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.
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