“Music made me want to sell crack. I was so influenced by the music.” - Child who ran away from Millionaire parents.

[Unknown Poster]

Where I grew up in brooklyn was full of solid middle class kids turning to the streets because they wanted to "keep it real". But maybe I dreamt that up because it's just entertainment .

Representation matters.

when you see people that look like you doing what you want to do, you're going to be more motivated to follow suit.

What does it say that white men can literally see themselves doing everything in the media and in life from the life from making music to being aeronautical engineers and politicians?

What does it say that the prominent images of us as black men involve us ever playing basketball, playing football, or being a rapper? Or in the streets like you said growing up?



We are being lettuce stray on purpose

 

[Majestyx]

berg is a walking L

its also so crazy to me how cats deny the influence music, and not just rap music, ALL music and media can have a strong effect on those consuming it. one actually has to make a conscious decision to not let some of this shyt influence you.

about parents.. if you a working parent, your child actually spends the majority of their waking hours around other people(which is fukked up)


the issue isnt just rap music, its systemic

 

[CrushedGroove]

That's what I don't get, to see the pain in your parents' face and still pull that bullshyt. You'd have to be complete narcissist.

Going through the same thing with my son. Fought wars and did whatever I could to make sure my kids didn't have to deal with the things me and my wife had to. We always made him earn what he got so he'd appreciate it but once XXXtentacion and JuiceWrld and them sad, disturbed, druggy nikkas started becoming the wave, he took on their persona and I don't even know who he is

Goes out of his way to make life hard for himself just to have a "get it out the mud" story. He out here dipping his toes in a world he don't know and act like he can't get touched. nikka you grew on military bases and the burbs.

He's on his own and I can't do nothing but pray he wakes up.

 

[#1 pick]

Going through the same thing with my son. Fought wars and did whatever I could to make sure my kids didn't have to deal with the things me and my wife had to. We always made him earn what he got so he'd appreciate it but once XXXtentacion and JuiceWrld and them sad, disturbed, druggy nikkas started becoming the wave, he took on their persona and I don't even know who he is

Goes out of his way to make life hard for himself just to have a "get it out the mud" story. He out here dipping his toes in a world he don't know and act like he can't get touched. nikka you grew on military bases and the burbs.

He's on his own and I can't do nothing but pray he wakes up.

Man, the culture is so hard for young Black males. I was telling my wife that it's your surroundings and peers more than anything. If you aren't a star baller where everyone riding your nuts because of your talent or a star student, if you average or regular, as a Black male, it's like you valueless. That shyt is real for many of these kids. It's never the star athletes that fall into this unless it's a girls fault for trapping him

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Nah y'all was barely there back than all those areas were always tradu



Huh?


I said many of the carribean and africans rappers in NYC

Came from stable and good homes and still was out there in the streets

If the majority of Caribbean people in Brooklyn weren't in those areas then where were they ? Those are literally all the black neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

 

[MasterThought]

People say that music has a big part in how you act and how you see the world and you and @Matt504 been saying it and I got to agree.

I'm a house/techno producer and DJ and that's pretty much the majority of what I listen to besides hip hop and that's what I grew up on.

It saddens me how the majority of music that is marketed towards black men is just incredibly violent, nihilistic, or just promotes a hateful mentality towards other Black people.

Or if it's marketed towards black women it's just incredibly sexual.

Making us think that this is all we are. And I know we are not! I know we are more than this!!!!
That's what frustrates me!
Black people created all of this revolutionary and innovative music...but somehow we just reduced to Rap and R&B.

Yep. That's the most damaging aspect of rap music right there.

It literally teaches black people that other black people are the enemy.

 

[GPBear]

gangster rap made me do it