An Interesting Take on BLM

[FireIceTalon]

Back, to rap. Don't you see that this art form was their creation, and a hopeful, not criminal way to escape poverty. One way that majority culture deals with counter culture is to subsume it, then consume it and crap it out as popular culture. Like so many whites, including Elvis, justify cultural theft as flattery. Get real. Its about the money.



Absolutely cringeworthy.

My jaw fell to the fucking floor when I read this. I don't think I have ever agreed with you more than I do here.

It is no coincidence that hip hop today is not nearly as socially conscious or "raw" compared to the art form it was in the 1980's and 1990's, and the early 2000's to some extent. It's there, but you have to look much harder to find it now.

So many fucking classic records from that era. The 90's for rap was like the 60's was for rock n roll - it was a MOVEMENT that transcended the music itself, yet was integral in why the music from those respective eras was/is so incredible and timeless. I still listen to alot of the 90's rap albums like they just came out last week, and I've owned some of these records going on 20 years.

But yea, hip hop was one of the very very few routes and opportunities for young black males to make it out of a life of poverty, crime and drug dealing. It's really why those early-mid 90's records are so pure and raw in sound, they are a product of the 'crack era' and the effect it and Reaganomics had on black communities. Some of the records do glorify life in the hood, but it's mostly a 'respect the roots' or unity kind of thing. Most of the time though, they considered themselves as reporters for what was going on in their communities and showed the poverty and violence more as a fact of their environment rather than as something they wanted to keep doing - since it got little or no coverage in regular MAINSTREAM media, and the rare coverage it did get was more to portray them negatively or victim-blame as Taem does.