Why Drill resonates with the kids
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what do you think is going on with the youth today that’s similar to too much lead exposure?
I quit reading half way through because your writing style annoys me and you seem like a faux intellectual, but I am interested in what you think it is.
I quit reading half way through because your writing style annoys me and you seem like a faux intellectual, but I am interested in what you think it is.
skokiaan
African original
tldr lol but enjoyed the video in OP.....good ol' times
It's less about the music and more about how society treats and views young black males. The music may manipulate them but it is only able to do so due to how things are. Removing the music will just make it easier for something else to take its place and do the same job, be it video games, comics, or any other outlet of expression. Hell, lucid dreaming may give way to the same response. It honestly comes down to how young black males are treated. If treated better, I honestly think the music would have little effect outside of embarrassing clothing choices or something more benign.
Fill Collins
Able to get note from doctor
Violence isn't new, sex and drugs and all that stuff isn't new, but drill is pure nihilism with no sense of self-awareness 
All that, "kill an op, then buy his bytch some Faggacelli purses" shyt is mind numbing garbage; when FVG StarStar gets killed, we'll get BB Pooch to replace him, so on, so forth.
All that, "kill an op, then buy his bytch some Faggacelli purses" shyt is mind numbing garbage; when FVG StarStar gets killed, we'll get BB Pooch to replace him, so on, so forth.
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
Drill betterAnte up and drill are not the same. The mental gymnastics some of you perform in defense of this garbage is
Kids are stupid with underdeveloped minds.
They can definitely be innovative but that's because they definitely don't know s***.
Thinking they're right about everything they're going to rebel against the common sense instilled by their parents and cater to the dark side. You hope they come out of it before they make too many long term mistakes.
They can definitely be innovative but that's because they definitely don't know s***.
Thinking they're right about everything they're going to rebel against the common sense instilled by their parents and cater to the dark side. You hope they come out of it before they make too many long term mistakes.
I don't like Drill and I do mma. There's honor in honorable combat. There is no honor in senseless murder over land you don't own. I can understand why kids may like it, but it doesn't make it any less dangerous.
Mandarin Duck
Majestic and Highfalutin
I've heard some dudes with podcasts talk about how destructive the music of today is, then talk about how music from the 90's was the soundtrack for a lot of the bullshyt they were doing in the streets.
Dwayne_Taylor
Superstar
Ante up is a song about robbing kidnapping and killing (black) people.Ante up and drill are not the same. The mental gymnastics some of you perform in defense of this garbage is
Sounds like drill rap to me.So called Old heads cant really criticize drill, our music wasn't that different.
Music that centers around the death of Black males is always going to have an effect on Black males, the fact that you can't readily identify what those effects are in yourself is not the same thing as them not being present.
Exactly...how many of us were listening to "gangsta rap" back in the 90's. For me I knew it was entertainment or a life I never wanted to live but enjoyed listening to. Similar to violent movies
HARLEM AL
Your broad loves me.....
The beats and the dances. DJ'd my middle school graduation last week. Played 7 drill tracks straight. And that shyt still wasnt enough. nikka when I played PSA....... You would have thought I was at a rachet ass bar or club lmfaoooooo shyt was wild
The problem here is that you're working from an assumption and acting like it is fact. If the music is the cause, explain the mechanism and explain why many other black males, as well as non-black males aren't effected to such a degree. Explain why and how, if there are levels to it, such levels actually occur. If we are to treat this as science then we should approach it as such. This is what bothers me. All I am seeing is a sundry of correlations and people affixing causation that in itself is damning since, if one continues down the line of assumptions, it paints those effected by such music as inherently inferior, or dare I say, genetically so. I don't believe that which is why I feel it is due in part to social issues and how black males are regarded and treated as a whole. This makes more sense.
Consider, what is more powerful: the lyrics, the beats, or the video? What role does each play in this? Is this the same for everyone? This is what I'm talking about. From another perspective, if I were root cause analysis for this, who would it go? That's my issue. I haven't seen a convincing breakdown of the technical merits of this issue. I don't like drill music so I would not mind to see it go but at the same time, this does not fix the root of the problem, it simply passes blame.
I'm not suggesting that music alone is making Black males violent, I'm suggesting that Black males consuming a steady diet of music that promotes the deaths of Black males ultimately cheapens the value of Black life in their minds. If a white kid spent hours each day consuming anti Black content on a white supremacist forum and went on to do a mass shooting, no one here would question that the forum played a role in radicalizing him even if there were other offline factors that made him more vulnerable to that radicalization but for some odd reason that same logic doesn't extend to content that actively promotes and celebrates the deaths of Black males, a group who's leading cause of death between the ages of 1-44 is homicide.