My wife @TaraZorEL (follow her on Twitter) recently asked me an interesting question about racism in the media. She saw someone posted a status on FB regarding the Progressive commercial involving the black couple and big money. The person who posted the status went on to describe the commercial as being racist towards the black community because of the dancing money sign. @TaraZorEL objected against the commercial being racist and in turn, asked me my thoughts on racism and the hip hop culture in the media, so here you go.
The media is trying its best to make television comfortable for the black community, and we can't get up in arms every time they don't get something 100% to our liking. Yes there are flops on the regular, but with error comes progress and we should recognize progression as well as the fuck ups. We should also be aware that people watch more train wrecks than sun rises, so don't be surprised if racist situations are purposely orchestrated and talked to help media outlets stay atop the ratings race. And stop giving them ammunition to fire upon us on.
Note that when I speak of the hip hop culture, I am talking about everyone who relates themselves to the music, style, and all around life of hip hop, no matter their race. For the hip hop culture to be the movement we want and expect it to be, we have to accept the way it is portrayed by those not quite part of the culture. We should be thrilled that we are becoming part of the main stream and we are starting to become more and more acceptable in the public's eye. There is no need to get bent out of shape when someone on Everybody Loves Raymond says "what's up home boy?" or when someone on American Idol says "that was hot!" The hip hop culture is fun, spontaneous, has great lingo, and constantly changing for the better, now, don't you think everyone would like to be a part of that.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Caught Up
I am sick and tired of seeing magazine and Internet posting stating "how to tell if they're cheating", or "5 clues to show you're not the one". So just for fun, I am going to give ways to get away with cheating and hide the more than obvious clues most people give away. Now I in no way believe in or condone cheating, I just wanna let out a few tricks of the trade.
1 - Don't be an idiot!!! I don't know if it's stupidity or arrogance that make people believe they won't get caught cheating on someone that knows them better than most. It's like lying to your mom, of course they know, they just don't wanna bring it up quite yet. So if you choose to be an idiot, do an assessment on what you may possibly lose before you go "thrill" seeking.
2 - Don't be emotional!!! When you have emotional extremes, that is a dead giveaway. When you can't or refuse to tell your other a legit reason to why or what is making you super up or down, it is a major red flag. So when that person on the side gets to you in a positive or negative way, keep it to yourself, because your other knows when they are or aren't pleasing you.
3 - Stay stable!!! A huge mistake cheaters make is either letting their other know too much, or know to little. When you give your other free reign into your phone, email, and where abouts, they feel they can do what they want when they want. That opens your other to answer your phone when it rings, check your messages before you do and so on. On the other side of that, being too private is never good for any relationship. If you start hiding your phone, leaving the room to talk on the phone, deleting messages and having gaps in your text conversations, that shows you ain't about the right.
These are just the top reasons on getting yourself caught up, but the best way to never get caught up is not cheating at all...
1 - Don't be an idiot!!! I don't know if it's stupidity or arrogance that make people believe they won't get caught cheating on someone that knows them better than most. It's like lying to your mom, of course they know, they just don't wanna bring it up quite yet. So if you choose to be an idiot, do an assessment on what you may possibly lose before you go "thrill" seeking.
2 - Don't be emotional!!! When you have emotional extremes, that is a dead giveaway. When you can't or refuse to tell your other a legit reason to why or what is making you super up or down, it is a major red flag. So when that person on the side gets to you in a positive or negative way, keep it to yourself, because your other knows when they are or aren't pleasing you.
3 - Stay stable!!! A huge mistake cheaters make is either letting their other know too much, or know to little. When you give your other free reign into your phone, email, and where abouts, they feel they can do what they want when they want. That opens your other to answer your phone when it rings, check your messages before you do and so on. On the other side of that, being too private is never good for any relationship. If you start hiding your phone, leaving the room to talk on the phone, deleting messages and having gaps in your text conversations, that shows you ain't about the right.
These are just the top reasons on getting yourself caught up, but the best way to never get caught up is not cheating at all...
Whack City
With Hip-Hop making a very strong come back, it got me to thinking about when and where the decline originally began. Of course there's no clear single thing that sent Hip-Hop into its downward spiral, but I'm gonna attempt to do my best to name 10 contributors of the last decade or so that added to the downfall and rappers that are keeping it down:
1 - Drake - You may also know this fool as the Singing Actor. Aubrey is an actor, an actor by definition is, and I quote "A person whose profession is acting on the stage, in movies, or on television or a person who behaves in a way that is not genuine." With that said, he is acting like a rapper plain and simple. Plus, I'm not really interested in a rapper that wants to be a Pop queen.
2 - Ja Rule - I'm not trying to hear a cat serenade me on 10 out of 12 tracks. Jodeci made harder songs than Ja.
