Look At Common Yall

[JustCKing]

Exactly. A young LL or young Common would be straight shytting on their older selves. ESPECIALLY Common! The same nikka that made an amazing song shouting out assata Shakur! I wonder whan Common's DAD thinks about his recent antics and statements. Someone should interview his ass.

Common's dad is dead.

 

[TRY GOD]

THE BOOTH IS FULL OF c00nS AND CRACKERS

 

[Sane]

Video was hilarious.

 

[Walt]

You don't know hip hop as well as you think you do. Dancing around the stage was actually always part of hip hop from the beginning. That's actually part of the roots of it. All the old school rappers had dance routines. Even LL. Even the hardcore gangsta ones. Big Daddy Kane used to get down. Hip Hop has always been about performing. Common has been break dancing since he first came out. I your concerned about rappers not performing for white audiences and not "selling out" or keeping it real your about 25 years late breh.

And besides its not like they were up their lip syncing to the Beatles or something. Hammer and Lionel Richie are black musical legends my friend. Nothing wrong with them paying respect and having fun with it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[JahBuhLun]

Stupid ass would've won had he done the Hammer dance. That's the most important part. How you leave that out.

He probably felt like that would've been the definition of buck-dancing. Common would've done it with no hesitation at all.

 

[Flav]

Why do yall acting like he just put on a big azz wig and danced for no reason? Hes playing the part of a damn video but most of yall is too young to know that.





Yall reaching like a muthafukka

 

[boskey]

You don't know hip hop as well as you think you do.... Hammer and Lionel Richie are black musical legends my friend. Nothing wrong with them paying respect and having fun with it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

For you young posters out there who may think this response is just meant to be dismissive, I'm pretty sure he is laughing this hard in real life. To a man of @Walt 's approximate age and experience the phrase "Hammer is a black musical legend" while lecturing about the history of hip hop is something beyond absurd. The best example I could come up with is calling Soulja Boy a black musical legend...but even that doesn't have the same comedic value

 

[Nigerianwonder]

For you young posters out there who may think this response is just meant to be dismissive, I'm pretty sure he is laughing this hard in real life. To a man of @Walt 's approximate age and experience the phrase "Hammer is a black musical legend" while lecturing about the history of hip hop is something beyond absurd. The best example I could come up with is calling Soulja Boy a black musical legend...but even that doesn't have the same comedic value

hammer is a black music and hip hop legend and icon. One of the greatest performers of all time. not even debatable.

 

[WickedGames]

This shyt was so righteous. Genuinely made me laugh/smile. They having fun.

 

[JahBuhLun]

There's a couple points that are being ignored or not being recognized with more depth.

The posters on here who have a problem with this are bringing up the fact that Common essentially blamed Blacks for the continuation of racism. When not more than 2 months ago, he was holding an oscar in his hand because he made a song highlighting injustice heaped upon Black people for centuries. And yes, there is a component that reeks of crossing over or "selling out" Especially LL Cool J. Yet, at the same time, Black entertainers of this generation especially, yearn for that mainstream acceptance; so where they were once "ours" once the universal acclaim and bigger paychecks start to accumulate, the message and mindset becomes different. Being rich and famous and being pro Black can't exist within the same space.

 

[wire28]

You do know that's how they dressed in the 80's I don't see any emasculating nikka be having self issues I tell you

So when brehs were actually dressing like this, what y'all call it?

it was a crazy time man

what was wild was that, the guy that looked most like a bytch, was gettin all the women

even i had the jheri curls comin out, and i had my shyt slicked to the side and all that

 

[wire28]

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.

i remember this is how people talked about snoop

let him have fun

he told old to be on that gangsta shyt

let snoop wear that wig he always been a jokester!

as he made his assimilation into mainstream acceptance

 

[boskey]

hammer is a black music and hip hop legend and icon. One of the greatest performers of all time. not even debatable.

I understand why u would say this. He was a great dancer and sold a lot of records. But in his time most knowledgable people considered him a complete joke

 

[DANJ!]

The funny thing with you so-called 'pro-Black' nikkas...

Is that y'all think pro-Black is being antagonistic towards white people just because they're white and you hate them. Y'all think being pro-Black is being "threatening" and seen as a "threat" by everyone not Black. Y'all think pro-Black is being hateful toward any black person that doesn't do these things, because if you're not antagonizing and threatening, then you're a "c00n".

And what makes it funny...

...is that this is the same misconception that so-called CACs have about people who are "pro-Black".

And alllll y'all muhfukkas are wrong.

That image y'all have of being 'pro-black' is actually no different than them dumb-ass white people screamin' about "white power!" and hating everyone that isn't white. And that's a bullshyt image, because being pro-Black isn't about being anti-anything. REAL pro-black people ain't on fake militant mode 24/7... they're focused on things that are PRODUCTIVE for us, and some of 'em are actually putting ACTION behind their intentions. They're against things that are actually important, not 'look at this nikka dancin' on stage!'... they're against police brutality, institutional racism, real-life shyt like that. They ain't on the Coli poppin' a buncha "I'm bliggity-bliggity-blackety-black y'all" shyt, while in real life half you nikkas work at a place where you let a white man tell y'all what to do every gotdamn day. Pro-Black people are just that... PRO... which means in favor of. PRO ain't got shyt to do with ANTI. Pro black people are more focused on things improving for us, things that push us forward... not walkin' around pissed off for images' sake. Before y'all nikkas start actin' all "pro-Black", try learnin' what it actually entails.

 

[DANJ!]

Not seeing what the problem is here. Wait, we're supposed to not have fun because white folks are watching?

Yeah...that's the comical shyt.

nikkas so pro-Black, but they care about everything we do around white people. So if the crowd was all black, it'd be cool... but if there's white people around "oh no, we can't be's havin' no fun while Massa around!!"