emmett till's family is upset at Lil wayne

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saying in your song "beat that pussy like emmett till....."

is that too far?

I say yes. way jacked up.

do you think so?

I believe too many of these people "rappers and the young blacks especially black males" are just killing blacks

 

Perfect example of how ignorant & disrespectful of/have no regard for our history by a lot of the younger black people coming up today. :smt009

 

Lil' Wayne is the single most STUPID, Ugly, Idiotic, Brain Dead, No Respect Fool I've ever seen in my life!!!!

I hope Birdman's anal cavities suck Lil' Wayne in like a BLACK HOLE and he stays in there for the next 3-5 centuries!!

 

dont hold bck your feelings...ok?

 

i was thinking the exact same thing

these fools have no idea...............

 

You ain't lyin'. And the range and level of the ignorance & disrespect is what boggles my mind. You have shit like this and then you have both younger & some older individuals who you would think should know better, acting like most of our ancestors came to this mofo like everyone else's ancestors did. By choice. Slavery, Jim Crow, the whole Civil Rights Movement, that shit is like "So What?" to them.

 

i grew up in a mostly white philadelphia area in the 80s

this city was more self-segregated and racist back then than it was now

some days i didnt know if i would be the victim of a hate crime or not...

most days, i ended up with verbal reminders of my 'blackness' and threats of bodily harm just because i was a different color

the way this shit is now with influential people like lil wayne spewing garbage like that to make a dollar........:smt101

 

Sounds like you grew up in the Dirty Dirty South.

One of the more fucked up things I remember about the 80's where I grew up in Louisiana was the fact that when the gang culture first started popping up down there, more than a few dudes I came up with and who knew better ended up joining that shit because they saw that as an effective way to fight back against the racists good ol' boys from around the way who went around bullying & fucking with black folks in the area. It wasn't until the good ol' boys actually stopped fucking with black people, that they realized they fucked up because now the dummies they had chosen to be homies with were now doing the good ol' boys work for them. And on a more fucked up scale. Another example of not caring about or bothering to know your history.

 

i think its time that black men need to take us where we belong. its time we hit em where it hurts....in the wallet. its time black men went old school and boycott the shit out of cash money......

I mean that we should start boycotting all radio stations and any entity that sponsors lilwayne and anybody affilliated with them.

then we "x" out every mofo in the rap game that is not doing the black community str8

 

Not going to work. More white kids than black kids are buying Lil' Wayne and those like him who dominate the rap game now. Black folks boycotting his shit will probably enhance his status and boost his sells. May even get black mofos who were not listening to his shit buying just for the fuck of it & snub the black boycotters.

 

i get what you are saying.....n doubt about that. i dont know if you listened tyo the whole thing...what was interesting was that the record company pulled it and apologized.

i think the time is now for black men to say enuff is enuff...stop disrepecting who we are and where we been.

 

But not his record label. And just me, but I still don't think it would have an effect. Black folks no longer control rap music or anything to do with it. It went from a legit art form & way to talk about things that effected people of the underclass of all races and now the majority of the mainstream rap is just self promoting cartoon show for the most part. No talent or originality needed to be a rapper now. All image and gimmicks. And done with an agenda.

And what happened to R&B/Soul? Where the fuck did that go? Except for the handful of artist like Beyonce or Robin Thicke ,where"s everybody else? From the 50's up until the late 90's we always had both solo acts & groups coming out wood works. And all positive images of Black people for the most part. Now.....:smt102 Coincidence? I don't think so..........

 

I've always thought 50 cent was "manufactured celebrity". I mean really, he just seems like a "cartoon" of negativity. A big goon making songs like "i'm a motherfuckin p.i.m.p." with a big cross tattooed on his shoulder. Says he doesn't smoke weed (and probably doesn't) yet makes songs like "high all the time". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC9tGZCwBIY

Mr. "get rich or die trying", by peddling whatever negative shit he can. I think he's more of a ho than a pimp.

hmm... not sure I follow.

 

Emitt til was just beat so savagely

I don't find anything remotely funny about that...but that was the alright thing to do

An older artist would spit poetry about that and how society was

A new rapper like Wayne would make fun of it like a dummy

That key and peele sketch was way too true

 

That man should be 'pimp' slapped and dissed to the fullest.

 

It all falls into the "manufactured celebrity" idea as you call it or rather the "manufactured Black image". As I said rap/hip hop, even some of the explicit gangsta rap such as NWA, actually had some substance and depth to it compared to the mainstream rap/hip hop out today. It's all empty, shallow & superfical bullshit now. Hell even 2 Live Crew, vulgar as they are, is more deep than some of the clown shit out now. See Lil' Wayne. The current incarnation of rap/hip hop is now the main expression of mainstream "black" music. R&B/Soul has literally been pushed to the wayside for this current clown style of rap/hip hop, with many of the R&B/Soul artists that do get some attention & promotion usually on the same empty, shallow and superficial bullshit as the rappers. Notice there aren't in major black record executives or label owners being factors in any of the black music out today or the images been put out in relation to it. Haven't really seen or heard about too many black power movers/makers in the music industry as in days past. The 90's is probably the last time I can recall any major black power makers doing anything.

 

I have always liked Lil Wayne's music, but those lyrics make me lose all respect for his art. Terribly sad

 

It's definitely sad to see how weak black music has gotten these days, but I don't think its because of any conspiracy among the record execs. In fact, you see the same decline in dancehall (jamaican) music - which went from great music back in the day to the "punani business" of today, without the help of american record execs.

The "fiddy cents" of the world and the execs that push them on us are just chasing the money.

Besides that, I have a feeling that black culture is just in flux right now. It's in a state of change. We're not same culture that could produce a sam cook, marvin gaye, stevie wonder, stylistics, chaka khan, etc. etc. anymore. It's a different world now. Black culture is in flux right now (just like most of america and the world in fact), and black music is just in a holding pattern.

The romance that black men and women used to have for each other, which produced a lot of the great soul music of old, has definitely changed, so you're not going to get the same music. And the vanity of artists in today's media age (one eye in the mirror at all times) is the antithesis of true soul. Lil wayne, and his tattooed "gangsta" image is a good example of the vanity run amok.

Music is only one aspect of it. For better or worse, almost every aspect of black culture is in a state of rapid transition right now - music, where we live, how we work, who we date and marry (or don't marry), what we eat, how we raise our kids, etc. etc.

It ain't all bad, but it aint all good.

 

I'm surprised anyone would still to that piece of shit, let alone the whole rap genre as a whole. Like death metal, it's a poor man's descriptor of music.