I am sick of what going on with kids my age it just not safe anymore

[choirsoftheeye]

rocketpig said:

Fuzzmosis said:
Very weird tangent: This is why I hate rap. What started as a means to get a message out about the violence in communities for people who felt that they dind't have a voice has turned into a means to get messages about starting violences in communities. Certainly isn't the cause, but it's pretty sickening in my opinion.

Grand Master Flash FTW.

El Producto sort of strange, They say he stares at you long-range. Perhaps he's looking at us with his thousand-yard gaze, and he sees how MCs became contorted with their own lies and went from battle rap to gun talk, like we ain't notice the change.

 

 

Anyways, a lot of the old-school rap having to do with violence on the streets had more of a social consciense than modern rap does.  Even rappers like Biggie who spearheaded the gangsta rap money image had tracks like "Suicidal Thoughts" that really expressed something deeper than the killing people and selling drugs = money = good.  That sort of gets washed out with the media image of the genre and where the labels subsequently pushed it - took the substance without the soul.  You can still find it in underground groups like Cannibal Ox...