Rap About Nothing: Hip Hop Chat Thread

[theafricandream]

Yea, also when your mom is on social media doing twerk videos, and walking outside butt naked. And, pops smoking weed and popping pills too, right? AND, parents using foul language around their kids. But, hey, let’s blame everyone else.

Not the mom doing booty shaking videos and wearing skimpy outfits in public, and dad smoking weed, carrying guns, and doing other illicit drugs

Y’all so unaccountable

Goes without saying there’s a bunch of negative influences in this day in age, no one is denying that. My wife and I do none of the above, are both educated, and are generally well to do people, but I still wouldn’t be thrilled letting my kids listen to some the current music. Not sure why that’s such a difficult thing to get.

 

[numbah1grimey]

Goes without saying there’s a bunch of negative influences in this day in age, no one is denying that. My wife and I do none of the above, are both educated, and are generally well to do people, but I still wouldn’t be thrilled letting my kids listen to some the current music. Not sure why that’s such a difficult thing to get.

You’re okay with them scowering social media and seeing worse, visually negativity imagery though, okay, cool. Music is just a reflection of what’s going in the form of current events. Again, it’s a cop-out to blame musicians. They’re human beings also.

All of these narratives are being pushed by who... the current people who considers themselves adults in this world. Again, these same adults blaming music are cutting the fool themselves. So, stop the blame game

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Look at you... blaming rap music. And not BIG pharma/government.

Are you going to blame your country, for lack of free healthcare, and defunding of education? And student loan debt?

Shut up bruh. Have several seats

Can’t stand you “blame rap” pundits

On top of that it's always gonna be some outside source that influences kids. Take away rap music and it's still gonna be TV, movies, their environment and just the appeal of doing drugs. The crack era ain't take off cuz rap music. It was the other way around, the crack era birthed gangsta rap/coke rap. It is what it is, we live in a drug infested country.

 

[numbah1grimey]

On top of that it's always gonna be some outside source that influences kids. Take away rap music and it's still gonna be TV, movies, their environment and just the appeal of doing drugs. The crack era ain't take off cuz rap music. It was the other way around, the crack era birthed gangsta rap/coke rap. It is what it is, we live in a drug infested country.

People hate the truth. Steve Jobs use to do coke and LSD, just like most these other Fortune 500 CEOs. It is what it is. Wall Streeters consume the most coke

But hey, Future and Juice WRLD are peddling the dope

Rock and roll artist, jazz artist, pop artists were doing every substance know to man, wellllllllllll before 1978, when rap was birthed.

Boys was in juke joints, sugar shacks, saloons, and steam boat parties on heroin, weed, dipping cigarettes in embalming fluid, well before rap music

 

[americangenius]

I have GREAT comprehension. And, you still need to shut up. I’ll stick to my guns. Stop pointing the finger, as you did. You are indirectly blaming rap.

If you’ve got kids, raise them. Don’t let Future or Juice WRLD raise them. If these dudes got that much say so in rearing somebody (or your kids) then, your parenting skills are lackluster.

But hey, let’s drink beer, alcohol, wine, etc. do you hate beer commercials? What about all those vodka and whiskey ads? Hush your mouth dawg

You’re a full grown *** man, blaming other people for your children potentially being dependent on drugs. Lousy and loser-ish.

this guy is always crying. You got problems man.

 

[str8drop]

What song is it?

 

[str8drop]

Hush your mouth dawg

 

[numbah1grimey]

this guy is always crying. You got problems man.

...says the guy crying about Future and nem’ causing the little chullen to resort to drug usage.

I bet you do drugs though, or some of your peers do. Hypocrite

 

[Proposition Joe]

Why is it hard to admit that the music we love and enjoy can sometimes have a negative impact on our impressionable youth? I’ve heard people say they tried lean cause of lil Wayne.

 

[numbah1grimey]

I like this track broski. You ain’t feeling it?

 

[numbah1grimey]

Why is it hard to admit that the music we love and enjoy can sometimes have a negative impact on our impressionable youth? I’ve heard people say they tried lean cause of lil Wayne.

Neither of us are denying but, you gotta put equal blame on parents and the powers that ***.

You act like Wayne was in the Promethezine factory, bottling and packaging the stuff. The youth gone go as far as they go, with the tutelage of the adults around them. Not just entertainers. And a lot of adults and parents are worse addicts and peddlers or ignorance. Just accept that everyone deserves blame

 

[numbah1grimey]

A child can literally go on an IG explore page and see, a stripper, a naked male or female, people with face tattoos, people smoking weed and drinking alcohol, people holding guns, someone fighting in Walmart, etc. someone promoting scamming, selling drugs

And who’s posting this stuff? Adults

 

[pmpdaddyrobford]

I'm like suede it get dark if I'm rubbed the wrong way
And just thinking back on my life every action was lack of Christ
All the trappers was into fashion but passed beyond it's advice
I was rapping trying to get nice
Sorta like chess games I had to hold my horses and sacrifice all my knights



All the things that was killing us settled in as the norm
And the regular common form
Rebels who not informed on the devil without his horns
Instead of peddling out the storm we would stray away from a way that was delicate, calm and warm
Learning paved the way for us quickly I found wisdom

 

[RIP sleazyy]

Folks gotta talk to their kids about all this ****. A rappers primary job is to rap, not be a role model. They're entertainers. If your kid falling in with the type of **** Future or Wayne promotes they were already at risk IMO.

