Bobby Shmurda Performing In Front Of White Music Executives

[5th Letter]

Entire turn up era / subgenre needs to be deaded, and we need to honestly pump the brakes on all these club records for a little while... Game needs balance. Need to get back to the roots.

turn up and club records is the roots of rap music nigga, the fuck? the shit was born and created literally AT A FUCKING PARTY

Rap music has evolved since then.

 

[eternal soldier]

The Minstrel Show..

 

[OGClarenceBoddicker]

well then you niggas need to rephrase the statement and say we need to return to the late 80s and 90s new york shit then because when you say the roots nigga you talkin bout block parties on 1825 seldgwick ave or whatever that shit was

 

[BeardedFreak]

This is why old heads and fathers are important.

 

[eternal soldier]

This young man probably has never been in a room full of white people in this capacity to gauge their body language to feel like they're laughing at him. in that breath, I can't blame him. But if he makes past this phase, he'll either get dropped or done like Atlantic has attempted to do with Lupe...

 

[StillFaggyAF]

I Blame la reid and sha money xl

 

[rip.dilla]

The Minstrel Show..

One of the greatest HipHop albums ever released

But it's incidents like the one discussed in this thread that called time on Little Brother as a collective

Balance is DEFINITELY needed for this genre to thrive

I was amused by the video in the OP. Surprised? Hardly.. .

 

[huey]

man that shit looked so uncomfortable.

gif stolen.

 

[rip.dilla]

@Chasin Benjaminz

 

[a_list]

Damn! Had they been just listening it wouldnt seem as bad..But this cat was in there performing like Cool J in the I'm Bad video...lol

 

[Stew]

epic. fail.

 

[Like Water]

This is completely unacceptable and indefensible on every level. How can you completely sell your self respect and dignity down the river in front of those peckerwoods?

You can tell these new niggas have never even given a second thought to their ancestors' struggle. I'm not surprised, but I'm tired of the bullshit coming from our own people, as far as media is concerned.

Stephen A., Steve Harvey, Charles Barkley, Young Thug, Bobby Shuck and Jive, cops killin niggas just cuz... It's an overload of buffoonery that's extremely depressing and aggravating.

My head hurts...

 

[SheerExcellence]

ummm you guys do know that it is standard for artists to perform for the executives of the record label, walmart, etc...so that they know what the product is, right? jay-z, beyonce, t.i. rhianna, madonna, they all do this shit. young jeezy sits in a room just like this and performs his whole album. it's essentially a live performance of the album. this is in addition to the album release party and alla that. if you gonna have the company put money, marketing, etc behind something, they have to see it.

this is standard industry practice, not just rap...any group. rock bands, pop bands, etc do it too.

 

[mryounggun]

Young boy shoulda just been like, 'Y'all wanna see me perform? It won't be in Manhattan in a fucking meeting room. I got 3 shows this weekend in Brooklyn. Pick one.'

 

[tompetrez3]

How can yall call him a coon but Jay Z did the same thing with the picasso baby video and yall act like that was the greatest shit on earth with him kissing white folks and holding babies. FOH. Lets stop with the self defeat everytime a young black person acts "natural" around whites. Actually it took him courage to go in a room full of white folks and do that shit. Some of yall motherfuckers can barely give a presentation to a trade school class. hypocrite niggas. He got a 2.5 million dollar deal out of that "coonery" so he doing something right

 

[rip.dilla]

ummm you guys do know that it is standard for artists to perform for the executives of the record label, walmart, etc...so that they know what the product is, right? jay-z, beyonce, t.i. rhianna, madonna, they all do this shit. young jeezy sits in a room just like this and performs his whole album. it's essentially a live performance of the album. this is in addition to the album release party and alla that. if you gonna have the company put money, marketing, etc behind something, they have to see it.

this is standard industry practice, not just rap...any group. rock bands, pop bands, etc do it too.

Big difference between "performing" an album which I'd assume is spitting your lyrics for executive heads AND dancing (as a Black man) like a buffoon with no control in front of a room filled with Caucasians. .

Niggas need knowledge of self

 

[So ILL]

Does Bobby complexion make this more offensive than say if Drake or a Chris Brown was doing the same thing?

No. I would feel the same way if any

The sad thing is that dude is probably too young, uninformed and unaware to really know what the fuck is being done to him in this shit. SMH.

He's going to look back on this when he's about 30 and just shake his head.

 

[sr_the_freshman]

Stephen A., Steve Harvey, Charles Barkley, Young Thug, Bobby Shuck and Jive, cops killin niggas just cuz... It's an overload of buffoonery that's extremely depressing and aggravating.

Exactly what I'm sayin'. Every fuckin' thing that drops these days is just on some funny haha bullshit. Like no one gives a flying fuck as long as their having fun, and making money. I'm tired of this shit.

I'd feel alittle differently if half these nig nogs could actually rap, but they can't even give me that at minimum.

And then these oblivious (or truly nefarious) Caucasians set that shit up on a pedestal.

 

[MeekMonizzLLLLLLe14]

don't act like your girl nikki don't be cooning

 

[tompetrez3]

Instead of shaming these young black men why dont yall grown ass motherfuckers do something constructive. get on twitter and @ him or his crew and build with him on a positive note. That self defeating shit is played out and most of yall niggas on the IC are whites and half breeds anyways so what the fuck do yall care about him performing in front of whites. Yall quick to call these young boys "coons" and "fatherless" but pass the buck like all those rich black uncle toms and white folks.