Watered Down Hip hop: The well oiled Assembly line Pt 1
One day I was sitting in a co works car she had her radio on blast to a local R&B hip hop station while sitting in her car listening to this so called music I really didn’t like what I heard but oddly but not oddly I found myself humming; bobbing my head to this monotonous popprap, popr&b as the next song started playing it sounded like the song before it, there was no originality nothing to make me wanna turn it up and ask who’s this I need to go to iTunes and download the whole album.
While bobbing my head I thought of how genuinely, greedy these three BIG music juggernauts groups are they knew exactly how to impose, manipulate, brainwash, whitewash; bamboozle their mass and diverse audience; crush other genres of music like Jazz, classical music Hard, soft Rock, Heavy Metal, country; R&B. Today you can turn your radio dial to any radio station and hear the same type of music there’s no variety no individuality, although I don’t care for all rock music it would be nice to hear some screaming; a howl of the lead band member. I love jazz, gospel, SOME rock, Neosoul Hip hop ol’ skool mainstream Hip hop from 1988-1998. Vince Staples a rapper from Long Beach has stated “The 90’s get a lot of credit but I don’t know why…” Yes Stapes can be an asshole and give his opinion but how are you gonna give your opinion but to not know shit about what he’s talking about is wack. Staples to me is nothing more than a RAPPER with no real lyrical talent It is my belief that mainstream radio and corporations like Universal, Warner; EMI music groups is the cause of the decline in music programs in our schools,technology; money is the culprit of why all the genres of music has declined.
Even MTV, VH1; BET are no longer music video driven tv networks. TRUE hip hop musicians like Jay Z; Kanye West were once socially conscious Hip hop artists but somehow got rapped up with the money, power; the mainstream fame.I think it’s sad really while watching tv a car commercial came on with this amazing song bumpin in the background I was like who is that?
My mama who is was born in a time when music and creativity was a blossom was like that’s ZZ Ward! Now you know if ya mama can tell you who the artist is; sing along it must be good!! The past few years I have wondered where; why all this rich socially conscious hip hop and that R&B that makes you want to turn up your radio and say HEEELLLL YEAH THAT’S MY JAM got lost buried underground .
Well of course I know the answer now so I’m going to teach you introduce you to a whole new way of looking at hip hop and the difference between poprap, popr&b; TRUE HIP HOP; R&B Good music has no color I truly hope with my written thoughts of this watered down hip hop and R&B we all can think of how to bring back the uniqueness; creativity of this genre; others that have been snuffed out by this watered down poprap;popr&b. I feel it is my; likeminded people responsibility to educate and expose our young ones to our music past and what REAL MUSIC sounds like. The next time you turn on your favorite popr&b; poprap radio station tell me if the artists (s) or band sounds different can you tell them apart? Is the hook; the chorus unique, is there any true meaning to what your listening to? From what I hear mainstream poprap today has no real listening value. Part 2 of my watered down hip hop series will explore these three music groups and why TRUE hip hop has gone underground.
The Tears of a Clown Kat Williams
What can we say Katt Williams is that clown with tears flowing down his face he wants to feed his sadness,happiness; anger by making everyone else laugh, making us happy with a joke I’m sure like a lot of comedians he gets a rush from seeing his audience fall back with a laugh and thunderous applause for his comedic delivery. I think people; his fans a like forget Katt Williams is human, with family; friends who love him?
Within the last few years we’ve seen this comedic genius slowly spiral out of control until it’s not even funny. If you are a TRUE fan of Katt Williams or not you have to wonder who is truly in his corner? Sadly showing signs of mental illness; this time he is very vulnerable and could end it all with a gunshot to his head or someone will end his life for him. Like so many of our comedians who has ended their lives they didn’t see a way out their deep depression,the yes men;women; money problems family problems.
Katt Williams is alone he seems to not know who to trust; I’m sure he scared, he may feel crying, laughing; yelling at the top of his lungs while silently asking for help. I don’t think anyone is really listening (SOME) everyone is just sitting back laughing AT him; not with him. He truly has tears of a clown.
“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.”
Robin Williams~
Here’s a link to another cry for help http://www.vibe.com/2016/03/family-wants-katt-williams-hospitalized/?utm_source=sc-fb&utm_medium=ref&utm_campaign=kattwilliams
Batman Vs Superman Review
As you all know one of the most anticipated Super Hero movies came out this weekend, and that is Batman vs Superman.
While I initially heard bad reviews about this movie, I wanted to see it for myself before I gave my judgement on it. After seeing it myself last night I can say that while I don’t hate the movie, I’m kinda disappointed in it.
To start off, let me first say that Ben Affleck was AWESOME as Batman. I had my doubts about him at first but he definitely proved me wrong in this movie. Henry Cavill once again made a great Superman and Gal Gadot did great as Wonder Woman. But as far as Lex Luthor goes, Jessie Eisenberg wasn’t really the best choice for a villain like Luthor.
Throughout the movie it felt like I was watching a socially awkward nerd on crack than an intimidating villain.
Another thing that bothered me about the movie are the constant cutaway scenes and it seeming like that movie had too many plot points. You have one instance where you’d be focused on Superman than all of a sudden it switched to Batman, then Lex Luthor in plots that didn’t really matter or didn’t really make sense.
