Somehow this is all Pharell's Fault

[intruder]

Just because someone is black doesn't make them my brother or friend.

Which takes us back to the black on black vilence, no? Isnt that what i stated int the first post that had you questioning it?

 

[BrothaZay]

Which takes us back to the black on black vilence, no? Isnt that what i stated int the first post that had you questioning it?

your a fakkit

 

[intruder]

your a fakkit

YOU're a fakkit

 

[Dig]

Trust me when i was younger i used to hear older folks talk and criticize hiphop and I used to tell them music doesnt affect me and they shouldnt blame music for their sh!tty kids getting in trouble with the law. But i realize they were right TO SOME DEGREE . I know this cat that used to listen to nothing but hardcore rap. His whole mentality on life was scary. Until he reached 17 and his mom banned him from listening to rap in the house. I couldnt believe it but i saw the young man just transform for the better. He became more positive and his whole personality and life changed.

Not saying thats the case for everyone. But things that you constantly listen to tend to affect you more than you think. It didnt for me. I listenned to a lot of crazy joints and like i said ive never done drugs or robbed anyone. But to some, the music can make it seem cool enought to the point where they actually act out.

I definitely agree that music has an affect on people both consciously and subconsciously. I honestly believe that my opinions towards women have been greatly affected by the music I consume. When I was coming up I was really on that pimp shyt Pimp C and TIP used to be on. I wasn't putting women on the strip or nothing but I actively tried to get as many women as I could in order to take advantage of them ( them buying me stuff mostly) cuz I thought that was the cool thing to do.

 

[ScoopNScore]

YOU're a fakkit

 

[the cac mamba]

your a fakkit

YOU're a fakkit

 

[ScoopNScore]

I get the humor of the thread but I'll just add my take on the general Pharrell/Bieber/Whoever subject:

Spoiler: My take

He's just been hypnotized by that b.s. He thinks because certain people treat HIM a certain way or (he thinks) think of him as transcending being Black, that things have chances fundamentally for everyone else. In fact, if he doesn't play his cards right with them, ..things will not have changed with how they treat him for long, either. Greater men and women have succumb to this. You can be a decent person and treat everyone with dignity without some type of exchange of identity and self. We have a tendency..Black people, to become embarrassingly grateful towards White people who treat us akin to human beings, instead of feeling like it's what they should be doing anyway. We see this with some people with White friends, Oh you don't hate Black people? You can call me this, you can say this, do that,...all boundaries are removed. Blackness is a currency for us. For a while, my closest friend was an Asian dude (being more recent, I've had many friends of different races). I'd never think, "We're friends now. So let me start shedding my Blackness or separating myself from my people (that new Black term IS divisive), let him use the n word" or the opposite, expect him to be less Asian and cross the line as far as appropriating his cultural heritage. If you can't associate/befriend/interact with people of different races without grabbing your ankles, you need to befriend yourself for a while.

Definitely true, especially about the divisiveness of the term. There should be nothing that makes you lose your identity at all.

 

[Captain]

Here comes bad news talking this & that

 

[JLova]

There is more to black music than hip hop. So "happy" isn't the first positive black song.

It's too late. Hip hop is black culture and that's exactly how they want it.

 

[Marvel]

He just won't stop

http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/06/04/pharrell-headdress-elle-uk/

There is some cac somewhere in the Pentagon doing this

It almost seems unreal what these #newblacks are saying and doing.

 

[intruder]

I definitely agree that music has an affect on people both consciously and subconsciously. I honestly believe that my opinions towards women have been greatly affected by the music I consume. When I was coming up I was really on that pimp shyt Pimp C and TIP used to be on. I wasn't putting women on the strip or nothing but I actively tried to get as many women as I could in order to take advantage of them ( them buying me stuff mostly) cuz I thought that was the cool thing to do.

Dont let ignorant mofos making music or anyone program you and shape your opinion about people, breh. Doing that makes you no better than these stupid white conservatives who sit and get programmed by Rush Limbaugh or even the KKK clan members who have been programmed since they were kids by parents who themselves were programmed .

We need to be better than that.