...that rappers keep talking about? By no means am I a prude. Shucks, I am only 27 years old and I like hip hop.

But, these 'musicians' are always talking about the struggle in regard to one's identity of being black. People KILL me with that. With a lot of these rappers, I have noticed that they themselves are their greatest enemies. That's the struggle they need to focus on . When you win that struggle, then you've won most of the battle.

But, until I see them step up and do something for the black community, and until they stopEXPLOITING black women and keep talking about getting shot 9 times, I don't wanna hear about your gottdamned struggle. I think the music industry has sold out black women. the images are full of degradation and bullshyt, furtherperpetuating thenegative stereotypes that black women are mostly, loud, ignorant, obnoxious baby mamas.

Do u agree/disagree? And, why? Let's discuss.

Hold up.

I make a shallow 'Big Girl' forum but I get 14 immediate replies. But, I make one of my more serious forums and I get no response?lol

Hmmmmmmmmm..Coincidence?

I agree with you. rappers are mostly sellouts and puppets of a malevolent white media bend on using them as tools of cultural warfare on impressionable young black minds.:X



I personaly wouldnt mind seeing 50 cents drop dead

*daps*

It's just ridiculous now. And, white people are always surprised to hear that I have no kids (not that there is anything wrong with a woman having kids) and doing my thing.

They get this look on their face. It is as though at 27 years old, I am just expected to have kids even though I have no ring on my finger. They always ask me. I get it all the time.

@LoveIt....the reason most of us are not responding is because we have already done this discusions hundrends of times....in fact if you had bothered to READ the board as most of us did when we joined, then you would have found topics regarding this.

One word dear: READ !

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The bottom line is these record execs know that Hip Hop is very very powerful and if used the right way as in positively, alot of our youth will wake up. The execs know that these songs are brainwashing and hyptnotizing which takes you away from the real focus of life and being responsible. Chuck D once said that Hip Hop was our way of the news on the streets, and he is right!!! Public Enemy was known for its conscious rap and many artists came during and after like Rakim to continue "conscious rap". It seems like after Gangstar rap replaced positive rap, all H#$# broke loose. Being selfish and being violent is the taste of choice..Like movies, sex sells and so does violence, and screaming out what gang youre in, unfortunately. Radio thinks that the only way that they can keep ratings is to keep playing whats in demand, which is this crap that the Execs at the record lable of in control of releasing and promoting!!! Luda, and T.I., 50, and Game are just the messengers of what these Execs want to do, which is part of the overall plan in their attempt to keep us devided and dumb. Hip Hop is in a sad sad state!!!!

I agree with you hip hop is at it's lowest, those capitalist crackers, don't want black men rapping about police burtality. Racsism in America and how nothing has really change for most black people, in the united snakes of America.

If rappers start talking about real topics, white people are going to start getting worried, because the last thing white America wants is the world to see just how bad condiction are for black people.

That why the cracker alway promotes the safe negro's, that way when you put them in front of a camera, all they do
joke and clown around, and talk about how they want to kill the next black person who looks just like them.

If a rapper wanted to talk about killing record label bosses, for paying them less then a dollar for each album sold, I wonder how much air time they would get.

What you see and hear make you what you what you are, when you have impressionable young people, beliving 50 cent is a real gangter, their future is already sealed.

Most white people oppinion of black men are negative. when you think of a drug dealer, pimp, gangter, most white people will have a image of a black man in their head.

If you look at the facts, the biggest pimp by far is the cracker, knowone has sold more people than the cracker. And knowone sell more drugs than the cracker.

If we buy those records then we're promoting that negative image of ourselves.

"I have noticed that they themselves are their greatest enemies. That's the struggle they need to focus on . When you win that struggle, then you've won most of the battle."

@LoveIt...Sista, you hit it right on. I cant add or or take anything from that point. Excellent topic.

Tupac Shakur was a Gangster Rapper but he told it how it is he was The Jesus of Hip Hop and also if you may a modern day Black Jesus.He might have been a Gangster Rapper but atleast alot of Gangster Rappers are actually better then actual Gangsters themselves i mean there no longer causing trouble there making something of themselves.Tupac Shakur stood for what he believed.He was like the Malcolm X of this generation.