Welcome To aBlackWeb

Register

Question........Is our Hiphop "culture" doing us a disservice?

Is it a disservice

  • Yes, it's time for a change

    Votes: 15 83.3%

  • No, the culture will reset itself in time

    Votes: 2 11.1%

  • This is coon talk

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • Total voters
    18
Old Man Cain

Old Man Cain

OG
As the wheels of time keeps spinning and we all grown older and hopefully maturing as we get blessed with old age. With that said at our more mature age can we have a discussion about the hiphop "culture" that we have been all a part of in our musical taste and outright lives we have live and continue living.

The hiphop culture in my opinion has gotten out of hand and has always been big in our everyday lives but let's be honest enough is enough. We have killed more blk/brown in our music and real lives than any other art form out there and it's not really up for debate. We disrespect our women, our women disrespect their men and we have glorified the killers, gangs, drug dealers and pimps thru audio stimulation and visual stimulation through music, videos and film.

Just look at our films and tv series that are big in our communities as of late. We have series like Snowfall(which has incredible actors and real life events), Power, The Wire(the GOAT of all shows) and films that in all honesty portray US in a negative way. We I was younger I used to think when I heard a older person say what I am saying now in this OP they was some hating ass oldheads but thankfully with time comes wisdom and I see what the oldhead was talking about as I am now the oldhead(also fuck yall in advance with the old jokes lol).

With that said, do yall believe a culture shift is needed or is it too ingrained in us now for a massive reset to ever happen and we should just focus on making our loved ones better people as they grow to leave that culture/mindset back?


I'm sure some of you super niggas we say this is coon talk and that's cool but isn't it time we really looked into this?

Let's talk about it
 
I think some things people associate with hip hop aren't actually hip hop. It's just another way of saying "Black" ie some movies and tv shows. Especially given that all of that imagery existed long before hip hop was born. Like I don't see the The Wire and think it's a representation of hip hop. Is there a down side to hip hop's influence? Of course. There's quite a few things about hip hop that need to be course corrected. But it's also provided many with chances they never would hace had otherwise and legit changed the world.
 
This is a very surface level question. Cant even talking about if you're right or wrong until some questions are answered.

For example, lets take the 80s and early 90s. Is hip hop resposinsible for the crack epidemic, or is it Ronald Reagans government? Are we saying Reagan wouldnt have flooded the inner city with coke/crack if it wasnt for hip hop?

If the answer is no, then this has nothing to do with hip hop.

Now I can see if you are saying hip hop didnt help because it was a great propaganda tool to be used during the 80s and 90s, then I might can agree.

But if you saying the violence wouldnt have happened without hip hop, then I'll have to disagree. Imo, Ronald Reagan would have flooded the inner city with drugs because he needed to set the narrative of inner city (blacks) and suburban+middle america (whites), and how only him and his party can protect one side from the other.

We can take this and apply it to any decade. Imo in most cases, rap lyrics are a reaction to society and not the cause of whatever is happening.
 
Old Man Cain said:
As the wheels of time keeps spinning and we all grown older and hopefully maturing as we get blessed with old age. With that said at our more mature age can we have a discussion about the hiphop "culture" that we have been all a part of in our musical taste and outright lives we have live and continue living.

The hiphop culture in my opinion has gotten out of hand and has always been big in our everyday lives but let's be honest enough is enough. We have killed more blk/brown in our music and real lives than any other art form out there and it's not really up for debate. We disrespect our women, our women disrespect their men and we have glorified the killers, gangs, drug dealers and pimps thru audio stimulation and visual stimulation through music, videos and film.

Just look at our films and tv series that are big in our communities as of late. We have series like Snowfall(which has incredible actors and real life events), Power, The Wire(the GOAT of all shows) and films that in all honesty portray US in a negative way. We I was younger I used to think when I heard a older person say what I am saying now in this OP they was some hating ass oldheads but thankfully with time comes wisdom and I see what the oldhead was talking about as I am now the oldhead(also fuck yall in advance with the old jokes lol).

With that said, do yall believe a culture shift is needed or is it too ingrained in us now for a massive reset to ever happen and we should just focus on making our loved ones better people as they grow to leave that culture/mindset back?


I'm sure some of you super niggas we say this is coon talk and that's cool but isn't it time we really looked into this?

Let's talk about it
Click to expand...
yeah-clap.gif
 
AZTG said:
This is a very surface level question. Cant even talking about if you're right or wrong until some questions are answered.

For example, lets take the 80s and early 90s. Is hip hop resposinsible for the crack epidemic, or is it Ronald Reagans government? Are we saying Reagan wouldnt have flooded the inner city with coke/crack if it wasnt for hip hop?

If the answer is no, then this has nothing to do with hip hop.

Now I can see if you are saying hip hop didnt help because it was a great propaganda tool to be used during the 80s and 90s, then I might can agree.

But if you saying the violence wouldnt have happened without hip hop, then I'll have to disagree. Imo, Ronald Reagan would have flooded the inner city with drugs because he needed to set the narrative of inner city (blacks) and suburban+middle america (whites), and how only him and his party can protect one side from the other.

We can take this and apply it to any decade. Imo in most cases, rap lyrics are a reaction to society and not the cause of whatever is happening.
Click to expand...
You're saying if hiphop wasn't the pill it would have been given to us another way regardless or nah?
 
It's over!


Thankfully, for me.....
Killah Priest be spitting that Historical metaphorical boom bam rhetorical😁😏
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top