3 - Mike Jones - Mike made it acceptable to repeat lyrics 3 to 4 times like you droppin hot verses. No Mike Jones, I said, No Mike Jones. If Mike gives you 100 bars, 80 of them are duplicates. Most of the time I didn't know if he was still rappin or my CD skipped.
4 - Jermaine Dupri - He should of went to prison for child labor. He used kids to make music targeted towards adults. He also made Janet Jackson feel unwanted and that in its on should have him thrown into an insane asylum.
5 - Soulja Boy - He is lameness made flesh. Can't see how he was ever taken serious or sold a single damn thing. I get an extreme feeling of nausea when I hear anything he is on.
6 - Plies - Do I really need to give you a reason for this one? Google him.
7 - Nelly - I don't think Nelly is a great rapper, but he is tolerable. He made the list because he commercialized Air Force 1's and over night made the price jump for the lows, mids, and highs at least $20. He made Forces cool for everybody, and that ain't cool at all lol.
8 - Lil Boosie - Boosie made the ignorant think it's cool to commit a crime, go to jail, and get love and support from the public. Excuse my cliche use, but "if you do the crime, you do the time". For people to actually show support by displaying "Free (insert criminal name here)" on any and every venue they can, is simply idiotic. If that made any sense at all we might as well have signs saying "Free Charles Manson" or "Free Zimmerman" (if he ever gets arrested).
9 - Jim Jones - The worst rapper in a group of terrible rappers. Don't let the flash fool you, he was just as whack as his lyrics.
10 - Lil Wayne - He clearly feel off when his ghostwriter started writing less and less for him. He never consistently raps at a high level, but wants to be seen as the best when he releases trash. He will NEVER be considered one of the best in real hip hop eyes.
I know a lot of these aren't valid reasons why they hurt the game, but dammit they work for me. They have decent to above average beats and the public dubs the song a hit. Thumbs down to that BS, they need to give those beats to rappers that can really make magic with them. There are probably more rappers I could have included as well (Gucci, 2 Chainz, Waka), but there isn't enough time in my day for that.
1 - Drake - You may also know this fool as the Singing Actor. Aubrey is an actor, an actor by definition is, and I quote "A person whose profession is acting on the stage, in movies, or on television or a person who behaves in a way that is not genuine." With that said, he is acting like a rapper plain and simple. Plus, I'm not really interested in a rapper that wants to be a Pop queen.
2 - Ja Rule - I'm not trying to hear a cat serenade me on 10 out of 12 tracks. Jodeci made harder songs than Ja.
3 - Mike Jones - Mike made it acceptable to repeat lyrics 3 to 4 times like you droppin hot verses. No Mike Jones, I said, No Mike Jones. If Mike gives you 100 bars, 80 of them are duplicates. Most of the time I didn't know if he was still rappin or my CD skipped.
4 - Jermaine Dupri - He should of went to prison for child labor. He used kids to make music targeted towards adults. He also made Janet Jackson feel unwanted and that in its on should have him thrown into an insane asylum.
5 - Soulja Boy - He is lameness made flesh. Can't see how he was ever taken serious or sold a single damn thing. I get an extreme feeling of nausea when I hear anything he is on.
6 - Plies - Do I really need to give you a reason for this one? Google him.
7 - Nelly - I don't think Nelly is a great rapper, but he is tolerable. He made the list because he commercialized Air Force 1's and over night made the price jump for the lows, mids, and highs at least $20. He made Forces cool for everybody, and that ain't cool at all lol.
8 - Lil Boosie - Boosie made the ignorant think it's cool to commit a crime, go to jail, and get love and support from the public. Excuse my cliche use, but "if you do the crime, you do the time". For people to actually show support by displaying "Free (insert criminal name here)" on any and every venue they can, is simply idiotic. If that made any sense at all we might as well have signs saying "Free Charles Manson" or "Free Zimmerman" (if he ever gets arrested).
9 - Jim Jones - The worst rapper in a group of terrible rappers. Don't let the flash fool you, he was just as whack as his lyrics.
10 - Lil Wayne - He clearly feel off when his ghostwriter started writing less and less for him. He never consistently raps at a high level, but wants to be seen as the best when he releases trash. He will NEVER be considered one of the best in real hip hop eyes.
I know a lot of these aren't valid reasons why they hurt the game, but dammit they work for me. They have decent to above average beats and the public dubs the song a hit. Thumbs down to that BS, they need to give those beats to rappers that can really make magic with them. There are probably more rappers I could have included as well (Gucci, 2 Chainz, Waka), but there isn't enough time in my day for that.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Thank Me Later for taking you Higher
Lupe, Andre 3000, Jay Elec, Talib, these are a few of the artist that keep hip hop an art form. Jay, Nas they are fantastic but both have the tendency to go commercial at any moment if the money is right. Now 2 artist that are very interesting right now are Drake and J Cole, because both are aware of hip hop history, show mad love to the the greats before them and are very lyrically gifted but they don't rap to their potential.
