Why Drill resonates with the kids

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People are really missing on the point on this because they are so out of touch. Both with their inner and outer worlds.

Yes, the programming is exceedingly violent and negative. Totally bereft of the tiny bit of insight and wisdom we had back when the music had a message in it and Rakim would never wear a dress and ish but what we really appreciated was when it hit like this:



Don't front, you know it got you open. That violence was already within us and the music simply provided a vent, a seamless resonance to put those feelings into a cadence with a beat. It made you feel alive, more than likely made you get high, drink whatever they promoted and feel the vibe but ultimately it couldn't generate what wasn't already present.

The nerdy ass backpackers who were listening to obscure and dusty spiritual lyrical miracles didn't one day wake up and throw on some Chucks, roll a blunt and start running up on people because Snoop made it cool. Stop. They kept doing them because they were feeling what they were feeling because of the same process mentioned.

What the actual point and topic is is whats making the kids gravitate toward this? The lead in the 60s hypothesis is very interesting and I suspect a similar thing is occurring right now and I'd be willing to bet that if I stated the reason you'd think I was a tinfoil conspiracy theorist even the implications are obvious when one considers the nature of coherence.


Reality is engineered as part of an ongoing process by those who shape the narrative and influence peoples decisions, often not in their best interests by creating a problem, waiting for a reaction then offering a solution which keeps the collective headed toward the abyss.

Being young in this modern age must be terrible as they're hyper stimulated, totally insecure and fronting for the sake of fronting because everyone is. We simply didn't exist in a world that had these kind of factors as we competed with people on our street, our town, our level. They've got to literally take on a few billion contenders as the scope has expanded dramatically otherwise you're a nothing.

What does that generate? Frustration, rage, depression. A strong desire to escape the numbness via further sedation which means you need higher and higher doses to even register the hit because you may be always online and plugged in but in another sense you're disconnected because the pain and suffering are ineffable and immense.


It all makes perfect sense even if the picture it builds is ugly as sin. What do you think? Certainly I believe rap is a weapon and it was even in our generation and probably since its inception but the underlying process is one of resonance and therefore it acts like a vent that releases a pressure as well as building it.

The very fact that such a small and distorted aspect of the rich culture of hiphop holds (and has held) the entire world its grip since 96 is mindblowing when you stop and think about it.
 
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All cultures have demonic aspects directed to the youth. But only black culture actively promotes it.

Just feels like constant whataboutism when it comes to drill. But in reality it’s violent rap music as a whole that’s an issue.

I guess the buck needs to stop somewhere though with the consumers, creators, platforms or distributors. No other culture promotes death, drugs, money, flamboyant criminal life style front and centre like the black community.
 

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People are really missing on the point on this because they are so out of touch. Both with their inner and outer worlds.

Yes, the programming is exceedingly violent and negative. Totally bereft of the tiny bit of insight and wisdom we had back when the music had a message in it and Rakim would never wear a dress and ish but what we really appreciated was when it hit like this:



Don't front, you know it got you open. That violence was already within us and the music simply provided a vent, a seamless resonance to put those feelings into a cadence with a beat. It made you feel alive, more than likely made you get high, drink whatever they promoted and feel the vibe but ultimately it couldn't generate what wasn't already present.

The nerdy ass backpackers who were listening to obscure and dusty spiritual lyrical miracles didn't one day wake up and throw on some Chucks, roll a blunt and start running up on people because Snoop made it cool. Stop. They kept doing them because they were feeling what they were feeling because of the same process mentioned.

What the actual point and topic is is whats making the kids gravitate toward this? The lead in the 60s hypothesis is very interesting and I suspect a similar thing is occurring right now and I'd be willing to bet that if I stated the reason you'd think I was a tinfoil conspiracy theorist even the implications are obvious when one considers the nature of coherence.


Reality is engineered as part of an ongoing process by those who shape the narrative and influence peoples decisions, often not in their best interests by creating a problem, waiting for a reaction then offering a solution which keeps the collective headed toward the abyss.

