Now explain to me the difference between 14 year old teens in the hood reciting Gummo in 2018 and my peer group at 14 reciting the lyrics to Throw Ya Guns and Insane In The Brain.
Explain the difference.
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and one word. Authenticity. they weren't projecting an image that they weren't. if they lived it or experienced it, then that's what it was. We all knew growing up that street life is grimy, the hood is rough growing up.... we had the mental capacity to understand what the lyrics were all about.
But his oversexualized feminized bullshyt.. cmon...we all know what a 69 is, a sexual position. that's what he chose to label himself after. Then as a younger girl growing up, if some shyt came on like- akinyele 'put in your mouth".. ..as a much younger girl, I think I was maybe 4 or 5, idk, just real young, if that song came on, all the adults or older teens listening to that, would see me and turn it off or tell me to leave, even though I didn't know what the fuk he was talking about, as I got a little older, I knew to censor it for myself- the difference between what is and what's not right for me to hear. Akinyele was not marketed for 10-17 yr olds at the time, strictly adult listening. Sexually.... this younger generation today, has no filter- everything is on display, it's an information free for all (not everything they need to know in that age group). Back then we had less limited access to all this fukkery that's on display now. Some shyt a child's eyes don't need to see and some things they just don't need to hear... ur telling me that lyrics to Gummo, where every other line he spit was about fukkin? is ok for kids to say? What rappers do you know from back in the day so blatant with sexual innuenedos, sex acts, sex performance
catered and marketed to the 10-17 yr old crowd specifically???? No one that I know over age 21 fukks with tekashi 69 like that. Even with the Dips and Cam came out, that was young adult and they were considered controversial at the time, but no one I knew was 10-12 yrs old were really checking for that like that. That was my age group dynamic 17-up.
too much tolerance for low level shyt these days.