Has hip-hop/rap music done more good or bad for the Black American community?

[Master Teacher]

Kids are going be kids and music will always influence them.

However, that is not the biggest problem in the black community.

The biggest problem is we don't invest in our communities.

All the athletes and entertainers making all this money, how much of it comes back to the hood. Schools are needed, not traditional schools, but ones catered to black folks that will help advance the kids and prepare them for life as black adults.

Black kids should be learning how to run and operate business at a young age, learn credit system which isn't very hard to explain, also the business of sports and entertainment. All this could be integrated with mathematics, science, and English.

If cats like Jay-Z and Puffy would actually help the hood, the next generation would be a lot better off, and they don't have to do it risking their money.

Sometimes I wish I could just sent in the room with one of these dudes and explain to them I could turn around the hood one major city at a time, without even spending their money. I would just need to show in an escrow account and I could leverage it to get the loans needed, and I will build a healthy community from the ground up.

 

[DEAD7]

come on man... this has impacted and entire generation and those that come after. you care...

Sure, but its art, and u cant regulate or control it. It is what it is.

Besides the problem stems from the homes(in the black community), not the music. the music just promotes, and romanticizes it.

 

[theworldismine13]

Kids are going be kids and music will always influence them.

However, that is not the biggest problem in the black community.

The biggest problem is we don't invest in our communities.

All the athletes and entertainers making all this money, how much of it comes back to the hood. Schools are needed, not traditional schools, but ones catered to black folks that will help advance the kids and prepare them for life as black adults.

Black kids should be learning how to run and operate business at a young age, learn credit system which isn't very hard to explain, also the business of sports and entertainment. All this could be integrated with mathematics, science, and English.

If cats like Jay-Z and Puffy would actually help the hood, the next generation would be a lot better off, and they don't have to do it risking their money.

Sometimes I wish I could just sent in the room with one of these dudes and explain to them I could turn around the hood one major city at a time, without even spending their money. I would just need to show in an escrow account and I could leverage it to get the loans needed, and I will build a healthy community from the ground up.

yeah thats a great idea, but thats hard to do when we are telling those same rappers that its just music and it doesnt matter what you do or say

to do something like that would require a cultural shift which currently the rap world refuses to do being that they are stuck in this 'see no evil' mode

thats my beef with the see no evil crowd, what they are doing is promoting intellectual laziness and intellectual impotence in the black community, last i heard people were writing essays on why its ok for rick ross to rap about date rape, that shows what a dead end rap music is intellectually and culturally, people have no real ideas about how to solve problems except for babbling something about "addressing the real issues"

how is addressing culture not a real issue?

economics is directly related to culture, if we dont develop the proper habits its that much harder to progress economically and music is part of your culture and it shapes how you view the world and how you interact in the world

even though its just a theory and its hard to prove, i think this story http://www.the-coli.com/higher-lear...-explanation-jewish-success.html#.UXhFPUokT68 is a good example of how culture influences economics even in the face vast discrimination, i think every black person should peep this

 

[Brown_Pride]

Hip hip does glamorize sh1t and make it so that white people can gleefully enjoy the entertainment value in the mental destruction of an entire group of people...

in a nutshell THIS is what's wrong with the current rap game.

I don't think anyone here is saying rap is THE problem, but it is A problem.

It's like this right.
A guy get's hit by a car and has all types of critical injuries, broken bones, cuts and the such.

Now we SHOULD be fixing the biggest things first, that doesn't mean we can't address or recognize some of the more minor ailments.

 

[acri1]

I've seen things go from the street right into music. People made it rain way before there was commercial songs about it. People joined gains, shot people, acted like ratchet hoes, and sold drugs- before rap was even popular.

I grew up on hip hop music... aren't u from Detroit as well? There is fukkery going on right now that will end up in a song.
Hip hip does glamorize sh1t and make it so that white people can gleefully enjoy the entertainment value in the mental destruction of an entire group of people... but in reality, the limited resources and economic conditions are what's bad for black people, along with institutionalized racism.

We see that positive or conscious music barely has an effect if ur not already conscious... negative music only has the affect if your already a certain way. A normal black girl will listen to a ignorant song and may like the beat... A normal rat in the hood, tries to relate and vibe from the sh1t because that's her environment anyway.

I agree...I'm not saying that rap music is the root cause of the shyt, just that it often glamorizes ignorance and is a bad influence on certain kinds of people. But yeah, the black community had issues long before hiphop was around.