This is True...
How Rap Does My Head In
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This is True...
Gross negligence at it's finest. I just told you black men and women have to unite to create black structures, black companies and opportunities for black youth etc.. Only then will you get your selfish desires of 'balanced' music.
These aren't excuses ..it happened 30 years ago. It's history and proven fact. I'm not waiting for anything from white people...I run a few businesses and my black parents are still together.....
You are the one shifting blame to the current generation without looking at the root of all this...... the previous generation.
"This is gibberish" means I don't know how gender relations relate to wealth creation/preservation.
Parenting is a key factor.
But what about the teenage boys with no parents that Jay-Z and Rick Ross are leading to jail cells.
Speaks on Drill music @ 6:45..............This is real talk..........
i posted this article in the mike brown thread
Fundraiser for killer Ferguson cop triggers rift within KKK
http://rt.com/usa/181404-kkk-fundraising-ferguson-officer/"We are setting up a reward/fund for the police officer who shot this thug," wrote Murray, whose group is based in South Carolina. "He is a hero! We need more white cops who are anti-Zog and willing to put Jewish controlled black thugs in their place. Most cops are cowards and do nothing while 90% of interracial crime is black (and non-white) on white."
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the thing the kkk has it going for them is that they're not a slave to their enemy as blacks are slaves to the govt and zionists. the kkk are not killing each other. blacks are slaves to zionists and either don't know it or cannot do anything about it.
i saw twista in the audience. i like twista. one of my favorites--a pure spitter. but i doubt he'll stop rapping about the violence and collaborating with chief keef and them. he'll jump on any of these thugs track to remain relevant cause that's what's hot.
like they say there's a time for everything. life's not about having fun and getting high all the time..
Exactly...but it's hard to explain that to teens...
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
4 Things I Noticed at the Drake vs Lil Wayne Concert
http://raprehab.com/drake-vs-lil-wa...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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I already wrote a review of the Drake vs. Lil Wayne tour, which stopped at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield Monday night, but here are a few thoughts and observations from the concert that didn’t make that review:
Best concert ever? When I searched the #DrakevsLilWayne hashtag on Twitter I saw an alarming number of people say this was the best concert they had ever been to. And my response to those people is: You need to attend more concerts. Yes, this was a good show, and Lil Wayne in particular brought his A-game. But the best concert ever? Please. Both artists have staged better concerts individually. Drake’s Club Paradise tour in 2012, for example, far outdid anything he offered up on Monday night. And I understand that the two rappers together pack an extra punch and fans were excited to witness the dynamic duo in action, but with cheesy video game graphics, a show full of stops and starts and Drake’s drowsy new material, this was far from the Kanye West pinnacle of live performance.
Silence on Ferguson: Sadly, there was no mention of Mike Brown (RIP) or the events in Ferguson on Monday, the day of the slain teen’s funeral. Deep down I figured this would be the case, but hoped against hope that Drake or Wayne would mention the goings-on there and perhaps hold a moment of silence. I mean, they had time to plug both of their new albums, and reportedly honored incarcerated rapper Meek Mill at their New Jersey stop. But I guess these guys only deliver shout-outs if there’s a paycheck involved. No time to speak on a young black male murdered by police, or the military-like occupation of a town protesting injustice, or anything that doesn’t explicitly increase the YMCMB bottom line. Just another sad reminder that as “down” as Drizzy and Weezy appear to be, they ultimately work for corporations, not the community.
Radio rap scares me: I avoid rap radio at all costs so I really don’t know what’s “hot” these days, but as fans waited for Drake and Lil Wayne to appear, a DJ spun what is technically categorized as music but should more accurately be categorized as propaganda. I didn’t recognize any of the “songs” or the “rappers,” but I did recognize the fact that they couldn’t get through a single line, much less a verse, without saying “nikka” or “bytch” and referencing sex, liquor, drugs or a fat ass. With all that’s going on in the world today it’s almost comical that rappers can’t find anything else to talk about, but it’s less amusing when you consider the influence these repetitive messages have on the psyche of listeners — and their beliefs about who black people are and who black people should be. I used to complain about radio rap in the 2000s, but I’ll take Nelly and Ja Rule any day over these corporate puppets and their toxic directives.
