Who is behind the Hip Hop blogs spreading fake news about O-Block on social media??

[Toe Jay Simpson]

You gonna find what you looking for in any city and hood in America

I will say this though, I didn’t believe what mainstream media had to say about Chi-town…until I went there. Breh…if you miss your exit past downtown, just ride the train to the airport and fly back home

 

[Kenny West]

Used to fukk a chick that would fly out there semi regularly on some groupie shyt. People really do treat it as a cultural landmark. nikkas get p*ssy just for hanging out on the block or in the studio around there. Strange times

Absolutely exaggerating. I’m not saying o block is soft or anything like that. I’m saying Queens Bridge was the scariest place in the world at one point, only to find out P was a ballerina.

The thing is that thought is hiphop ingraining sterotypes about people in your head. The hood is just a low income area and most people are born into those kind of conditions but still grow to be all different kinds of people. Criminals or philanthropists, artists or handymen, soft people/hardened people, smart people, dumb people etc. It has all types.

The never bought into folks woofing over their hood. It's either you or its not if you know what I mean.

 

[invalid]

Got it. Since you're from the area how do you and your ppl feel about all the blogs and ppl using Parkway Gardens and Chicago as a whole to build their platforms?? I would feel strange as hell if ppl were using my old neighborhood like this

I wouldn't exactly say I'm from the area. I grew up in the burbs. Our family once lived in Washington Park but left the city in the 60's. It's a tradition for black Chicagoans who moved to the burbs to return to their old city neighborhoods to attend church. The curious thing about Washington Park which abuts O Block to the north and is where Chief Keef was born, was that it was the neighborhood where Chicago's wealthiest black families lived before the civil rights era. Once those families left, like mine, during the 60's, the neighborhood went into abject poverty and crime increased over time.

To answer your question, those families, like mine, still return to the neighborhood every Sunday to attend church. But the social gulfs between them and the people outside of the walls of our churches in the surrounding neighborhood are so wide that the neighborhood people might as well be aliens. We all black, but they just a different people who have a different culture.

My family and the people like them don't know anything about "O Block" and drill rappers and these blogs and if you asked them about it they would look at you like you're crazy. People like them don't consume stuff like this which would be too low brow for them.

And Chicago is crazy like that. You have black people sharing the same space with one another but the invisible social barriers can be so high that they don't interact at all or their interaction is very limited and they will know nothing about the other.

Like I said, our church goes over to O Block to give out food, clothing, essential items for needy families. But they know nothing about those people. They don't know famous rappers are from there. They don't know anything about the reputation of Parkway outside of just being in proximity to the complex. I don't even think they know it's nicknamed O Block. They go and give out the items and then return to their homes downtown in the Gold Coast or Hinsdale.

And the neighborhood people don't know that these people that come and hand out items from our church are the wealthiest black people in Illinois or that these same people have family that were in the White House working next to Obama.

It's a tale of two cities.

 

[FluffyEyes]

The connotation of a "real nikka" ain't someone like Malcolm X or Huey P Newton.

Right. That's flipped on the last 30 years. The dealer or the hustler had a place but it wasn't at the top of the heap to be aspired to, at least not by our grandparents and great grandparents.

 

[FluffyEyes]

I wouldn't exactly say I'm from the area. I grew up in the burbs. Our family once lived in Washington Park but left the city in the 60's. It's a tradition for black Chicagoans who moved to the burbs to return to their old city neighborhoods to attend church. The curious thing about Washington Park which abuts O Block to the north and is where Chief Keef was born, was that it was the neighborhood where Chicago's wealthiest black families lived before the civil rights era. Once those families left, like mine, during the 60's, the neighborhood went into abject poverty and crime increased over time.

To answer your question, those families, like mine, still return to the neighborhood every Sunday to attend church. But the social gulfs between them and the people outside of the walls of our churches in the surrounding neighborhood are so wide that the neighborhood people might as well be aliens. We all black, but they just a different people who have a different culture.

