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Are Blacks and Hip Hop Ruining Mexican Culture?
Thinking it is completely harmless, African-American hip-hop-rap
music is swallowed without a clear understanding that the consequence
on the Mexican psyche results in Mexican youth becoming `black' and
ignorant and stupid.
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by Lorena O. Ramirez-
06/04
DJ Curry Kid Responds to
Angry Mexican Americans About Hip Hop
To those adopting Hip Hop’s mores as their own
in the mid to late eighties the struggle was facing
those in our individual support systems who, well
intended as they may have been, thought that the mores
of Hip Hop were some sort of disease we acquired by
listening to the radio late at night. ‘Good [fill in
your ethnic group and gender] don’t listen to that
‘jungle’ music.’
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by DJ Curry Kid-
06/04
The Government Killed Our leader-2Pac ?
The leader of my generations movement the head was killed sept 13 1996..With it the dream may have died too..Pac was our leader our voice..He gave us a pressence he made them know we were here. They fearred him with good reason..This wasnt black and white spanish and asian. This was us as one. A nation united. Imagine the children this generation 18-24 right now today united..Who could stop us if we were focused?
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by Corleone-
03/04
Defending Tupac's Writings-Stop Hating!
To many Tupac Shakur is a Hip Hop Icon. Not just because of his artistry as a rap musician. Tupac was deeper than that. He was a poet, a musical talent, an actor, a social commentator; a souljah. That along with his personality, his understanding of the everyday struggle of just not inner city residents, but of all who have been used, miss-used and abused by the system
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by RB of thug Life Army
07/04
Why All The Kanye Hating?
What’s the deal with all this Kanye West hating? I read articles about him
in countless publications criticizing him for his alleged arrogance, out of
control ego, and proclamations that he’s Hiphop’s new savior. On Internet
chat rooms and forums, folks say he can’t rap and is receiving too much
undeserved exposure. Heads on the streets say that his tracks are dope but
his rhymes are corny.
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by Dome-
06/04
Jadakiss: Make Way for the New Bad Guy
For those who are not down with the latest news and
grooves from the world of Hip Hop, Jadakiss is under
fire from Bill O’Reilly and the crew for his song
'Why' which commits to CD some of the top 20 questions
that Black folks discuss every day at the barbershop
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by Min Paul Scott-
07/04
Dismantling The Bling: Another Look At Hip Hop
”When I confronted perhaps the most powerful rap and hip-hop executive in the world, Russell Simmons, about explicit lyrics that may be a corrupting influence on high risk children, he looked at me like I was from Mars. ‘These things need to be expressed,’ he said. ‘The plight of black kids is now much more vivid to the white world because of rap.’
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by Black Commentator-
09/04
Let's Keep It Real, Y'all-
A Hip Hop Response to Thomas Sowell
By the way, I grew up in East Oakland (one of California's most notorious ghettos; the city that give birth to "The Mack," the Black Panther Party, the Hell's Angels and produced thug-rapper Tupac Shakur), which is practically in Sowell's backyard...
All those years in Oakland and never once did I even hear of Sowell leaving his nearly all-white Ivy Tower at Stanford University to rub elbows with the ignorant black masses in the Bay Area.
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by Sean Gonsalves-
07/04
Hip Hop Reflections on the Death of Ronald Reagan
Well, today is June 11th and I'm watching all these TV stations play Ray
Charles rendition of 'America' [Brother Ray just passed away yesterday]
while showing the funeral of former President Reagan. Some stations are even
showing pictures of the two men together. I can't help thinking something is
not right about what I'm seeing. In the words of Public Enemy 'Can't Truss
It' .
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by Davey D-
06/04
Hip Hop Needs to Imagine
Imagine if every Pop Diva that millions of young girls adored and emulated
and young men desired had to list all of the cosmetic surgery they've had
and how much of their bodies are artificial or enhanced.
