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HIP HOP ART ENTERTAINMENT LIFE |
| I RECORDED MY FIRST RECORD IN 1992.THE SONG WAS CALLED THE PAYBACK, AND IT WAS AN ANTHEM FOR WOMEN ALL OVER THE SOUTH . IT WAS VULGAR, BUT ON POINT A CLASSIC DIS RECORD.I ROCKED MANY SHOWS AS AN AMETURE AND I ALWAYS ENJOYED THE FEED BACK FROM THE PEOPLE.I LOVE TO WRITE MUSIC SCRIPTS AND POETRY.I FELL IN LOVE WITH HIP HOP IN 1979, AND ALWAYS KNEW THAT THIS WAS WHAT I WANTED TO DO.SEVERAL BILLION DOLLARS LATER LITTLE HIP HOP IS ALL GROWN UP AND CAUSING A RUCKUS . LET ME SAY THAT MY FOUL LYRICS WERE INFLUENCED BY MY GRANDMA BIG VI'S BLUES RECORDS, AND SOME R&B I LOVE ETTA JAMES HER SASSY SWAGGER YET FEMINEN APPROCH TO MANY SUBJECTS KEPT HER CLASS IN TACT.MILLIE JACKSON'S IN YOUR FACE APPROACH TO LOVE AND SEX EMPOWERED ME. MY RYMES WERE AND STILL ARE SOMETIMES LIGHT HEARTED, VIOLENT, SPIRITUAL, AND PARTISH.PEOPLE SEEM TO THIMK THAT HIP HOP IS POISONING THE MINDS OF OUR YOUTH.I DONT AGREE.IN 1986 CRACK HIT MY COMMUNITY THE IMPACT COULD BE FELT IN HOODS ALMOST EVERYWHERE.MEN AND WOMEN TRADED SEXUAL FAVORS IN EXCHANGE FOR THE DRUG NOT TO MENTION MANY OF THESE SO CALLED DRUG DEALERS WEREN'T EVEN OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK BUT IMPOVERISHED HOMES AND HOODS ?FORCED MANY OF THESE CHILDREN TO TAKE THE ROUT OF A DEALER NOT TO MENTION EVERYBODY LOVED AL PACHINO IN SCAR FACE.YEP BEFORE HIP HOP AND NINO BROWN DRUGS INVADED OUR WORLD AND TURNED OUR MOTHERS FATHERS AUNTS UNCLES ETC TO STRAWBERRIES RASBERRIES BITCHES HOEZ AND SLUTS . THEY SMOKED THEIR PRIDE AND SELF RESPECT AWAY, CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 8 WERE LEFT TO RAISE AND FEND FOR THEIR SIBLINGS.AROUND?THIS TIME HIP HOP/RAP MUSIC BEGAN TO CHANGE WE THE ARTIST BEGAN TO GIVE FULL REPORTS OF WHAT WAS GOING ON IN OUR HOOD THIS FORM OF RAP WAS CALLED GANGSTA RAP RAW IN YOUR FACE LOUD AND HARD.THE REALLITIES OF WHAT WE WERE SEEING AND LIVING .WE HAD NO CONTROLL OF THE GUNS AND DRUGS THAT INVADED OUR HOMES AND HOODS AND ROBBED US OF OUR PARENTS THEIR MORALS AND ROBBED US OF OUR INNOCENCE.SOME SAY WE GO TO FAR WE GLAMORIZE EXPLOIT BUT IF THE DRUG DEALER IS THE ONLY ONE WE PHYSICALLY SAW BUYING SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND UNIFORMS FOR EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND FEEDING THE LESS FORTUNATE THEN YES THIS IS WHO WE LOOKED UP TO.NOT TO MENTION MOST TIMES THE DEALERS WERE?OUR ?PEERS..MANY OF US HAD NEVER LEFT OUR HOODS?OR EVEN BEEN OUTSIDE OUR CITY.AS I GROW AND MATURE I HAVE WATCHED THIS WORLD BECOME MORE VIOLENT, SEXUALLY AND DRIVEN GREED HAS BECOME THE MOTTO AND WE THE ARTIST HAVE BASICALLY KICKED IT UP A KNOTCH TO KEEP UP WITH THE PRESENT STATE OF THE WORLD.MOVIES AND MUSIC ARE NOT THE SAME AS 30/40 YEARS AGO.POLITICIANS AND THE MORAL MINDSET OF THE PEOPLE IS NOT THE SAME EITHER.WE LIVE IN A MICROWAVE SOCIETY WE WANT INSTANT GRATIFICATION AND WE DEPEND ON THE TELEVISION AND RADIO TO RAISE?OUR CHILDREN . YES I AM GUILTY OF THIS TO BECAUSE IM A PART OF THE WORKING CLASS AND MANY TIMES I WOULD POP IN A MOVIE TO?KEEP MY KIDS OUT OF MY FACE MANY TIMES I DID NOT MONITOR WHAT THEY WERE DOING BECAUSE I WAS TIRED FROM WORKING, BUT DO I BLAME ENTERTAINMENT FOR MY CHILDRENS UP BRINGING NO! CHILDREN LEARN HOW TO BE MEN AND WOMEN FROM THE MEN AND WOMEN IN THIER LIVES.EVERYBODY IS LOOKING FOE AN EXCUSE TO NOT LOOK LIKE AT SOME POINT WE MAY HAVE DROPPED THE BALL.U CAN HEAR BITCH, SLUT SEE SEX AND VIOLENCE ON YOUR DAILY SOAPS AND IN YOUR SUNDAY EVENING CARTOONS, BUT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOE KEEPING OPEN REAL DIALOGUE WITH OUR CHILDREN.ITS FUNNY HOW POISON HAS BEEN PLANTED IN THE HOOD FOR ALMOST A HALF CENTURY BUT WE BLAME RAP MUSIC WHICH I MIGHT ADD IM OLDER THAN THE MUSIC.RAP DIDNT BRING DRUGS ANG GUNS PREGNANCY AND THE DROP OUR RATE TO OUR COMMUNITIES MANY RAPPERS ARE THE CRACK BABIES, THE VICTIMS OF ABUSE AND POVERTY WE JUST CALL IT HOW WE SEE IT AND IT AINT ALWAYS PRETTY.RESPONSIBILLITY COMES WITH MATURITR LOOK AT WHAT A LITTLE GROWTH HAS DONE FOR MADONNA.WE SEE HUGH HEF AS AN ICON BUT WE HATE ON NELLY?COME ON!RAP MUSIC HAS EMPLOYED AMD EMPOWERED SO MANY PEOPLE IT HAS BEEN A TOOL FOR US TO DO GREAT THINGS.THE TERMINATOR IS GOVENOR , THERE ARE SO MANY MESSAGES WE COULD HAVE TAKEN FROM HIS FILMS , BUT HE IS AN ENTERTAINER.WE HAVE TO TRY AND FIND THE TIME TO SHAPE THE MINDS OF OUR KIDS.IT'S NOT EASY BUT IT HAS TO BE DONE.THE WAY WE WENT INTI IRAQ IS MORE GANGSTA THAN ANY SONG THAT HAS EVER BEEN MADE.I JUST WANT FOLK TO USE THEIR HEADS.THE PROBLEMS OF OUE YOUTH ARE WAY BIGGER THAT HIP HOP.TALK TO YOUR CHILDREN ABOUT EVERYTHING KEEP THEM INFORMED GIVE EM GAME . |
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