“There is a huge correlation between rap music and crack cocaine”
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Lemme guess it was a conspiracy like flooding cocaine into communities or some shyt
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he was speaking some real shyt.
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For people who didn't watch the video, he's basically saying that rappers pushing their music is parallel to drug dealers pushing crack. All the way down to the damage it does to the community.
and the issue is that rap can be about anything so why do people love that same old themes. rappers are opportunists and they pivot to and cater to their audience. the issue is the culture that surrounds rap not rap. rap caters to it's audience.
the audience is in denial about what it wants. the issue with this parallel is that crack was pushed on purpose to destroy brehs. Rap however became self destructive because of brehs. Because of refusing to listen to elders like C delores and going down a nasty path. Now even people like Cube who pioneered gansta rap are admitting they did damage because the audience took entertainment as gospel. the audience has build up this image of realness that is personified by everything ignorant you can do. the audience has a value system based on the bottom of society (street rules and culture). rappers know this they supply what the audience wants.
we are deep into the internet era of artists plucked out of irrelevance by viral fanfare and people still refuse to account for their own individual actions when a loser like sexy red or a loser like pooh sheisty are the top elected representatives of the youth. the damage rap does to the community is the communities own.
we can literally chose to listen to different subject matter rap or other genres entirely. but yet we dwell on these helpless narratives where people are the collateral damage of the industry or entertainers not the sum of their choices thus no change is coming. sexy redd telling girls being good has no value and getting speaking engagements in highscools is a reflection of what the people want. do better "oh bu bu but old heads had lil kim" we also had Queen Latifah and Lauryn. Do you see the issue the lack of variety the one trick pony ass one dimensional wack persona goofy characters that dominate rap? cartoon thugs and strippers. what could possibly go wrong.
