Black community isn’t ruined. Lock thread

such a loaded thread

wise ol nina simone

Our growth has been stunted. Can't deny that.

you have it backwards. the music is a symptom. not a cause

@op what's the solution? Would you like the government start a committee to review and approve song lyrics? If that's your buzz I know a few countries that do that s***, maybe you enjoy it there more bro.

type beat

I know your joking but the black community really needs to promote more positive music, rather than music that encourages the cycle. It may not solve everything but it’s a start.

Damn, we've been fryin chicken all this time when the eagle... nvm

OP go audit your local college’s black studies program have the discussion there

Join a black club or smth

Stop airing these nuanced, deep topics for whites and other races to see

It's whitewashing. When you're taught incorrectly about life it leads to hypertension. Hypertension is the 'silent killer' We know that Satan disguises themselves as ministers of light, it immediately starts with all forms of education. When you're looking to INTEGRATE into a sick society, you're being taught by a toxic mfer.

This then leads to gang violence. Murders, whitewashed college educated black folks who seek whiteys approval instead of being the proverbial "___ who sat by the door" and LIBERATING your own people. Because you've been white washed you don't even support your own black businesses.

We don't know our own history, arithmetic, spiritual relationship w God etc. We're taught how to accept bs all day, and take our anger out on eachother.

drill music is the only good rap

A lot of the s*** in our food gives us cancer. Its a devilish world we live in.

facts @op. when a rapper has a positive message they wanna call him the teletubby of rap

this thread (worded in some way or another) always comes up occasionally and i'd give the same answer, and i think this is mostly true

culture reflects material conditions, and it comes out in everything, including music

the failure of the black/brown community (as black people and latinos are the most afflicted with gang violence statistically IIRC), i think, is that people think there is even a "united community" at all, it differs a lot more on class lines, as those affect your material conditions IMO, and the refusal to accept this and settle for a tepid nationalism and to merge into the capitalist landscape has done absolutely nothing for 50+ years, and arguably has only worsened conditions for the poorest

you help this by alleviating mass poverty and wealth inequality on a "universal" scale, taking away the majority incentive to engage in crime, as the motivation is mainly money and the commodities which come with it

It's not a joke at all. What do you think is the solution? Either a government committee to review and approve lyrics or else everything goes... right?

The problem does not not just apply to the black community either, white people got the same problems, I heard em make metal songs about corpses and s***!

Here is a question for you..
Would you rather live in a country with a committee of "righteous" ppl guarding the gates of music or a country where there is no restrictions on music and everything goes?

@thankmelater hes about to go into his iran ranting again lmao

Im always going to blame the centuries of white supremacy, red lining, Jim Crow, burning down thriving black communities, gentrification, assassinations of our leaders, mass incarceration, the war on d****, school to prison pipeline, schools being funded by property taxes in dis-invested communities that have had their jobs and other resources cut off due to white flight, and plain ol racism before I blame music.

Now I will acknowledge that some music is an act of expression and not actively aiming to break the cycle or offer alternatives, but there's nothing inherently wrong with that either.

I do hope, for the love of God, we stop doing this thing where once somebody is successful and moves out of poverty, they become a target of jealousy.

the amount of things that have damaged the black community, idk if street music is even a factor at this point

You’re lowkey trying to bait dude into getting permabanned 😐

Exactly this.

Sometimes I feel like listening to Coming from Where I'm from and sometimes I'm in mood for some Gucci Mane. I personally rather live in a society where both is accepted.