Hiphop/Rap is really the number one religion amongst Black American. We absolutely praise and worship rappers. We know more songs and lyrics than Bible scriptures. You live by a lot of these rap lines and even get them tatted on us. And the rap lyrics for most part have been almost pure poison. These rap artists have poisoned our minds, relationships and our youth.
We as Black people have always looked for a leader to guide us. We had MLK and Malcolm X. Then Farrakhan, Jesse and Sharpton somewhat. All of these men stated the importance of family and being a solid man. Hardworking and an example to your family and community. So for most part a hard working solid man with a decent job had a lot of respect in our community.
In 80s and 90s Gangstar Rap hit the Black Community harder than crack. Because you didn't have to go to the ghetto and slums to ingest it. You could smoke it in the suburbs. Rappers use to have a lot of positive messages in their music. As the years passed by the message changed. I think Tupac was the Beacon of this change. He made being a hypocrite cool. Today it's Keep Ya Head Up and Dear Mama, Tomorrow is Hit Em Up. He promoted Thug Life to the fullest and pretty much told our women and children, if he aint a thug he's lame and corny. That is still the rule in the Black Community for most part. They were popular gangstar rappers before, but not like 2pac. Pac was in movies, always in the news and he was a sexy symbol that women still love. All of the women wanted him and all the men were acting like him. Never once did I hear Pac rap about the importance of family or being a great father. Being from a single mother home, it was always about Mama. In the Black Community we worship our moms and undervalue dads and it still hurting us. Fathers teach honor, Moms don't. We've lost our honor.
I'd say every rapper has some Pac influence, but as time went on the message go worse. These rappers glorified drinking, smoking, pills, womanizing, robbing, killing, etc. And our youth followed them. And our women followed them and the guys like them. Sadly these types of men don't make good husbands for many reason I'd say most of the babies born in the Black communities are for these type of men. Thugs, Players, Scammers, Dealers, Hustlers the same type of men glorified in our music.
Reality Tv and Social Media really has been the nail in Black Love's coffin. The music was toxic enough, add in the visual of disfunction and we're now screwed. We have a generation of women and men who have gotten most of their relationship and life goals from TV and Social Media.
We have poisoned our own women with this Religion of Hiphop. They've always looked to us for what's cool and they should be. They've seen us praising and imitating rapper, so how we get mad that they're in love with them now. Now our women fighting and being masculine and overaggressing. Our women are now rappers glorifying drugs, prostitutiong, robbing and finessing. Now we have young girls saying they only date scammers and wouldn't date a working class man. It's over.
Sadly I don't see this changing. All you can do is try to find a woman that's not too poison and raise a family far away from this chaos.
