How to Destroy a Black Male in 10 Steps
Make sure the artist has a strong local following from perpetuating a self-destructive narrative and the charisma to make self-destruction seem appealing.
Make sure the artist has a strong local following from perpetuating a self-destructive narrative and the charisma to make self-destruction seem appealing.
No genre of music has experienced a more dramatic negative shift in values and content over the past 30 years than hip hop.
Time and time again, the real decision makers get away with murder while rap artists are projected as the embodiment of everything that is wrong with Hip Hop and young Black males.
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Blackout is an explosive look at the corruption that is running rampant throughout the music industry.
Long gone are the days of the million dollar advances. The music industry is now a singles driven monopoly.
The people who own the media are the same people who own private prisons, the EXACT same people, and using one to promote the other is (or “would be,” depending on your analysis) very lucrative.
Rap music in its heyday was an incredibly diverse genre that had room for hippies, hustlers, militants, gangsters, teachers, romantics, intellectuals, party animals, poets and more.
Having used Hip Hop culture as a medium to empower youth for the last 15 years, I’ve seen first hand how mainstream rap impacts young impressionable minds.
Just as you have no business rapping without knowing the history of the race that spawned your art form, you have no business rapping without knowing the history of the art form itself.