Who’s really to blame for this shit? I think everybody is. Even no action is action and those that have taken no action bear some responsibility. Record companies are businesses; businesses aren’t going to invest in what doesn’t make them money. The music people claim they want to hear, they don’t financially support or support in any other fashion. Everybody just feeds into the negativity, they roll with the mob shouting hip hop is dead, it’s a minstrel show, and it’s whatever. That time and energy would be better spent supporting an artist they feel does make the music they’d like to hear. Read more...
I hate when people talk about how much they hate “commercial” music. Commercial music is good music. Besides that, how many artist with a deal, whether considered underground or mainstream aren’t making music with the intent of profiting off of their music? Pushing a product for profit is all “commercial” means. Read more...
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I have a niece who was born to a 16 year old father caught up in the street. My mother had kicked my brother out when he was 14, let him back in the house, and then put him in Job Corps. He used to cut school and work doing construction for the landlord of the building next door. My mother wasn’t having that not going to school shit, so he had to go. Read more...
Dialect: Variety of a language spoken by a group of people and having features of vocabulary, grammar, and/ or pronunciation that distinguish it from other varieties of the same language.
Dialects usually develop as a result of geographic, social, political, or economic barriers between groups of people who speak the same language. When dialects diverge to the point that they are mutually incomprehensible, they become languages in their own right. This was the case with Latin, various dialects of which evolved into the different Romance languages French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian….
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Hip hop slang, in my opinion, is what could be characterized as a socialect, which is a dialect determined by social factors rather than by geography. In the opinion of others outside of hip hop it’s a sign of ignorance or lack of education, or just plain bad English. What causes the division? Read more...
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Malcolm X once spoke about the existence of what he called, “House Negroes” and “Field Negroes”, in our modern times it appears to me that a new spin has been placed upon that dynamic. Being that slavery is no longer in overt existence, the terms house Negroes and Field Negroes don’t carry as much weight as they once did, but the existence of what those two terms stood in representation of is still very much a part of our modern day black American society. Read more...
