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  Brittania

  2 years ago

  I have been praying for the demise of rap for a minute. I cant stand the image that it sends to us and the rest of the world about what it means to be black. The entertainment industry shouldnt be as powerful as it is in controlling people minds and behaviors, but the unfortunate reality is that it is extremely powerful. I can only hope that once rap goes far, far away that things will not continue to fall apart as they have been in the last 15 years or so.
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  Fredric

  2 years ago

  i wouldn't count on it.
  
  just like tmz.com, 'pink is the new blog', and the egregious amount of paparazzi obsess with britney, people like crap.
  
  rap = crap, therefore it will exist. it sucks, but just keep pumpin' nas, the roots, little brother, mos def, common, lupe, kanye (to a certain extent) and i dare say the academy award-winning three six mafia.
  
  :-)
  
  thats still pretty funny no matter what anyone says.
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  Kimberly Michelle

  2 years ago

  (to Fredric) oh but wait, hold up! weren't you just saying that now the Academy is just giving awards away? So three six mafia is above that crap rap because they won an Oscar?
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  JC

  2 years ago

  (Disclaimer: As I type, I'm currently listening to a mixtape from Little Brother)
  
  I haven't purchased an album of any sort since high school. I will playfully do the Chicken Noodle Soup in brevity, even in publicly. I snap my fingers and do the pool palace without shame. Drugs, bling, violence, and misogynism
  are omnipresent in the most popular songs of the genre. At the same time, this is nothing new. There might be a little more of it now, but it's still more of the same. Mos Def and Talib Kweli still operate in the background (shouts to Talib's recent performance on Def Poetry Jam) and groups like Little Brother remind us that it's all about dope beats and dope rhymes. The biggest issue still remains: Our youth - and those who don't have any other exposure to Black culture - are only shown one element of hip-hop(or rap, or Black music, whatever let's not split hairs on that topic.)
  
  I just don't wanna call another man's hard work crap because he's not necessarily talking about something positive or something that I can relate to. I DO think it's crap that our representation in the music industry seems so lopsided, but I am NOT sorry for bumping Young Jeezy in my ride. We all like what we like, whether we're trained to like it or not. But here's to broadening the horizons of those who don't know what other options they have when it comes to hip-hop.
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  Jade

  2 years ago

  Yes we are tired of RAP music that portrays our people in a negative light.
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  David McQueen

  2 years ago

  The thing is that if we are to believe that it's mostly non white who purchase the majority of rap music then we need to ask ourselves why.
  
  I was in a college today talking about how people get access to rap in London. Outside of MTV Base it was all about copying from others. Personally I cant wait to see the back of those stupid idiots like Jay Z, Fifty Cent, Eminem and all those other faux poets. Give me Talib, Roots, Common, Rakeem, KRS One, Public Enemy, Immortal Technique, Keith Murray, Nas and Tupac (old school stuff), Redman and Method (freestylin) and am a happy man.
  
  Actually people need to be exposed to some decent French, UK, Sub Saharan African, Brazilian and Korean rap to realise that rap has long since left the sole domain of the US and is actually being used as tool of education and entertainment around the world
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  MEB

  2 years ago

  Rap music is infused with enough negative energy to currupt its entire audience. We complain about the unfair treatment that minorities receive, yet our youth has fallen pray and has become enslaved by the violent influence of rap music. Our teenage girls look like pole dancers. Our teenage boys dream of mastering the deadly skill of mass murder. Yes, there are exceptions, but not enough. Anger control is a topic not adequately dealt with in black communities---read the headlines. Pushing/shoving someone in authority, on a school campus, would have resulted in severe, but well deserved lashings back in the day. Today we want to band together (something that blacks do too rarely) to refute the judgement and punishment for this very crime that was commited by a black 14 yr old girl in Texas. We know the United States of America is not a fair place for many minorities to be raised and even employed, but when crimes of the like are commited they must be addressed. I pray that God has mercy on that child as she faces the greately imperfect judicial system that will dertermine her fate.
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