I think that white corporate america loves rap music. I think they use it as a way to keep black people down.?

Question

I wish more black people would really listen to the message in these songs. When I listen to alot of these rap songs they talk about disrespecting women,Rap music makes drugs look glorious thats why so many are in jail. but also they talk about buying expensive clothes apple bottoms jeans that cost $68.00 a pair. The reason so many young black people are living in poverty in america because they want to keep up the image that these rappers are saying they should have impalas with big rims and $150.00 Jordons. These songs never say anything about saving money to buy a house or investing in a business. They only talk about spending money to look rich, buying platinum and gold grills diamonds. Why don't most black people who like these type of rap songs and spend all there money on clothes, shoes, and jewlery, realize that they are only making the white man richer and they will always be more as long as they keep trying to dress like their rich instead of saving and investing their money.

yeah rappers I know rappers invest their money in clothing lines but that doesn't help the people who spend $80.00 on a pair of rocawear jeans and and have to get a day loan to pay to their electric bill.

to "i kno you" that's why you will always be poor and live in the ghetto with that attitude

Answer 1

They are being controlled by the mass media and don't know it. It's compete with your neighbor, pretend your rich, spend & spend, a rat race, and it is what the corporate elite has laid out for them, & they have fell right into it. If you get time, watch "Terrorstorm" on Google video.

Answer 2

Does rock, country and pop teach kids how to save money? I agree there is some horrible rap music out there, but I have listened to the worse of the worse and I have yet to rob, rape, or sell drugs to anybody. Its freedom of speech when its a Nazi rock band, but some how this doesn't apply to rap music. When you let the media overemphasis on the negative rappers out there, you fail to notice the positive ones.

I totally admit that YG&B. There are a lot and I do mean a lot of the same crap music recycled. On the other side I saw Bill O'Reilly talking about the rapper Ludacris who I am personally not too fond of, but is the song "Slap" really making black youth go out and slap their boss and white kids? How Gangter is Lupe Fiasco or Common, yet they are generally recognized in the same catagory.

Answer 3

I wouldn't be caught dead blasting gay azz talib kweli in the middle of the closest hood near me. Talib Kweli is a pure Racist and idiotic political speaker, he's a black supremacist, I hate any supremacist and tbh his flow and shiet is azz. I laugh at black people thinking a white can't listen to him, but he sucks, so you shouldn't. I am white and I just slam the bass during rides in and through where I live, of all genres. And 2, their "own culure" I second what Big C said.

Answer 4

I hate rap music because to me it really isn't music and most of the lyrics are terrible. However, the media in general is made to make everyone not just blacks want whatever is in style. Blacks don't live in poverty because of buying expensive stuff. Anyone who lives in poverty probably doesn't have a great education which means they don't have a great job to support themselves. Also, statistics show that more white teenagers buy rap/hip hop cds than blacks do. At my high school, which was very diverse, there were always more white guys mimicking rap/hip hop artists and blaring the music in their cars.

Answer 5

No artist black or white sings about saving money and buying houses.

White people are not using rap music in commercials, and in tv shows to keep you down.

I turn a Nike commercial off every time I see it, because it's geared toward Black people. There is maybe 1 white guy in the whole commercial, and some gangster rap in the background.

I think that you are taking this whole White people trying to hold you down and blowing it way out of context. How bout John Lennon? Did you ever hear a Beatles song singing about a 401K?

Answer 6

Thats odd...I didnt think blacks needed any help keeping themselves "down"...I thought the refusal to speak proper english, lack of education, irresponsible breeding and lack of a work ethic was enough

Hey I live in metro detroit, and at some of the strip clubs some of the brothas just start throwing money at the stage like on rap videos.....I will never have enought money to do that.

Answer 7

I hate rap music. Just like you said....the message of the song is disrespecting women, drugs, and so forth.

And it's not a way of corporate America putting black people down. The black people are the ones who sing the songs and make them up (except for a few rappers). And their the ones who like it.

Answer 8

im the biggest fan of rap. i dont sell drugs or glorify bling-bling. u people are weird and just plain stupid. if u listen to the music you would know that its the fun music. what is the problem? you're worrying about people's financial issues "as long as they keep trying to dress like their rich instead of saving and investing their money." ITS THEIR DAMN MONEY! wtf? i will always feel sorry for you dummies.

Answer 9

OMG!!!!!
It's just music!!!!! ....I think the black rappers are benefiting from it...after a hit song or two they capitalize on their name and broaden out to market clothing, perfume, etc....I guess white people are "held down" in life because heavy metal music makes them kill their mamas! People are just people and like what they like- there doesn't have to be a reason behind it!
PEACE OUT!

Answer 10

Aha! That's exactly what it is! I agree! I actually had a conversation about this with my boyfriend. We agreed.