boycott asylum records and rap music trash

[star-warrior]

IWhen Anderson interviewed the church kids and they had all seen the crimes and admitted they wouldn't tell the police it made me sad.

Lets hope if they live to middle age, they don't complain that their neighbourhood is crime ridden. Karma !

 

[NickCole]

Oh yeah like these guys invented stop snitchin.

Anybody here paying the slightest attention to the Gonzales testimony before Congress? Or for that matter Bush & Co in general.

George Bush learned it at Skull & Bones at Yale University -- that is, if he didn't learn it inside the Bush family first.

Get a grip on your racism, fellas.

 

[69Strat]

George Bush learned it at Skull & Bones at Yale University

LOL, Skull & Bones.

 

[james1200]

my...all you suburban boys are brave in your little enclaves where there is no crime and violence. try moving to a ghetto somewhere, witness a crime and snitch. see how long you last before you get a bullet in your head or in your loved ones head. you don't snitch because if you do, you die. not everyone lives in lilly white, crime-free suburbs nor can they afford to (nor would i want to)...and the police don't move you and your family to one if you snitch (they're not the FBI). what exactly do you people have a hard time understanding about how you either keep quiet or you die? it's not that difficult. holland, this is yet another thread that proves you're a fool.

 

[iman]

What James says is true. The question then is how can the situation improve in poor city neighborhoods. How can more police make any difference if the neighborhood sides with the dealers and killers? When teenagers become killers and they are protected and even lionized by the popular culture and neighborhood values there is little hope for change.

What is really needed is black leadership that is willing to tell people that the drug dealers and rappers are simply victimizing the black inner city population and destroying all hope of decent neighborhoods.

Crime has always been a part of poor, city ethnic neighborhoods (Irish, Italian, Asian, etc) but in the case of black neighborhoods today, the criminals are creating a value system that protects the victimizers and condemns the residents and their children to a cycle of jail, poverty and addiction.

The real race issue here is that white kids in the suburbs can play at drug dealing and rapping and still end up in college, but the inner city kid ends up dead or in jail. These kids are the real victims not a few offended college students, unfortunately the current crop of black leadership finds it easier to go after white personalities guilty of lapses of judgement than to address the culture that is really victimizing African Americans.

 

[james1200]

All true. But why sing about it? Why promote it? Why glorify it?

mattie, they're entitled to sing about what they know (or in the case of the posers, what they don't know) and you're entitled to ignore it, just like i would have ignored don imus' existence instead of having him fired. i assume everyone is worried about the kids with inattentive or no parents who are going to get their values from these records. well, that's a problem we have with the parents, not the music industry.

 

[ryan13th]

I do think the way rappers promote this as a 'good' thing is only making the problem worse, but I can completely see where it's coming from. Like James said, in communities like that, snitching runs you a good chance of being killed and the police aren't going to go out of their way to return the favor since most of those cases aren't on federal level. It's really sad to see communities literally trapped in vicious circles because people are too afraid of being killed to help police, and the police don't do enough to protect those people.

 

[ryan13th]

why is it i never hear these black rappers raising money for dafur sudan ? maybe only michael jackson and hes pop ,not rap trash

Actually, quite a few rappers have gathered in effort to support against the atrocities going on in Dafur.

A group of rappers are joining together to launch the 20-city Save Darfur Tour to raise money and awareness to help the victims of an ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Sudan. The Save Darfur Tour launches on Jan. 21 in Chicago and ends in Feb. in Las Vegas. The tour will feature rappers C Rayz Walz, Abadawn, Blitz, Braille, Carnage, CasOne, Copywrite, Freestyle, Grayskul, Hasan Salaam, Improv Logic, JC and DLake, Ohmega Watts, PegLeg, Ricky Pharoe, Sleep and Rocket One, Vakill, Visionaries and Alexipharmic, the founder of the tour. "The tour will educate an incredibly receptive audience about the devastating state of Darfur through perhaps the most universally understood and empowering language of music," Alexipharmic said. All of the proceeds of the tour will be donated directly to The Save Darfur Coalition. For more information and tour dates visit: http://www.savedarfurtour.com/


http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=6599

You seem like you have something personal against black rappers for whatever reason or another.

 

[Caution]

All true. But why sing about it? Why promote it? Why glorify it?

People live it everyday and people dont understand so they are judgmental and have an image of what the media puts out with not really knowing anything.