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Listen to Still Kony 2. Fuck it, listen to Shootergang Kony. He’s a magnificent story teller. Dedicate 2:06 to listening to someone else’s experience with no judgment.

For everyone who is uncomfortable with violent rap, I ask you please just think. Just think. You don’t like violence? Well some people’s lives are violent. The world is violent, maybe not to you, but it’s not something you can wish away by ignoring. Is your comfort more important than the very real violence that impacts peoples lives? Are you too good, too pure, to acknowledge the reality of life for some people?

Right….

Listen to rap. Listen to violent rap. But really listen, because often they tell you exactly the reasons why that violence exists. We all know why.

#violent rap #rap #shootergang kony #please for the love of god listen to rap #it makes you a better person

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For everyone who is uncomfortable with violent rap, I ask you please just think. Just think. You don’t like violence? Well some people’s lives are violent. The world is violent, maybe not to you, but it’s not something you can wish away by ignoring. Is your comfort more important than the very real violence that impacts peoples lives? Are you too good, too pure, to acknowledge the reality of life for some people?

Right….

Listen to rap. Listen to violent rap. But really listen, because often they tell you exactly the reasons why that violence exists. We all know why.

#music #rap #violent rap #please for the love of god listen to rap #it makes you a better person

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It’s summertime so ofc all the albums r dropping… how am I to choose which I’m reviewing first!

#music #rap #StanWill #drego&beno #shootergang kony #i’m soooo excited

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a lot of people are dismissing the "violent" rap music rushing and scrambling to say well not ALL rap is violent here's some rappers who don't rap about violence but like. idk. I think the "violent" rap is important to listen to as well. do you know why gangs exist? do you know why Compton is the way that it is? can you listen to the experiences of black men when you can't personally relate on any level? or will you dismiss an entire genre of music because certain sub genres make you feel a bit uncomfortable as a non-black person?

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this blog stands with palestine and if you don’t you can get the fuck out. what israel is doing is genocide and i will not tolerate anyone who supports it.

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it also goes into black ppl not being able to be silly or playful or non serious without it being held against our entire beings / character, white person make a song about casual sex or having fun at the club it’s just fine, black person do the same and you feel uncomfortable…why? if we do it it means we’re vapid and stupid and barbaric..ur ppl do it and it’s just a club song just for fun and u still are a real person who gets to be multifaceted, rlly a lot of the rap ppl dunk on is just niggas having fun it’s meant to only be played at the club or a get together that’s another reason ik yall don’t get out

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Okay here's my obligatory post about Tumblr users and their ignorance of rap, as a (white) fan of rap:

Saying "Not all rap music is about violence, here are alternatives" is not helpful, because the violent music ALSO has meaning.

When Biggie Smalls postures about his gang connections and packing heat, he isn't doing it because wow violence is so edgy, it's a powerful statement. Youth in urban areas where gang activity is heavy are often treated as lesser than by default, especially compared to black people the same age from a wealthy background. There's a reason that the "wholesome and respectable" black-lead entertainment of that era was stuff like the Cosby Show, with doctor-lawyer parents, or Family Matters, with a cop dad. There's a reason why the big joke of Fresh Prince is someone with a more unstable upbringing moving in with one of these model black sitcom families.

Standing up and saying yeah, I came from the mean streets, I was molded by this violence and yes, I did what I had to do to survive in a world that refuses to acknowledge my existence as meaningful or worthy of protection. I protected myself, I made my own way, and fuck anybody who tries to stand in the way of that.

Refusing to demonize that environment and wearing it like armor in a way that protects from the authority that wants you to see them as sub humans incapable of only violence and hatred, and saying HEY. I'm here, I lived this, and there is love and there is pain and there is ART in this.

That is powerful. That is the essence of gangster rap.

It isn't about hurting people for fun, it's about holding a mirror up to a society that does the hurting and then calls you a monster for what it's made you. Its about validating the experiences of the disenfranchised and biting back at authority. It's about turning a pain that the world say you deserve being one of those people from those places into POETRY. Into ART.

And thats why it matters.

And thats why you need to shut the yell up and stop dismissing it as violence without substance when you all sat on your ass listening to songs about Hatsune Miku eating people in middle school.

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I can’t engage with rap discourse from people who do not listen to it or understand it’s merit. Like how am I supposed to take you seriously? You can’t even cite ur sources…..

