"Hip Hop is too silent on Ferguson and Garner"- Questlove

[Mr.LV]

This genre has gotten so fucking soft ,most of these rappers are fucking cowards.

 

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and the rest of yall jigga fags get in here and tell us how dickriding Jay Z millions and business all these years is helping the future of hip hop.

I don't have to defend anything. jay z falls in the same category of black artists who keep quiet in situations like this that concerns his people but never hesitate to brag about the high culture he currently indulges in. him and other black entertainers are too far removed from reality and as a result they lose my respect

and the only dickriding around here is done by you since you can't keep other men's names out your mouth. nobody was concerned with you or what you had to say but being the attention whore that you are you had to draw attention to yourself by calling people out of their names in a sorry attempt to be funny. keep my name out of your mouth you faggot

 

[S2J]

"I laugh & have fun w “bytch You Guessed It” like everyone else"

Then stfu and sit down man. Every OG says this

As to the topic, so which 1 is it:

Charles Barkley is a bball player, why do they keep putting a mic in his face

or

What does Ja Rule think?

I said it w/ Mike Brown and i'll say it again: Motherfuk rap and rappers at times like this. They do not define black culture. Its insulting for people's thoughts to go to them, as if these are our heroes, and its a conradiction waiting to happen.

Nggas will ask 'what does Kendrick think about this' before they ask What does Melisa Harris Pery think? What does Tavis think? What does Michael Eric Dyson think ? What does Dick Gregory think?

 

[S2J]

And ima throw this in here bc i know their names gon get brought up:

If Killer Mike and David Banner are the pinnacle of what you consider intellect, you need to raise your standards!

And thats not to say their not smart brothas, bc they are, but they are to advocacy what Goerge Clooney is to politics: They are celebs who happen to be articulate and into that movement, but they shouldnt be expected to be the face of it.

There's other dudes who studied that shyt, done it for years. The face of it should not and does not need to be a celebrity.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

Ghost has given an interview about.
http://www.vice.com/read/ghostface-killah-isnt-down-with-the-peaceful-protesting-456

Nothing eloquent there though, dude is just pissed. lol He stopped just short of saying "Fuck protesting, we need to grab our guns and start killing cops."

 

[raheemclassick]

To me its not about what Artist or Rapper makes A statement or A song, If certain people won't even listen to President Barack Obama, then why would they listen to anyone else who speaks sense to them. Put it like this, some talk A good one and some act A good one, but one thing is for sure ,Niggas will be Niggas.

 

[Angeles1son85]

Im shocked the game aint out there marching he love this kinda attention

 

[Knives Amilli]

Im shocked the game aint out there marching he love this kinda attention

Games posted more shit than the normal rapper on his IG

 

[Fosheezy]

Because Hip Hop is dead, and dead niggas don't talk.

 

[aneed123]

they too concerned about a check... It aint hard to voice an opinion on the matter if u really do care. The reality is they got so much money that they dont care. Everytop rapper shoulda been down there like J Cole on them front lines supporting the same people who support them. Every rapper shoulda donated to the Brown family the same way crackers did to officer Wilson.... they shoulda had the best lawyer money could buy. Shit is sad and fucked up cuz those rich niggas priorities are fucked up

 

[blackrain]

No one has the spine for truth anymore. Not anyone in the mainstream, at least. I don't even know who COULD deliver a "Fight The Power" or a "Fuck Tha Police" in this climate, and that's our fault. It's our fault for not holding our musicians, our sports figures, our politicians, our people in high places accountable. And I ain't talkin bout them being "role models". I'm talking about them having a voice. A voice that we can expect to be heard when shit really hits the fan. Even a modicum display of empathy or solidarity in these situations goes a long way.

But just as important as the people we expect to deliver a message are the people that receive it. You can't want someone to say something during turbulent times, but shun them if they say the same shit during relatively normal times. One example being Lupe, who repeatedly speaks out about injustices and gets criticized for it. (That nigga swears he's smart. He's too preachy. He's boring. He uses words like "acquiesce"...) Some niggas are just never satisfied.

And @tompetrez3‌... If you wanna call someone out, my nigga, do so like a grown man and not like a first grader that just discovered the word "fuck". I can give a fuck about Jay-Z. That nigga has made it glaringly apparent he does not give a fuck about the same community that made him who he is.

Now, you can either choose to respond like a grown person to the aforementioned points or you can gon' bout ya business. Either way, I'ma borrow from J. Cole and tell you to GOMD.

