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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
to be sure, im commenting specifically on how you said Blood Speak is "dumb" when its clearly not indeed its kind of clever when you think about it. i don't endorse gangbanding but it doesn't mean i think all the culture is worthless, indeed if as a teacher if you don't start from a place of mutual cultural respect for people you will never teach them anything let alone how to possibly make better life choices. further i have learned its silly to dismiss things as "dumb" if you possibly just don't understand them
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Ah. Yeah. No. But whatever. There's some "cultures" that I simply have no patience for. KKK culture. Nazi culture. Blood/Crip culture. I get where you're coming from, and perhaps it's a really good thing I didn't become a teacher full time. I'm sure it can be useful — necessary even— to come at these things from a place of understanding, but I don't think there's room for coddling. David Duke is running for a Senate seat, for Christ's sake.
Gang culture promotes violence and as much as I love hip-hop, I'm simply not the guy who's gonna look the other way when someone uses their position of influence in pop culture to help push an agenda of intolerance and hatred. How many people now know about this gang lingo just because YG named his album this way? How many kids? If gang life in Compton is still as bad as it was when I was last in Cali, isn't it conceivable — even likely — that someone's car will get shot up just for bumping a flag-waving Blood's record?
I think gang culture was a direct reaction to the violence that low-SES urban black families have dealt with from cops, politicians and citizens for generations, but that doesn't make the reactive violence justified. And the penchant for recruiting children of single-digit ages disgusts me. I'm just not the guy.
Maybe this is why I'd rather listen to this:
"I know most people wouldn't usually rap this/ but I got the facts to back this/ just last year Chicago had over 600 caskets/ man killin' some whack shit/ Oh I forgot, 'cept for when niggas is rappin"
Than any of that gangsta shit.