"Black means African" - Romany Malco

[Made Myself A Boss]

I'm not AA but I think we are done here

Thats how all my convos on here end, when people cant answer simple questions

 

[Made Myself A Boss]

MGM is a troll and bedbuck. Do not respond.

Name calling.. A typical AA tactic when you can't articulate yourself

 

[Retired Account]

I know hip hop is played in Jamaica.. Its played across the world so what..

Just because it's "played doesn't mean that its popular and "beloved" as what Dip was saying..

Soccer is "playing in the US... that doesn't make it "beloved" nor does it make it popular

African American music is popular and influential in many parts of the world. (Jamaica included)

 

[BigMan]

Thats how all my convos on here end, when people cant answer simple questions

At no point did you ask me a question, but keep posting and looking foolish

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Sorry.. Im a little more advanced on this topic then you..

I guess I should have started with a basic question so I wouldn't have to type so much, because Ive had this convo a thousand times on here

But you probably don't realize this but AA don't have any culture other then hip hop so that had to be what you ere talking about by default when you refer to AA culture

Y'all really don't have any other contributions to the world.. "culture wise" .. You don't have your own food, language, architecture, flag, no way of life .... everything that is considered AA "culture is related to hip hop...

no country = no culture (and that's the situation AA are in)

Your a troll.

Im outside the country right now, AA culture is everywhere. The funny thing is, one doesnt understand the scope and magnitude of AA influence
Till hes traveled if anything

Walking down the streets of tokyo and stumbling on SOUL food resturaunts
Walking down the streets of seoul and hearing hip hop blaring out of stores in their language
Hearing jazz in coffee shops,hotels etc

This whole "shut up your not well traveled" gimmick africans and west indians like to promote, gets exposed once you actually get out there

And hip hop=youth culture And is a new york based street culture. AA culture as a whole is southern based and existed over a hundred years before anybody rapped

 

[Made Myself A Boss]

At no point did you ask me a question, but keep posting and looking foolish

I've said nothing foolish.. Only the truths, which seem to bother people

I love hip hop btw..( I copped every last one Jim Jones albums and mixtapes (actually bought them)

But the truth is the hip hop is not "beloved" ..

Is it played.. its imitated. Sure to an extent.. But there is an audience for everything .. I saw a French dude do a video to that "Watch me whip, watch me nae nae video) So what ..


Smart people in hip hop use it stepping stone to bigger and better things..

Nobody is a actor and then goes on to be a rapper... No businessman sells his company to pursue a career in rap... And no successful rapper has "just" been a rapper...

Think Jay-Z, think Diddy, think 50.. .the smart ones have use rap to get to another place in life..


As much as I love hip hop.. its not something that's "beloved" .. its just represented a youthful phase in peoples lives. What successful 30 year old is paying to go to a Future concert ..

 

[September]

Also...black is synonymous with AA.


It does not mean African

This is how all the white/non-black people I know at my past 2 jobs view race. I'm Dominican and my co-worker is from Antigua & Barbuda and we asked them what race we were and they said Caribbean . Black to them is AA, doesn't matter how much I try to educate them.

 

[Made Myself A Boss]

Your a troll.

Im outside the country right now, AA culture is everywhere. The funny thing is, one doesnt understand the scope and magnitude of AA influence
Till hes traveled if anything

Walking down the streets of tokyo and stumbling on SOUL food resturaunts
Walking down the streets of seoul and hearing hip hop blaring out of stores in their language
Hearing jazz in coffee shops,hotels etc

This whole "shut up your not well traveled" gimmick africans and west indians like to promote, gets exposed once you actually get out there

And hip hop=youth culture And is a new york based street culture. AA culture as a whole is southern based and existed over a hundred years before anybody rapped

I've been to Japan and Korea too, so i know what you mean..

and it different in Europe..

Rap is polarizing.. Some people love it and some people HATE it...

But like I said there is an audience for everything.. so just cause something is profitable does not mean its"beloved or influential"

And thinking rap music was a southern thing.. ... That's where I have to end this post

 

[Phitz]

Lies, actual Africans in Africa are very proud of being African. Tribal lineage is pronounced but never to disparage one's status as an African

Source: My life experience as a born and bred African

Mine to... I concur. Too many experts on Africa who are not even continental African and speaking for Africans. It's comically sad.They draw imaginary lines where there are non. Black people around the world forge connections all the time everyday

 

[ezrathegreat]

Great interview. It's a great to see black men in Hollywood who doesn't c00n and call out white supremacy.

 

[Phitz]

Black and African(descended) to me are and should be synonimous.

Ive heard other ppl try to classify Australian Aborignals as black, but those were pretty much the over inclusive everyone is black type.

I every strongly doubt that Native Australians use black as an identifier to relate to you or me as much as it would be to differentiate themselves from the white folks that invaded their land, IF they even use it at all.

Actually many do...

 

[K.O.N.Y]

I've been to Japan and Korea too, so i know what you mean..

and it different in Europe..

Rap is polarizing.. Some people love it and some people HATE it...

But like I said there is an audience for everything.. so just cause something is profitable does not mean its"beloved or influential"

And thinking rap music was a southern thing.. ... That's where I have to end this post

But in this case it is though. I would argue rap is even bigger in europe. But enough about rap, its only one genre out of many
AA created music genres. Black americans redefined much of what is modern global appropriated music. This was happening long before hip hop

And i said AA culture as a whole is mostly a southeastern based culture. The seeds of hip hop-sonically is rooted and based on funk music. Rapping was based off traditional jive talking to include poetry styles like the last poets, albums like Hustlers Convention etc

 

[Made Myself A Boss]

Now that I got a chance to actually wath this interview I agree with 100% off what he says...

It always takes a non African American to make sense of this mess going on here

Quote of the interview

" foreigners have a 68% chance of being more successful because they have lived life... Americans know what they know based on TV and computers(10:32) @Poitier

Same shyt I've been telling you all on here and all you can do is neg ... pathetic

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

Dope interview & he had bars at the end..Underrated actor

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Now that I got a chance to actually wath this interview I agree with 100% off what he says...

It always takes a non African American to make sense of this mess going on here

Quote of the interview

" foreigners have a 68% chance of being more successful because they have lived life... Americans know what they know based on TV and computers(10:32) @Poitier

Same shyt I've been telling you all on here and all you can do is neg ... pathetic

How is this the case. Most black immigrants gain better understanding/knowledge of self with blackness though AA/AA culture. Ask Marcus Garvey