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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 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
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I think it's a lame copout to blame hip hop culture and it's almost like folks are trying to absolve people of some personal responsibility to not act a damn fool.

The devil made me do it.
Videogames made me do it.
Violent movies made me do it.
Hip hop made me do it.

nah im not rollin. What I will agree with yall on the other side of this argument with is that mainstream hip hop is pretty garbage these days. Could be that we all gettin older and it dont resonate with us.. AND that the shit thats being pushed is just ass and lacking in creativity. You look at any generation and they gon say their music was the best and anything after it is wack and detrimental tho.

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?
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Do you feel like the bullshit music we're talkin bout is reflective of our culture overall as a whole? Or is it some nonesense thats being magnified to make it seem like the shit that they on is ALL of our culture? Im wit ya on the focus on our loved ones part tho and would go further to say instead of shittin on hip hop culture as a whole, why not put a spotlight on and amplify the good shit?

All that to say.. I dont think the culture as a whole itself is doing the community a disservice.. but the shit thats being pushed in the mainstream right now is. I dont necessarily think its a toss a baby out with the bathwater type situation
 
The culture...



Here we go again



There's indie ass HipHop records or music that will never smell a radio airwave ... There's loads of positivity out there if you want to look for


And like I always say... Raise your seeds up to be responsible and uplifting citizens of planet Earth... Rather than blame HipHop for your fuck ups


Ain't nothing wrong with HIP HOP as an art form... absolutely not
 
Oh you know 'positive' records won't get no major airplay on radio especially in these 2020s compared to the 90s ...


'Pound Town' which is sexually explicit will obviously get more burn than any song say Rapsody drops (she has a new album out soon) ...


But rather than say the game is cooked as HipHop heads you do your part by promoting positivity in the art form ... On here or by your playlists selection, word of mouth etc


The last two albums that won the rap album of the year at the Grammys were content wise positive (Kendrick's 'Steppers and Killer Mike's MICHAEL)


So not all hope is lost
 
The age old "Chicken or Egg?" debate.

IMO its a vicious cycle of society and the conditions of the people within the culture informing the music and in turn in a majority (or at least the popular and most visible) of the music is reinforcing the negativity and toxic behaviors and conditions.

As far as the actual music...its not good and lacking creativity. There are artists out there who still are interested in creating ART. However it feels like they are few and far between. I cant say "fuck hip hop" cause its black culture. I want to see the culture redeemed and reconciled back to the Father like we all should be.
 
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Folks been saying hip hop dead for the longest. It's just gonna evolve just like it has the past 50 years.

I can't get jiggy wit a lot of the shyt now cuz these mofos sound the same (reference T-Pain's rant). But that's on this current generation and their ears. I'll stick to bumping the golden eras of hip hop.

As for hurting the culture...meh. I will say it's a lot of stupid muthafuccas tellin on themselves for the street shyt they doin or about to do. T.I. wasn't lyin when he mentioned that. Damn a snitch...these detectives are just playin track 4 "I Bodied Lil Terry" on Killa Jay J album. Smh.
 
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