So Futures mask off was about overcoming slavery?

[Sukairain]

Lil Yachty, whose name is a reference to slave ships,

NOO

 

[Kings County]

Spoiler

nikka whos face is photoshopped on chuckie?

 

[TheRtist]

nikka whos face is photoshopped on chuckie?

 

[jilla82]

Freak Hoes is about the anti-apartheid movement.

Freak Hoes

Freak Hoes

Bounce That Ass Make Your Knees Touch Your Elbows

With the power of an African drum, Future's deep voice booms out one of his best-known songs, a call to action, a challenge to black South Africans to intensify their struggle against apartheid.

The song is one that he recites frequently at the funerals of black activists, each time running through the lengthening list of those killed in that struggle.

"Make a hoe eat a hoe. . . ."

Moving Verse

The emotions are raw, the words rough, the verses deliberately devoid of literary polish.

Yet, the power of Future's words, declaimed with a rhythm and a force that echo the strong traditional poetry of Africa, brings crowds to their feet, ready to "pick up the spear" and to confront what he calls "this spirit of Hitler, this fascism of apartheid."

"The tradition of no surrender is the name of the game," he declares in another poem. "The tradition of no surrender is the name of the game to a people's republic, . . . to a people's government."

His are not the songs of protest of many other black writers, describing the horrors of apartheid, Future said in an interview, but songs of resistance, urging people to work--to fight, if necessary--for faster change.

Known now as the "poet of the struggle," Future, 31, has emerged over the last three years as an important black spokesman, articulating not only the anger of the militant black youths but also their determination to end apartheid within their generation.

"Now is the time," he says in a song often recited by militant black youths, for South Africa's black majority to end its subservience to whites, to reclaim the land taken from them by European settlers, to end their oppression and secure their liberation. "Yes, it is the time."

Although Future gives South Africa's white-led minority government little quarter, he nevertheless describes his songs as "messages of hope" for blacks.

"I don't want to leave people in despair," he said. "There is enough pain in this country without emphasizing it and stressing it and dramatizing it. So I remind them of the pain of the past, but there is always a message of hope with a call to action. That's why I wrote, 'Today's pain is tomorrow's imminent comfort.' "

But in another song Future implores whites not to ignore the rising black anger and cling to the country's system of racial separation and minority white rule but to come to terms with blacks for the sake of a peaceful future:

Free Dope

Free Coke

Lay it Down nikkaz Kicking In Your Front Door

Reciting his songs at political rallies, union meetings and church services around the country as well as at the funerals of black activists, Future's urgent calls to action sum up the mood of "the struggle," as blacks call the anti-apartheid movement.

you need to write for NPR
I swear to God they would publish this bullshyt

 

[Kings County]

coli is tripping

 

[Dwolf]

Glorious

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

This is Future's riveting commentary on the current crisis in the Middle East.....

You can't understand us cause you're too soft
Taliban bands, run 'em straight through the machinery

As you can see, he's plainly talking to President Obama to get him to do something about it other than 'talk'. Getting Osama bin Laden was one thing, yet there's so much more to do.​

 

[JahFocus CS]

Thread is becoming an all-time great thread with the sarcastic lyrical breakdowns

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

nikka whos face is photoshopped on chuckie?

 

[Roxx the King]

I'm here for this

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Before the business
Theodore Lenses

Theodore Roosevelt and his vision for the country post-slavery early 1900s?

 

[yaaa_mad]

This might be one of the greatest threads of all time

 

[EndDomination]

This was my favourite hotep conspiracy theory
The other one claimed he was glorifying slavery by wearing a mask because it vaguely resembled a muzzle

 

[EndDomination]

shyt why not let my nikka Future get his "the meaning of ____ is *inset some shyt* with his fans

Kendrick stans do this for that nikka and his easy to understand shyt, trying to make his rhymes and material as Lupe Fiasco level complicated or something when it aint.

No they don't

 

[SchrodingersStrapped!]

On Future's classic "Itchin" we find what was to become the Atlanta natives first attempt at developing a nuanced stance on socio-political issues affecting the black community today. The title itself is a representation of Futures longing to overcome some of these very issues, In the opening verse we find Futures mother in distress, worried about her son and his well-being, she assures him to "hit the streets and live".. Future identifies much of his struggle against oppression akin to that of the Haitian revolution, stating " Me and all my woes, stick together like the Zoes". As we enter the hook of this mumble masterpiece, it is here that we find Future chanting the chilling phrase "my fingers they itching, they itching for that paper". This can only be interpreted as Futures symbolic cry for his Freedom Papers, a scathing critique of the capriciousness of freedom in America.


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