What society wants to do with Hip Hop and young people is "break the mirror, rather than look in it and clean itself up."The Minister then began his defense of Hip-Hop artists who have come under fire for their lyrical content saying,
"Society wants lyrics cleaned up but it (society) doesn't want to clean itself up." The Minister said that the most negative aspects of Hip Hop lyrics only reflect the mind and heart of community leadership and aspects of a gangster U.S. government.
He added that Hip Hop lyrics were bringing out in public, the private aspects of people's reality. He said, Gangster lyrics are only showing aspects of "a government that is gangster." The Minister said that when rappers talk about killing people, they are no different than those in government who have assassinated leaders of other countries. He also said that when artists speak of drug abuse, they are speaking of a behavior, in the open, that has taken place even in the White House.What society wants to do with Hip Hop and young people is "break the mirror, rather than look in it and clean itself up." The Minister concluded that part of his defense by stating: "If society cleaned itself up, rappers would have to talk about something else."
The Minister then began part of his challenge to the Hip-Hop artists. He began by speaking of the female womb, telling the audience that the Holy Qur'an advises that we "reverence the womb that bore us".
The Minister followed that beginning by saying that "the human brain is also a womb".
He stated, " A man is what he eats, but what about the mind?" He answered his own question by saying, " Jesus said that "as a man thinketh, so he is". He added that those who feed the mind shape the actions of others.
The Minister said that the media was present at the summit because they knew that it was a world-shaking event. Because" all over the world the youth are being led by you", he told the artists. He then asked , " In Congress they want to pass a law to disturb your right to free speech. Why hasn't the government stopped Hollywood? Why now pick on Eminem? Why now pick on you?"The Minister then stated, "It's not the lyrics, (they are concerned about). It is that you have taken away the children from their mothers and fathers." And he added, that "every government has used young people to fight its wars", making the point that Hip-Hop was actually interfering with the protocol of the world and the power of parents and government to control the masses of the world's youth.
13 comments:
1) Minister Farrakhan is wrong on this one.
2) With all due respect, by doing this he is covering up for the black sell-outs and the white folks (mostly Jews) behind them.
3) Which makes for an odd, de facto, alliance.
4) There are plenty of folks within the NOI who are not exactly happy with the Min. position on this.
They, like you brother Mike, are short sighted.
Stay tuned.
Strange bedfellows...
Once again who is the Minister really defending.
Hip Hop/Rap categories garner $10 Billion per year... Seventy percent of HipHop/Rap is purchased buy white men... 4 majors control two thirds of all news radio(Viacom,Clear Channel,ABC Radio,Entercom)... 5 media congloms control over 80% of TV & Cable... MORE THAN 90% of the record labels, magazines,TV stations,radio stations and retailers that package/sell hiphop/rap are white-owned.
He is just interested in the contribution$$ from Russell and Diddy... This is nothing but special interest politicking ... Keep it real!
Did you see 60 minutes tonight when the kids stated that hiphop/rap reinforces for them not to snitch when there are crimes that hey witness in their own neighborhoods?? Thanks HipHop
Regards,
Anon
Hip Hop sells $10B a year? Wow.
That’s a lot of demand.
70% purchased by white men? Interesting.
What other products do black men sell to white men in such favorable trade ratios?
Media Congloms control 80% of media assets? Stunning.
Please explain how Civil Rights Negros have managed to deal with that obstacle so effectively.
"Do you really think the white man wants to inspire minorities to succeed."
I don’t know. Talk to those Post Civil Rights Negros who “love Clinton”. “The white man” LOL (Plantation Negros always need a Massa icon)
"If you really truly in your heart support this lyrical form of crack then you may as well be holding the whip... While leading your people to the "New Ship" a.k.a. Cell Block F."
If you really truly in your brain believe Hip Hop is what’s imprisoning my people and preventing black Americans from achieving economic viability, and from developing political potency I suggest you get on the train tomorrow morning and enroll at the local community college in “the Hood”.
Study Herbert Marcuse's "One-Dimensional Man".
Peep This DV...
In the 25 years of homicide records from 1976 to 2002 by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, blacks are six times more likely to be murdered than whites, and seven times more likely to kill than whites. They are far more likely to be gunned down over gang or drug disputes.
Huh... gangs and drugs... gangs and drugs... where have I heard of gangs and drugs... Ah! on BET on MTV on Clear Channel @ the Garden..etc.
And who is making the Billions selling this shit... you ..me or the man in that corporate jet heading to Switzerland to make that deposit. Nothing but a global minstrel show with the benefits of genocide.
Regards,
Anon
It’s an American thing – detention. In comparison with other democracies, we’re the world leaders when it comes to putting one another behind bars. Soon, the total number of incarcerated Americans will reach 2.5 million, almost double what it was only 10 years ago. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the FBI, a U. S. citizen born this year has a 1 in 20 chance of doing time. For an African-American, the chance is 1 in 4. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
Regards,
Anon
Peep This...
Prisons in the U.S. are bursting at the seams and the nation's jail population is likely to keep growing at an estimated 3% to 5% a year. Private correctional facility operators such as Corrections Corp. of America (CXW) and Geo Group (GGI) are viewed by some experts as well-positioned to handle the overflow of convicts, thereby alleviating the congestion in state-run institutions, and at a lower cost.
Chess, Checkers ,Poker and Roulet... HipHop is a pawn in the game.
Regards,
Anon
DV said:
"Study Herbert Marcuse's 'One-Dimensional Man'."
DV, be real. The Frankfurt School, including Marcuse and Adorno, had never anything relevant to say about black folks except that same old dumb ass pseudo-Marxist b.s. No wonder Angela grew nothing in, that is, on her head aside from a big Afro and had nothing better to do to than to follow Gus Hall around. (As did Ben Chavis).
Tell Anon to read Franz Fanon's "Black Skin, White Masks" instead. There Anon will find your Gansta heroes.
What other products do black men sell to white men in such favorable trade ratios?
Black men don't sell hip hop. White men do. Black men are just the marketing tool.
"Black men don't sell hip hop. White men do. Black men are just the marketing tool."
That's counterintuitive Insurgent.
Marketing tool?
Who is doing the manufacturing? You think cocaine sniffing Jewish A&R's wrote "Baltimore Love Thing"?
You think Jewish accountants are going in the vocal booth and spittin' flow for 3.5 minutes that makes people around the world lose their minds the moment they feel the beat?
Nah.
Brothers sell rap to Jewish middlemen.
Don't grant more power than they deserve.
So if hip hop takes kids away from their parents, that applies equally to black kids and white kids.
And, to be clear, Farrkhan CONDEMNED the present state of hip hop lyrics and said they must change.
Big J
Anonymous said...
Big J said ...
So if hip hop takes kids away from their parents, that applies equally to black kids and white kids.
And, to be clear, Farrkhan CONDEMNED the present state of hip hop lyrics and said they must change.
Big J,
Of course they must change.
Now ... you support Massa issuing some sort of corporate idict ... banning certain speech and playing thought police.
I agree with the Minister who wisely sees the subterfuge in that little ruse.
Hip Hop is one of the last voices that has any impact on people other than Big Brother. Let it regulate itself. Keep the editorial power in house. Let it evolve, mature and grow on it's own. It's the only media tool we have access too.
STOP SNITCHIN'.
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