Notice how the Rap Haters and Plantation Negros will often harbor warm fuzzy feelings of nostalgia for "Blaxsploitation" films of the 70's while blaming everything from teen pregnancy to athletes foot on Hip Hop.The term "Blaxploitation" was crafted by the petit bourgeois antecedents of the current crop of Hip Hop Haters to suggest the pathology of the 1970's was somehow a product of these films.
30 years after Detective John Shaft screwed white women between killing Italians and Superfly sniffed and sold more cocaine than did Tony Montana, Gordon Parks has been elevated to near deity status.
Why? He was an artist. He was a writer. His art wasn't literal. Anyone suggesting Parks was encouraging young black men to get guns and shoot people would have been considered insane.
However, today's Hip Hop stars must endure the deconstruction of their lyrics by artistic Neanderthals reluctant to acknowledge the existence of neither metaphor or simile. They count the number of times the word "bitch" is used. They highlight the references to bling and gratuitous sex, suggesting a causational relationship between rap and the decay of our culture.
The reality is that Hip Hop stars, just like Gordon Parks, often use a variety of subject matter and language (Crime, Sex, Violence and Drugs) to convey complex messages of self-determination, masculinity, and escape from the plantation to a diverse and extremely sophisticated audience.
Rap Haters and Plantation Negros neither understand the artistic expression of Fiddy, Jay, Lil Wayne etc., WHO ALSO USE Crime, Sex, Violence and Drugs as a vehicle for artistic expression, nor do they feel it.
Loath to admit that some former crack dealer with a GED is capable of creating anything beyond their comprehension - many mainstream blacks resort to the intellectually lazy route of wholesale condemnation.
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You've got Curtis Mayfield's Superfly up there.
The soundtrack being exactly the opposite of the movie.
Shaft wasn't a gangsta. Shaft was a an autonomous "fuck y'all" BLACK man. He was everything Sidney Poitier was not allowed to be just a few years earlier.
That's why they had to bury the character in a bunch of second rate B movies. (Shaft in Africa etc). And then come out with the rest of that blaxploitation bullshit.
When Shaft came out it was a watershed in black culture. There ain't no soundtrack yet that bested Isaac Hayes'. (Well, maybe the above mentioned Curtis Mayfiled Superfly soundtrack comes close).
When that movie came out black male teenagers started to look at each other with wholely new eyes.
Sometimes, when I'm back in NYC, I go down to Cafe Reggio's and sit in that corner, just to relive those times and vibes.
What's intellectually lazy is your refusal to even acknowledge hip hop's shortcomings. When you start doing that, maybe people will meet you half way.
Big J
J,
Why does he need to?
Because Insurgent... That would be keeping it real... And real nig*** do real things!
Regards,
Anon
Anon,
SO DV acknowledges the shortcomings of hip hop. And then what?
DV:
Whatcha think about THAT one?...
So, there's an effort to create this new movement "Females Acting for our Survival United by Melanin" (FASUM. )The credo of FASUM is this:
"In order to be a FASUM, a woman first needs to ACCEPT the fact that bw cannot save so-called 'black' people!! Indoctrinated to be self-sacrificing mammies, most bw have still not ACCEPTED that fact and are even uncomfortable thinking about it. Let's face it. There has simply been too much damage done to most black folks, and those of us who are still sane don't have the resources or the time to save all black people. The fact is that those of us who still have some sanity left must be determined to save ourselves--FIRST. As Synamon said: Many higher order bw are not even reproducing! That is called not saving yourself because you can only save yourself by projecting your genes into the future."
Further, these ladies have agreed that black women are divided into "higher order" Menalated (black women), and "lower order" black women devided by "intelligence and education". The lower order black women being the "Mammies".
The concern of the FASUM women is that they do not besmirch their gene pool by having children with black men.
They consciously, advocate a social Darvinist approach.
To Wit:
"Synamon said...
Count me in. The comments and analysis on this blog need to be shared with the wider public. Right now we are preaching to the choir.
It is scary when you think about who is procreating and who is not. What is the world going to look like in 25 years when 70% of black women are unmarried and childless?"
"synamon" is the nice High Order Menalated Lady with the "what about Our Daughters" blog. Which I so callously pointed out as being run by a racist.
http://dateawhiteguy.blogspot.com/2007/05/why-black-community-desperately-needs.html
http://bfinterracialmarriage.blogspot.com/2007/05/rise-of-higher-order-mellinated-woman.html
So, dear Afrospear folks.
Whatcha gonna do now?
Nothing?
II,
Watching DV (and recently you) act like hip hop is fine and dandy is like watching Bush say America is "making progress" in Iraq. It's bullshit and you know it.
Big J
J,
Bad analogy. We're not acting like it is fine. We just aren't jumping on the bandwagon of sellouts who insist that we be the front line of attack on our own fighters. We'll have a conversation about this in person, because I had quite the epiphany in Abu Dhabi.
Our own fighters? Have you been drinking? What is 50 fighting against? If anything, it's black people he's fighting against, cuz we know who owns his ass. MOST rappers aren't fighters; they are coons gaming the system for money.
Am I a "sellout" for thinking that it's bad to have 100 half-naked black women in 80% of rap videos? Is Farrakhan?
Big J
Our own fighters? Have you been drinking? What is 50 fighting against? Big J
•Conformity.
•Poverty.
•Gender blurring gay identity politics.
•Hopelessness.
•Collectively low self-esteem.
•Consumption without production.
•Civil Rights Negro status quo hegemony.
•Using drugs instead of selling them. (Same as US Pharmaceutical corporations
•Psychobabble
What is Barack Obama fighting against?
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DV your boy 50 is not supporting your theory:
Now who you know besides me who write lines and squeeze nines
And have hoes in the hood sniffin on white lines
You don't want me to be your kid's role model
I'll teach them how to buck them 380s and load up them hollows
Have shorty fresh off the stoop, ready to shoot
Big blunt in his mouth, deuce deuce in his boot
Sit in the crib, sippin Guinness, watching Menace
Then Oh Lord, have a young nigga bucking shit like he O-Dog
My team they depend on me when it's crunch time
I eat a nigga food in broad day like it's lunchtime
You feeling brave nigga, go ahead get gully
See if I won't leave your brains leaking up out your skully
I done made myself hot, so ain't shit you can tell me
Niggas calling me to feature, man fuck your money
I ain't hurting, I'm doing good
I ain't got to write rhymes, I got bricks in the hood
Regards,
Anon
Man,
That's hot. And exactly what I'm talking about.
I'll take 1 Fiddy over 10 fake ass do gooders Preaching Be Like Me to kids who don't want to hear it.
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