Disciplined InSight;6312693 said:
judahxulu;6310210 said:
Disciplined InSight;6309880 said:
Wow @herbalism101... Dope drop.
I believe in this culture you gotta deal with dualities of different identities anyway. Tupac, Nas are prime examples.
a dualistic mindstate is dysfunctional tho. its called cognitive dissonance.
Well...that's just about....give or take... 85-90% of the artists in this game.
and it aint they fault... mostly. its some dysfunction got passed after the civil rights era to the pioneer generation and the industrialization of rap arrested the development of hip hop thus you have emotionally, mentally and socially immature rappers whose content, allbeit some are well-meaning disperses and duplicates this mindstate to varying degrees depending on the listener and the level of civilization to the artists .
i think the ability to be in that 15-10% margin you mentioned is what should separate the emcees from the rappers and the professionals from the amateurs. the art in and of itself is from noble origins- a revered profession and held to be beneficial to the people the griots were part of. they were paid according to how what they spit enriched the people. a big part of the griot tradition was storytelling poems/songs, educational ones and ones telling the history and current events of the tribe. this enhanced their culture. its sacred. i dont care what cats say... a pm dawn would be more in line with that than a krs one. look how the aggression and violence is literally consuming generation after generation.
i welcome fucking hippies. its all energy in the end. energy filtered through cognitive dissonance can only create dischord in the ends. emcees are the real life fucking book of eli but every body got they own book, shit need to be taken seriously like that. if a rapper gone teach then live that breathe that. if not dont go claiming u the essence and foundation cuz studies have shown they aint about that life
rap is too fucking powerful to only be governed by money and a fabricated image/"character"... thats why its so destructive to the bearers of that power off they square. dont nobody die, get shot and locked up more than rappers out of any other genre ever existed. its been around long enough and niggas been in the public eye so we can connect the dots betwwen the things they say and do and the ripple effect of tragedy befalling them...
and its not seen because tied in with that cognitive dissonance is a narcissistic complex that rap got stuck at.. if people consider hiphop a culture or themselves hip hop they are highly vulnerable to being influenced by that narcissistic mode..