Ok my people, today I am going to mak you think.
I may have an opinion too, but my main focous is to make you think........and discuss.
My question for you today is:
Are black people actually free? And is the form of entertainment we provide any different from the "coonin" & "shuckin' & jivin" of the late 1800's ?
Today the way black people are perceived is a lot different than the mid 90's. Back then we were considered the "bad guys", our music was considered "evil" and destructive & the myths of our legacy were vast & left the general public scarred & intrigued at the same time.
Regular people from the suburbs wanted to visit the ghetto (i cant see why), experience the "black experience". They wanted to know why "we don't love hoes" they wanted to know why "if you ain't from the ghetto, don't come to the ghetto", and why cash ruled every thing around us.
We were misunderstood outkasts, from the slums of shoulin. They thought that we loved voilence, we were all criminals, drug dealers, pimps (Positve indavidals motiviting peoples streingths), hustals, strippers & niggas with atitudes.
They diddnt know about the thug life revolution, the ghetto CNN. The only voice our people had outside of the streets were the street itself.
But then something happened, our influence expanded. We demolished the grunge movement, soffened hard rock & began making large ammounts of money off of our tallent. And we were just some bad boys stuck on death row.
Industry exects started to see that we were a cash cow, and decided to eploit our image, the made sure that "hip hop" was al that you heard on the radio, consumed on TV in shows & comercials & in the theater. (Remember when we would go & watch a movie just because you heard that one of you favorite rappers was in the movie? I did this for cop land cuz I heard Mr. meth was in it. Now we cant ind a movie that doesnt have some rapper turned actor in it)
After the loss of 2 of our profits, the T.I.'s in their coporate offices decided to bank off of our image, oversaturate the market with out slang (nothing worse that hearing "fo shizzle" on Friends, and did you see common in that gap comercial?) and generate revenue from every point of our culture possible.
Artists how were signed to major lables, doing all the hard work & putting their asses on the line for their craft were getting "screwed" my the exects & only making pennies off the dollar whyle the lables were raking in millions off the sales. But once the public started getting "sick" of us, the sales started to flop, cookie cut rap that had the clubs & the radion bumpin were no longer selling a whole album. Thoes kids, who diddnt know any better, were buying an album for 1 or 2 songs, are now downloading the songs off the internet & saying "to hell with the rest of the CD'". And the cats who did know better are purchacing quality albums by "underground" artists, who are usually on an indie lable, or purchacing mixtapes and mixtape dvd's.....possibly the only outlet where you will get to see & hear you favorite artist how they should & want to heard ( to this day I havent purchaced a weezie album, but I have the dedication 1 & 2).
But the TI's (the jews that run this shit) saw that the Mix tape Dj's were making money off of this shit & decided to get the NRA on they ass & lock up a few of the duded (we see you Drama, we see you Cannon, keep fightin').
Now this is a classic case of keepin a nigga on a short leash. We started this shit. So why can we not make money off of it.......i guess the artists that are featured on the mixtapes are "owned" by the lables, and back in the day it was all good because the artist on the mixtape was good exposure for the lable & that generated record sales. But the lableskeep wanting to stick to a certian format, cookie cut rap, people started getting sicc of it & stopped buying the albums. But mixtapes werrent cookie cut, they were just raw uncut......people loved them & the sales kept commin. The big Jews got mad & unleashed the feds. Shit happens.
So this is why I think that the Rap game is similar to the slave trade. You can draw up your own similarities or conclusions & comment here.......below this blog.
Or you can saw that I am a ranting lunitic & I have no base to support what i say. Well I am not here to state any facts, stats, orpercentages. Nor am I going to go on a long winded speach about my credentials and qualifications that legitimize me bringing up this topic.
The fact is I am a black man who supports & loves hip hop. That makes my thoughts no different from a white, hispanic, purple man or woman who loves hip hop. Basically......if you have 2cents, put it in..........dammit.
I may have an opinion too, but my main focous is to make you think........and discuss.
My question for you today is:
Are black people actually free? And is the form of entertainment we provide any different from the "coonin" & "shuckin' & jivin" of the late 1800's ?
Today the way black people are perceived is a lot different than the mid 90's. Back then we were considered the "bad guys", our music was considered "evil" and destructive & the myths of our legacy were vast & left the general public scarred & intrigued at the same time.
Regular people from the suburbs wanted to visit the ghetto (i cant see why), experience the "black experience". They wanted to know why "we don't love hoes" they wanted to know why "if you ain't from the ghetto, don't come to the ghetto", and why cash ruled every thing around us.
We were misunderstood outkasts, from the slums of shoulin. They thought that we loved voilence, we were all criminals, drug dealers, pimps (Positve indavidals motiviting peoples streingths), hustals, strippers & niggas with atitudes.
They diddnt know about the thug life revolution, the ghetto CNN. The only voice our people had outside of the streets were the street itself.
But then something happened, our influence expanded. We demolished the grunge movement, soffened hard rock & began making large ammounts of money off of our tallent. And we were just some bad boys stuck on death row.
Industry exects started to see that we were a cash cow, and decided to eploit our image, the made sure that "hip hop" was al that you heard on the radio, consumed on TV in shows & comercials & in the theater. (Remember when we would go & watch a movie just because you heard that one of you favorite rappers was in the movie? I did this for cop land cuz I heard Mr. meth was in it. Now we cant ind a movie that doesnt have some rapper turned actor in it)
After the loss of 2 of our profits, the T.I.'s in their coporate offices decided to bank off of our image, oversaturate the market with out slang (nothing worse that hearing "fo shizzle" on Friends, and did you see common in that gap comercial?) and generate revenue from every point of our culture possible.
Artists how were signed to major lables, doing all the hard work & putting their asses on the line for their craft were getting "screwed" my the exects & only making pennies off the dollar whyle the lables were raking in millions off the sales. But once the public started getting "sick" of us, the sales started to flop, cookie cut rap that had the clubs & the radion bumpin were no longer selling a whole album. Thoes kids, who diddnt know any better, were buying an album for 1 or 2 songs, are now downloading the songs off the internet & saying "to hell with the rest of the CD'". And the cats who did know better are purchacing quality albums by "underground" artists, who are usually on an indie lable, or purchacing mixtapes and mixtape dvd's.....possibly the only outlet where you will get to see & hear you favorite artist how they should & want to heard ( to this day I havent purchaced a weezie album, but I have the dedication 1 & 2).
But the TI's (the jews that run this shit) saw that the Mix tape Dj's were making money off of this shit & decided to get the NRA on they ass & lock up a few of the duded (we see you Drama, we see you Cannon, keep fightin').
Now this is a classic case of keepin a nigga on a short leash. We started this shit. So why can we not make money off of it.......i guess the artists that are featured on the mixtapes are "owned" by the lables, and back in the day it was all good because the artist on the mixtape was good exposure for the lable & that generated record sales. But the lableskeep wanting to stick to a certian format, cookie cut rap, people started getting sicc of it & stopped buying the albums. But mixtapes werrent cookie cut, they were just raw uncut......people loved them & the sales kept commin. The big Jews got mad & unleashed the feds. Shit happens.
So this is why I think that the Rap game is similar to the slave trade. You can draw up your own similarities or conclusions & comment here.......below this blog.
Or you can saw that I am a ranting lunitic & I have no base to support what i say. Well I am not here to state any facts, stats, orpercentages. Nor am I going to go on a long winded speach about my credentials and qualifications that legitimize me bringing up this topic.
The fact is I am a black man who supports & loves hip hop. That makes my thoughts no different from a white, hispanic, purple man or woman who loves hip hop. Basically......if you have 2cents, put it in..........dammit.
