Comments on: Damn Where Is Hip-Hop’s Appreciation For Black History? http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/ Keep Your Ear To The Streets... Tue, 6 Jan 2009 08:43:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Michael Ameer http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1702 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:49:33 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1702 You talk about Bill Cosby being crazy and you talk just like him. Stop being afraid to be the only one on the dancefloor!!! Stand up for what you mean!!! Bill Cosby aint crazy, he has enough balls to say whats TRUE and what he means. You are half way trying to make sense. We are effing ourselves up period, point, exclamation..! But too many blacks are scared to say it out loud because the so called black community will come down on him. We have become so inclined to reaction, rather than thought on whats levied against us. Making us look ignorant like we are. Every thing that is so called black is negative ie. thugging, stop snitchin, gangs, reppin yo hood, putting in work, slangin, hustlin, get money get money get money!!!! These are all attributes and things we despised back in the day that was used against us. Now we are the perpetrators of ignorance and it's called being down or black...thats BULLSHIT and we know it!!!!! We don't have enough guts to pull the card on our own people! That makes us lose credibility and thats why the rest of society doesn't respect us. They respect us as far as being politically correct where they wont say what they feel to our face! But we know and they know we are full of shit hiding behind what happened to us back in the day. It's 2007 and time for blacks to be accountable to blacks. p.s. Bill Cosby aint crazy he was dead on right, and has enough balls to say it out loud in front of the whole world. And thats what hip hop USED to be!!!!!! Say what you feel even if you the only one sayin it! You talk about Bill Cosby being crazy and you talk just like him. Stop being afraid to be the only one on the dancefloor!!! Stand up for what you mean!!! Bill Cosby aint crazy, he has enough balls to say whats TRUE and what he means. You are half way trying to make sense. We are effing ourselves up period, point, exclamation..! But too many blacks are scared to say it out loud because the so called black community will come down on him. We have become so inclined to reaction, rather than thought on whats levied against us. Making us look ignorant like we are. Every thing that is so called black is negative ie. thugging, stop snitchin, gangs, reppin yo hood, putting in work, slangin, hustlin, get money get money get money!!!! These are all attributes and things we despised back in the day that was used against us. Now we are the perpetrators of ignorance and it’s called being down or black…thats BULLSHIT and we know it!!!!! We don’t have enough guts to pull the card on our own people! That makes us lose credibility and thats why the rest of society doesn’t respect us. They respect us as far as being politically correct where they wont say what they feel to our face! But we know and they know we are full of shit hiding behind what happened to us back in the day. It’s 2007 and time for blacks to be accountable to blacks.

p.s. Bill Cosby aint crazy he was dead on right, and has enough balls to say it out loud in front of the whole world. And thats what hip hop USED to be!!!!!!
Say what you feel even if you the only one sayin it!

]]> by: JRDX http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1174 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:38:36 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1174 AMAZING truthful article. These articles and your reviews make me love NBS. I might join the forums one day but I must commend your editors time & time again. Always on point. Great article. And I agree. TO be honest though it's time to do something on the base level (start really supporting & taking part of uplifting and wise movements from hip hop & other small community things) since we are asking big ego-centric money loving artists to do something for their fellow ppl and to move us past this stage. AMAZING truthful article. These articles and your reviews make me love NBS. I might join the forums one day but I must commend your editors time & time again. Always on point.

Great article. And I agree. TO be honest though it’s time to do something on the base level (start really supporting & taking part of uplifting and wise movements from hip hop & other small community things) since we are asking big ego-centric money loving artists to do something for their fellow ppl and to move us past this stage.

]]> by: Kalifornia http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1172 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:15:13 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1172 We don't need a Black history month if African American history was completely accepted as being part of American history. Having a "month" reinforces our "minority" status. The so-called "black community" really, urgently needs to think bigger and broader. That's why shit hasn't significantly changed (for the better) since after the peak of the civil rights movement. Thinking bigger and broader would ultimately culminate in people realizing that a month is shit. And people idolize the past so much that they remain stagnant. Long story short....oppressors have a hand in everything. We don’t need a Black history month if African American history was completely accepted as being part of American history. Having a “month” reinforces our “minority” status. The so-called “black community” really, urgently needs to think bigger and broader. That’s why shit hasn’t significantly changed (for the better) since after the peak of the civil rights movement.
Thinking bigger and broader would ultimately culminate in people realizing that a month is shit. And people idolize the past so much that they remain stagnant. Long story short….oppressors have a hand in everything.

]]> by: Spellcheck http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1164 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:59:26 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1164 I feel ya cat. Heads need a "King Celebrate." Remember that joint? It won't happen though. America loves the jezebel and the coon. That's always going to sell. Corporations won't give us anything that won't. I feel ya cat. Heads need a “King Celebrate.” Remember that joint? It won’t happen though. America loves the jezebel and the coon. That’s always going to sell. Corporations won’t give us anything that won’t.

]]> by: DR FUH Q MAN esquire http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1163 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:18:58 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1163 TRUTH!!! TRUTH!!!

]]> by: Sam http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1160 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:37:02 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1160 One more thing, is Billy Cosby all that crazy? I don't like how he indiscriminately disparages young black men and hip hop as a whole, but he definitely says some things I agree with. Peace ya'll. One more thing, is Billy Cosby all that crazy? I don’t like how he indiscriminately disparages young black men and hip hop as a whole, but he definitely says some things I agree with.

Peace ya’ll.

]]> by: Sam http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1159 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:32:51 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1159 You're exactly right my friend and it's a shame that many people will take what you're saying as news. I really would simply rewording what you've already said if I commented further on it, but I will add this. The most popular hip hop image of today would cease to be if the black community made sweeping change here in America. The majority of today's rappers claim they are from "the ghetto" and "the struggle" and it benefits them because that's their gimmick. They complain about the conditions they come from but they, and a number of others, don't want it to change because then that's it for their bread & butter. I would love for change to happen, but ofttimes it seems like people enjoy complaining about their struggles more than they would if they didn't exist. You’re exactly right my friend and it’s a shame that many people will take what you’re saying as news. I really would simply rewording what you’ve already said if I commented further on it, but I will add this.

The most popular hip hop image of today would cease to be if the black community made sweeping change here in America. The majority of today’s rappers claim they are from “the ghetto” and “the struggle” and it benefits them because that’s their gimmick. They complain about the conditions they come from but they, and a number of others, don’t want it to change because then that’s it for their bread & butter. I would love for change to happen, but ofttimes it seems like people enjoy complaining about their struggles more than they would if they didn’t exist.

]]> by: C-NoEviL http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1158 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:11:50 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1158 Nothing but truth. Very insightful and righteous. Something I talk about with my friends and partners on a regular. C-NoEviL Nothing but truth. Very insightful and righteous. Something I talk about with my friends and partners on a regular.

C-NoEviL

]]> by: tdot http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1155 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:20:28 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1155 jay-z did the katrina ad for mtv jay-z did the katrina ad for mtv

]]> by: ck http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1154 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:03:53 +0000 http://www.nobodysmiling.com/blogs/2007/02/23/damn-where-is-hip-hops-appreciation-for-black-history/#comment-1154 everything is "black" culture this "black" culture that. black history should jus be dedicated to one month in the whole year? lotta rappers talk about black history throughout their songs...they dont have to make songs jus cuz white people said this month is black history month. everything is “black” culture this “black” culture that. black history should jus be dedicated to one month in the whole year? lotta rappers talk about black history throughout their songs…they dont have to make songs jus cuz white people said this month is black history month.

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