So...this is what Black music has been reduced to huh?

Now that's sad...lol.

Black folk have hit rock-bottom.

 

Bill Cosby in the Boondocks: Pull up your pants, you ghetto hooligan.

 

That shit remind me of that Boondocks episode.

 

That's what the chickenheads like.

 

And there's no going back...or is there?

 

We've got a looooong ways to go.

 

We're still in the dark ages and everytime there seems to be progress, we get set back 50 years.

 

Nope. The last time black people began to wake up was in the '80s. Reagan (it was during his administration that the term "permanent underclass" was first coined), Bush 41, gangsta rap and the crack epidemic eradicated any gains. A whole generation of black youth is mentally gone (by gone I mean can't see past the ghetto and have trouble adapting to non-hood surroundings) as you can see, or may as well be. I'm sure a couple of our young Hip-Hop Gestapo will jump on me to disagree but people who have lived through the changes know different.

 

I tell you 'da hood is nothing more than a modern day plantation. That's why many black men can't get quality women because their minds are imprisoned by hood standards.

I say this with pride, I tore up my ghetto pass when I was 11.

 

You can kinda see what I'm talking about in that Black History thread where it became a Hip-Hop thread. Everything is through that prism. Andrae even tried to conflate Hip-Hop with Black History, which I think is bogus, personally. Other black musics saw us through slavery, Jim Crow, civil rights. But what uplift does Hip-Hop offer really? Like I said before, I don't out-and-out hate it, but I question its importance, especially after the conscious Hip-Hop of the 80s that was quashed in favor of Gangsta shit.

 

I like pre-'93 hip-hop. But the problem is, just like crack, thug life has fabricated itself into black culture and is now mainstream. Gangasta crap does nothing but continue to drag us down. The white hipster only continues to back it because it makes $$$.

 

Reminds me of this fuckin' song:

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Or a chick to go with them:

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Awww, fuck. Not lil boosie. That fool is wack. And I remember apache. Wack.

 

LOL!

R.I.P. Apache...

 

that song just made me laugh out loud.
why stop at a billion... they might as well have kazillion dolla privates, that they like to share in public. lol
sad, sad...

 

The buck(s) doesn't stop there...lol

 

Oh shit. I forgot that he died, recently. RIP.

 

I forgot how he died. Do you remember?

 

Flavor Unit emcee Apache, born Anthony Teaks, passed away today (January 22) after a protracted illness.



As an original member of Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit, Apache first appeared on 45 King Presents The Flavor Unit and his best known single “Gangsta B**ch” peaked at #11 on Billboard's Hot Rap Singles chart.



Shakim Compere, CEO and Co-Founder of Flavor Unit Records, remembered Apache.



“Without Apache there would have been no Queen Latifah, no Naughty By Nature, no Chill Rob G., no anything” Compere told AllHipHop.com. “Apache was the string that tied all of Flavor Unit together. Without Apache none of this would be.”



Apache was one of the three original rappers in Flavor Unit, which also counted Queen Latifah and Latee as early group members.



The rap crew consisted of groups or rappers like Lakim Shabazz, Lord Alibaski, Chill Rob G., Naughty By Nature, Freddie Foxxx, Nikki D and Queen Latifah.



Apache's appearances included collaborations with Naughty by Nature, Fat Joe, Tupac, and A Tribe Called Quest.



“That’s my g, r.i.p in peace big homie, you will be missed, shout out to his family naughty by nature, I just did a show with them, god bless,” DJ Kid Capri said via Twitter.