Comments on: Rap Music Is Enslaving Our Kids???, Called, “Verbal Toxic Waste”

By: Chris Rock

Chris Rock — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:43:34 +0000

THEY GONNA TALK TO THE CRACK HEAD WITH A AIR CONDITIONER INSIDE A SHOPPING CART JUST TO SHOW HOW TO DIS BLACKS

hahahaha…..

By: Chris Rock

Chris Rock — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:42:15 +0000

What are you saying?!?! (@24, 25, etc) It is not JUST the music. Not at all. Please wake up and look at the big picture. The picture that started in the 70s and 80s!! I could write for an hour and it still wouldn’t be enough. Whoever is in their 30s doesn’t (and didn’t) let the music and rappers influence them because our parents grew up in a different era which made them strong enough to teach us the right things and were strong enough to be influential!!

Today kids get influenced by music because their parents don’t teach them enough, are not strong enough, don’t have any control. And this happens for a bunch of reasons caused by the world we live in today, which was created by white corporate and political america exactly for this reason!! To slowly destroy certain races (minorities) and certain classes (poor/low income).

People in their 60s and older, grew up in a time where there was more self respect and a lot less TV, less movies, less drugs, less alcohol, less open sex everywhere, less negativity all together. People don’t understand that all that shit fogs up your vision and kills the mind. All those distractions have been multiplied (purposely) by a million today. If you make people stupid they will only be able to raise stupid people.

Why are universities so expensive?! So poor people can’t afford to go and so they will never get good jobs and they will always stay poor!!

It’s a very long discussion….but trust me, drugs, ghettos, violence, poverty, alcohol, etc exist for a specific reason. This way of thinking is not due to crazy conspiracy theories, like they make you believe. It’s the truth.

Anyway, just be awake and use your mind. Turn off the TVs and spend some time thinking about how to better yourself, and not just financially.

By: jersey nigga

jersey nigga — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:25:26 +0000

RIGHT THERE YOU CAN SEE HOW DUMB CAMRON IS, BUT NO MATTER WHAT, RAPPERS ARE NOT THESE CHILDRENS PARENTS, AND YOU ALWAYS KNOW WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING NEGATIVE THEY WILL USE THAT TILL THE WHEELS FALL OFF. I DONT HEAR THEM TALKING ABOUT ROCK AND ROLL WHEN THESE WHITE KIDS LOOSE THEY DAMN MIND OFF OF THE MUSIC AND ITS FUNNY REPORTERS DONT KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THESE RAPPERS BUT THEY TALK LIKE THEY KNEW ABOUT THEM FOR YEARS ITS JUST LIKE THE NEWS WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS THEY NOT GONNA TALK TO A POSITIVE LOOKING BLACK MAN NO THEY GONNA TALK TO THE CRACK HEAD WITH A AIR CONDITIONER INSIDE A SHOPPING CART JUST TO SHOW HOW TO DIS BLACKS

By: Stick2daScript

Stick2daScript — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:23:56 +0000

I have to agree with GT and #25. The music has a very powerful influence, although parenting plays a big role, but what about the parents that take all of the necessary precautions to raise their kids to go in the right direction, and the kids still go astray!
How do you blame these parents? We must face it! These artists have become the new leaders of our communities and their leading our kids down a road of self destruction!!!

NOT ALL ARTISTS, BUT THOSE THAT ARE.

By: Turd Ferguson

Turd Ferguson — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:38:53 +0000

@ comment 24……….. I dont know what hood you are from but when i was younger (just made 30) all we listened to was rap. not encouraging illegal DL’ing, but if you can listen to a song by the geto boys caled “assassins” that shit is crazy even by today’s standards. the problem is white people. I listen to a rap song for the beats. I heard the B word so much that I’m jaded. The problem again is white people. THEIR communities are being saturated with ignorant ass Chain hang low, shoulda lean ass crap music. 50 cent, dem franchise boys. Lil Wayne, and all that other shit. I am not singling out all white people cause i love some of yall. and i got friends that know the difference between shitty rap (as mentioned above) and shit that sounds good and makes sense. It seems as though Nas albums and De La Soul and Common albums are not hitting those suburban communities. They just buying the bullshit cause that’s what MTV is playing.

