The Wicked Nature of Hip Hop
Music dominates the masses of Black People around world. In America, Africa, the Islands, and etc The Black culture is completely dominated by the type of music the people listen to. This could be true for people in general but in this instance our subject will be Black People.
In Jamaica, the dominant choice of music is Reggae, a musical form that was originally introduced by Bob Marley and the Wailers.
When Introduced most of their songs were about love, justice, and escaping the hell that white people had been given Black People in Jamaica. Most people only know of Bob as a musician and an advocate for marijuana, Bob believed that weed was for medication, and meditation, not just for recreation. He was also part of the Rastafarian movement, where members grew their hair, did not smoke cigarettes, didn’t drink alcohol, and lived by very strict diets. The music that Bob made had a Political effect on his country and countries around the world. His music not only challenged the government but it inspired others to challenge the government. The true followers of Reggae were about uniting their people and rebelling against the system that was harassing them.
Now we’ll examine Reggae for what it is today.
Do you see how the culture has changed since the days of Bob? Most Reggae no longer carries the Spiritual message. Most songs are about drinking, drugs, smoking weed, freely having sex and etc. Look at the streets of Kingston, Jamaica; they are some of the most dangerous hoods in the world. When the music was about Unity, the People were about Unity. When the music became about foolishness then the People became about foolishness.
These same trends are manifesting themselves in Africa today. Many African artists have songs about killing, shooting, drinking, partying, and random sex. Ghettos and hoods are developing in all of the major cities of Africa. Bob Marley’s music also encouraged many African countries during the time when Africans were fighting white people in order to gain independence; these countries include Kenya and Zimbabwe where people were growing dreadlocks and becoming proud about being Africans. The music was of High Morality and there were fuses of Spirituality, Justice, and love.
Now let’s examine how this ties in with America. In the past there have been times where the music of Black People has inspired them to stand up and fight for Justice. Think about the Negro Spirituals/ Gospel Spirituals that were coded with messages to help slaves escape. Think about how music helped a struggling people cope with their woes. Many of those Negro spirituals consist of rhymes and these same songs inspired many slave rebellions throughout the south. Read the words of this one Negro spiritual “Oh freedom, Oh Freedom, Oh freedom over me, And before I be a Slave, I’ll be buried in my grave, And go home to my Lord and be free.”
In the past the music, dance, fellowship, and Spirituality of black people was similar to that of the Israelites in the bible. When black music had a spiritual root black people shared whatever they had with each other sugar, eggs, and etc. Parents not only looked after their kids but they looked after the other kids In the neighborhood as if they were their own, it was almost like we lived in some kind of village, but we were just in the hood. These days if you have a black neighbor who tells you “hello” you’re lucky.
Look at how the music that we allowed to come into our homes has completely destroyed our family and our value system. We went from “brothers and sisters” to “niggas and bitches” and this change took place at the same time that there was a change in music.
Now just think. If you had an enemy that you wanted to defeat and keep him from rising up wouldn’t you want to stagnate and exploit his strengths? Record labels exploit our women and they exploit our art form. Hip Hop could have been used to make a very revolutionary People. The record labels noticed this power and quickly reverse this power in attempts to make niggas out of you and me. Black music in America affects black culture in America. When the music was strong, and powerful the people were strong and powerful, when we called ourselves brothers and sisters in our music, we called ourselves brothers and sisters in the street, when we called ourselves niggas and bitches in our music we started calling ourselves niggas and bitches in the street.
Hip Hop is just advertisement for white products and Rappers are the marketers. Ok let’s examine the previous statement. Why do our young black people wear timberlands, Nikes, Gucci, and etc because rappers of promoted this image to them and told them that it was good. For goodness sake there is a rapper named “Gucci Man” he promotes there company every time he says his name “Gucci”
Rappers also promote white people’s alcohol products. There are so many songs about Hennessey, Bacardi, hypnotic, and then rappers make videos to further promote these products on television for youngsters to watch. Think about all of the songs about Benzes, Lexus’s, and Ferrari’s , not to mention all of those episodes of mtv cribs where they show these products , encouraging one to covet.
The sick part of this story is that many rappers actually own legit enterprises. Barbershops, Studios, Basketball teams, record labels, but still make music encouraging the youth to sell drugs. Do your researches the CIA/FBI makes the most out of the drug trade. How do you think drugs get into the country in the first place? The guys that sell drugs in your neighborhood don’t own planes. The only people with the means to bring drugs into to this country and get them through U.S customs in large quantities is the U.S government. Especially with all of this high security after 9/11 they have technology that can see through your bags and your vehicle. If they wanted to stop the drug problem they could but they don’t want to mess their money up.
Hip Hop is used to market slavery. All of the crime talked about in this music leads to death or prison. Prison is basically sanctioned slavery. The 13th amendment was made to abolish slavery but it does make an exception for law breakers. This is modern enslavement. Prisoners are making clothes and other products and earning about 80 cent per week, this is very cheap la bor for any company. This prison thing also promotes homosexuality and down low activity.
In essence Hip Hop is supposed to free our minds, but instead it has lead to the enslavement of our minds and bodies and that is a problem.
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