October 17th, 2007
Article On The T.I. Situation & Black America
Somewhere along the way, a cadre of young black men and women began glorifying violence, misogyny and thuggishness, accepting incarceration as inevitable, resigning themselves to lives on the margins of mainstream society. They created a thug culture that has been commodified — celebrated in music and movies, sold to poor adolescents in wretched neighborhoods as well as affluent teenagers in upscale communities.
Interesting read…
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October 17th, 2007 at 5:20 am
Deep Line…
“If white entertainers were making millions singing about the slaughter of black men and mistreatment of black women, city streets would clog with protesters. Demonstrators would pack the halls of Congress. Commerce would grind to a halt as black activists demanded boycotts. But somehow, the violence and misogyny of T.I., 50 Cent and Nelly are less inflammatory.”
October 17th, 2007 at 5:35 am
this article is on point, we should be ashamed of ourselves and have only ourselves to blame.
October 17th, 2007 at 6:07 am
She’s fake! She wrote that and took a shot at Nelly at the end. All these other rapper’s and she calls out Nelly. All these female authors are targeting rap music like it produces these kids. “Listen to a gangster rap song and you are turned into a gangster,” bitch please!
If you want to write about something, write about after school, music and low income school district funding. She’s probably the type that lives in her little space and think that this stuff does not exist.
Don’t complain without a solution! Help the Hood.
October 17th, 2007 at 6:08 am
true
October 17th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Ur right who is is to blame but us black folks. We gotta start being more responsible,for everyone, and most importantly the youth. Stop accepting whatever the white mogul wants u 2 jimmney cricket to. Hip hop is now just plain poison,almost worse than a “bmore love thing”. gOT the youth and most of black america beliveing that we are NOTHING. Even if u in the ghetto u can get out, but you damn sure cant get out selling and killing each other. “If i can make it so can you.” And not to ride on kanye’s d*ck,or common’s for that matter, but they they only one’s speaking truth and being creative. I’m just tired and this is from the mind and heart of a black baltimore female tired of seeing my lil ones die because they living in a sterotype commericial fantasy. There is a way out. R.I.P SYKO
October 17th, 2007 at 6:19 am
AND FOR commentary #3 & #4, excuses,excuses,excuses…the white man ain’t gonna give you sh*t and he ’s gonna keep things in ur way to hinder ur progress. That don’t mean give up and make matter’s worse. You mines well start hitting the pipe!
October 17th, 2007 at 6:31 am
America was design that 6 way i dont see no change coming
nowdayz wisdom take crossroads,the wheel of evil is in motion and it will never6stop!!yall dream of a perfect world
meanwhile people die in it!!A WAR IS COMING,AT THE FRONLINE
SOLDIERS ARE YALL READY!6!:)
October 17th, 2007 at 8:17 am
True talk
October 17th, 2007 at 8:30 am
She has a pointbut I’m just tired of everytime someone associated with Hip Hop does something wrong they make it seem like that’s all Hip Hip is about. REALTALK you need to start posting some of the many positive things that go on in Hip Hip along with all this negative sh*t. I love Hip Hop but I don’t love everything about it. There’s more to Hip Hop than all the negative attention it gets…….
October 17th, 2007 at 10:01 am
its sad but the bad does outweigh the good
i agree wit money that says that america is designed this way. everytime i see shit like this happen to a big star i think of the plan. and how long ago was this plan made, our lives as a whole is like a social experiment.
and with that being said, people like t.i. are responsible for his own actions and he made a fool of himself and hiphop in the eyes of america. i aint sayin he cant do what he do, but he need to be smarter and not let it come to light. kids are seeing these guns and they might idolize it. thats where parents are supposed to step in and take control. rappers like him make it hard to teach kids right from wrong. and i dont put nelly in that category at all, nelly is almost considered a positive rapper. i dont listen that much but i dont think he talks about guns and drugs too much, just women and money
October 17th, 2007 at 10:38 am
White Executives marketing rap to the suburbia, the article is on point.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:40 am
What you focus on expands my G. So until heads realize Scarface was a movie and you cant get away with what your Caucasian neighbors does there be more T.I’s to come. In closing HIP-HOP like the rest of the world needs JESUS like yesterday can a brotha get an AMEN up in herr.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Amen
I hate when they right!!
October 17th, 2007 at 10:47 am
Amen
I hate when they right!!k
October 17th, 2007 at 11:52 am
funny how fewer people comment on topics with substance,
October 17th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
true!!!
October 17th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
All you people shut dat shit up!!!!Because this story is just another rhetorical write-up thats sounds via copy and pasted from the same people who dont say anything to Denzel who’s also playing the most notorious black drug dealer in world history, and once a crooked cop in training day, nor do they say anything about things like the mini series The Wire, because you people all forget to realize these are people which are in the Performing Arts Profession……Rap Music is just an image PEOPLE….Rap music has and will always have characters, why do you think so many rappers are making a smooth transisition into acting……..She’s taking shots at the same people everybody does (50 Cent, Nelly, etc……) But nobody talks about Chris Rock, Dave Chapelle and actors who use the word Bitch in there movies and Comedy Sketches just as much as rappers…….
All in all Yes T.I made a mistake but, what she’s doing is almost the same thing as black on black crime….she’s attemping to take food out of rappers mouths by generalizing Rap music….It’s the same thing as when white people say “ALL BLACK PEOPLE AREN’T NIGGERS BECAUSE I LIKE SOME OF THEM” if black people don’t stand together everything is gonna crumble!!!!!
