Ice Cube says rap encourages criminal behavior

[Sadbrownsfan]

This also explains the rise in cattle stealing, saloon brawls, and duels at high noon when hank Williams, Johnny cash, etc started to blow up.

 

[Gloxina]

Its just a coincidence that the presidential candidates either had female rappers twerking at rallies and or bailed out street rappers. Wasn't to appeal to a certain demo at all cause theyre influential.

 

[Sk3ptical]

Facts..

People hate Dr Umar because of the lies about the school but he is a 100% right that hip hop in its 50 years have done nothing for the black community but exploit it just like corporations for its own profit

These guys be in videos and on they songs talking about “ everything i rap about is about the hood, im in the hood every day, im feeding nikkas in the hood, there’s no snitching in the hood, etc etc”

But once these nikkas are not on camera or making music, they are 30 minutes away the hood with their girlfriends and wives and kids in private school and telling they kids “ you know u get your education and get you a good job and be something “

But meanwhile they telling kids in the hood to stay gangster and hood

So what was to blame for the record crime rates in the 1980s

 

[fscballin]

So what was to blame for the record crime rates in the 1980s

Blaxploitation and the overall glorification of destructive violence in film, as well drugs being pushed on to us. They also pushed birth control and abortions on to us. Rap and homosexuality came after and in this digital age of ai and healthcare, they convinced most of us to become guinea pigs for their final agenda for us

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

So what was to blame for the record crime rates in the 1980s

The violent crime rate peaked in 1991.

The Volcker Shock is a factor

 

[010101]

all fukkery follows after the failures of a child's mother/father*

 

[Luke Cage]

its wild to see. Mr. i started this gangster shyt talking about the impact.

He made all the money he’s gonna make off rap. No longer has use for it now. Makes it easier to switch up

 

[I'm Blackman]

He made all the money he’s gonna make off rap. No longer has use for it now. Makes it easier to switch up

U right.

 

[I'm Blackman]

I literally made these points a while back on here and dudes jumped down my throat.


Pure dysfunction peddled to our community so that a few Black men could become rich and famous and record labels could make multi-billions.

Dudes take it personal if you speak the truth about how this shyt has affected the community.

Lmao at all the hiphop artists who got rich living amongst whites and putting their kids in gated communities and white schools and PWIs. It is hilarious.

Yall’s elders were right. Now here we are, decades later.

Future was rapping about lean even though he admitted he stopped it years back because of its detrimental effects, etc.

Kid Cudi noooooow swinging back to tell kids to stay away from drugs after he’s pretty much exited the most influential phase of his career. How many kids did he influence ten+ years ago tho when he was out his mind???!

This is the shyt that’s been sold to Black youth and it started decades ago.

Ice Cube admitting what was known yeeeeeears ago.



Again, here we are.

u right

 

[I'm Blackman]

Of course.

But if WE don’t have in tact communities that push back against the imagery and show impressionable youth that those images aren’t real examples, you end up little children emulating music artists.


It’s always amazing to me that men can see how the slutty female rappers we have are can influence young black women, but don’t think male rappers have ever influenced black male youth culture.


Why tf did everyone think they needed to be a rapper or athlete to make it out the hood? Because that’s what was pushed to our community in particular. I’ve already said it before— every young Black man 18-30 could go work for ups or FedEx, get a CDL, etc and that one act would transform our community in one damn generation.
Other communities come here and do that shyt overnight.

There is literal social programming going on and you now even have a prominent artist- CUBE— admitting it.

True, but we also went and copied our favorite rappers style of dress and speech growing up as kids.
They were cool to us, and thus influential.

Not everyone will fall victim of course, but the constant media bombardment of criminality leading to fast gained material excess and wealth being beamed daily to Black youth over radio, cd and television will convince some that's the path to take.

The same way back in the days it was reported positively that "A Different World" led to an increase in Black college enrolment because of how popular the show was at depicting Black college life..but somehow when it comes to hiphop we have to move the goal posts like its an Israeli operation

Breh, WHITE KIDS LOOK AT HIP HOP AS A MINSTREL SHOW.


It’s fukking ENTERTAINMENT to them.


Are white kids watching other white kids rap about drugs, guns, bytches, babymommas, etc?
NO.
They are watched BLACK PEOPLE do those things.

They are watching “dancing monkeys” on stage and then they go home to their mom and dad, house with a two-three car garage, university course work and then they graduate and pretend they never listened to Hiphop by the time they turn 26.


You cannot be serious.

Come holla at me when the white label execs push white girls into the mainstream who act like SexyyRed

You see it.


There is no other racial group where their primary image pushed out to the world is music glorifying drugs, fast money, criminality, whores, etc.

This shyt was done by design but again, some men leaned into it and got PAID, and when they get that money they move far away from Black folks lol

Glo cooking

 

[I'm Blackman]

How is the problem because he got older,wiser and being honest


Meanwhile yall are being dishonest by acting like Cube didnt explore all sides and cover the pitfalls of criminality in his music

Now i will give him this...as a big ice cube fan, all of the criminal stories ended badly for the main character in his song.....ghetto vet, summer vacation, what can i do,.....and even on later albums (everythings corrupt) he dropped knowledge about the system and not falling prey to it. He had a song on the predator i think called US that was about us cleaning our selves up and doing better.

But those types of songs werent making him millions and interscope billions, thus they were fewer of those types and marketed less.

 

[King Poetic]

So what was to blame for the record crime rates in the 1980s

Crime, drugs , etc was all before rap

But rap promoted and glamorized it on a larger scale in our community

 

[Sk3ptical]

Crime, drugs , etc was all before rap

But rap promoted and glamorized it on a larger scale in our community

Take away rap and we would still have violence and bad parenting.

 

[Dzali OG]

Take away rap and we would still have violence and bad parenting.

Of course it would still be present but it wouldn't be glamorized in our music.

A hundred years from now when hip hop is past and people ready to be honest...it will probably be reported as an epidemic that caused more damage in the black community than crack.

 

[Sk3ptical]

Of course it would still be present but it wouldn't be glamorized in our music.

A hundred years from now when hip hop is past and people ready to be honest...it will probably be reported as an epidemic that caused more damage in the black community than crack.

Nah bad parenting and no fathers in the homes have done more damage than anything.