Look At Common Yall
- Thread starter The_King_of_Everything
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This.
As well, given the current racially charged climate of the American landscape with Barack Obama heading towards his last year in the white house, seemingly endless shootings of unarmed black men and women by police who don't even see any sort of criminal retribution for their acts, growing racial disparities in wealth and in the job market, it's kind of natural that people (especially black people) would see some sort of issue with this given Common's recent comments.
Yes. I know we should just "lighten up" and "stop complaining" in you're eyes and you think our type are "miserable" for actually pointing out the existence of these problems in our social sphere...but you know what...I'm just going to say it, the behavior exhibited in this thread by some of the posters in it is not only bizarre but disheartening.
I don't even get this country anymore. Okay....it's just like because we see common donning a wig and singing a Lionel Richie song or because we see black men and women on TV and in Movies it's like racism on a wide scale never happened and doesn't happen. Like all the events of the past couple of years never happened. I don't even know anymore.
Tbh. I think I'm going to have to take a break from these forums cause this is legit depressing to see the "stop talking about race/if you do you are a militant/you must live a miserable existence/you post this for daps/blah blah blah" talk from black folk on here. Sometimes I just feel like giving up cause it's obvious you already have. When is caring about self preservation a "bad" trait?
Keep posting breh.
You never know which lil Huey P is reading these forums right now and which one of your comments may spark some action in him or her.
the coli
Fam, these motherfukkers have confused THEMSELVES with all their bullshyt that even THEY have no clue what they're supposed to represent.
Got damn if brothers can't have fun without being called a c00n or emasculated or a sellout. jesus christ with the dumb shyt. Save the outrage for when it's really needed.
and QFT
Stay Seeking
Banned
White people love seeing black people emasculated and these dumb ass nikkas don't even realize it .. ol tap dancing for massa ass nikkas .. I was born in 96 so I suppose these are the heads im suppose to idolize ?
Or the nikka was just having a good time.
FreddyCalhoun
All Star
Yeah, all of this is true, but this video is pretty absurd in larger context. A botoxed LL judging a goofy, family friendly lip sync contest in which Common dons a jheri curl wig and smiles a lot while hopping around the stage for what one imagines is a majority white audience, as some generic attractive white woman awkwardly grooves in the background... I mean, this is pretty much the antithesis of what LL, Common, or the vast majority of those who came up on hip hip would describe as "keeping it real," "keeping it hip hop," or having self-respect. That attempt at mainstream assimilation makes a lot of people look silly to those who know them in different contexts that seemed more authentic/in step with their lives/words/characters. I don't think this video marks the decline of black culture, but it damn sure made me feel a little dead inside. There's a way to succeed in life and evolve as a person while broadening your interests without looking like someone your younger self would write a dis track about.
Smh
He need to get back wit Badu, I know she can turn him black again...
Do you remember years ago Badu and her sister went naked for that cac group in their music video and she tried to to get mad at him and said she didn't do it and he clowned her on twitter?
JMurder
SOHH Member since 01...
Not seeing what the problem is here. Wait, we're supposed to not have fun because white folks are watching? 