The young and the white: The crowd was overwhelmingly young — think teens and early 20s– and about 80 to 90 percent white, at least where I was sitting. There was a drunk white girl in front of me who appeared to be 20 and probably lives in a mansion in Wellesley. She knew all the words to every song and seemed most excited about lines like “pop that p*ssy for a real nikka” and “jump up on this dikk and do a full split.” As I was leaving, a 16-year-old near me was trying to get the phone number of another 16-year-old.
You can tell a lot about an artist by their fans, and what the lack of diversity in terms of race and age tells me about Drake and Lil Wayne is that they are part of a larger trend in mainstream rap music, which is skewing younger and whiter as it becomes increasingly ignorant, party-oriented and faux rebellious. Yes, hip hop has always been youth-oriented and defiant, but it also presented a multitude of perspectives that fans could connect with as they matured into adulthood.
But it seems corporate execs have figured out that to gain a broad audience, rappers have to play to a white audience, and to play to a white audience, rappers have to present black images that whites have historically been most comfortable with since, like, the beginning of America: images largely related to blacks being ignorant, sex-crazed and/or criminal.
Now Wayne and Drake have skills for days, and Drake certainly puts a more sensitive spin on the typical rap fare, but nonetheless they indulge heavily in longstanding black stereotypes that have been used to entertain whites, to oppress blacks and to justify black oppression.
I doubt many people were thinking about the racial dynamics involved, or the implications of Drake and Wayne using the word “nikka” so freely in front of a predominantly white audience. And personally I wish I could just be at a concert and mindlessly enjoy it without thinking about what it all means. But I was thinking about what it all means, and what it all means, I think, is that on some level — beneath the glitz, glamour and video game theme, beneath the hot beats and anthems — Drake vs. Lil Wayne is just another well-produced, wildly popular minstrel show.
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
Insane in the Brain: Did Hip-Hop Drive Us Crazy ?
http://allhiphop.com/2012/07/09/insane-in-the-brain-did-hip-hop-drive-us-crazy/
http://allhiphop.com/2012/07/09/insane-in-the-brain-did-hip-hop-drive-us-crazy/
“I keep lookin’ over my shoulders/ and peepin’ ‘round corners/ my mind’s playin’ tricks on me” – “Mind Playin’ Tricks on Me”, Geto Boys
For a time, up and coming attorney, Beauford Jenkins, of the prestigious law firm, Black, Rock and Ron, seemed perfectly normal. Even when he legally changed his name to B-Dawg and got a lollipop tatted on his face, his coworkers thought it was just the stress from his new position as a junior partner. However, when during the weekly staff meeting, he jumped up on the conference room table and broke into an impromptu rendition of Nicki Minaj’s “Beez in the Trap”, while tryin’ to twerk, they knew it was time for him to seek professional help from Dr. Feel. After a few sessions , Beauford’s behavior was diagnosed as the effect of a lifetime of over-exposure to Hip-Hop…
One of the most difficult issues to discuss, especially in the Black community, is mental illness. No one wants to believe that Uncle Leroy, who comes to the family reunion picnic every year in a bathrobe and biker shorts, is really crazy. (No, that’s just his swag.) But in a period in Hip-Hop when it is becoming harder and harder to distinguish fantasy from reality, this issue must be addressed, ASAP.
Historically, there have been those who have, purposely, misdiagnosed normal Black behavior as abnormal. According to Dr. Harriett Washington, in her book, Medical Apartheid, during the mid-19th century, Dr. Samuel Cartwright concocted some diseases to diagnose those who resisted slavery. He came up with diseases like drapetomania, which made slaves want to run away, and dysaethesia aethiopica which, supposedly, made the slaves tear stuff up on the plantation.
Also, Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary and others have used the term “Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder” to describe the mental distress that results from centuries of slavery and oppression.
However, as for what is happening in Hip-Hop right now…well, normal people just don’t do that kind of stuff.
