Hiphop vs Youngstown
I was a panelist for the Hiphop vs Youngstown event. It was an interesting event , but it also put in to perspective how different i am from others, and how people sometimes don't listen to words. I often said things that went over many peoples heads, while others said some of the dumbest non-sense but some how everyone understood it. The most annoying thing of it was the fact people kept yelling over me and trying to over talk me. I'm not sure if anyone got what I was saying so I thought that I would maybe type them out to see what people thought of them.
Hiphop vs Rap
For the most part I kept trying to make a point that there was a difference between Hiphop and rap. Rap is a product of Hiphop. It's something you do. Hiphop is a movement/mind set. It's the base that you move from. I was trying to say not every rap album that comes out is hiphop, because Hiphop, while they may be few, has some specific guide-lines. For an example Hiphop is a voice for the under class and the minorities. If a racist cop makes a cd about beating black people, it's clearly not Hiphop, cause it goes completely against the mindset of what Hiphop is.
The N word.
People went crazy over this topic. This topic had many view points some of them way off base. At one point we were talking about Egyptian kings. My point was that we(as black people) are not keeping it real about the word nigga.
When ever the topic comes about you always here the same trite saying "Black people have taken the word from the evil white mans mouth and twisted it so that it's a good thing. Thus we have taken the power away from it."This line of thinking is totally not reality. 1. If you're under 25 and you use the word "nigga" as a normal way to communicate chances are the first time you heard it was not from a white person. It was probably somebody you looked up to(a mother, uncle, father ect). You thought it was cool and you wanted to use it on your friends. So, in reality you are not taking anything from a white man, you are just rehashing a word you heard your uncle say. 2. In reality there was no power taken away from the word. If a word has no power you don't get upset when people use it. Black people still get mad when white people say "Nigga."
My other point was people need to figure out what a nigga is. Black people call black people niggas. they call arab people niggas. They call white people niggas. I once heard a person call a video game a nigga.
The discussion didn't really get passed the n-word. After awhile people started to discuss the difference between "nigger" and "nigga." I think one person dared mike bury to say the n word.
I enjoyed the discussion. I just kind wish we'd span out topic wise. I'd think it would be interesting to see what everyone thought the Hiphop stance was on the things like the war on terror, the up coming elections, and the situation in Darfur(sp?).
Hiphop vs Rap
For the most part I kept trying to make a point that there was a difference between Hiphop and rap. Rap is a product of Hiphop. It's something you do. Hiphop is a movement/mind set. It's the base that you move from. I was trying to say not every rap album that comes out is hiphop, because Hiphop, while they may be few, has some specific guide-lines. For an example Hiphop is a voice for the under class and the minorities. If a racist cop makes a cd about beating black people, it's clearly not Hiphop, cause it goes completely against the mindset of what Hiphop is.
The N word.
People went crazy over this topic. This topic had many view points some of them way off base. At one point we were talking about Egyptian kings. My point was that we(as black people) are not keeping it real about the word nigga.
When ever the topic comes about you always here the same trite saying "Black people have taken the word from the evil white mans mouth and twisted it so that it's a good thing. Thus we have taken the power away from it."This line of thinking is totally not reality. 1. If you're under 25 and you use the word "nigga" as a normal way to communicate chances are the first time you heard it was not from a white person. It was probably somebody you looked up to(a mother, uncle, father ect). You thought it was cool and you wanted to use it on your friends. So, in reality you are not taking anything from a white man, you are just rehashing a word you heard your uncle say. 2. In reality there was no power taken away from the word. If a word has no power you don't get upset when people use it. Black people still get mad when white people say "Nigga."
My other point was people need to figure out what a nigga is. Black people call black people niggas. they call arab people niggas. They call white people niggas. I once heard a person call a video game a nigga.
The discussion didn't really get passed the n-word. After awhile people started to discuss the difference between "nigger" and "nigga." I think one person dared mike bury to say the n word.
I enjoyed the discussion. I just kind wish we'd span out topic wise. I'd think it would be interesting to see what everyone thought the Hiphop stance was on the things like the war on terror, the up coming elections, and the situation in Darfur(sp?).