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Quote from: THE RAPTURE on February 23, 2011, 12:39:21 PMQuote from: The Vet on February 23, 2011, 12:37:01 PMim not white so its hard for me to see how this song is racist.. can someone please explain.. This guy is rapping about a Black World, like this country doesn't have a Black president & Blacks are still degraded.
Quote from: The Vet on February 23, 2011, 12:37:01 PMim not white so its hard for me to see how this song is racist.. can someone please explain..
im not white so its hard for me to see how this song is racist.. can someone please explain..
He says "We stayed in Africa". Right there, game over lol. If that continent is still not developed after White people had their way with it, it would be even worse now.& what? He also says W.E.B. DuBois wrote the constitution, Black women voted in front of the KKK, took shots at Bill O'Reilly (white), Bush (white) & renamed the peace prize for a Black activist.He's refers to race the entire song. You can interpret the song however you want, but from my interpretation of it, it comes off a bit ignorant.& he just happens to use "Black" as the universal color for "no races"? C'mon.Maybe you're right. I won't say you're dead wrong, but then he fails at making it well known that he's referring to a "colorless" World. Not to mention the fact the first verse is based on America & this guy says in the chorus he stays in Africa & "never leaves"; which contradicts itself.
Quote from: Chamillitary Click on February 23, 2011, 01:38:32 PMHe says "We stayed in Africa". Right there, game over lol. If that continent is still not developed after White people had their way with it, it would be even worse now.& what? He also says W.E.B. DuBois wrote the constitution, Black women voted in front of the KKK, took shots at Bill O'Reilly (white), Bush (white) & renamed the peace prize for a Black activist.He's refers to race the entire song. You can interpret the song however you want, but from my interpretation of it, it comes off a bit ignorant.& he just happens to use "Black" as the universal color for "no races"? C'mon.Maybe you're right. I won't say you're dead wrong, but then he fails at making it well known that he's referring to a "colorless" World. Not to mention the fact the first verse is based on America & this guy says in the chorus he stays in Africa & "never leaves"; which contradicts itself.Did you even read the lyrics? If he was talking about everything black then why is he using role reversal? Didn't you read the line about a black rat pack inspiring a white jackson five? A black eminem signing a white 50 cent? A black woman leading the kkk? Every line in there is flipping things around in some way.
Quote from: THE RAPTURE on February 23, 2011, 12:39:21 PMQuote from: The Vet on February 23, 2011, 12:37:01 PMim not white so its hard for me to see how this song is racist.. can someone please explain.. This guy is rapping about a Black World, like this country doesn't have a Black president & Blacks are still degraded. Blacks basically run mainstream music & all major sports. It almost is "all black everything".Meanwhile what this guy doesn't understand is that yeah slavery was fucked up, but if we left Blacks in Africa, they wouldn't be developed. There would just be more tribes & probably more violence due to more people. This guy has a whole verse about how Hip Hop would be. LOL @ the thought of Hip Hop just developing. & where is English coming from in order to even rap?In the chorus he says they stay in Africa & the White man has no part in it & then in the first verse he says "they would have to employ us". It doesn't even make sense. If we never showed up, how would we employ you? But above all, the thought that Africa would be a highly developed nation if White people played no part in it is almost comical.Maybe it isn't racist, but it is pretty ignorant, in my opinion. I think America is at a point where it's equal enough for a song like this to just sound stupid.
You would never know if you could ever be. If you never try, you would never see
Stayed in Africa - we ain’t never leave.So there were no slaves in our history.Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn’t he?
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything
Quote from: THE RAPTURE on February 23, 2011, 12:39:21 PMQuote from: The Vet on February 23, 2011, 12:37:01 PMim not white so its hard for me to see how this song is racist.. can someone please explain.. This guy is rapping about a Black World, like this country doesn't have a Black president & Blacks are still degraded. Blacks basically run mainstream music & all major sports. It almost is "all black everything".Meanwhile what this guy doesn't understand is that yeah slavery was fucked up, but if we left Blacks in Africa, they wouldn't be developed. There would just be more tribes & probably more violence due to more people.