a black man dies at the hands of another. Completely disingenuous and off the mark.

If someone is gonna take a swing at portraying something as beloved/sacred as a fukking black barbershop, they could at least be remotely accurate. I'd say it's one of few exclusive spaces we have in this country so why the hell would you be okay with this depiction? Barbers be doing all types of wild shyt...bootlegging, answering personal calls etc but I ain't ever seen people speak like this, especially in front of a woman. They're made to look like sexual degenerates who can't run a business and (for good measure) don't respect black women.