October 17th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Its wrong how Nellys in the list, hes probebly the most distanced rapper from all the thuggish shit.
Everything else in that article is right and people need to identify with it. Black people are mostly in denial which is why u still got people in her sayin shes wrong blah blah coz they cant except it. Black people seem to always have someone to blame and 90% of the time its whites
People need to realise there’s a lot of caring white people out there thats trying to do u good.
People need to open there eyes. Hip Hop isn’t diein its just close to a transition a very positive one. Atm hip hop is at rock bottem with all the content being negative bar kanye n common. rappers need to use there music to inspire to make a better world. U can talk about all the shit that goes on but put it in a bad light make people to not want to go that way in life.
The thing is, is it has to start with the fans n all this street cred bollocks coz thats where it comes from. They lie n rap about how gangsta they are to get YOU on there side n think there hard so until the fans change the rappers wont. It looks like its changin with the success of kanye.
All of ya’ll thinkin im bein a pussy ill rather live in a happy world then a messed up one. Only thing is work has to be put in 4 the happy one. Think about ur kids dyin in a shitty world we created. Bloods on our hands
October 17th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
fuk all yall lyfes the fact is hip hop does not breed us young killas poverty does i neva did dirt to look coo all the shyt i did was mostly cuz i was broke n try to come up hip hop makes us look coo to kids in the suburs n maybe makes them act out since they have that esatblished liyfe i dont know y they would wanna klive that liyfe cuz there is cocaine dealers in the suburbs that have mommys n daddys n they both doctors i neva understood dat i do feel like hip hop glorifys the shyt n makes it seem coo cuz when i was doin wat i was doin i knew it was wrong but at the same time i felt powerful like i could take on nething n i now know that was neva the case no1 is immune to bullets n for every tough nigga theres some1 tougher
October 17th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
PREACH!!!!!!!!! THE SAME SHIT THAT’S GOING ON NOW WAS THE SAME SHIT GOING ON BEFORE RAP MUSIC WAS AROUND AND 1/2 OF THESE SAME PEOPLE WERE THE ONES LISTENIN TO SEX FILLED OL’SKOOL R&B RECORDS BACK IN THE DAY!!!!!!
October 17th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
ps ti n other rappers is a whole dfrent example for dat man to do dat is stupid wat do u need 25 guns 4?lol he can even go to a shootin range hes a convicted felon n u aint bringin the AR 15 assualt rifle into the club i think thats just rappers gettin caught up in the lyfe but for these young kids totin pistols its all about gettin that guap n bein the toughest its sad but thats the mentality of not the black man but alotta niggas form tha hood blak white pr dr mexican alll dat if u come from low income n r around the wrong influences ur destined for faulure
October 17th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
c i cant even spell failure right lol thats public school for u o well
October 17th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
SNITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thats why he got caught!!
October 17th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
t.i. was gon get caught anyway nigga u cant have army gunz and get away with that shit so he aint da reason hip hop is gettin targeted for dumb shit he is just one person there is hundreds of artists that do haave positive musicim personally tired of seein these hip hop is dyin post and arguin ova it like i said in posts before hip hop will neva die as long as we listen to music in general so it is wat it is…
VITAMIN WATER DA NEW MOVEMENT…
October 17th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
the reason dont matter, the purpose does!!
October 18th, 2007 at 12:07 am
Any responsible grown person should have no arguement with what the sister stated, CAUSE IT’S OBVIOUS.
@ #3 (F that b..)I understand “don’t complain without a solution” but she’s still right!
October 18th, 2007 at 5:42 am
#17 bay,Ok when your acting in a movie and your a powerful person like Denzel it is okay to transtion because you have portrayed a powerful and positive black man for years. Glory,man on fire, the hurricane,MALCOM X,. He has proved a point. And why would you take shots at the wire when it shows real shit that happens in the streets. The wire doesn’t glorify Baltimore, if anything it lets us see that in my hood there is no candy paint, money fallin out da sky, and bitches shakin they ass for nothing. They all pay a price, watch closly bro. And wait Dave Chapplle is a black mogul who isn’t afraid to let white’s know how ill we are portrayed,lol…”da da da W.B, I like chicken”. Real talk about that damn frog, ect. Chris rock also use to keep it real, but theses guys are comedians, aren’t they suppose to be funny? Rap is always 90% seriously talking about killing a nigga if he even breath wrong. I can’t even name one rapper today who has made a positive transition in their raps, Mason Betha dont count,lol. Which rapper has stop talking about the commercial bullshit and jumped on the postive band wagon to tell us not to drop out, or encourage us to stop selling D, because there is a way out. If it is it’s to damn few of them..and that’s why #19 “thought” he had no other opportunity but to sell drugs to get out of poverty. No positive influence. The average young person listens to hip hop while he’s on the block,smoking the pif, they ain’t watching trainig day. These kids is outside sun up to sun down, atleast on my block.
October 18th, 2007 at 5:46 am
Proper respect to NAS, KANYE, COMMON,TALIB,and Mos. aND jAY FROM RESONABLE DOUBT.
October 19th, 2007 at 5:32 am
….and oh yeah Master P. Atleast he’s trying to promote something positive