Maybe I’m Crazy

Maybe I’m crazy, but shit is backwards when instead of the role models being rock stars, the rock stars are the role models. We really got it fucked up, spending more time celebrating people with I-have-a-garage-full-of-cars MTV Cribs moments, than those with I-have-a-dream moments. Shit, I’d at least be satisfied with a Motown-25-moonwalk moment out of a few of you.

Really, who gives a fuck about how many times you got shot and how many birds you sold. And you want me to buy your album. You actually think I’m gone celebrate black-on-black crime and selling poison to my people. If you so hard answer this: how many “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” moments you have. How many boycotts you been involved in.

I mean damn, can a brotha get a theme song. You know, a “Say It Loud - I’m Black and I’m Proud,” or a “Self-Destruction.”Probably not—the lyrics done changed. We may never have to run from the Ku Klux Klan, but it’s definitely been times when I’ve had to run from a black man (niggas be shooting— key word, niggas)

It must be something in the water for us to go from we shall overcome to Supermaning hoes and feeling like slappin a nigga today. What happened to our role models keeping their eyes on the prize, instead of keeping the prize around their necks? What kind of “rock star” is so drenched in style that he forsakes substance?

You know what? I do feel like slappin a nigga today. I feel like rearing back and letting off on one of these old Jesus-piece-wearing, distorting-the-faith-ass-niggas (again, key word, niggas).

Really though, I’m not about all that. My heroes weren’t and aren’t about that. My heroes sing songs about solidarity. They understand the power they wield and use their voice for positive change. Shit, some have done time, but they ain’t let their time do them. They read. They learned. They enlightened.

I don’t know about you but my heroes had the heart to put their life out on the limb…but then again, maybe I’m crazy.

Tags: MLK, Media, Reality, Society | Jan 15, 2008 |

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troublsome

don’t even listen to rap now (nope)
It make my head hurt when I listen to cats now
It sound like they all rhymin in one booth
So take the industry n put them all in one group
Since they all on the same page
We should be able to boo them dudes off the same stage (boooo)
For real, I still love this rap shit
Even though the A wanna whip that snap shit
Even though the Bay wanna rip that hyphy
When I get on the mic niggas still gone like me

Cassidy “Damn I Miss the Game” B.A.R.S

When is it gon to come back?
The head crack(?), you can listen to me
You bullshitin you ain’t sicker than me

[Reply]
cypher

Thank you, homey. What the fuck happened from then to now. How did we let it get so bad? Honestly, I could talk about this all day but for my sanity’s sake I will just say, we strayed so far off the path that we don’t even know where it is anymore. Some of us do but it’s far too few. (Great piece)

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troublsome

Damn I miss the, Damn I miss the, Damn I miss the Game Game
When it’s gone come back, come back?
I’m gettin tired of the dumb rap dumb rap
Man I done been there and done that
Let’s move on

Damn I used to love this rap shit
When it was on some gold robe, kango hat shit
Now every rapper on some bust the gat shit
Cut that crack shit
F**k that wack shit

Public Enemy was on some power to black shit
Rap cats need to get back on that shit
They need to try switchin they flows
Cause all of our women ain’t bitches and hoes
And er’y rapper out got a brick on the stove
And wrists all frooze, and whip on roads
To hear that, I can listen to Hov

You bullshittin then you gettin exposed
Cassidy. B.A.R.S

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troublsome

Yo what happened to the game?
All these niggas rappin the same and that’s lame
(that’s lame)
Cats hustlin, bustin they gat
Curtis Blow never talked about hustlin crack
(noooo)

Yo, Everybody on the grind
But Run DMC never killed nobody in a rhyme
They wasn’t on that beef shit
And Melle Mel was the first one to talk that street shit
Ever since NWA came out
Cats turned gangsta and took that same rout
(man)
Ya hear that I could listen to Pac
You bullshitin the mission’ll stop
Cassidy “ Damn I miss the Game” B.A.R.S

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choppaboy237

shouldn’t have never gave you niggaz money.

[Reply]
C3

I got the product, narcotics for the customers homie,
Fiends open they be smoking like a muffler homie,
Niggas phony so I only got a couple of homies,
If you a hustla I could I could fuck with yah homie,
You spend a couple bucks I stay in touch wit’ ya homie
I get money, I get 20 a K, I got 20 strips all doin’ 20 a day, ay
I get cake from buds or haze, Im makin’ dubs
They hatin’ ’cause Im on tha grind like Im makin’ love
When cops got tha block hot like jamaican clubs
Cop weight, wait for a drought and then make it flood
Try and take my cake you gone take a slug
But you can take my information if you takin’ drugs
‘Cause I could sell raid to a bug, Ima hustla I could sell salt to a slug ’cause..

