"NWA" COMING YOUR WAY!
I was both appalled and amazed to watch the impact that "Super Fly" had on the black ghettoes across America in the 1970s.
Could the most vulnerable and most dependent of us be so fatuous, so vacuous, that a movie could change their lifestyles?
YES!
From fashion to hairstyles to grill fronts to drugs, that film flipped the hood to the tune of "Freddie's Dead." And "Give Me Your Love."
What I, in my naïveté, had seen as a film about black male/female cooperation and victory, they saw as "pimpin' hoes and slamming Brougham doors," for cocaine!
That's when I began to recognize and acknowledge a disturbing disconnect between me and those in the ghetto, who see that "the world is a ghetto;" who are rank weeds wafting in wretched waters, badly lost and turned out!
Lacking in proper education, historical knowledge, religious orientation, cultural assimilation, economic sustentation, political sophistication, family love and care, while conditioned to confine themselves to spaces defined by concrete, lowlife, metal, sirens, & mayhem, they become subject to desuetude, destruction, death.
Then a friend visiting from the West Coast in the 1980s, asked if I had heard of gangs or "crack?"
I replied: "Yes. Chicago and Philadelphia have long had marauding black gangs that kill and steal from black residents, but what is crack?" I said.
He answered "You will soon find out, because it is coming soon to KC and coming nation-wide from the West Coast through gangs like the Bloods and the Crips."
I was incredulous . Bad as things were in the '80s, could they get worse? Yes, they could and did!
Rap music with its rhyming, lurid and violent lyrics led the way.
Led by groups like NWA, who is still getting paid "Straight Outta Compton; reaping bank like a wanton! Fake "conscious " and faux aware, they still continue to impair, all the weak ones that they still snare, like the eagle and the hare. Hippedy hop. Hop! Hop!
These thoughts are called to mind from the headline and the opening paragraphs of an article on Facebook that I posted today about NWA, wherein that writer wonders who is behind them, pushing their resurgence & why?
Maybe we all should wonder that and investigate. I certainly will!
http://allhiphop.com/2015/08/14/opinion-exposin-the-truth-about-nwa/
Saturday, August 29, 2015
NWA COMING YOUR WAY
"NWA" COMING YOUR WAY!
I was both appalled and amazed to watch the impact that "Super Fly" had on the black ghettoes across America in the 1970s.
Could the most vulnerable and most dependent of us be so fatuous, so vacuous, that a movie could change their lifestyles?
YES!
From fashion to hairstyles to grill fronts to drugs, that film flipped the hood to the tune of "Freddie's Dead." And "Give Me Your Love."
What I, in my naïveté, had seen as a film about black male/female cooperation and victory, they saw as "pimpin' hoes and slamming Brougham doors," for cocaine!
That's when I began to recognize and acknowledge a disturbing disconnect between me and those in the ghetto, who see that "the world is a ghetto;" who are rank weeds wafting in wretched waters, badly lost and turned out!
Lacking in proper education, historical knowledge, religious orientation, cultural assimilation, economic sustentation, political sophistication, family love and care, while conditioned to confine themselves to spaces defined by concrete, lowlife, metal, sirens, & mayhem, they become subject to desuetude, destruction, death.
Then a friend visiting from the West Coast in the 1980s, asked if I had heard of gangs or "crack?"
I replied: "Yes. Chicago and Philadelphia have long had marauding black gangs that kill and steal from black residents, but what is crack?" I said.
He answered "You will soon find out, because it is coming soon to KC and coming nation-wide from the West Coast through gangs like the Bloods and the Crips."
I was incredulous . Bad as things were in the '80s, could they get worse? Yes, they could and did!
Rap music with its rhyming, lurid and violent lyrics led the way.
Led by groups like NWA, who is still getting paid "Straight Outta Compton; reaping bank like a wanton! Fake "conscious " and faux aware, they still continue to impair, all the weak ones that they still snare, like the eagle and the hare. Hippedy hop. Hop! Hop!
These thoughts are called to mind from the headline and the opening paragraphs of an article on Facebook that I posted today about NWA, wherein that writer wonders who is behind them, pushing their resurgence & why?
Maybe we all should wonder that and investigate. I certainly will!
http://allhiphop.com/2015/08/14/opinion-exposin-the-truth-about-nwa/