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[BAPHOMET.]

[Bulldagger]

He?s right. However, I?m iffy about stuff like this because at the end of the day, it is what the consumers want. It?s like when LGBT cry for representation in a Marvel movie but the general public doesn?t care to see it. If there wasn?t a market for it, it wouldn?t exist and thats the honest truth.

I get your point.

I definitely believe in supply vs demand as well, regardless of situation. Which is why I don't extremely bent out of shape about POC being included in EVERYTHING in the mainstream.....We're ultimately still in a White country. Makes sense that we'd see a lot of well...White people. The buying public is what corporations are most interested in regardless of color. If there's an opportunity they're going to take it.

But with that being said, look at Kanye's catalog. Kendrick. Consumers are definitely open to things other than gang, drugs, and sex mess.

When it comes to CONTENT (and content is the discussion here, as opposed to representation of a minority group), I think it's different.

Music is very fashionable. These artists SET trends. What's cool to say, what's cool to do. So it's definitely a different conversation than discussing underrepresentation. These are individuals with the power to literally pull an audience in whichever direction they choose.

You?re right, but I think everybody is conscious of race nowadays and enlightenment with all the racial tension going on. White people will support a Kendrick Lamar, but not to the same degree they?ll support someone like Drake for obvious reasons and I don?t expect them to support someone who is ultimately against their agenda. It?s up to blacks to want to be enlightened. White people can afford to be stupid.

I think the difference then vs now is, the consumers tell radio what they want to hear via what they choose to support online. Back in the day, songs were played on the radio and you had no choice but to like them regardless of their subject matter. But since the turn of the century, people have largely cared for mindless music and have been affected by it. It?s to the point now where there is no variety and all you hear about is sex and drugs and getting money. So a lot of black people and white people and brown people grow up with that mindset. But it really takes a toll on us.

I'd agree wholeheartedly with the bolded sentence if we were talking about only adults.

Kids are the biggest consumers of music like this. Do you think their biggest concern is being "woke"? No, it's being "cool". Priority is not standing out too much, and following the trends.

That's what concerning to me.

I'm sure an adult would be able to see the "feminism" in Lil Shim's raunchy antics and think more critically about what these other artists are throwing out...but, at the risk of sounding cliche, what about the kids?

They're highly impressionable and absorb EVERYTHING they see and hear like a sponge - with little to no thought of the purpose behind what they see or the consequences of repeating it.

A pic I literally just scrolled by on my timeline.

You?re right. Children are impressionable, but it?s the adults that are letting their kids listen to the radio and playing that bullshit around their kids. And those people were raised on that same garbage. At the end of the day, it?s up to you as the parent to raise your children and set boundaries. A rapper star shouldn?t be raising your kids in the first place. It?s cute to listen to and bop to, but when you start to emulate what you hear and choose a darker path in life, whose fault is that? The parents!

[Vonc2002]

Swear to GOD and ion even believe in the dude. I have NEVER heard of Kim bring some feminist. But shit...

Khia and City Queens are too. Fuck it... EVERYONE is a feminist 

"Feminist" isnt some TITLE people go around putting on their resumes or something  . Its not about what you've heard, its about what you can fathom and consider after clear evidence is provided. If you have to hear someone else say it and connect the dots for you, Im so sorry.

SHIT!

Ndjjdjdjjd

Baph?

He's no more bby

I'm WEAK! 
U know when name changes occur and spin off threads pop up, someone was cut DEEP! Damn, sad to see him go out this way

[BAPHOMET.]

  so now I can't be a feminist. Wtf

[glock's unsatisfied lover]

Swear to GOD and ion even believe in the dude. I have NEVER heard of Kim bring some feminist. But shit...

Khia and City Queens are too. Fuck it... EVERYONE is a feminist 

"Feminist" isnt some TITLE people go around putting on their resumes or something  . Its not about what you've heard, its about what you can fathom and consider after clear evidence is provided. If you have to hear someone else say it and connect the dots for you, Im so sorry.

!!!

Folk really that lazy huh? Pronouncing feminism is not the discussion at hand. What liberated person does that? Feminism is full embodiment which what activism ultimately is. Looking at Kim?s body of work and the way she cultivated her art and aesthetic was indeed an act of feminism. Reclaiming her own sexual identity, delivering lyrical prose that challenged her male colleagues and reimagined the way women could or could not be portrayed in Hip-Hop.

got damn ur fucking SMART bby

Both of you are dumb tbh but MESS

[LOONA.]

Swear to GOD and ion even believe in the dude. I have NEVER heard of Kim bring some feminist. But shit...

Khia and City Queens are too. Fuck it... EVERYONE is a feminist 

"Feminist" isnt some TITLE people go around putting on their resumes or something  . Its not about what you've heard, its about what you can fathom and consider after clear evidence is provided. If you have to hear someone else say it and connect the dots for you, Im so sorry.

SHIT!

Ndjjdjdjjd

Baph?

He's no more bby

I'm WEAK! 
U know when name changes occur and spin off threads pop up, someone was cut DEEP! Damn, sad to see him go out this way

Bath is self destructing a bit and I'm enjoying it lolz     

[BAPHOMET.]

Jdhfjjfjdjdjj

Ralf... get In here and ban Drais and his secondary accounts  NOW.

[glock's unsatisfied lover]

Swear to GOD and ion even believe in the dude. I have NEVER heard of Kim bring some feminist. But shit...

Khia and City Queens are too. Fuck it... EVERYONE is a feminist 

"Feminist" isnt some TITLE people go around putting on their resumes or something  . Its not about what you've heard, its about what you can fathom and consider after clear evidence is provided. If you have to hear someone else say it and connect the dots for you, Im so sorry.

*nigger fuming*

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[LOONA.]

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He's feeling bold today huh?     

[L0NZ.]

My grandmother was very adamant about us NOT listening to rap music, or even very sexually explicit R&B songs.

I mean STRICT.

Did that stop me? Chile please. I was getting my Lil Shim and Fox the fuck AWN .

I grew up in the hood. THere was only SO much she could do to keep me away from it. Once I stepped out that door, her rules were at the mercy of peer influence and pressure.

Yet you turned out to be a respectable adult despite that.

I feel like teens know what the fuck is what. If they become whores its because its in their nature, not because Kim said fuck for car keys and double digit figures. Some people are just naturally sexually CHARGED. Its only human. Has nothing to do with entertainment in most cases, IMO

[MelMel]

All I got from that was Afro was a young whore of the hood

[Sovereign.]

Lazy niggas pressed cause they got clocked with history and not some micro ass opionion based on they feelings being hurt. I got time today. Get at me though when you want to discuss music and actual history. We too developed for "stan wars." You know who you are.

[BAPHOMET.]

  I don't talk to niggers

[Lane Bryant Jumpsuit]

Anyone on a major label is a face for white supremacy

At least beyonce doesnt need em anymore

Rich queen

[b7]

I wished we fucking stopped caring how white people perceive us, because at the end of the day, we still will be called niggers and get the cops called on us for stupid shit