As for N.W.A i doubt their impact was positive, if anything they did the exact opposite. They were nothing more than a bunch of racist, pro-black, lunatics, trying to blame everything on the white man.....kinda like al sharpton (who i dont like).
What a lot of pro-black, hip hop fanatics (supporters) promoters etc, may not have realized in their consistency to dismiss the notion that hip hop is one of the main contributors of the negativity in the black community.. is that hip hip ,especially in the "old school" portrayed BLACKS on mass as a meek/defenseless and helpless bunch unable to implement defense mechanisms (on their pursue for happiness-equality) unless "the white man" aka whitey helped them out...
If black children listened to the likes of mozart, beethoven etc before even knowing the existence of hip hop, i doubt the influence would be that bad. I dont know the level of subliminal messaging in hip hop or classical music, or how these messages tends to turn classical music listeners into geniuses while hip hop listeners dumb down by a few %, so i wont really comment on that...
And im not saying hip hop is the main problem in dumbening our youth, but to me its a driving force.Irresponsible parenting is also at blame here, but like i said previously, these kids listen to hip hop because most lack a strong family structure and strong parents. Everyone has the right to express themselves as some of these hip hop emcees do but when you have a poor young black male being told by his role models that selling drugs and shooting people is the only way to make ends meet..... what do you think the consequences will be???.
As a youngster I remember imitating guys like beethoven, by playing the piano till my fingers were numb.......i also emulated the likes of diego maradonna and pele and would practice their moves on the playground, which is exactly what our children are doing these days....The only differece is that hip hop emcees are telling them to HATE, steal and Killl......they flash their success and their expensive cars in the face of young black males but none of that shit is realistic to the average black child.....maybe they should start talking about the significance of education, and how nothing in life comes from stealing, killing or drug dealing.
Videos of most hip hop artist have one thing in common: The disrespecting and dehumanization of black women, the ignorance of black men with metal plated teeth talking about "everyday im hustling". Black face had a big white mouth and you know what else??.. white people (and people in general)had as much respect for that character as they do to the silver teeth having idiots
The notion that killing and drug dealing is the only way to make it up the social ladder if youre black,is another principal advocated by hip hop culture. This principle explains why there is a permanent admiration for thugs and "the thug life" within hip hop;;;; it is why there is a murderers grit and jailhouse tattoos gazing back at you from almost any hip hop CD cover you picked up in the last few years. But what hip hop will never tell uss,,,a secret that it will probably take to its grave is that this urban life style is a costume,,,,a blackfaced mask to shake the reality that its killing us from within……..2 rappers are getting richer at the vast expense of countless black children dying everyday in the streets,,,,thats the story of hip hop
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Laughing my ass off. Sounds like Malikom took on another persona.