I'm speaking specifically to young black males. You do NOT have to mess with rap music.
As a black male myself, I understand that rap music is pretty much our entire identity. We get our cues on how to walk, talk, dress and behave from rap music.
Rap Music is literally our biggest representation worldwide and if YOU, a black man don't fit into the stereotypes set forth by rap, you're often ridiculed.
Ridiculed by not only other black people, but the rest of the world. Cacs will look at you funny if you don't look or talk like these Minstrel Show rappers. You are EXPECTED to behave, walk , talk and dress a certain way as a black man.
What I'm ultimately getting at without being too long-winded , is that it's ok to not like it. As a black male you are expected to not only like it, but if you listen to anything else, you're looked at weird.
We all know what the vast majority of the content in rap is about (drugdealing, gangbanging, shooting at opps, sipping lean, extreme materialism, fukking random hoes, etc) but if this type of content doesn't resonate with your spirit....it's ok to avoid it.
You know if your spirit rejects something and if your spirit rejects the negativity of rap music....don't listen to it , and better yet....don't even PRETEND to like it.
If you know that the lifestyle promoted and glorified in rap doesn't align with the type of person that your parents raised or are trying to raise.....don't try to force yourself to listen to it to fit in.
I know peer pressure is hard but be your own person. Listen to what appeals to who you really are. If your friends don't like what you listen to in the whip....they can walk. If your friends make fun of you for listening to different types of music ...their not really your friends.
Most of this rap music is PURPOSELY DESIGNED to groom your personality for prison or an early death anyways. Before you know it, you're sagging your pants, putting tattoos all over your face and body, cursing/ using the Nword in every sentence and drunk off weed and liquor all the time. . That's what they want. This music is spiritual.
Black men....it's perfectly ok to not fukk with rap music.
As a black male myself, I understand that rap music is pretty much our entire identity. We get our cues on how to walk, talk, dress and behave from rap music.
Rap Music is literally our biggest representation worldwide and if YOU, a black man don't fit into the stereotypes set forth by rap, you're often ridiculed.
Ridiculed by not only other black people, but the rest of the world. Cacs will look at you funny if you don't look or talk like these Minstrel Show rappers. You are EXPECTED to behave, walk , talk and dress a certain way as a black man.
What I'm ultimately getting at without being too long-winded , is that it's ok to not like it. As a black male you are expected to not only like it, but if you listen to anything else, you're looked at weird.
We all know what the vast majority of the content in rap is about (drugdealing, gangbanging, shooting at opps, sipping lean, extreme materialism, fukking random hoes, etc) but if this type of content doesn't resonate with your spirit....it's ok to avoid it.
You know if your spirit rejects something and if your spirit rejects the negativity of rap music....don't listen to it , and better yet....don't even PRETEND to like it.
If you know that the lifestyle promoted and glorified in rap doesn't align with the type of person that your parents raised or are trying to raise.....don't try to force yourself to listen to it to fit in.
I know peer pressure is hard but be your own person. Listen to what appeals to who you really are. If your friends don't like what you listen to in the whip....they can walk. If your friends make fun of you for listening to different types of music ...their not really your friends.
Most of this rap music is PURPOSELY DESIGNED to groom your personality for prison or an early death anyways. Before you know it, you're sagging your pants, putting tattoos all over your face and body, cursing/ using the Nword in every sentence and drunk off weed and liquor all the time. . That's what they want. This music is spiritual.
Black men....it's perfectly ok to not fukk with rap music.
but I do know that people are different than me in that aspect