By: beenie

beenie — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:28:54 +0000

music has influenced generations for years, when hippies had their music, the acted in response to their music, when 80’s punk rock came out, their followers acted like their musicians, why cant it be possible that rap music and its Bulls*it message be influencing their fans?

By: educatedblacklady

educatedblacklady — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:23:34 +0000

I GOTTA AGREE WITH GT, THE MUSIC IS A STRONG INFLUENCE IN OUR ENVIRONMENT, AND THE RAPPERS TODAY ONLY THINK ABOUT MAKING MORE MONEY, SO THEY EXPLOIT SEX, DRUGS, AND EVERY OTHER IMMORAL THING THAT SELLS. IT COMES A POINT WHEN EVEN THE PARENTS DONT HAVE THAT STRONG INFLUENCE ANYMORE.

ALMOST LIKE A VIRUS

By: GT

GT — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:12:46 +0000

^^^^^^ I don’t agree. I’ve talked about this with other people before.
I grew up (I’m probably older than most of you) listening to Geto Boys, NWA, Too Short, etc when I was in my mid teens. Go listen to their lyrics. I didn’t grow up to be a drug dealer, a pimp or someone who shoots the cops, etc…..the music doesn’t effect you as much as they say if you have someone teaching you what’s right and what’s wrong. Where are people’s parents? They should be teaching their kids how to act and behave in life. They should be the real influences, not a fuckin rapper or a ball player!! Grow up! Just cause someone raps about killing someone, does that mean I can go do it? And if I do do it, is the rapper to blame? Or should I be blamed for being an idiot? Wouldn’t the real problem be that nobody taught me any better? Think about it….

^^^^^^^^^ In response, IM 30 YRS OLD AND LISTENED TO ALL THOSE RAPPERS THAT YOU NAMED AND MORE. THE MAIN DIFFIERENCE FROM THOSE TIMES AND NOW, IS THAT BACK THEN RAP MUSIC DID NOT SATURATE THE MEDIA, THE HOMES, THE SCHOOLS, THE COMMUNITY AS IT IS NOW, HEARING THOSE THINGS DID NOT INFLUENCE ME BECAUSE I HAD A BALANCE OF ETHICS FROM MY PARENTS AND COMMUNITY(LIBERTY CITY MIAMI). BUT NOW, THE RAP MUSIC THAT WE HEAR HAS SUCH AN INFULENCE ON WHAT PEOPLE THINK (INCLUDING THE PRESENT ADULT GENERATION), THAT IT BREAKS DOWN WHATEVER MORALS ONE HAS…THINK ABOUT IT….IF YOUR TOLD THAT DRUGS, VIOLENCE, SEX AND CHEATING IS THE WAY TO BE HAPPY…WHAT WOULD U DO.

By: Chris Rock

Chris Rock — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:02:29 +0000

Ms Meka

I agree…..why didn’t they call Nas? KRS? etc…..these people (Fox) know exactly what they’re doing. I’m surprised they called M1.

By: Turd Ferguson

Turd Ferguson — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:01:14 +0000

Too many “others” grilling out their mouths and doing black people things. I knew it was all over when 3-6 got an Oscar before Scorsese.
Hip hp is on the outs. All we got now is: Dance instructions or shitty hooks or diss songs. And if we are blessed with some “real talk” it is usually an old artist that appears out of place due to the state of hip hop now.

Hip Hop is an art form any way you look at it. It is too many black people getting too much money living out their dreams. You got supposedly ex dope dealers in commercials with Don Shula. Or Sons of shitty rappers that owns a city block in Nawlins who’s son had his own house at 13. Master P sucked as a Rapper, but as a business man you gotta give props. I heard in his record deal he was getting 85% of what he did. Brothas are getting too smart in this music game. THe damage is done though. It cant be stopped.