Being young in this modern age must be terrible as they're hyper stimulated, totally insecure and fronting for the sake of fronting because everyone is. We simply didn't exist in a world that had these kind of factors as we competed with people on our street, our town, our level. They've got to literally take on a few billion contenders as the scope has expanded dramatically otherwise you're a nothing.

What does that generate? Frustration, rage, depression. A strong desire to escape the numbness via further sedation which means you need higher and higher doses to even register the hit because you may be always online and plugged in but in another sense you're disconnected because the pain and suffering are ineffable and immense.


It all makes perfect sense even if the picture it builds is ugly as sin. What do you think? Certainly I believe rap is a weapon and it was even in our generation and probably since its inception but the underlying process is one of resonance and therefore it acts like a vent that releases a pressure as well as building it.

The very fact that such a small and distorted aspect of the rich culture of hiphop holds (and has held) the entire world its grip since 96 is mindblowing when you stop and think about it.


The problem started in the mid 90s when you had to be a hustler or A gangster to rap. Once record labels didn’t want to sign square acts like Brand Nubian or ATCQ That sealed the deal.
 

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I guess the buck needs to stop somewhere though with the consumers, creators, platforms or distributors. No other culture promotes death, drugs, money, flamboyant criminal life style front and centre like the black community.

For sure. Its planned genocide for certain but people don't examine the root causes of these drives and I personally suspect its the effects of multi generational traumatic inheritance. That "Junk DNA" isn't trash, its your ancestors experience and its imperatives manifest in urges that influence your awareness and cause you to take decisions you wouldn't without it.

On the flip there is also their collective wisdom you can access but to get there you've got to take out the trash first because anger is lower on the harmonic spectrum than nurturing which is a higher octave.


The problem started in the mid 90s when you had to be a hustler or A gangster to rap. Once record labels didn’t want to sign square acts like Brand Nubian or ATCQ That sealed the deal.

I won't deny that the diversity in rap in the early 90s was insane. I spoke on it previously about the organic culture which used to shift and pivot as corporate played catch up previously but once they built the machine and made it a top down process that came to and end. I do however get the inkling the Drill will run out of batteries before the end of the decade and we'll see a shift toward a kind of techno renaissance.

It will be mediated by a new drug, probably a virtual reality kind of thing. Very hedonistic like a 60s reboot with subdermal microchips and oldheads won't get it but the kids will and they'll be all over it for the escape it brings. Some kind of digital opiate slash mild hallucinogen that allows people to merge consciousness and experience artificial unity at a distance.

Thats just how I see it. Remember this post when it happens.
 

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The problem started in the mid 90s when you had to be a hustler or A gangster to rap. Once record labels didn’t want to sign square acts like Brand Nubian or ATCQ That sealed the deal.
Everyone a square to you, using that term in every thread like it's a punctuation. There was a whole slum village type neo soul era and rawkus era. That's fabricated history. It's fans that turned on non street hip hop mid 2000's
 

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Everyone a square to you, using that term in every thread like it's a punctuation. There was a whole slum village type neo soul era and rawkus era. That's fabricated history. It's fans that turned on non street hip hop mid 2000's


You don’t even know the meaning of the term square and the way in which I use it. So since you’re ignorant you need to shut the fukk up sit back and just observe.

And who the fukk do you know was listening to Rawkus or Slum Village?

You couldn’t even give that shyt away except for a few fans that were labeled as geeky backpackers.
 

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You don’t even know the meaning of the term and the way in which I use it. So since you’re ignorant you need to shut the fukk up sit back and just observe.
Shut the fukk up with your corny ass character online calling everything square. Lame ass actor, you a square too.
 

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Ante up and drill are not the same. The mental gymnastics some of you perform in defense of this garbage is :russ:


You can argue people were having civil conversations about West Coast gangster rap about 30 years ago.Whenever it comes to nihilism it’s always a race to the eventual bottom.
 

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Whose kids exactly?

Why should drill music and all the filth out there be easily channeled to your kids without your say so or consent? This is what happens when you allow other people the responsibility of what your family consumes.
 
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