Lupe doesn't catch flack for speaking out Lupe catches flack because his tone can take on an "I'm so much smarter than you" type of condescension with it. His intentions are great but at times he does need to rethink his approaches

 

[dj pre-k]

6his the only rap song i know of bout the shit and it was back in august/spetember

 

[Turfaholic]

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and the rest of yall jigga fags get in here and tell us how dickriding Jay Z millions and business all these years is helping the future of hip hop.

Is there a twerkaholic or is that a shot at me?

 

[BobOblah]

Yea on the one hand I don't want to be like "where's Ja?!!!" because a rappers opinion doesn't matter most in this but at the same they are influential and I been bumping shit like this in the gym all week and I could use a 2014 version.




Someone's gotta drop something. Kendrick? Cole? The Roots? Jay Z and Jay Electronica?

 

[Like Water]

No one has the spine for truth anymore. Not anyone in the mainstream, at least. I don't even know who COULD deliver a "Fight The Power" or a "Fuck Tha Police" in this climate, and that's our fault. It's our fault for not holding our musicians, our sports figures, our politicians, our people in high places accountable. And I ain't talkin bout them being "role models". I'm talking about them having a voice. A voice that we can expect to be heard when shit really hits the fan. Even a modicum display of empathy or solidarity in these situations goes a long way.

But just as important as the people we expect to deliver a message are the people that receive it. You can't want someone to say something during turbulent times, but shun them if they say the same shit during relatively normal times. One example being Lupe, who repeatedly speaks out about injustices and gets criticized for it. (That nigga swears he's smart. He's too preachy. He's boring. He uses words like "acquiesce"...) Some niggas are just never satisfied.

And @tompetrez3‌... If you wanna call someone out, my nigga, do so like a grown man and not like a first grader that just discovered the word "fuck". I can give a fuck about Jay-Z. That nigga has made it glaringly apparent he does not give a fuck about the same community that made him who he is.

Now, you can either choose to respond like a grown person to the aforementioned points or you can gon' bout ya business. Either way, I'ma borrow from J. Cole and tell you to GOMD.

Lupe doesn't catch flack for speaking out Lupe catches flack because his tone can take on an "I'm so much smarter than you" type of condescension with it. His intentions are great but at times he does need to rethink his approaches

 

[fuc_i_look_like]

These mainstream rappers are essentially just puppets controlled by their White label execs. These niggas get paid to rap about ignorant/detrimental shit. Speaking on Black injustices would go against that agenda, so they remain silent to keep that $. J.Cole released "Be Free" about Mike Brown immediately after the shooting and was out there with the residents, and that's real. ASAP Ferg released a dope joint last week called "Talk It" briefly speaking on Ferguson: "Oppression that's repressing my peeps. Riding round in my hooptie NWA blasting, screaming fuck the police because they don't give two shits about me. Ferguson, lil Brown, Mike Brown shot down in Missouri, they keep us in misery."

When you got mainstream rappers like Wayne who had no problem mocking Emmit Till's murder, Rodney King's beating, and slavery in his lyrics. And Nicki Minaj disrespecting Malcolm X on album covers, you can't expect these sorry ass m'fuccas to speak on Black tragedies.

 

[S2J]

"When the topic is taking ngga's bytches , smoking weed, and wifing whores, Wiz Khalifa has something to say, but doggone it where is he when we REALLY need him?

Am i readin this shyt right? Is it ME thats trippin??

 

[bck145]

because artists need to be careful if they want to put out something....games on IG looking like a straight clown right because he's making it a race thing when the only people making it a race things are the racists

if the artist does their homework and has no bias to what happened then some quality material will come out on how you can't be acting like straight fools out there and not expect consequences

 

[Like Water]

because artists need to be careful if they want to put out something....games on IG looking like a straight clown right because he's making it a race thing when the only people making it a race things are the racists

if the artist does their homework and has no bias to what happened then some quality material will come out on how you can't be acting like straight fools out there and not expect consequences

It is a race thing. I don't know how one could say it isn't. Are you one of those faux, progressive "New Black" niggas? Or are you just a young nigga that still doesn't know his head from his ass?

 

[The Lonious Monk]

because artists need to be careful if they want to put out something....games on IG looking like a straight clown right because he's making it a race thing when the only people making it a race things are the racists

if the artist does their homework and has no bias to what happened then some quality material will come out on how you can't be acting like straight fools out there and not expect consequences

It is a race thing. I don't know how one could say it isn't. Are you one of those faux, progressive "New Black" niggas? Or are you just a young nigga that still doesn't know his head from his ass?

It's a race thing, but it's not just a race thing. The police have too much power in general. People who seek to reign the police in only hurt their cause by turning away potential allies. Even if you hate white people, you shouldn't be above using their help if it would contribute to your own success.