When MTV first came out, I really liked it. The music wasn’t bad, and videos to go with music was something I’d often thought would be a great match-up.
All went well for a few years, but by around 1988, I noticed a big change. More and more, MTV was essentially becoming the BET of mucic. Rap was taking over and fewer White performers were getting air play.
Here we are 27 years later, and rap has not run it’s cycle. It’s as focused on today as it was back then. I’d be willing to wager, rap music won’t have a cycle. It will be promoted and lofted as purely gifted for a number of decades.
It has survived the talk of bitches, whores, and about every other negative descriptor of Black women. Of course nobody’s sensitivities were triggered by this. These were incredibly gifted men. These were the men shooting each other in Las Vegas, or fighting elsewhere. Who could find anything to criticize? Women’s groups, mute...
White kids anxious to gobble up anything “with it” at an early age, started wearing make-up designed for Black women’s complexion. Hair styles even went Black, as these kids failed to grasp what was actually going on.
They were being indoctrinated to the Black culture.
It has been strange to watch this progression. Now we see that even rock bottom antics by these people, can be outdone in the quest for the pinnacle of demonic behavior.
Where are the adults in this nation? Where is the outrage? Where are the fathers who should be beating producers and television executives to a pulp over this?
Yes, I think providing this to our children is worthy of such a long overdue reward.
I remember back around the 1983 timeframe, there were a lot of complaints about the lack of black music on MTV. Then "Thriller" happened, and it was all downhill from there.