My family and the people like them don't know anything about "O Block" and drill rappers and these blogs and if you asked them about it they would look at you like you're crazy. People like them don't consume stuff like this which would be too low brow for them.

And Chicago is crazy like that. You have black people sharing the same space with one another but the invisible social barriers can be so high that they don't interact at all or their interaction is very limited and they will know nothing about the other.

Like I said, our church goes over to O Block to give out food, clothing, essential items for needy families. But they know nothing about those people. They don't know famous rappers are from there. They don't know anything about the reputation of Parkway outside of just being in proximity to the complex. I don't even think they know it's nicknamed O Block. They go and give out the items and then return to their homes downtown in the Gold Coast or Hinsdale.

And the neighborhood people don't know that these people that come and hand out items from our church are the wealthiest black people in Illinois or that these same people have family that were in the White House working next to Obama.

It's a tale of two cities.

Thank you for sharing. It's interesting to hear about this because I never hear about the Black middle or upper class from Chicago. shyt I never hear from residents of these places who aren't in gang life and just trying to survive.

You saying ya'll never really interact is interesting. I'm from a much smaller city in Jersey with some of the same issues regarding poverty and violence(on a smaller scale) and we have a bunch of suburbs surrounding the area but even if you've moved there we all still have family in the city and traverse there much more.

 

[Wildhundreds]

Used to fukk a chick that would fly out there semi regularly on some groupie shyt. People really do treat it as a cultural landmark. nikkas get p*ssy just for hanging out on the block or in the studio around there. Strange times

The thing is that thought is hiphop ingraining sterotypes about people in your head. The hood is just a low income area and most people are born into those kind of conditions but still grow to be all different kinds of people. Criminals or philanthropists, artists or handymen, soft people/hardened people, smart people, dumb people etc. It has all types.

The never bought into folks woofing over their hood. It's either you or its not if you know what I mean.

all facts .

 

[Wild self]

Right. That's flipped on the last 30 years. The dealer or the hustler had a place but it wasn't at the top of the heap to be aspired to, at least not by our grandparents and great grandparents.

Started With NWA, and ended by "Menace II Society" and "Colors"

Those films had even people outside the West Coast wanting to be degenerates for 'authenticity' and gang bangers. But it started with NWA.

 

[staticshock]

Not O’Block related, but these are the dudes profiting off of black culture & promoting toxic shyt

 

[98Ntu]

Not O’Block related, but these are the dudes profiting off of black culture & promoting toxic shyt

Used to watch HelloYassine until I found he was non-black solely because I swore in multiple videos he said “nikka”. For a long time his race was ambiguous or not specified. I assumed he was black after I heard the n word.

I was obviously disgusted to find out he wasn’t. Whites love exploiting and overstepping in black culture

 

[BaggerofTea]

This should be stickied

 

[Mega]

RapTV​

Do they have a website? Yes, it’s RapTV
Social media reach:

• Instagram — 10.5 million followers
• Twitter — 756,000
• Facebook — 77,000
• Snapchat — 402,000
• Tik Tok — 8.8 million
• YouTube — 140,000 subscribers

Who are they? On its website, RapTV claims to be “the largest hip-hop community in the world.” On their About page on YouTube, they describe themselves as “the pulse of the hip-hop industry and home for all things moving in the Rap culture today.” The site solicits promo and advertising from customers.

People can also send video and story submissions for them to post. There are original Q&A-style interviews with music artists published on the website, and a tab called “News,” with mostly aggregated stories from other websites.

Their YouTube channel is home to their video interviews with popular hip-hop artists, hot takes on the latest news in mainstream music and deep dives into hot topics. Their content is notorious for its controversial headlines and inflammatory social-media posts designed to provoke readers to respond which, in turn, boosts their engagement.

Who owns it?: Daniel Snow. He also is the CEO and founder of The Snow Agency, a performance and social media marketing agency that he launched with his brother Jonathan in 2019, according to its website.

