Monday, May 21, 2007

MASTER P. P = Plantation Negro

"Curtis Jackson’s comment motivated me. There are a lot of immature people in the world. Oprah Winfrey is absolutely right, we need to grow up and be responsible for our own actions. I paid for Curtis’s first rap tour through the south. He was such a humble guy at the time. Most artists’ mission is to sell records. My mission is to help save and change lives. There’s a lack of knowledge and false information out there. I could actually say Little Jay and Rap-A-Lot Records inspired my successful career and I will always respect them no matter what. I wrote the blueprint for this generation. The only difference is there’s no more honor and respect in the game.

Think about it: people in jail are not writing letters proclaiming to come out and do the same thing that landed them there in the first place. People in the hood don’t want to stay poor for the rest of their lives. They want to change. Parents that really love their kids would rather sacrifice their own lives so that their kids could make a change to have a better life and a better education. I’m glad that there are people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and organizations like the NAACP that are out there fighting for our rights and dignity. I have finally realized that EVERY person is either a part of the problem or part of the solution and that is why I have decided to take a stand! I’m reaching out to corporate America to form an alliance for the sake of putting the value back into our communities by rebuilding and developing schools and businesses."

TRANSLATION

"Reaching out to 'corporate America'" is Plantation Negro speak for "Please Mr. White man, please, save us negros from ourselves. Please police our children fo us. Please let us consume yo brand a media violence sex and debauchery cuz it's so much healthier than our own brand of media. I'ze learned my lesson. The problems in the black community were not caused by destructive public policy, aggressive policing, or gender blurring induced family breakdown. It was all Hip Hop's fault."




5 comments:

Michael Fisher said...

Naw, DV. It's just house negroes switching tactics.

Master P, Fitty, and Russell are all still working for the same massa.

The Hon. Elijah Muhammad called it tricknology.

Anonymous said...

DV, your slave accent is killin' me. I gotta be honest, I admired P for what he was doing in the past as far as building his brand and being on the independent hustle with his different companies.DV, your translation seems pretty spot on. I

t seems like the old Master P would have started a "No Limit Whatever" to put "the value back in our schools/businesses.

To improve our position it must come from the private not the public but it cannot be based upon money from outside our community. Mexicans, Koreans, Indians, etc... aren't looking for the government to save them or for "corporate America" to come riding in like a White Knight to save the day.

I don't see P as a "plantation negro," so much as a Black man looking for answers that chose the easiest most obvious choice.

Denmark Vesey said...

You right on the money brother D.

P is my man too. Always dug him. I wasn't bangin "Ice Cream Man", but I loved his hustle and his courage.

This recent move is not all that bad either. There's alot of free publicity to be had by any rapper/Prominent Negro willing to blame Hip Hop.

It's "Good business" for P to play it this way.

The corporations have deemed Hip Hop a threat to their monopoly on thought and need to discredit it in a hurry.

Maybe there is some method to P's madness.

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Anonymous said...

DV

The corporations have deemed Hip Hop a threat to their monopoly on thought and need to discredit it in a hurry.

Do you mean the Universal Music corporation. Owner of Interscope??

You continue with the hypocrisy

Anonymous said...

DV

I think a man who came from the hood. Made it in the rap game would know better than you DV. Secondly, if and when Snoop changes his toon you will be bashing him as well. No loyalty.