Parents should get with the program and help their kids make good choices...period. There is good and bad rap, hip hop or any other type of music for that matter.
It's doin xactly what it supposed to be doin
Once we got to the early 90's, the urban thug mentality entered rap music. Gangsta rap, which glorified a criminal element under the faulty guise of "telling the true story of the streets" entered the urban culture, and spread like wildfire.
Some petty street thugs and gangsters found a new outlet for their efforts, which led to the east coast-west coast gang wars. Those wars led to a worsening image nationally, and ultimately led to the jailing of 'Shug' Knight and the murders of Tupac Shakur and 'Biggie Smalls'.
Jason Mizell was a casualty of what the urban music business has become - the realm of thugs and criminals. He was on the periphery, and stepped on the toes of one of these petty thugs that is out there in the business now.
Those "businessmen" are nothing more than petty gangsters trying to play at using mafia-like tactics to advance their criminal enterprise. They use violence and sedition to push their music and by extension, they push drugs and promote the exploitation of women. They drive the big, expensive cars, wear the gaudy jewelery and simultaneously give voice to the victim mentality of the younger members of the black community across the nation.
They are part of the ongoing disease affecting black America. And it will take much time, effort and energy to create a means for a cure.
Let's peep the game from a different angle
Matt Dillon pulled his pistol every time him and someone tangled
So why you criticize me
For the sh-t that you see on your TV
That rates worse than PG?
Just bring your a-- to where they got me
So you can feel the hand of the dead body
--Brad Jordan a.k.a. Scarface
All I have in this world...
All I have in this world...
All I have
All I have
All I have in this world...
Posers running around like idiots is a symptom of a larger problem, namely the intrusion of the government into their family structure. That ain't rap's fault.
This article is not bad on the surface but think about it for a minute. One of the traits of liberals is their penchant for being victims. There is always a scapegoat for something bad happening. In this case it is foul mouthed rappers who are causing kids to leap into the chasm of crime, bad manners, drugs, and general lassitude. I grew up in the 50s and 60s and my dad thought rock and roll was spawned by the devil himself. The songs of that era don't even raise a blip on societal mores register today.
I believe, as do others on this thread, that parents have to instill some basic values and let the lives of the young ones unfold. Some of it will stick and some of it will have to be learned again. The parents who didn't bother to try will reap the harvest of what they didn't sow. The parents who tried and failed will be greatly saddened but can take some small comfort in the fact they tried. The parents who succeeded can be proud.
Puhleeeeez.
There's an ERROR in the first sentence! Jamaica? Try Queens, NY.
Here we have most of the *creations* of the Liberal-Socialist left's artistic arm, in one sweet list.
"To the consternation of Run-DMC's Darryl McDaniels, Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh didn't make the list, which must tell us something about something, but it's hard to imagine what."
Ummmm...I see the "reason" for tanking CD sales; not, MPEGs or files downloaded from the Internet as some would have us believe.
That's *what* it tells me.
"Rap entered the mainstream in 1992 with the release of Dr. Dre's 'gangsta' album, 'The Chronic,' which featured such memorable rhymes as, 'Rat-a-tat and a tat like that/Never hesitate to put a nigga' on his back.' The album is littered with similar lyrics throughout...Rife with the worst of what rap would regurgitate over the next decade, 'The Chronic' was gobbled up by white kids and black kids alike, going platinum several times over on its way to becoming one of rap's all-time biggest albums."
Well?
If it were my express intent to "dumb down" an entire generation of American kids so as to leave 'em useless, hopelessly screwed up & thoroughly trashed when I'd finished??
That'd have been precisely the tack I'd have used to accomplish the task, musically; while, leaving the job of providing any & all *visual* stimuli to my Liberal-Socialist bros, in Hollyweird.
Yup, that's how I'd have done it, alright.
"The album's popularity spawned hundreds of imitators, each one trying to out-gross the other, in record sales as well as attitude and language."
Really.
Who'd a thunk it.
"Many of these imitators are now on VH1's list of rap greats."
C'mon now!
Would Viacom -- the parent company of SeeBS -- ever condone such irresponsible acts of cultural vandalism via their VH1/MTV subsidiaries??
Yea, they sure would & did.
...and Viacom's still doing it, too.
Lowlife Rappers Get Some LoveI'll bump your thread on that one.