In a January 2022 article, Business Insider reported that both of his enterprises — RapTV and The Snow Agency — are multimillion-dollar companies. RapTV launched in 2016 and was on track to net $5 million in revenue in 2020. On his Linkedin page, Snow said RapTV works with “many of the largest record labels and artists in the world,” and has the ability to cultivate massive followings for artists large and small. Neither of the Snow brothers has a background in journalism.

Location: Based in Miami, according to Business Insider.

Do they post about Black Chicago? RapTV has frequently covered drill music between Chicago and other regions along with mainstream rap. After they posted the false information about Parkway Gardens being sold on their various social media accounts, on Sept. 15, RapTV posted an extensive video speculating on the rumor titled, “What Will Happen To Chicago’s Infamous O Block After Being Sold?” The video is a mixture of historic background information about Parkway Gardens with misleading information, contradicting narratives and tweets, and sources that are not credible. The video was never updated with the correct information.

This is also a non black man.

He is Jewish.

 

[Unknown Poster]

So many of these media outlets in rap and hip hop are owned by white people and non black folks and thrive off of the sensationalization of black criminality and black dysfunction.

I think it's obvious that a lot of these big rap social media accounts are run by white people. It's the same with these rap "hood" stories YT channels. Even in the Toronto music scene all of these pages like 6ixbuzz are run by cacs, arabs or indians and they constantly post about hood beefs and ignorant shyt.

Yep.

Even worse when it comes to the larger operations, they don't really be hiring black people at all.

When I lived in New York, looking around most of the independent journalists were black and most of the types that were getting the big money and placements from the huge media outlets weren't.

Still crazy how black people dominate rap and hip hop yet the further up the power rankings you get, you realize the owners and real power players financing and operating damn near the majority of this stuff are not black. And black folks are still not capitalizing off the culture as they should.

There should be no reason why so many of our "legends" die broke and unappreciated

 

[Unknown Poster]

I was looking for the thread on here that exposed Daily Loud on here and found it.

Endless Psy-ops.

 

[Unknown Poster]

RapTV​

Do they have a website? Yes, it’s RapTV
Social media reach:

• Instagram — 10.5 million followers
• Twitter — 756,000
• Facebook — 77,000
• Snapchat — 402,000
• Tik Tok — 8.8 million
• YouTube — 140,000 subscribers

Who are they? On its website, RapTV claims to be “the largest hip-hop community in the world.” On their About page on YouTube, they describe themselves as “the pulse of the hip-hop industry and home for all things moving in the Rap culture today.” The site solicits promo and advertising from customers.

People can also send video and story submissions for them to post. There are original Q&A-style interviews with music artists published on the website, and a tab called “News,” with mostly aggregated stories from other websites.

Their YouTube channel is home to their video interviews with popular hip-hop artists, hot takes on the latest news in mainstream music and deep dives into hot topics. Their content is notorious for its controversial headlines and inflammatory social-media posts designed to provoke readers to respond which, in turn, boosts their engagement.

Who owns it?: Daniel Snow. He also is the CEO and founder of The Snow Agency, a performance and social media marketing agency that he launched with his brother Jonathan in 2019, according to its website.

In a January 2022 article, Business Insider reported that both of his enterprises — RapTV and The Snow Agency — are multimillion-dollar companies. RapTV launched in 2016 and was on track to net $5 million in revenue in 2020. On his Linkedin page, Snow said RapTV works with “many of the largest record labels and artists in the world,” and has the ability to cultivate massive followings for artists large and small. Neither of the Snow brothers has a background in journalism.

Location: Based in Miami, according to Business Insider.

Do they post about Black Chicago? RapTV has frequently covered drill music between Chicago and other regions along with mainstream rap. After they posted the false information about Parkway Gardens being sold on their various social media accounts, on Sept. 15, RapTV posted an extensive video speculating on the rumor titled, “What Will Happen To Chicago’s Infamous O Block After Being Sold?” The video is a mixture of historic background information about Parkway Gardens with misleading information, contradicting narratives and tweets, and sources that are not credible. The video was never updated with the correct information.

This is also a non black man.