So Futures mask off was about overcoming slavery?

[xCivicx]

Smh at you nikkas

 

[Alfred0Santana]

A tale of the blood money used to build the United States we live in today and how Future uses medication to deal with the pain of knowing this. Future provides us with vivid lines such as "they got blood on the money and I still count it." and "that Easter pink I tried to give it up...I can't give it up."

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

Hotep nikkas got wayyy too much time on Thier hands ...

 

[Cadillac]

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.

 

[Bgreat]

Just like how March Madness was his song about police brutality

yea that video made zero sense

 

[staticshock]

"My Savages"

Future uses his genius and ability to flip words to tell the story of African Americans who aided in the capture of run-away slaves in the pre-civil war period of the United States. Although a negative connotation, "My Savages" is actually used as a tribute to the enslaved African Americans who were referred to as savages by slave owners and white citizens. Future tells the pain felt by enslaved blacks in the line "Aye this a letter to my dawg, how we let the money get between us? How we let these bytches get between us? How we let these nikkas get between us?", asking critical questions about how blacks could help their brethren get caught and sold back into slavery. Prehaps the most telling bar in the song is the last one, in which Future states "my savages, my savages, my savages, we gon leave a nikka stiffer than a mannequin" giving hope to past and future generations alike that those who turn their backs on their race will meet grim consequences.

 

[Yinny]

Feds did a sweep is poignant af, every dd that lives to tell the tale. Has the ominous Pied Piper flutes and everything

 

[re'up]

Feds Did a Sweep lacks the kind of detailed, hands on raps that people in the life could spit....not much in way of storytelling or resonating lyrics.

 

[Sukairain]

this whole thread is some rap genius shyt

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Before the business
Theodore Lenses

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

 

[madness]

This is Future's desperate plea to Black Americans to come together and take back what's theirs from their oppressors, much like Haiti (the first black republic) did.

 

[TheRtist]

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.

 

[doublenegative]

Mumble rappers have taken up the charge of creating revolutionary anthems and crafting tales of our history.



Lil Yachty, whose name is a reference to slave ships, shares a harrowing tale of escaped slaves who must leave the sultry heat of the South using the Underground Railroad to meet with associates in the Land of 1, 000 Lakes.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

This fukkin' thread man