Drake is a MONSTER, but its hard to keep up with him because he squanders his punch lines on sissy shit. He's so into rapping about broads that he rarely gives you anything like, Fear or Uptown or You Know You Know. A large portion of this I feel is he can't show up label mate Lil Wayne. If you listen to any of Wayne's music when he began to blow up, it screams Drake. Since he has given Weezy this image through his lyrics, he can't take that persona back so Weezy reeps the benefits of Drake's better flows. The flows directed towards females is .what's selling right now, and his label has him pushing that crap out like clock work. Us hip hop heads don't wanna hear Find Your Love when were expecting What I'm Thinking Right Now. Also with Drake being an actor, you can clearly see he is acting out a role when he performs. It's like he studied a bunch of his favorite rappers and incorporated their onstage presence into his own.
Cole I recently got hip to, but I already think the dude is SICK. He makes hip hop fun with his punch lines, and he delivers shit that makes you have to listen to it again. My only problem with Cole so far is that he taps about hoes and is too playful with his lyrics. If he got a real topic and left the bitches alone dude would be bananas. He has Nas type flow in him and when he perfects his craft he will be mentioned as one of the dopest ever. He handled the so called he and Drake beef wonderfully, which shows his mind frame is ready for the spotlight.
Drake is a MONSTER, but its hard to keep up with him because he squanders his punch lines on sissy shit. He's so into rapping about broads that he rarely gives you anything like, Fear or Uptown or You Know You Know. A large portion of this I feel is he can't show up label mate Lil Wayne. If you listen to any of Wayne's music when he began to blow up, it screams Drake. Since he has given Weezy this image through his lyrics, he can't take that persona back so Weezy reeps the benefits of Drake's better flows. The flows directed towards females is .what's selling right now, and his label has him pushing that crap out like clock work. Us hip hop heads don't wanna hear Find Your Love when were expecting What I'm Thinking Right Now. Also with Drake being an actor, you can clearly see he is acting out a role when he performs. It's like he studied a bunch of his favorite rappers and incorporated their onstage presence into his own.
Cole I recently got hip to, but I already think the dude is SICK. He makes hip hop fun with his punch lines, and he delivers shit that makes you have to listen to it again. My only problem with Cole so far is that he taps about hoes and is too playful with his lyrics. If he got a real topic and left the bitches alone dude would be bananas. He has Nas type flow in him and when he perfects his craft he will be mentioned as one of the dopest ever. He handled the so called he and Drake beef wonderfully, which shows his mind frame is ready for the spotlight.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
My Name is MDG and this is My Opinion-Part 1
Men shouldn't wear skinny jeans.
Women should give it up no later then date #5, that way yall can see if yall will continue.
Wash your damn hands.
Your prolly lying if you sit and tell stories about all the chicks you've knocked down, every time the fellas get together.
If you plan on drinking outta that bottle, put in on it unless told otherwise.
Mya is badder than Beyonce.
You knew what the hell you were doing when you were drunk, you just didn't care.
Everyone on Earth can't be hating on you, you are just actually a loser.
I should be able to slap the shit outta one coworker a week.
Tyler Perry is gay.
Big girls should stop wearing shirts that show they damn belly ring.
Waka Flocka needs to jump into shark infested waters.
If I got my head phones on, quit tryin to talk serious with me, hell, don't talk to me for that matter.
It's not that I dont care, I just don't give a fuck.
Wine coolers and beer should be sold in vending machines.
Just cause yo ass can't do it, or doesn't know how to do it, doesn't mean you should down talk it.
Learn how to flippin drive Indianapolis.
Of course I look suspicious Mr. Officer, in your eyes I fit the general description for every black male that does a crime: black male, low cut hair, between 5 ft 6 in and 6 ft 8 in.
Women should give it up no later then date #5, that way yall can see if yall will continue.
Wash your damn hands.
Your prolly lying if you sit and tell stories about all the chicks you've knocked down, every time the fellas get together.
If you plan on drinking outta that bottle, put in on it unless told otherwise.
Mya is badder than Beyonce.
You knew what the hell you were doing when you were drunk, you just didn't care.
Everyone on Earth can't be hating on you, you are just actually a loser.
I should be able to slap the shit outta one coworker a week.
Tyler Perry is gay.
Big girls should stop wearing shirts that show they damn belly ring.
Waka Flocka needs to jump into shark infested waters.
If I got my head phones on, quit tryin to talk serious with me, hell, don't talk to me for that matter.
It's not that I dont care, I just don't give a fuck.
Wine coolers and beer should be sold in vending machines.
Just cause yo ass can't do it, or doesn't know how to do it, doesn't mean you should down talk it.
Learn how to flippin drive Indianapolis.
Of course I look suspicious Mr. Officer, in your eyes I fit the general description for every black male that does a crime: black male, low cut hair, between 5 ft 6 in and 6 ft 8 in.
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