Hip Hop is being exposed with all this silence

it's like all these nikkas got the memo not to say shyt at a time when a revolutionary spirit is sweeping black America. They promote all type of deviance and debauchery 24/7 now they have all gone silent outside of a few. There was a time when hip hop was the voice of the streets, now it is the voice of corporate America.

 

They’re entertainers

 

And? black entertainers used to be about that life

 

Word to Lebron and his love for China!

 

Always gotta separate the real voices and artists from the entertainers.

Honestly at this point, Black folks are long overdue for an entirely new genre of music...Unfortunately, it generally always comes out of social upheaval and strife just like this.

 

fukk all these current rappers for real

 

As far as on an individual basis It might be that some would rather do than say.

It might also be that some prefer to put those thoughts into words and are working on art right now to express it.

For those that do fit your description though, man... these cats' reputations are carefully curated, I bet some of them are waiting to see what rap heavyweights say first (Jay, Diddy, etc) so they don't fall on the wrong side of history

And alot of them are "massa"'s bytch and don't speak unless they're given permission and briefings first

You also have to consider that these rappers don't own the media platforms they speak on. So it could be that whenever they got some anti-establishment shyt to say, the mic gets cut off so to speak... but when it's superficial/ fukk shyt, or some degrading type shyt goin on, they get a bullhorn...

 

It feels like alot of the older guard have spoken on this



Its just the young nikkas who have been quiet. Prolly cause they too dumb to even have a opinion on it

 

when were the streets ever righteous¿

criminals run the world

it been that

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This expects gangster to be righteous

 

Been listening to the old stuff

 

OG's talking: Ice T twitter lit now, Cube, Diddy

The youngings dont seem to care or just drugged out--I could be wrong because I dont check for them.

 

A lot of street cats like Bumpy Johnson funded revolutionaries like Malcolm. Know your history.

 

The last time I remember shyt like this was in 2018 with Saheed Vassell near my apartment on Utica Ave, with Freddie Gray in 2015, and with Mike Brown in 2014.

But I'm 35, I remember seeing Rodney King getting beat by cops at 7/8 years old on TV.



Alot this is just not new to me. Im sick of it seemingly being a constant to being black in America and wondering if it wiol ever change.

For the younger generation that came of age in the Obama years this is a cruel wake up call.