June 20th, 2007
T.I. Comments On The Critics Of Hip Hop
He tells U.S. magazine Blender, “I just see rappers being attacked, rather than being related to. “I put it like this – hip-hop has always been about what you see outside in your neighborhood. If you wanna censor this music, you can’t censor it when it gets to the radio stations. “You can’t put someone in the jungle all their lives and then when they get an opportunity to get out, you’re critiquing them for acting like they from the jungle. “Do I think standards could be raise? Of course. But in order for you to expect them to act like they not from the jungle, you should of come and got them 20 years ago.”
Does T.I. have a point, are critics only looking at the effect and not the cause?
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June 20th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
FIRST lol and i think he right
June 20th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
He’s got a point. But once u make it out the jungle and you like and live the civilized life there is no reason to pretend u still are some untamed animal just to be popular amongst the monkeys, snakes, and spiders.
June 20th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
like the old sayin goes…
u can take the boy out the hood,
but u cant take the hood out the homeboy….
in some cases, more often than not, that is so true.
June 20th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
I agree to a certain extent Kenya. But it bothers me how hip hop is attacked as sending negative images to kids, when ALL forms of media send negative images to kids. This country has a violent history and Americans thrive off it: gangster movies/television and the like. Most rappers know if they go too far “left-field”, they’ll lose the hood fanbase and the wannabes in the burbs. Instead of attacking hip hop for it’s misogyny and language, perhaps, someone should come up with solutions to help those in the environments from which it was derived.
June 20th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
THANK YOU TI !!! Took the words right out of my mouth . Yal ever see them talking about rappers on TV and wished they asked you the same question ? Ti took the words out of my whole hoods mouth . Bill o riley aint from bedstuy!!! haha he aint gonna know what fab talking about what various rappers mean when they describe there hood . These people look at us like animals because of our music . Haha like look at where we live . That shit aint for anybody . Its survial of the fittest . We come from Overly aggressive enviroments where a 8 ball jaket would get you shot !!! and that was the 80’s !!!
June 20th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
he s right ppl just bein stupid this year wats there problem ??
June 20th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
I would like to pose this one question . ( r.i.p. stack b squad up !!! ) but do you think stack bundles passed because of the violence in the music or because of the violence in his nieghborhood ( far rock ) ??? He passed away in his building …. ???? Now if somebody were to describe far rocaway as a violent enviroment in a song would they be wrong ???
June 20th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
i feel you too #2 but just cause they basically hood rich now and i say hood rich cause you can spend a mill easy in this day and age but like i was saying just cause they got money now dont take your childhood away and what he or any other rapper went through. First y’all want rappers to stop talking about they money now y’all dont want them to talk about the truth and what happened to them living in poverty and what is still happen to young black americans. That makes no sense make up your mind on what you want.All im saying like i’ve been saying target everyone. NEWS,ROCK,POP,R&B,HIPHOP,MOVIES,RADIO,AND MAINLY NEWS like i said. So much dead and shit happening all over the world and im sorry we aint at war cause of hiphop. People arent planing to blow shit up cause of hiphop. and people arent surely ignoring global warming cause of hiphop. ummmmm
June 20th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
oh yeah i wanted to throw it at y’all like this and maybe people will understand. You think if a female or male got raped when they were 12 and someone gave them 10 million that they gonna forget about the tragedy that happened to them cause they laying on a a fucking yacht. come on people im from the bronx and if i ever get a mansion i will never forget where i came from and thats something my mother taught me cause it makes up who you are.
June 20th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
When your from the streets certain things will stay with u. But at some point niggas should be growing up and realizing they not livin that life anymore. If u like it so much go back and be broke and happy. Its hard to connect with rappers who haven’t lived in the hood in years but yet they keep tryna force they still “livin” hood because they visit or shoot videos in the hood. Thats the problem with HipHop. Everybody tryna keep it real but can’t face the truth.
June 20th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
I kind of agree with T.I. and I kind of don’t. I see what he is saying… basically, “we’re a product of our environment” and so on. That is true. You live a certain for some many years, its only natural that you act that way. However, some shit is just common sense, human growth, whateva you wanna call it. You can’t be acting like you from the jungle and you no longer in the jungle. We ain’t fucking animals, we aren’t from congo, and this sure insn’t INSTINCT (movie w/ Cuba Gooding Jr). I see what T.I. is saying, but that is an excuse to me. I lived in Detrot, and trust me, that is the epitomy of jungle. I no longer live there, I go to school and work and I act civilized. Its not that hard. Thousands of black people have came from the worst of environments and they don’t act like they from the jungle. Some of them are entrepreneurs and a few or top executives at top companies. SO, WITH THAT, I WILL SAY THIS AGAIN, I UNDERSTAND WHAT T.I. IS SAYING, BUT ITS BULLSHIT AT THE SAME TIME.
June 20th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
So what exactly do you think rappers should rap about? What type of lyrics should they write?
I’d say this though way too many rappers rap about how much money they got and cars…etc. It’s not very interesting to listen to an album where some dude is pretty much only talking about his money and his cars and chicks.
