Why Drill resonates with the kids

[50CentStan]

Those 808s frequencies are nothing but fukkery

Has that been studied. I always hear people saying that

 

[High Art]

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.

The process and medium is different with online radicalization but I would say that even that process has been broken down scientifically. We understand the psychology behind it. We know what will make those kids act in one respect or another. We know that not only white kids can be radicalized in such a manner. This is what bothers me. Again, where is the breakdown? That is what bothers me. Is it the music or the whole idea, the whole gestalt of anti-black male imagery? If so, then we can indeed target the music but then, why stop there? We should target all anti-black male rhetoric then since such contributes to anti-black male imagery and is part of one's consumption. That includes websites and especially social media. This is why I want a clearer understanding of the process for what causes kids to act up. I'm willing to come down on rap but then, when the other shoe drops, I don't want the same people who went after rap to be upset when they can't dog black men online. The hypocrisy will speak volumes and cheapen any effort to further help the community overall.

I'm not defending anti-black imagery, I just feel like there should be an actual equitable process instead of making rap music and what not the scapegoat.

 

[360dagod]

Has that been studied. I always hear people saying that

I dunno but once nikkas got their hands on that 808, shyt got real lol..

nikkas didn't have the same tech as the cacs, so you know they made it louder than it had to be...

Once a nikka seen his car rattle and nikkas/bytches dancing in the street, it was on from there

 

[Wildhundreds]

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 bet if you looked at the issue in large scale you'd see those who aren't affected by the music had strong positive male and female influences in their lives.

 

[UncleTomFord15]

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

You mean this song?

 

[Rozay Oro]

The music goes, shyt is hard. Just wish it wasn’t so gang fueled over nothing. nikkas ain’t even 18 retaliating like cartel goons

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

Not here to defend to drill, but West Coaat gangsta rap was lowkey even worse because of not only the mentions of gang banging but the dehumanizing of women and cuck lifestyles in those raps(ain’t no fun if homies get some), also the incorporatation of a pimp lifestyle.

Side note I always thought Ante Up was a trash ass song that was just played by CACS in corny movie scenes

 

[Klaus Schwab]

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.

The name of the drug is metaverse.

 

[HARLEM AL]

You mean this song?

yup

 

[jay83]

I’m hoping that video was scripted.

 

[Bop Gun]

Do you want your children to listen to drill/gangster/hardcore rap?

Do you want your children to join a gang? Hang out in the streets? Be around people not doing anything constructive with their lives?

Do you want your children to fight, carry a knife or a gun due to needing protection from "The Opps"?

Do you play any of this music around your children?


If your answer is no, then you know damn well exactly why that type of music as well as culture is demonic, destructive and in direct confrontation with all aspects of self development, improvement, personal growth and of course the overall development and psyche of a community and its ability to progress into something better.

Stop making excuses for the bullshyt. You got grown ass men and women out here proudly supporting this trash. All of a sudden when one of these crash test dummies kill an innocent child or adult in their reckless drive-by pursuits, now yall wanna cop pleas. F*kk outta here.

 

[010101]

nothing has really changed

it's all the same thing wrapped different

*

 

[GoFlipAPack]

No other culture promotes death, drugs, money, flamboyant criminal life style front and centre like the black community.

 

[#BOTHSIDES]

ante up is a toxic ass song

 

[BaggerofTea]

The homicide rate was even higher during a time of 70s Cadillac and Vietnam War was still a thing. And there was no drill music