Sad that guys like this are the biggest representation of black men worldwide. This is our default image to the world....the gangbanging, drugdealing menace to society.
And what's even sadder is we don't seem to care.
Not only that, but you'll get cats telling you you care too much about the white gaze, are a square, etc. etc. if you question it. My man Poetic from Gravediggaz was one of the only cats I've seen forcefully speak out against it in hip hop RIP. His voice is sorely missed:
General Grym
What's the pleasure principle
Attack the enemies at every interval
And keep our casualites at a minimal
Camoflauged down now I launch my offensive
To arm leg-a leg the defenseless
Cause criminals and dons are relentless
Murders are common and senseless
In the ghetto trenches the stench is
Tremendous in poverty, our property is defended by shotguns
Alarm, pit bulls and barbed wire fences
If you're not armed you're in harm's way
You're hunted by wannabe desparados and hombres
I'm sick of all this shyt
Rappers be feedin me on oscillatin frequencies
Speakin about operatin frequently
With keys from Columbians and Dominicans
You silly men, traitors, snakes and reptilians
nikkas act like dumb animals in pit full and cock fights
Attackin each other then carjackin at stop lights
fukk all you cold blooded race killers
That's proud to be blood spillers of ebony pillars
Black devils are worse than those of the cursed seed
Foes better check they approach me the first G
are-why-M, you know the name
I'm hated by the beast like the Feds hate Saddam Hussein
Positive brothers ain't gotta be soft
It's time to start knockin you fake nikkas off!
What!