we can definitely speak on both, but we dont. that's the issue. when was the last time an amalgamation of rappers like this got on a track trying to stop black on black crime and/or any of the many black challenges and/or destructive actions? miss me with the white on white crime shyt and dismissing these dude's catalogs full of shooting up nikkas
It's really not them (artists). This white supremacist society has made destructive black images lucrative. They're the owners of a system built by them that markets black on black destruction.
Those artists come from socioeconomic circumstances that encourage attaining material and riches by any means. To some degree you can't blame them for finding their niche in the world and capitalizing off of it but the impact it has on the people who internalize and self identity with their art is devastating.
None of them have power.
Power would equate to Darren Wilson being locked up. By hook or crook what he did was legally wrong and morally wrong and power would see to it that he pays.
these songs are cool though
But we do..there's plenty of rally's and charities and fundraisers..u just don't hear about the positive stuff..there's artists who speak on it as well..and most of the positive shyt and positive artists gets put to the side cause it doesnt get promoted..I feel that there does need to be more positivity in hip hop..but when there's an issue I'm tired of nikkas diverting from it with that rhetoric..it's a distraction and it's already bad enough when whites do it...every race has crime against it's own race..that's the way shyt is..
there is no conflating of the issue, you're trying too hard. the only reason people are commenting about their silence on day to day/black communal issues is because it always takes a trayvon martin/mike brown level event to get these dudes to say something positive and/or of substance. nothing wrong with giving them their props for this yet challenging them to speak up and/or help build up the community through their music more often. sorry yall are catching feelings that not everybody is giving these nikkas a standing ovation for one action when they have a history of 1000 other actions that show them in a different light. yall the type to applaud Nino Brown for handing out turkeys when the other 364 days a year he's killing the community.
...Mike Brown's family doesn't need that money until Fabolous puts an end to black on black crime
nobody is taking it that far blood, you're getting too sensitive about these nikkas being critiqued. like a said 1 action for every 10 (in this case...song). i'm not even one of those rap needs to all be positive people, i'm just calling for this to be more commonplace and for us (not just these rappers either, every day folks) to care this much about our own self-destruction, but that's too much to ask....i don't see half of this revolutionary, stop the violence talk in media, from celebs, nor from friends or this message board on a day to day, only when these cases pop up. if you don't think that's a shame, then please continue....i'm doneJust about every single solitary one of the artists on this track has had made "positive songs of substance" numerous times in the past, others with rather well publicized community outreach programs ranging from anti-violence initiatives to voting rights campaigns...but you know what, fukk the actual facts...i don't even have the strength for it, you're right...fukk these nikkas until they all become harry belefonte, shining beacons of all that is right and just...i'll continue to both somehow whine about them not solve EVERY ill facing humanity, yet complain ain't as gangsta as they used to be back in the day...fukk attempting to take a stand for anything, until you take a stand for everything