Cassidy “I’m A Hustla”

That’s what happened to the game… can’t have it both ways Cass. We don’t have any choices in the game… no diversity of thought. When everybody is a killer/hustler/pimp/gangsta what are the kids supposed to think? If the inspiration isn’t coming from home there damn sure ain’t no role models to look up to in entertainment.

It’s up to us to be the heroes and reach somebody!

[Reply]
Malia

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!

No you’re not crazy……I wanna slap some dayum people too!!! LOL!!! We have, for far too long, blamed “The Man” for our problems when we seem to be our own worst since we attained our Civil Rights!!! I’m laughing because your post was off the hinges….but this is no laughing matter.

((lemme, gain my compusure…..))

Of course, I say this having been on a BET boycott of sorts for the better part of two or three years now. Some of it has to do with being older, but the minute BET completely cut its news programming in lieu of coonin’-ass programming, they lost me as a customer. I’m more into TV One, which has more balanced programming. But I feel just as strongly about programs like Hot Ghetto Mess or whatever it’s called as I do Flava of Love, Miss New York, and that Charm School bullshit. To be honest, if VH-1 should be in the fire with BET because Flava of Love is the most destructive image of black folks I can remember in years.

But seriously, as much as BET needs to be cleaned up, should that really be the focus of our energy? I mean, if we want to protest something, shouldn’t we be protesting these raggedy-ass schools in our neighborhood? Shouldn’t we be protesting the fact that, as Chris Rock says, there are brand-new metal detectors and old-ass books? Shouldn’t we be registering to vote instead of worrying about Reginald Hudlin is doing?

Look, black folks, take care of your own household, your own little community, raise your standards for education and behavior (in YOUR HOME) and everything will be fine. The change that most needs to occur is the one nobody can put their hands on and do so easily. It’s easy to get a few records off the shelves, or a few shows cancelled (or have their names changed), but it ain’t that easy trying to be a better parent and getting more black men out of prison and into college!!!!

[Reply]
Disciple

The reason why we exist in this world of ignorance now is because of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., it ended his uprise, his teachings, and our present future. Dr. King was the head of the BLACK community, once he was assassinated , the BLACK community couldn’t exist without him. Think about it, doesn’t that sound familiar???? Whoever plotted the assassination knew that it would lead to this and it’s not that we are blind and can’t see what it has done to “us”, it’s because we are not KING enough to step up and do something about it.

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Q.

i think people got it messed up when they found out DMX is bipolar.. now everybody is rapping like they have 2 sides to them..

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"a mom"

If you’re real you grow. We already talked about troubl being for real people. So be real say what you say and mean it. Everybody may not like the way you say it, but real is real. You don’t want to push your readers away. I don’t think you said anything out of the real. Troubl is pulling in not pushing away.

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EV

What is there to say but…………..AMEN!

Time is here for the change to come. It starts with all of the adults to teach those who do not understand the impact that this insanity has on everyone.

EV

[Reply]
Keene

Funny how it looks like our society has no real direction to go from here. After an 8 year rein, Bush is finally stepping out of office after totally fuckin’ up shit, everywhere. The rap game is trippin over it’s own feet and spittin out new artists like every 4 days. The Sneaker game done lost it’s essence, having to resort back to their classics for company profit. And after 25 years or so, the Lyrics to Grand Master Flash and the Furious Fives’ hit, The Message, are still applying. Sad times for the new millenium, sad times. Being born smack dab in the peak of the crack era, we as TROUBL makers have to be the voices and powers to turn this doo-hickie around ya’ll. I aint finna SLAP no nigga though… eventhough I feel like it everytime I see a niggas pants down to his knees LMAO I know I can’t reationalize with them either. All he/she is going to do is go back home to their TV or go to there car and meditate on the poisons floating into their ears as I watch them soak up every once of ignorance spewed out of their speakers. Funny how those who enjoy these knitches call those who don’t nerds. They call us nerds while they laugh at movies such as Malibu’s Most Wanted while THE MAN mocks our culture and capitolizes off of it. I know we can’t change anything that has happened already and that there is lots of animosity left, but if you think about it we’re in an era where our young are interacting with one another more than ever. Let’s set the example for our children and set the bar of what we invision

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"a mom"

The opportunity is here. We can start by voting this year. Young people more than ever have the chance to make a change a little at a time. You are now the young adults.

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