The increasingly vitriolic diatribes against all things Hip Hop (lower class blacks with more money than corporate negroes and less inclination to assimilate than civil rights negroes) have grown to ridiculous proportion. One would think rappers invented gratuitous sex, graphic violence and conspicuous consumption judging by the narrative of plantation blacks and Civil Rights Negroes who form the growing "I Hate Hip Hop and Cornrows Movement".
Once the spokespeople for all things black, the Post-Civil Rights Negro finds himself increasingly marginalized by the voice of Hip Hop, which commands audiences not seen on the Civil Rights tour since the 1963 March on Washington."We sick boss?"
Were it not for the occasional Don Imus or Michael Richards, Post Civil Rights Negros couldn't even get on television these days. Other than Farrakhan (who for all intents and purposes is Hip Hop) name a viable black leader?
The problem is no one listens to the Stanley Crouch’s of the world anymore. Hordes of out of work refugees from the Racial Cold War, have abandoned the causes of affirmative action and reparations. They have now flocked to higher paid jobs as racially licensed mouthpieces for white resentment against blacks they cannot control.Corporate Negroes have rallied around the flag of Chris Rock’s “I love black people, but I hate Niggers” routine managing to take it to another level.
The "I Hate Hip Hop and Cornrows Movement" indulges in hyperbole that suggests "Hip Hop" is single handedly destroying black people, ‘decimating our culture’ and ‘Degrading’ black women.
That’s right. It’s all the fault of rap music. 60 years of failed social policy had nothing to do with the health of the black America. A war on drugs that became a war on people and has incarcerated over 1,000,000 black men IS NOT REMOTELY connected to the collective ill health of our community.
Rap is the reason black men don’t respect black women. Rap is responsible for global warming. Rappers created the myth of WMD’s and lied this nation into war. Rap causes diabetes.Hip Hop did not produce our culture. Our culture produced Hip Hop.
Placing the blame for 60 years of failed social engineering at the feet of ... Hip Hop … is self-indulgent at and best bald-faced hypocrisy at its worst.
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Why don't you argue this sh** out with Chuck. Here's an excerpt:
"Hip hop has no color, but I think racism and arrogance hovers over it as well. The black cats are disorganized, sloppy and think that the quantity of money is the thing opposed to the quality of effort. Stacking money like it’s gonna disappear in a hustle. Replenishing and thus preservation are after thoughts. Black artists in rap are lazy, child-like and ignorant to what they’re within and when they do know something they continue the cycle of greed by attempting to make a killing of the business to the point of little or no growth behind it. Waiting for somebody to organize it like earthlings wait for Jesus in a blond form.
With this the white cat waits in the wings and keeps his distance upon evaluation. Somehow, because the artists choose to do the art, he thinks he’s the smarter cat. He starts off reflecting and ultimately starts dictating what is what, even down to creative.
The slave master to slave roles are all played out here on the low. The most dangerous aspects get the most respect as long as it’s not dangerous to the status quo itself. Thus the N**** FACTORY begins. N****s are favored and safe in amerikkka because they’re only harmful to black people like a cancer or a tumor.
Negroes are chosen by the white business cats as gatekeepers to liquidate this all into green by any means necessary.
Black people are always a threat so throw racism AND N****ism at them and they’ll spend a lifetime trying to fight both off.
In essence last week’s SOURCE AWARDS reflected hip hop’s transition into the N**** FACTORY...N****s being sold to white America while negroes place their position in making money for the structure set by a white man corp, OK to turn it into green that black people will never see unless they’re spending it as robotic consumers in the USSA. Clearly it ain’t working together which it should be, and whether you’re black, white, blue (skin color categorization is ridiculous ain’t it, but since amerikkka is about as black/white as an old TV set, I gotta go there for most to understand) or whatever… amerikkkan hip hop can afford to de-stereotype these roles to go forward in a world that’s already moving ahead."
You'll find he rest here:
http://www.publicenemy.com/index.php?page=page3&item=73
You can't deny the power and influence of hip hop...did you miss Karl Rove rapping???
Yes we have freedom of speech but UNFORTUNATELY hip hop is powerful in shaping the way young Blacks behave and are viewed by the world.
DV,
I've been pondering this argument all day and it is finally apparent to me why it doesn't sit well for me.
It suffers from the same intellectual fallacy as apologists for slavery make. "Well, slavery existed in Africa before the Europeans showed up and, therefore, we didn't cause the problem." True, just like the European slave traders, vulgar rap didn't "cause" the problem of degradation and demeaning of women. It just took an already bad situation, added its unique stamp to it and showed that they could be 100x worse than those before them.
Snoop is to the church of secular liberalism what Europeans were to the institution of slavery.
The problem is not rap. The problem is the wide appeal of rap. It influences almost an ENTIRE young American culture. Just like any true hip hop head will say...hip hop is not just music...it's a culture. The music back in the 70s (even the political music) was pretty much just music and didn't influence the mentality of the entire culture. The only people that can change the negative influence of negative rap are the artist. We, blacks, can't make a difference by boycotting the negative music and purchasing more music of substance (e.g. lupe fiasco) because we're not the ones that buy it in masses (whites are). It's up to the actual hip hop artist to want to change.
I wish I was online last wk...
I almost agree with paul except the industry is "pulling" (opposed to accepting what is "pushed" by the culture) desired material that fits a business model so a "changed" artist is basically career suicide in today's music business. The artists being pulled share socio economic issues that make them FAR more likely to align themselves with the status quo rather than cut against the grain i.e. produce art for arts sake. Hip Hop is now a profit tool not just for the industry but for the handpicked artists that fit a cookie cutter image void of traditional values. Ideal artists don't want to "be good" or "be remembered", they want to escape circumstance, have toys and "get rich". We don't have fewer "real" artists in the genre we have less incentive to promote and support a "real" artist because of the motivation behind artist selection.
When an entity void of knowledge about an art form has perceived control over an artform, the principles of the artform will never remain intact and wayward evolution and false images will follow.
KP,
That was well said...
DV great post! Strong argument!
Brother Law!
We know you aint scared. Where's Mr. Prince 33?
My man.
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