Now for the actual fight between Superman and Batman and then Doomsday. The fight between these two would’ve been better if Superman wanted to fight Batman willingly instead of being forced to by Lex Luthor. Aside from that the fight was very enjoyable visually though. As for Doomsday we all know he was there as a way to bring the 3 heroes together to fight the “common enemy” which I do again admit was enjoyable visually but could’ve been executed better or saved for another movie.
All in all, Batman vs Superman is the first super hero movie in a while that walked away from feeling underwhelmed. Would I see it again? I’m in no rush to, but I still say go out and see it to give your own personal judgement on it. For me, out of 10, I give it a 6.
Well there’s my take on it, let me know what you think!
Alexandra Shipp Talks About Storm’s Character In Interview
To think that in a little over 2 months the movie X-Men Apocalypse will be hitting theaters. With each passing day we’re getting a little more information each day. Recently actress Alexandra Shipp who will be playing Storm did an interview with Collider.com giving some details about her character.
Here’s one of the questions she answered in her interview:
Can you tell us a little bit about Storm? Or, this Storm, your Storm.
SHIPP: My Storm in particular is kind of a, well yeah, she’s the past derivative of Halle’s Storm. This Storm is a little bit different because you’re meeting her in Cairo. You’re seeing kind of a little bit of where she comes from. You’re seeing all the pain that she’s gone through. It’s not like she’s in the mansion having a great time. She’s so different from all of the other kids because they come from families. They come from some sort of love and support whereas Storm hasn’t had that since her parents died in that plane crash into the house when she was like 5.
It’s like, she’s kind of just all really messed up and the only mutants that she knows are bad mutants. The only mutants that she knows are the mutants who use their powers for stealing, or protecting thugs or whatever. It’s not like, “Oh, we’re going to save the planet”. It’s like, “Forget the planet, I need money so I’m going to distract you with some wind and then I’m going to pick pocket you.” She’s in survival mode so when she meets Apocalypse, she’s kind of like hit this revelation where she has been struggling to feel like she belongs somewhere.
To read the rest of her Q&A check out the link here !
X-Men Apocalypse is due out in theaters May 27th!
Rihanna Blocks Fan who photoshopped an Image of Ri Ri as a white woman
Why would any white person in the right mind find it okay to Photoshop a BLACK celebrity making them white then post it to Twitter? I have come to the conclusion that (SOME) white folks REALLY do think LIGHT BRIGHT AND VERY WHITE IS RIGHT;the straighter our hair the better. Rihanna was very insulted by this white fans disrespect needless to say the fan was BLOCKED and she was left wondering what she had done to offend Rihanna.
If you ask me the white bitch doesn’t really care she just an social media attention whore I guess getting any type of attention good, bad and ugly gets you 15 secs of Internet fame. She really thinks she’s done nothing wrong can you blame her? This white woman ; others who look and think like her is just as whitewashed as the next Negro. For white (people of color) people to really except that people of color are in ALL shades of brown the mainstream media needs to start embracing DARK skin woman with are naturally kinky hair and styles that our unique to us in magazines, TV commercials, local News…. when white people see a DARK skin hand; feet models showing off the latest nail polish; showing a Diamond ring from Kay jeweler on the hand of a DARK skinned couple then things might be a little bit different.
Source:
http://blackgirllonghair.com/2016/03/rihanna-blocks-fan-who-tweeted-a-photoshopped-image-of-her-as-a-white-woman/
Man Killed By Police In Connecticut Dispute
A man in Fairfield, Connecticut was shot and killed by police this Tuesday morning after a call was received stating he was attacking his family.
The incident occurred at around 6:00 a.m. this morning after police were called about domestic dispute. A child in the home managed to escape the home and was able to call 911. Police soon arrived and found that the suspects wife and children had wounds on them that appeared to be from slicking and stabbing and blunt force trauma. The suspect was soon shot and killed by police.
Of the three victims, the man’s wife and one of his children are listed in critical condition and are now hospitalized. The family has not been identified.
Despite the loss of the this woman’s husband and the children’s father, it sounds relieving to hear that these people are out of harms way from this man. Hopefully they’ll make a full recovery and are able to move on from this situation.
11 Year Old Charged In 8 Year Old’s Murder
An 11 year old boy from Tennessee has been charged with murder in the shooting of an 8 year old girl.
Benjamin Tiller of White Pine, Tennessee was charged last week with first degree murder in the death of McKayla Dyer after sn argument over puppies.
The incident occurred back in October when Tiller was talking to three other girls about seeing one of the girls new puppies. After she refused Tiller them retrieved his father’s 12-gauge shotgun and shot the young girl from the window.
As of the conviction, Tiller is set to spend the rest of his childhood in state custody. However his parents are planning to appeal the decision. Tiller was trained in using firearms and has gone hunting with his father and grandfather.
So just because a girl didn’t show this kid her puppies, he felt the need to shoot her. I don’t know why the parents are trying to appeal this, their child knows right from wrong and he had plenty of time to reconsider the decision he made. But that’s my opinion, let me know your thoughts.