Thursday, December 23, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Music is one of the few mediums that has the potential to be cross cultural in terms of its appeal. Yet, fans allow the various musical outlets to be flooded with garbage music saying well it just makes me happy that's why I listen. I am an in no position to judge why some people are drawn to music, but when an entire culture is created on the heels of achievements of the Black Panther Party and other politically conscious groups, I find fault when the music is diluted to "booty gorilla music".
I realize that Hip-Hop started as party music and it was fun, but like all great forms of music it evolved into various other forms who's purpose is one to better the community. People look to blame artists as selling out, but its the fans who are responsible, the men in suits are strangling music, just like they strangled the turn of the century labor creating The Depression, and more recently their arrogant leverage of your money creating a recession. I don't want to blame 'the man' but if fans don't show their distaste for the current state of music then there will be no more Hip-Hop and we will be a chapter in history of a country that wasn't made by men in suits but one that was destroyed by them.
Don't whine about it do something about it.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Commander in Chief
"Dissent is central to any democracy."
- Harry Belafonte
With this statement being truthful, I would to begin with a brief of our commander in chief. This is no way a bash, because I feel Barack Obama represents something unprecedented whether he makes significant political gains or not. However, the fact the present is the more important than what may come, or what we came from leads me to say the president needs his balls back.
It is somewhat understandable that when you are in a public office you must maintain some sort of "cool" when faced with opposing and sometimes disrespectful voices. But at the same time being the president of the greatest nation entitles you to a hell of a lot of respect. Our president takes his blatant disrespect in stride showing he is a true gentleman, but when he be the BLACK president we all expected?
Before there is a outcry claiming me a racist the word Black has become synonymous for many thing. Culture is the biggest thing that comes to mind, we have influenced nearly every aspect of American culture from our music to our style, especially the physical manifestation of walk, talk, and sense of mannerism which has since been dubbed cool. It can not be doubted the we enrich the very existence of America, and with that being said I just propose for our President to be a little more arrogant, a bit more decisive, and a whole lot more firm in political policies.
- Harry Belafonte
With this statement being truthful, I would to begin with a brief of our commander in chief. This is no way a bash, because I feel Barack Obama represents something unprecedented whether he makes significant political gains or not. However, the fact the present is the more important than what may come, or what we came from leads me to say the president needs his balls back.
It is somewhat understandable that when you are in a public office you must maintain some sort of "cool" when faced with opposing and sometimes disrespectful voices. But at the same time being the president of the greatest nation entitles you to a hell of a lot of respect. Our president takes his blatant disrespect in stride showing he is a true gentleman, but when he be the BLACK president we all expected?
Before there is a outcry claiming me a racist the word Black has become synonymous for many thing. Culture is the biggest thing that comes to mind, we have influenced nearly every aspect of American culture from our music to our style, especially the physical manifestation of walk, talk, and sense of mannerism which has since been dubbed cool. It can not be doubted the we enrich the very existence of America, and with that being said I just propose for our President to be a little more arrogant, a bit more decisive, and a whole lot more firm in political policies.
Monday, December 20, 2010
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