Lakeith Stanfield With A Message About Gangster Rap

[Thurgood Thurston III]

Not true. I'm for gun control and I agree with every thing Lakeith said. If you're thinking one cannot be a progressive and critique the damage a lot of rap music is doing you're wrong.

Man, whenever I get into arguments with these dudes about this, I bring up guns and they seriously believe guns have ZERO effect on gun crimes. You're rare.

Also, the "damage" that rap music is doing is more correlation than causation. Criminals are gonna do criminal shyt no matter what they listen to. I don't like drill music, but it's not the reason behind crime involving black people. Crime existed before rap did.

People aren't following the music but rather the music is following the people. Using rap as a scapegoat prevents us from getting to the root of the issue.

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

Your can't compare a movie/acting to what rappers do.

Why not?

 

[StretfordRed]

We seriously need to be done with the morbid fascination of people talking about killing other black people over a beat we dance to in clubs. We have the same shyt going on in UK and radio stations have pressured artists to release less poison for the commercial airwaves. I’ve given up on UK drill for the fact there’s too much ties to the street.

It just doesn’t make any sense. I mean we’re going to have crime anyway, but this is a literal theme song to murder.

I got into some Muddy Waters over the weekend. I’m seriously ready to give this rap shyt a pass.

Let’s be real; white people were right about rap. I think it’s spawned more negativity than positivity if we were to sum up all the street shyt that’s ever happened.

 

[Born2BKing]

I listen to ignorant music and listened to it growing up but I have the wherewithal to determine what's real and fake and most people don't seem to be able to do that.

Look at this video. shyt is useless at this point. A whole nother generation of hard heads who you murder you for nothing being molded before our very eyes.

 

[GoAggieGo.]

Yeah, but we don’t know what happened in his life for him to change his perspective. You can’t expect every person to have the same morals they were born with. People evolve & change based on experiences.

& yes, we go the hardest on each other with that. Instead of just saying, ok. The community isn’t in the position to pick and choose black ppl if we’re being honest.

I agree with all this, but folks don’t grant the chance for evolution to everyone. If that was the case, you wouldn’t have so many ppl fearful of speaking up. Lakeith gets to change, because people like him for the most part.

 

[MikelArteta]

Btw I'm sick of dudes like this, brehs all quiet while thousands of black men get killed every year but because its someone rich and famous now we gotta reconsider. Nah we should have before, we should ostracized ignant ass music like every other race does, ostracize ignorance and violence and gluttony.

 

[Sad Bunny]

I agree, but to play devils advocate, he played a pivotal role as an important figure in the genre of gangster rap in a movie about the godfathers if gangster rap.

An actor acted?

 

[QU Hectic]

An actor acted?

I fukks with Bad Bunny. My Only defense.

 

[Wildhundreds]

Have anyone noticed 40+ year old people still listen to this garbage music? The problem is you have parents who haven't grown up from the 90s still promoting that shyt. And FYI, these nikka have money, so its not poverty. Its just that that know nothing else.

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Correct.

You could even say hood ninjas are no different than WS.

They are worse...when im at the gas station at 10pm.. i aint lookin around for White Supremacists

 

[Sad Bunny]

Your can't compare a movie/acting to what rappers do.

Right. These dudes acting like King Von wasn’t glorified and praised.

 

[CrushedGroove]

I agree with him. I hear y'all who saying the smoke should go toward the owners of these companies that's pushing it, but shouldn't it be up to the creators to choose to make the music and the listeners.

Even when I was broke on my ass there was a limit to what I was willing to do for money. I can't blame the devil for offering me the world for my soul, it's up to me to make the decision of whether or not to give it.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

no problem with this.

But also call out on those who PROFIT off of it and have them fall back.

Why would they? They're profiting off it. Everyone involved is (labels, artists, etc.) basically Joe Bonanno

 

[Family Lives Matter]

Yea y'all nikkas hate receipts huh?
Makes being a disingenuous Fukking hypocrite really hard eh?

If a disingenuous fukking hypocrite tells me drinking bleach will kill me should I not listen?

 

[Software]

the king von idolization was wild

that nikka apparently woke up early to drill for fun instead of go to school

thats crazyyy

King Von was basically a homicidal maniac that could flow over a beat...