5. Hip-Hop and Black Identity (Black conservatism)
I think that's where things started to begin to parrot a passive identical message that Republicans, that for decades, along with Democrats, tend to hold different minority groups down until needed for elections and other opportunistic things in our society and political system. These things people go through and they really aren't really telling the truth about why you can't get ahead. So when you're in rap music, you hear things like Jay Z's 444 album, which I used to praise
Of all albums by Jay Z as one of his favorite albums, while also meeting with Kendrick Lamar in the White House, in Heaven, Push, Its E and Buster Rhymes and J. Cole and all these different figures in the White House, it creates a new sense of black identity
It's very misfortunate to see how now this is a new chapter of it, where hip hop has now taken the role of another form of expression for passive white supremacy and white oppression. Because when a voice and a tool that was meant to forewarn and commentate on the conditions that have been created by decades and centuries of inequality now becomes a tool to maintain the status quo, we're in an identity conflict
Kwa NateKo
@kwa · 4:13
I find them to be destructive. But I like artists. Like, Larry June is one guy I like a lot. I think he's about 30 something and he went through a lot of the things that a lot of younger rappers talk about, but he's a lot more dear. I use the word progressive in the kind of things that he promotes in his music. And it's a message that if an audience took his message over half of them could succeed kind of taking his instruction
As far as his album work goes, I think it goes back a little further than that when you consider all the capitalist endeavors that he's been a part of for the better part of 20 years now. But when you think about his image wise in hip hop, 444 was the start of a more adult and a near conservative viewpoint in handling his messaging
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
And that's my problems with Killer Mike and Jay Z is because their success is something that was built off of both their rap career and what they did with their money. The issue that I have with them, though, is that they were fortunate enough to have made deals and been involved in certain economic standards that allowed them to shine through. That doesn't necessarily work for everybody