June 20th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
I cosign TI and # 2, oh my bad was that TI or TIP talking
*sigh* them niggaz got me so confused right now.
June 20th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Its kind of like what pac said . THUGLIFE aint for everybody !!! THIS KID WHO PICKS IT UP AND ISNT GOING THROUGH THE THINGS HE’S DESCRIBING A DROP THAT SHIT SOONER A LATER . bUT TOO THE KID WHO IS ACTUALLY GOING THROUGHT THAT SHIT THATS WHO HE WAS TRYING TO REACH AND HE RECIEVED THAT MESSAGE !!! Raise your kids man stop trying to blame music for what you should have been teaching your kids !!! Like chris rock said i dont want to see a mother of three in the club on wendsday night . Take yo ass home and teach them kids before they rob me in the next ten years . HAHAHA !! that goes for men too !!!
June 20th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
I agree with him.
June 20th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
check it lets be for real. these rappers are selling a product. plain and simple. they are sellin hood stories to the masses because the masses eat it up. as soon as the fans stop supporting gangsta rap, it will disappear. that said, if the people want to hear gangsta rap, then by all means, give them what they want. cause if you dont do it someone else will to get that money. now if a rapper feels all bad like he is destroying the youth with his negative messages and he finds it hard to look at himself in the mirror, then he might need to give up the gangsta rap persona. but as soon as he sees the 0’s on that check, he will probably push all doubt aside.
look at negative rap music the same as other negative products, such as cigarrettes and alcohol. the ceos of major companies distributing these products know that their products can produce negative influences, but at the end of the day it’s all about the almighty dollar. like chris rock says, america worships money. so the consumers are the ones keeping negativity in hip hop alive. all naysayers need to find something else to bitch about.
June 20th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
niggas is goin to eat regardless, they don’t give a fuck they say whatever they got to say or rap about as long as the money is coming. it is wat ti is.
June 20th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Ti stop bytchin just take yuh millions and keep rap about killing off young black youths and hustling….
Respect and one love to real conscious rappers..
The struggle continues…
June 20th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Of course he has a point. This is how it always is. People create the circumstances that create a monster and then wanna berate the monster for acting like…..well..a monster. Like T.I. Stated, it always been about art imitating life with rap music so while it might be negativity you hear, its a reality for many. imagine some of those Iraqi children growing up and making songs about what they see going on over there. would you call it disgraceful music? They see violence, woman in a certain role in their society, injustices and so many other things that are equally relevant in our society. They need to examine the root of the problem.
June 20th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Kenya i undertand where you comin from but look, I don’t agree with moving up in the world and stayin “in the hood” however, because thats where you came from and it is a part of what you are you have ties to it. You can’t take everybody with you when you see your little piece of “upward mobility” so naturally you’re gonna be back and forth. Another thing is, when you are in and around something so long you grow accustomed to it and while there is still a longing to get away there is an attachment, however unhealthy it may be. Don’t get me wrong, I know plenty of dudes that only want to get rich to stunt for the hood and have no further aspirations but sometimes there are those that truly are happy in both worlds.
June 20th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
LOGIC, thank you. Very valid point. But at one point after art imitates life and then life imitates art and so on and so on, you gotta kind of separate one from the other and just accept individual responsibility. Yes its people expressing what they see and then yes its people trying to be & do what they hear but mostly….its dumb niggaz doing dumb shit. R.I.P. Stack Bundles.
June 21st, 2007 at 2:52 am
Telling you man america is afraid of the truth .EXPLAIN THIS !!! Why in the world they banned 50 cents advertisement for get rich or die trying the movie . because he had a mic in one and and a gun in the other . Go to the movies right now and show me how many poster you see with guys and guns . Now thats fake . 50’s was real life he got shot 9 times infont of his grandmothers house !!!! why ban that ???? and not tom cruise or somebody … the magic didnt want to put it in his theathers that pissed me off and you put all that other shit in there but you stopped the black dollar .and i luv magic ya know
June 21st, 2007 at 8:52 am
i agree with #2 kenya well put
June 21st, 2007 at 3:55 pm
rap aint 2 blame. bLAME it on bush. lol
Narh jokes aside. dis ignorant ppl attackin hiphop jus wastin dey time..at d end of d day wut do dey achieve otta dis? nuttin. dey dnt realize d more u bang on bout it d more ni99az rebel. same shit goin outtere wid our GRIME MUSIC similar 2 rap. da solution iz dnt single out 1 genre of muziq(RAP) and everyting be kool. GET ME! pEaCe OuT
LONDON WER U AT???? BRAT! BRAT! BRAT!
June 22nd, 2007 at 7:00 pm
yea he right, cuz ya criticizin about how they act but ya dont know y they do wat they do or act like they act… ya dont kno where they come form and how they was raised.. and just like one u might be raised in a certain place and have that in ur blood then is the same issue with them..
December 29th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
TI can u help me put out a cd please hit me up 770-983-1505