To be fair, over the years, Hip-Hop has dealt with its insanity in different ways – some funny, some not so funny.
UTFO had a humorous rap hit in the ’80s called “Split Personality”, which was a spoof on dissociative identity disorder. However, in the real rap world, that could explain why rappers like 50 Cent can make CDs that make them seem like homicidal maniacs, but when they are interviewed by Oprah or Pierce Brosnan, appear to be astute, well-mannered businessmen.
Some of the most graphic tales of mental disorder have come courtesy of Scarface and the Geto Boys, as the “Mind of a Lunatic” was a recurring theme in many of their songs. Scarface once described himself as “a homicidal maniac with suicidal tendencies.”
Perhaps , the most telling mental breakdown moment that best exemplifies Hip-Hop’s current state is the classic scene from the movie, Juice, when “Bishop“(Tupac Shakur) admits to “Q” (Omar Epps), “You’re right, I am crazy and I don’t give a …”, as insanity has become standard Hip-Hop protocol.
So, the major question is, what makes some Hip-Hop artists actually lose their minds in real life?
The most convenient answer may be alcohol and drug abuse abuse. After all, rap music does promote the use of marijuana, sizzurp, and X as forms of self-medication to ease the pain. Although the pharmacist at the drug store requires a prescription from a doctor, the neighborhood “street pharmacist” has no such requirement. Remember, back in 1991, Geto Boy, Bushwick Bill lost his eye, allegedly, after drowning his sorrows in a bottle of Everclear. Also, years before the current hysteria of people turning into cannibals after getting high on bath salt, back in 2002, rapper Big Lurch is said to have eaten a woman’s body parts because of PCP.
However, there can be other factors as well.
Perhaps the least talked about reason for odd behavior among rappers is explored on Cee Lo Green’s (Gnarls Barkley) song “Crazy”, where he seems to be feeling the pressure of one of the most talented intellectual minds that Hip-Hop has ever produced when he was with the Goodie Mob, being transformed into a cross-dressing, pop cultural oddity.
What must not be forgotten is that, in some ways, the themes that are prevalent in much of rap music are also present in ‘hoods across America.
Although the theme of gun shots flyin’, people dyin’, and babies cryin’ is talked about, extensively, in rap music, what is rarely discussed is how living in that type of environment affects one mentally. Could it be that the millionaire rapper from the ‘hood who now lives in a mansion on the hill still has unresolved childhood issues that are reflected in his music ?
When multi-national corporations get a hold of this type of behavior and glamorize it, they make even the most irrational type of behavior a requirement for being “down with the culture.” And if they can make a quick buck sellin’ insanity, so be it.
So the youth become victims of what Coach Alfred Powell, author of the book Hip-Hop Hypocrisy, calls “psycho media perpetrator disorder,” mirroring the behaviors exhibited by their favorite rappers.
While there are economic incentives to promote rap insanity, there are other entities that may have a vested interest in keeping us out of our minds as well.
Psychologist Bobby E. Wright argued in his book, The Psychopathic Racial Personality, that the pathologies plaguing the ‘hood and, therefore, Hip-Hop, are no accidents but are a result of what he termed “Mentacide.” He said that Mentacide was a way for the power structure to combat Black nationalism.
If Einstein was correct, and insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” perhaps the most insane are not the rappers, but the conscious ones of us, who consider ourselves in our right minds, as we have used the same formulas to “cure the insanity in Hip-Hop” for two decades. Maybe it’s time to find a new cure. As they say, “desperate times call for drastic measures.”
As a Public Service Announcement, if you are a 30-something-year-old man and find yourself unable to stop repeating Lil Wayne’s “A Milli”, or a 40-year-old woman who decides to dye your hair pink and get booty injections, seek help, immediately!
Like Ice Cube once said: “You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.”
Rap as we know it is merely a reflection of our cultural decadence.it personifies it and to some extent has defined our role to society. The decadence in rap could not sustain its self with other group of people (imagine Jews rapping about killing each other). And its really because we a culture that is self destructive