With that said, music is powerful. Impressionable minds + repetition of negativity + a need for an escape or acceptance is a recipe for disaster at all ages.

It's a good idea to talk to your kids, siblings, cousins, all that and see where their heads are at. Their musical intake can really tell you a lot depending on the kid.

 

[para bellum]

This new Brent Faiyaz fye, feels west coast mixed with like Ghetto Love era Jaheim, but more experimental

**** make me wanna go watch Menace II Society or something

Great project top to bottom

 

[Magic33]

Why is it hard to admit that the music we love and enjoy can sometimes have a negative impact on our impressionable youth? I’ve heard people say they tried lean cause of lil Wayne.

I've been asking that in here for a couple of years

 

[HOU$TON]

 

[Magic33]

Being on a major ya its believable

No it's not. Labels stopped doing that in the 90's. Labels didn't recoup with Whitney, Janet and Madonna, so why the hell would they do it with Future?

DJ Drama joint (Summer Walker) actually manages Summer Walker though lol

I always wondered what was up with that.

She thought it was a dope name and better than the existing one she was using so she gave up her name?

 

[Maximus Meridius]

If Lil Wayne wants to be a drug addict that's on him and we see the effects that drugs have had on him. If a kid sees the effects and still wants to sip this and pop that pill ain't nothing you can do. Even as a parent you can't watch over your kids 24/7 all you can do is tell 'em what it is and hope they make the best decision when go out into the world.

Kids are smarter than we give them credit for. They do dumb **** to fit. Adults do dumb **** to fit in.

People turn to drugs for different reasons. There's people that come from good environments that turn into addicts. There's people from terrible environments that choose not to.

 

[Magic33]

If Lil Wayne wants to be a drug addict that's on him and we see the effects that drugs have had on him. If a kid sees the effects and still wants to sip this and pop that pill ain't nothing you can do. Even as a parent you can't watch over your kids 24/7 all you can do is tell 'em what it is and hope they make the best decision when go out into the world.

Kids are smarter than we give them credit for. They do dumb **** to fit. Adults do dumb **** to fit in.

No, kids are impressionable. If they see all these kids doing drugs and it's the cool thing to do, they're more likely to do it.

Nobody wanted to be a crackhead, because it wasn't cool or didn't look cool.

So all these kids doing lean and percs aren't because of the music? Lean used to be a Houston thing, so what changed that?

It's funny how music can influence dress, slang and the type of music, but dudes try to deny it's affects on drug use and other ills.

Why the **** do you have white and asian kids calling each other and other black people the N word?

 

[Maximus Meridius]

No, kids are impressionable. If they see all these kids doing drug

Nobody wanted to be a crackhead, because it wasn't cool or didn't look cool.

So all these kids doing lean and percs aren't because of the music? Lean used to be a Houston thing, so what changed that?

It's funny how music can influence dress, slang and the type of music, but dudes try to deny it's affects on drug use and other ills.

Why the **** do you have white and asian kids calling each other and other black people the N word?

And it was A LOT of crack heads. Crack started as a Oakland thing. We say that "nobody wanted to be a crack head" but the reality is it was a lot of 'em from all walks of life. lower class, middle class, whatever. And it wasn't just the "pookie" stereotypical types. I'm never rocking with this "kids are incapable of making their own decisions". Not when I see and hear some of them say they not f'n with that stuff. Nobody is saying that music has zero influence on drug use, I'm also saying it's up to that individual to make their choice.

 

[RIP sleazyy]

Everybody is impressionable, that shouldn't even be an argument. Teaching your kids accountability early is very important.

If my kid come home and say she did some dumb **** and blames it on her friends or a celebrity I'ma call her out on it.

 

[VARNELL HILL]

Music has been used as a programming tool LONG before us.

There's science involved here. This **** goes alot deeper beneath the surface than "parenting".

 

[freddy fig]

Why is it hard to admit that the music we love and enjoy can sometimes have a negative impact on our impressionable youth? I’ve heard people say they tried lean cause of lil Wayne.

i heard people tried eating booty cuz of kevin gates

 

[americangenius]

Everybody is impressionable, that shouldn't even be an argument. Teaching your kids accountability early is very important.

If my kid come home and say she did some dumb **** and blames it on her friends or a celebrity I'ma call her out on it.

Problem lies with the fact that unlike the past when you get home outside influence continues right on your phone. It's connected to you 24/7, it's almost impossible for parenting to outweigh that level of influence unless you actually take the phone away. Music and YouTube become primary influences as it's constantly shared and streamed. Movies in the past you needed to be 17 to even see it, parents had to buy those Mature albums etc. Of course people bought bootlegs, but you had to go out of your way to discover and get them. Streaming offers no safeguards at this point, so to just brush it off as bad parenting is ignorant. This stuff is found throughout the top 40 and popular playlists.

These artists owe us nothing at the end of the day, but I can still have sympathy our generation and the next being programmed with this trash constantly. I personally don't rock with drug use, aside from trees once in a blue.