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Barack Obama on Hip-Hop... a great interview
Australian Bastard:
--- Quote from: Eleven 2 Three on March 03, 2008, 10:12:37 AM --- Seriously, answer me this:
--- Quote from: Eleven 2 Three on March 03, 2008, 03:01:28 AM ---So if Obama is really as strong about his beliefs and ideas as he makes you think he is, how can he chill to a Jigga album, singing along to "nigga whaaaat, nigga whooooo?" only afterwards recapping "Well, they do use the N word a little too frequently"?
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That's the same as saying: "Violence is wrong, killing people is worse, but the Kim track by Eminem sure is the shit"
Huh?
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I am sticking to the point, peace man we cool. Expression is everything. You are saying that hip-hop should not contradict itself, I say fuck that, let it contradict itself as much as it wants, don't say what it should or shouldn't do or be, there is still shit art and good art, you need that sharp intellect to appreciate and decide for yourself what is and isn't good art or what just isn't art altogether, thats the intellectual challenge. Would you rather art that paints a pretty picture: a tree, a house and a mountain, you look at it and you know exactly what is in the picture? Would you rather McDonalds hip-hop, you know exactly how shits gonna taste and feel? Go to a little brother concert and you know you are going to be safe and you are not going to be offended and you know exactly what you are going to feel because it suits your personality. Why should Obama have to read a biography, its a totally different medium, we are talking hip hop thats the topic is it not? ;) I'm saying don't paint yourself into a picture, don't define yourself into a little world. If you put water into a cup, sure it takes the form of the cup, but it can't do anything, it is controlled and defined and it's capacity for creation or destruction is nada.
Peace.
http://www.youtube.com/v/1i9SrBfkDWQ&autoplay=0
*turns on autoplay* Real conversation for dat ass! :banana:
Javier:
If Obama, well really anyone for that matter, is restricted to listen to music that isn't against their beliefs well then you're limited to what you can listen to.
M Dogg™:
--- Quote from: Mr. Javii on March 03, 2008, 05:29:20 PM ---If Obama, well really anyone for that matter, is restricted to listen to music that isn't against their beliefs well then you're limited to what you can listen to.
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True... I listen to Hip-Hop, but don't agree with a lot of the message... though at one time I did... lol
As I get older, I realize the stupitity of what a lot of the Hip-Hop culture stands for... and how I grew up in the no-snitching culture, how much that was enforced to the community out of fear, not out of respect to the local drug dealers. Hip-Hop has a lot wrong, but it has a lot right, and if anyone kept their mind close to what the youth is listening to, and saying, then they will stay in the dark of the troubles that the future will face. So well Obama may not agree, as someone who prides himself at once being a community organizor and who worked on the streets, he still needs to keep an ear on the streets.
Westcoastfanatic:
Why do I have to agree with the lyrics when I'm listening to a rap record? When you watch an action movie you don't have to agree with anything, you just enjoy the action. That's the same way I listen to rap, like a movie on wax. Of course killing hookers is wrong, but I can still listen to NWA's "To Kill a Hooker" and enjoy it.
Joe Bonanno:
lol did he just say the jay z album was tight?
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