Truth About Hip Hop Video: Ice Cube - Gangsta Rap Made Me Do Ithttp://www.brownpride.us/forum/hip-hop-blame-...

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A $10 billion dollar a year Hip-Hop industry that claims to reflect black life and culture; but 80% of it is consumed by whites.Over 90% of radio stations, record labels, magazines, TV stations, and retailers that disseminate hip-hop and associated products including music, clothes, movies, and games -- are white-owned.African-American teens ages 12-17 listen to more than 18 hours of radio per week on average, compared to 13.5 hours for all teens (Radio Advertising Bureau, 2002).Thirty percent of African-American teens are among the most frequent TV viewers (the top TV-viewing quintile) versus 21.1% of non-African-American teens (Simmons Market Research Bureau Adult Fall 2002 and Teen 2002 National Consumer Surveys).http://www.industryears.com/issues.php

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True i know the distinction between Hip Hop and hot garbage claiming to be Hip Hop to give the whole genre of music a bad name. Hip Hop being comprised of four elements; Emceeing, DJ-ing, Breakdancing and Graffiti Art. While Hot Garbage is comprised of five elements; Emceeing, Sex, Murder, Drug Dealing and Stunting. Hip Hop artist usually are unique and give you a realistic picture of where they come from. While Hot Garbage artist's are not unique at all, and they give you a unrealistic and exaggerated picture of where they come from. Pop music in general whether it be pop/hip hop, pop/rock, pop/r & b, ect,. I believe shouldn't be listened to by people under 17 or people who are so simple minded they can't distinguish reality from fantasy. The same goes for movies also, because movies like God Father, Scarface, New Jack City i seen made alot of simple minded mofo's wanna imitate. I'd say the media period has been a tool to dumb down the entire population no matter the race but in others its been used more so as a self destruct mechanism. Today human life and everything that goes on around the world is based on psychology and various psychological principles. Psychology is being used in every country to construct specific mental & emotional patterns in the minds of their citizens. Psychology is being used to move the people in various directions, while keeping them from moving in other directions. Applied psychology is the basis of all our thoughts, feelings, aspirations, opinions, beliefs, viewpoints, attitudes - every part of our mental/emotional being. Psychology is being used to construct various mental/emotional patterns within our minds ... to construct the vary fabric of our minds. Psychology is the means by which life here on the planet can be orchestrated. I believe they helped mold a music that once was very deverse and uplifting and turned it into a oversexed, violent, mafia protrayed, parting and ***, then used it to influence blacks and other peoples perspective of blacks as a whole. When the music was deverse you had more then one perspective of blacks as a whole. Now that Masta And Uncle Tom have infultrated hip hop and made a version of their own called "Hot Gargage", now for every Lauryn Hill there is 50 - Lil 'Kim's and from every Immortal technique there is 50 - Lil Wanyes. A large portion of those rappers are in fact studio gangtas and alot of them just say rap/hip hop is only entertainment thus their allowed to be studio gangtas so thats not art imitating life. They are in fact similiar to actors!!! Why do you think alot of them become actors and start making movies after they make it big in the music biz? Hollywood just like the music industry is one and the same simple and plan, Universal, Warner Bros, Sony, ect (Are the Major Record Labels as well as Major Movie Studios).

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"Nowadays everyone rhymes, but not everyone can present themselves the way they want to be seen, a label always skews that because at the end of the day it's not your vision, it belongs to someone else." - Immortal Technique"I’m not a boy, I’m a man. A lot of rappers that I meet are real immature. It’s like they’ve had somebody take care of them their whole life. They’ve had the label which has been their surrogate parent. I don’t have that." - Immortal Technique"The best way to destroy a movement is to become part of it and corrupt it. Infiltrate it. In every movement, we’ve always been infiltrated. If the government really finds revolutionary hip hop to be a real issue, they’ll just bankroll somebody who has a similar message to mine but is much more in line with their politics. They’ll look more rational than me by their standards by conforming to American society and saying all right,‘this is what it is." - Immortal Technique"Brainwashed commercial hip hop is a government plot." - Immortal Technique"How You Sell your Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? a.k.a rich ceo's"- Public Enemy"Hip-hop is dead because we as artists no longer have the power." - Nas"If people don't get off the nonsense and the bull*73*t, the music ain't gonna do it either, because the people make Hip Hop. It's not like Hip Hop is independent of people. I say that all the time. Until people get of the ***, Hip Hop is gonna be where it's at. Hip Hop is only gonna reflect whatever we do and where we're at." - Mos def"Our priorities is gettin' *8*ed. Lil Jon-I love his music. But why are the East Side Boyz names Big Sam and Lil Bo? What the *8*? What's next, Kunta and Kinte? The South should know better. This is the same country that ran up in Fred Hampton's crib and shot him in bed with his pregnant wife. You think the rules changed cause *6*s got No. 1 records? What are we supposed to tell our kids? After Malcolm, Martin and Dubois we got Sam-Bo? I'm supposed to be down with that 'cause it makes me dance?" - Mos def"Paris Hilton don't really care about ya'll *6*z, man. She can't even hear ya'll *6*z. I'm just keeping it real. This *73* is entertainment to them. We're adopting their morals like we them and we never been them. We don't have the same struggle. Dudes is no more than 20 years removed from real poverty. For dudes to have this much access to money and it's not translating to people power, its inexcusable..." - Mos defNot to disrespect the intelligence of the youth at all—I know lots of smart teenagers—that’s just truth. But the realest thing I’m gonna tell you about hip-hop’s Southern power surge: *6*s ain’t making money like that. I don’t care what you wore in your video, what you showed up to the Howard homecoming in, what you floss in the streets, or how many independent units *6*s sold out they trunk in Alabama or Atlanta. Let’s not sit here and pretend that the big companies aren’t the ones making all the real money. The Southern push doesn’t reflect the growing living standard of Southern people as much as it represents a desperate effort from record labels to salvage their sales, which are in the toilet. They found a loyal market and they will now exploit it to the fullest. Your imprint means nothing, *6*. You own no masters, you split publishing. The dollar amount that the majors get from the distributor is the bottom line. You don’t even see that as an artist. We’re all still slaves, we’re just on different boats.- Immortal Technique

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