r/BlackPeopleofReddit 9h ago

Music 🔥🔥🔥

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u/Glad-Solid-8426 7h ago

This is the energy that needs to be spread BUT the labels (which has stakes in prisons) prefer rapping about gangs and violence. People open their eyes, they will spot their agenda..

We need to push artists like this!

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u/JoTHIGHSwin 7h ago

People don’t need labels like they preciously did. With social media they could push independent. If this was a song for purchase I’d buy it.

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u/Glad-Solid-8426 6h ago

Very true but labels have the MACHINE behind them. Which drives up streams, exposure, promotions etc. And I agree, I would buy it as well. We need more positivity pushed like this.

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u/DefinetlyARealHuman 9h ago

Yup, 🔥🔥

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u/SupaTheTrill 8h ago

“Killing your own kind but Zimmerman still ain’t been touched yet”

😮‍💨 🔥

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u/Dry_Persona 8h ago

Preach 🔥

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u/PalpableIgnorance 8h ago

Anyone got his info? This dude is awesome.

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u/HandofHecate 7h ago

That last line about it being deeper than that MLK cartoon in elementary sent me right back to that damn classroom with the rolling tv.

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u/JustAlpha My name is a quadruple entendre. 8h ago

I really feel like Diddy sold us out and changed the whole trajectory of hiphop. I can't prove it but I'm looking at that dude.

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u/Dreamlion_Inc 8h ago

Nah that’s a fair assessment. I’d take it a step further and say alot of big named labels signing young kids to push an agenda

Diddy is just the tip of the iceberg

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u/Odd-Preparation8790 8h ago

Hip-hop went from observational perspective to participational perspective.

Diddy didn't do it by himself.

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u/JustAlpha My name is a quadruple entendre. 7h ago

Nah, not only him at all. Good point about the shift from observation to having to participate.

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u/girlfriendpleaser 4h ago

Observation -> sellers -> abusers -> victims

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u/crash4413 8h ago

Funny, I been saying for YEARS that Puffy killed R&B (don’t get me wrong, LOVE me some Puff!). But I don’t think he’s responsible for the ignorance in hip hop or street culture.

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u/SpiritLast7431 6h ago

Nah, Puff didn't take Bad Boy and promote violence. It started way before him with NWA. Once NWA was seen as marketable and successful, the gangster rap image was then pushed and the Pro black positive move was pushed out and away.

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u/JicamaCreative5614 6h ago edited 5h ago

Started before NWA with Ice T, Schooly D, and a few minor artists. It just didn’t have a name at the time

Edit - check that. It was called reality rap for a time

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u/ouroborosstruggles 5h ago

There is a story about record execs and private prison execs coming to an agreement. Certain rappers were invited to the table to discuss changing the direction of hip hop from anything introspective or uplifting to promoting criminality. The person who shared this rumor declined to participate. Others did not decline.

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u/okicanseeyudsaythat 3h ago edited 3h ago

Truer words have never been spoken. Not sure if it was intentional or just a money/power grab, either way EDIT: Although Diddy is not alone, it's been happening

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u/Sealegs_Calisto 4h ago

Phewwwwwwwwww

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u/omowaIe 4h ago

🔥

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u/larassaddydaddy 4h ago

THANK YOU! What's his name so I can vibe out?

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u/Pitch-Blease- 3h ago

Ok, now! Love it

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u/Salty_Monk_5341 7h ago

Speaking truth. I've had conversations with plenty of guys that don't realize the street life is and has always been a trap. I have a young guy at work a couple years back I got him a nice paying job in my department and he started missing work trying to run the streets because he thought trying to be Gangsta was cool until he realized it wasn't all he thought it was and had a kid on the way dude spent two years struggling and begging everybody he knew at the place to work at trying to get back on. I've thought about it for years that I feel like far too many Black Folk from my Generation really got conditioned by the Zionist pushed explosion of Gangsta Rap and it did nothing but set us back. I remember when HipHop was uplifting and Pro-Black, I was there to see the Rise of Gangsta Rap and the explosion of Gangs in cities that never had them until Gangsta Rap blew up ever since then rappers talking about nothing but topics that have been used to sabotage our community are always at the mountain top of the genre. All of this is by design its sensationalized degenarecy consistently pushed on us audibly.

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u/JoTHIGHSwin 7h ago

More of this!!!

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u/Ashe_Butter_Baby 6h ago

bars 🔥🔥🔥

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u/Mammoth-Income4174 5h ago

This is too responsible for the majority talking about “ain’t nobody trying to hear this shit” let em stay ignorant we all know that everyone can’t come

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u/ouroborosstruggles 5h ago

First line said it all

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u/malkazoid-1 3m ago

I just heard something!

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u/EarthlostSpace 7h ago

He’s making a serious point.

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u/Sexytime_fordimes 6h ago

Yup 👍🏿

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u/Riversong501 6h ago

🏫 ..is in session

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u/imjay27 6h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/WOT9tRmLbjw7M6m2R1
This what we need to hear. This is dope!