Ice Cube says rap encourages criminal behavior

[3rdWorld]

If you pay attention to Cube, he wasnt a typical thug gangster rapper..if you just take into account that he was in NWA and leave it at that then yes..beyond NWA Cube was very different.

Yes, Rap encourages criminality..we now need to understand why people have a vested interest in something that is obviously destructive being wholesale fed to Black youth under the guise of its 'Entertainment'..
If leading figures in rap are saying it but you have those that still disagree then their point is to ensure the further destruction of the Black youth to rap. That's what they want.

 

[Da King]

he’s right, idiots really think kids listening to music 24/7 glorifying criminal behavior has zero effect?

 

[African Peasant]

What happened Cube

This song is filled with negativity: promotion of gang banging, debauchery, stealing, etc.

But its slaps tho.

 

[I'm Blackman]

There are first world countries where alcool commercials are banned on TV for the same reasons.

I know thecoli is full of world class sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists, but anyone trying to make an argument that commercial/marketing does not influence people is an idiot.

 

[Taadow]

My post was moreso flippant. Of course crime was worse because folks was more broke since it was closer to end of segregation. My point is that we don’t really have music that’s pushed to the masses that paints a complete picture of the Black experience. It’s a propaganda machine. I don’t really care how other ppl view us but look at how some of us view our fellow Black ppl.

And this is the very crossroads of this issue here: Rap Music historically is “moreso flippant”.

That’s why it functions as a “Young Man’s Game”; young men are flippant and irreverent yet brash, but
still get the “he’s young and doesn’t know any better” pass.

Still, for most rap lyrics ever, you could listen to them and then ask “what did he mean by that?”
(To be fair, one hardly doesn’t have time to fully explain their stance on a topic in 3-4 minutes.)
But that’s supposed to be part of the charm, right? That’s the “hip” in hip-hop: do you get what is being said?




But my thing is this: Popular Music has always been a propaganda machine.
There probably wouldn’t even be a music industry as we know it if there wasn’t movies, and movies are propaganda.
I don’t get why anyone is surprised by Ice Cube saying this just because he’s Ice Cube. NWA has always understood this.
Straight Outta Compton, Amerikkk’z Most Wanted, and Death Certificate are damn near movies. They helped pioneer skits on albums. They had avant-garde videos. They understood branding and the reach they had. They were smart and pimped The Game. Just look back at the real life of Ice Cube and it is plain as day.

 

[King Poetic]

Only thing negative I would say about old Cube … he at one point after lethal injection album and going into westside connection tried to fit into the whole gang shyt vibe and the small beef shyt..

I believe pac called him out on that

 

[Ol’Otis]

but Metal isn't blamed for 'White' violence?

It was once upon a time

 

[I Really Mean It]

Because black men get sex and respect by acting like drill rappers. Hell, NOT acting like a gangster/thug can cost you sex

 

[Taadow]

“No medallions, dreadlocks or black fists
It's just that gangsta glare with gangsta raps”- Let Me Ride,
nikka was bold and took pride with saying that shyt. That’s some shyt that Jimmy Iovine and them nikkas from the top told him to say. Can’t convince me otherwise.

I was with you until you got here.

That is the real. Dre said out of his own mouth that The Chronic was made in response to all that alleged “conscious” wave. And it was made before he met Jimmy. Why? Dre: “Sex sells…violence sells”.

Jimmy on The Chronic: “Dre had the album already done and was shopping it around. When it got to me, I didn’t understand the music - but I understood the sound. It was so clean. I just trusted them…”



…and let’s be realer than that, even: A bunch of niccas (and even rappers) was not on no Peace/Conscious chit.
Their music was slappin’, but we wasn’t out living that life.

 

[jackswstd]

AmeriKKKa’s Nightmare morphed into Murica’s Dream.

 

[Paradoxical Tiger]

Rubi Rose is probably the baddest in the game right now. And she went out and said that she finds gang signs “attractive”

Halle Bailey has publicly claimed to have a thing for gangster dudes

SZA, Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Ice Spice, Latto, Meg, and many others have EXPLICITLY stated in their songs that they want a “Thug”

But keep being purposefully obtuse

 

[thaKEAF]

Anyone with a brain knows this. I work directly with teenagers and early 20s at times and man it’s disheartening. I thought I was really getting through to one kid who was on house arrest then saw him on ig posing with multiple pistols and money.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Encourage? Yes, it definitely does for the most part in that it makes it sound cool or like an every day thing. But again, Ice Cube is part of the problem.

At least he can acknowledge it now.



We see what the effect was. We can keep the same beats, but add more positive lyrics. Can we get a rap about having a 700 credit score?

 

[breakfuss]

Anyone with a brain knows this. I work directly with teenagers and early 20s at times and man it’s disheartening. I thought I was really getting through to one kid who was on house arrest then saw him on ig posing with multiple pistols and money.

Is his father around?

 

[thaKEAF]

Is his father around?

Nope he got killed when he was younger I believe.