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In Missouri, artists broadcasting pain through hip hop
Washington Post ^ | August 20, 2014 | Krissah Thompson

Posted on 08/21/2014 7:44:42 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey

ST. LOUIS — It didn’t take long for the lyrics to begin flowing from this city’s hip-hop scene to the streets.

In the past 11 days, several tracks referencing the death of Michael Brown have surfaced, a spontaneous, organic and visceral reflection of what has been happening in Ferguson, Mo., since the 18-year-old African American was shot by a white police officer. The music — at least 10 songs, almost one a day — covers a range of emotions: anger and outrage, sadness and grief, and outright rebellion

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To: MeshugeMikey

In the eleven days since Brown got himself killed, there has probably been about 150-200 young, black males shot to death across the country by other young, black males. Were there any protests about that by the hip-hoppers?


21 posted on 08/21/2014 8:06:55 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: dfwgator

they do appear to have a very narrow and ..shallow..”world view” don’t they.


22 posted on 08/21/2014 8:07:13 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: driftless2

they celebrate....the inter varsity thug killing....

“we make another rhyme

bout thug on thug crime”


23 posted on 08/21/2014 8:08:20 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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24 posted on 08/21/2014 8:08:28 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: MeshugeMikey

Their ‘pain’?


25 posted on 08/21/2014 8:09:18 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: skeeter

I;ve seldom encountered such deeply self absorbed amateur urinalism as displayed in THAT article


26 posted on 08/21/2014 8:09:34 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: Altura Ct.

they feels the Brown families pain......uh huh


27 posted on 08/21/2014 8:10:08 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: ConservingFreedom

“it inflict the pain

on my ears

mnd on my brain”


28 posted on 08/21/2014 8:11:35 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: NorthMountain

it is the main buttress of the so called culture...


29 posted on 08/21/2014 8:12:31 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Ask half of them to name the thug who got shot, and they probably couldn’t even tell you.

It’s not as if he had a catchy name like “Trayvon.”


30 posted on 08/21/2014 8:14:29 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Ditter
I read this article. The quote, "I call it the hip-hop intelligentsia", actually made me laugh out loud.
31 posted on 08/21/2014 8:18:04 AM PDT by wbill
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To: MeshugeMikey

Not so long ago talented black musicians and singers were creating some of the finest popular music ever heard.

But the popular “N**ga, Ho, Drug, Crime Rap” spouted by blacks today is just one more display of how dysfunctional the black culture in America has become.

The fact that there are plenty of stupid whites who emulate them proves only that there are plenty of stupid whites in America too.


32 posted on 08/21/2014 8:19:36 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Democrats love poor blacks - that's why they keep them on the Plantation)
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To: Junk Silver

I’m a mime rapper. My rap name is Zipper D, Doo Dah, or ZDcube.


33 posted on 08/21/2014 8:36:59 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing! Don't let anybody touch that thing! I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that th)
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To: wbill
"I call it the hip-hop intelligentsia"

That term reminds me of Oswald Bates.

"First of all, we must internalize the flagellation of the matter by transmitting the effervescence of the Indonesian proximity in order to further segregate the crux of my venereal infection. Now, if I may retain my liquids here for one moment, I’d like to continue the redundance of my quote unquote intestinal tract because to preclude on the issue of world domination would only circumvent – excuse me – circumcise the revelation that reflects the aphrodisiatic symptom which now perpetrates the jheri curls activation."

34 posted on 08/21/2014 8:41:04 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: F15Eagle

I paint oil portraits mostly of dogs and cats, sometimes cows, bulls calves and a couple of donkeys. I do it for myself ,my family my friends and strangers that I meet, who love their animals.

I am inspired by the love that people have for their animals. Mostly people bring me photos of their beloved pet that has died. So I call myself “the most famous painter of dead dogs in the 200 block of mystreet”. :)


35 posted on 08/21/2014 8:46:17 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Iron Munro
The "rap" phenomenon.....is so very very telling isnt it.

Perhaps these hoodlum "artists" should award Jesse Jackson a plaque of appreciation for Pioneering their "art form"

"hey hey ho ho

ole school musics go to go"...J.J jr.




36 posted on 08/21/2014 8:53:37 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: dfwgator

miko black?

I dunno.. I cant read no cursive


37 posted on 08/21/2014 8:55:45 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Rap, the subculture of denial and self loathing.


38 posted on 08/21/2014 9:04:58 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Anger, outrage, sadness, grief ...

Self-pity, blame-ducking, greed, savagery ...


39 posted on 08/21/2014 9:06:58 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Iron Munro

You aren’t kidding. No rapper today even approaches the musical talent of this partial list:

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Duke Ellington
3. Miles Davis
4. James Brown
5. Ella Fitzgerald
6. Louis Armstrong
7. Stevie Wonder
8. Ike and Tina Turner
9. Sam Cooke
10. Otis Redding
11. Marvin Gaye
12. Quincy Jones
13. The Staple Singers
14. Earth, Wind and Fire
15. Ray Charles

I could go on and on. Of course, pretty much the same thing has happened with white musical artists too.


40 posted on 08/21/2014 10:43:35 AM PDT by Cecily
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