#rap #music #please for the love of god listen to rap #it makes you a better person

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the current trend of "tumblr users embarrassing themselves by proudly announcing why they don't listen to any music made by black people" is really astounding.

i cannot help but think this is a direct result of liberal White Guilt and how people have interpreted "anti-racism" as form of cultural self-segregation - the kind of person who thinks trying to cook chicken curry is cultural appropriation, or sends white people anon hate for wearing a kimono (yes, this kind of discourse happened). like, "oh, no, i could never participate in this culture, i'd get my evil white hands all over it! it would be more Progressive if I only did White things."

if you're a poc you've seen this, i'm sure - this deer-in-the-headlights stare you can get from white people when you play music / show art / share a story / anything that is Racially Coded, this total refusal to actually engage with it out of fear that it is in some way Wrong for them to have any opinion on it. because they read somewhere that it's bad to use AAVE but the only lesson they actually learned from that is "gotcha, white people are not allowed to interact with other cultures as punishment for my White Crimes. this helps to fill up the gaping pit of my white guilt and makes me one of the Good People." this transforms their discomfort around non-white cultures (black culture, especially, i should add) into a kind of virtue

anyway if you are white and reading this. go listen to some fucking haliu mergia. ethiopian jazz. will knock your dick right off. go listen to rap or reggae or bollywood and have a genuine reaction to it - like, an actual, from-the-heart reaction. you are allowed to not like some of it. but you will definitely like at least a little. yes, you can compare it to lemon demon (or whatever) if that helps you get into it and that's your only point of reference. maybe don't say that part out loud. but don't, like, separate yourself from it, like you are seeing it in a museum and the only polite thing to do is go "ahh, huh, very interesting, so much culture here."

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i hate this sites music taste so much its literally Racism The Music Taste site. you guys dont like rap you dont like jazz you dont like country you dont like blues you dont like ska you dont like reggae you cannot CONCEPTUALIZE listening to foreign artists you dont even know what turbofolk is you cant conceive of music existing out of anglosphere you think that mcr is punk and its the end-all of definition of "punk" for you i hate everyone here like WHAT music do you people even listen to what the fuck is left

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Man if someone told me there was gonna be rap discourse on tumblr I woulda been here ages ago

#music #rap #kendrick lamar #drake #drakeo the ruler #drego&beno #please for the love of god listen to rap #yeah

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Because if I got on here and said "all country is racist and for people who hate immigrants and wear hoods and maga hats" or "rock/punk is for edgy whiny white kids who refuse to admit they're privileged" based off of two half attempted songs, we'd all be ready to check me. But somehow we're allowed to do this to (what we perceive as) Black genres of music and then get a victim complex about it. Aight.

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My dad has always been a Drake hater

#rap #music #kendrick lamar #drake #yeah

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I’m trying my best to be appreciative that the Kendrick drake beef has made ppl more interested in rap,

But cmon guys….. y’all needed a pedo to get his ass demolished via song to start listening to one of the most creative and profound music genres?

Again! I’m glad, I really am, rap is awesome and Kendricks disses are great, but idk if I’d be making the point known that I’ve never engaged with an entire genre of music (that was created and popularized by black people alsooo) until now….

But anyway, listen to Drop Pin by DaBoii

#rap #music #DaBoii #kendrick lamar #drake #please for the love of god listen to rap #it makes you a better person

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Im a goat my mama should’ve named me billy or something

#babyface e #yeah

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Like I don’t think I can’t hold a conversation if you haven’t listened to fictional by Drakeo the ruler…. you just won’t get it

#rap #music #drakeo the ruler #drakeo

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Listening for nostalgia, but truly this is a classic. Let’s not limit our old SOB to anti and Calvin Cambridge, even tho it is missing DaBoii. Like don’t get me wrong, DaBoii is my fav, but I feel like Slimmy and T.O. don’t get enough respect so this song is perfect for that. Both of them got pretty solid verses and then Drakeo at the end???? It’s too good. Really makes up for DaBoii not being in it

Plus Drakeo……. I love you (RIP)

“Bald head caillou’s fallin all on my denim”

Ughhhh and the piano????? Like man…

#rap #music #SOBxRBE #SOB #drakeo the ruler #drakeo