why does hip hop encourage disenfranchisement
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Posted By: misteriobanderas Posted on: Aug. 24, 2007 at 11:21 PM  2 Comments
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before you call me a racist, I will acknowledge that their is a percentage of today's hip hop generation that does strive to succeed. but the majority of them encourage ignorance and see higher education as biased against them and is a conspiracy perpetuated by "THE MAN". But what these people don't realize is that the people they so admire actually educated themselves in thefield of music so they could be better rappers/hip hop entertainers. If you want bling and rims and all of that stuff, you need a educated mind to be able to accomplish it. Instead of looking down upon education and hardwork, they should be striving to be all that they can be. They talk about getting paid, but don't want to work at it. This is pure nonsensical bull. I remember a song by one rapper talking about how he does not like to work that hard. wtf is that about. there should be a rap song about how a college strives to succeed and does. right now the mainstream hip hop scene encorages ignorance and civil disobedience. that needs to change.
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I don't know why, but when I read your article I thought of President Bush, who before his infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech had an aircraft carrier turned around so it didn't face the recongnizable American port, put on a flight suit and pretended to fly an aircraft onto the deck of an aircraft carrier.
My point is, he had all the oppurtunity in the world to succeed on his own and never used it. He even had the oppurtunity to be a real aircraft pilot and fly the plane himself on that day. He more oppurtunity than most people could ever dream of, and tossed it all away for a pretend image. Just like the banner that hung behind him "Mission Accomplished". Unfortunatly, when fools get toys and never learned to play with others, we get the playground we have now in this world. So, what does the world tell us? Does it tell us that "hard work and education is all we need to succeed? Or...does it tell us that lead us to belive that perception is what counts.
I guess my point is, that the bling, rims, (the thought that they are actually making music) and other stuff without hard work is the same to me as Bush tring to give the image of a real warrior...a man of purpose and morals. A man who is confident enough in his own self that he does not need to pretend...but, as we know...it was all fake, just like the fancy automobiles, the booty girls, and the cash to the rapper. When they are done with the shooting of the video, all of the image goes back to the rental company.
This is the cost of having a society that judges wealth and happiness in material objects.
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