Imagine if every bragging rapper had to post a financial statement showing
how deep in debt they are
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by Ernie Paniccioli-
03/04
A Psychological & Social & Political Analysis of Hip
It is agreed that the cultural expression of Hip-Hop is dominated by its lyrics more so than any other cultural expression associated with Hip-Hop. Also, that the lyrical expression has an impact in relation to the cause/effect of this Hip-Hop generation’s behavior. In fact, the Hip-Hop generation shapes the political landscape....
by Dr. Mutulu Shakur
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06/04
Can Hip Hop Work For Bush?
What keeps the Republican Party from throwing some money into a Hip-Hop political convention to garner votes? The National Hip-Hop Convention stayed legally neutral for the most part because they were only registering voters, but you and I both know that registering voters helps the Democrats because it is a known fact that there are more Democrats in this country, it is the lack of voter turn-out which hurts the Democrats. But what is to keep a rich Republican from donating $100,000 or even a million dollars to a Hip-Hop convention of their own?
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by Stevo1 @ TheOG.net-
07/04
Hip Hop-The American Dream
The current generation of college students have grown up with rap their entire lives. Since Kriss Kross and Tag Team were on the scene (maybe a bit before), young adults in their late teens to early twenties have been reacting and adapting to rap in the mainstream.
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by Stevo1 @ TheOG.net-
06/04
An Open Letter to Russell Simmons
and the so-called Hip-Hop Nation
We know if Truth be told that in the corporate board rooms it is creed" The bottom line is those Hip-Hop Dollars"
What is hip hop or for that matter rap: - both if not the same, is the reflection of the consciences of the Black race at this time on planet earth, it is not a political force; it is being used by a political force for its own selfish purpose; it is a raw energy with no teleological design of its own....
by Fatwah of -Ital Iman I
06/04
Will The Hip Hop Generation GET 40 acres and a Mule?
The Hip Hop generation who have strong disdain for the current political movement, and have never really been strong advocates of the American political system, could be the generation that makes the necessary global transformation for Blacks throughout. Surely, the Civil Rights movement have left some bittersweet memories for those still carrying the torch, moreover, it has clearly been an indication that the same thing, different faces. Racism in many different forms. So the call for Hip Hop to connect with Africa is timely to say the least.
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06/04
Critical Noir: Hip Hop's Gender Problem
The recent controversy over Nelly's music video "Tip-Drill" has highlighted what we've all known for some time: hip hop has a gender problem. And for most of hip hop's 30-something years, folk have been compelled to point out the sexism, misogyny and homophobia that finds a forum in the lyrics of the young black and brown men who have primarily influenced the genre, and the lack of a womanist perspective that could directly counter those lyrics.
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by Mark Anthony Neal-
05/04
Hip Hop's Dilemma
Over Christmas break I was up late one night on the
phone. As I passed the den I glanced at the TV and what
I saw made me stop. Nelly and the St. Lunatics were
throwing money at nearly naked women. Women were
simulating sex with other women as Nelly and company
looked on. Then I saw Murphy Lee sliding a credit card
between a woman's butt cheeks.
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Moya Bailey-
06/04
Where Does the Buck Really Stop in Hip-Hop?
Recently, I've been reflecting on the blame game regarding the over-commercialization of Hip-Hop culture. All one needs to do is turn on the radio or televison to see that things have gotten out of hand and that Hip-Hop has become decadent and unenlightened over the decades. We have artists talking about liquor, rims, fast women, violence, and drugs explicitly in almost every song. We've got energy drinks called "Pimp Juice" and Cam'ron with a liquor called "Sizzurp Purple Punch"
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by A Griot From A Lost Village-
06/04
Parents Just Don't Understand-'Rap Music'
In 1988 Will Smith said, “Parents just don’t understand.” Unfortunately, there are many people today who feel they don’t need to understand. Smith’s song humorously epitomizes the generational disconnect between young and old. Adults provide the means by which their young will interpret the world....
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by Syke 3
06/04
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