Hip-Hop SOLDyours/Soldiers

Critique of the Mo' Money ethic in commercialized Hip-Hop culture through lyrics and love of the genre.
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• Hip-Hop
• beyoncé
• shakira
• destiny's
• child
• Africa
• Black
• rap
• bling
• madonna
• jay-z
• fantasia
• nina
• simone
• queer
• glbt
• gay

[OBparamour]

This isn't just evident in hip hop. Women of all races are conditioned from childhood to value beauty rather than independence and intelligent. They need to find that "soldier" to take care of them. It's not just video hos, but prostitutes, strippers, and even the woman in the office flirting with the boss in hopes of a better raise.

[diepiriye]

You're right. The race factors make it all the more insidious. It's colored Black in the public, which totally masks white oppression, where white poverty is generally hidden. Poor whites have been sold on the race factor, believing that they were a step above Blacks, though now many realize their disenfranchisement. Sexism is a bitch!

[OBparamour]

Our economic system encourages people to value themselves over others in respect to wealth. So poor whites are mostly grasping for something to place them a rung above the bottom, doing so by feeling superior to poor minorities. Yes, racism is much more evident in the poorer economic classes.

[diepiriye]

Where the hell did you grow up? You're so insightful and great at dialogue. You cannot be American!!!! OK, I'm slightly joking, but it seems rare that anyone here is willing to see various hues of life and apply them to a larger picture. It's so refreshing 'commenting' with you.

[SrgtWilliepete]

obviously who cares if he's gay - fucks that gotta do with what he's saying?!

[miranagirl]

is he gay

[theskyizfallin]

long post but I feel passionate about this. Not to mention what the honey blonde beyonces r saying to our young girls & our boys about blk beauty. Or the fact that ppl who never encounter blk ppl but encounter 'our' music believe this to be how we are. Or worse some of us aspiring to be this refried hijacked image of ourselves. Its just destructive on so many levels. I stopped listening to the radio. lil wayne..the best what, say huhn? We need to take it underground or leave it alone. luvya vids

[theskyizfallin]

In the video on yt 'don't let the blk face fool you' she speaks bout the woman who started planned parenthood, this white woman was alarmed at the birth rate of negros & wanted to put a cap on it, she knew SHE couldn't tell em to stop making blk children so she found blk ministers to basically do her wrk for her. Hip hop is just foul now and dangerous bc the beats are blazn which appeals 2the soul of us, but the mess. is too clear:kill eachother and treat your woman like a ho. sorry bout the ...

[theskyizfallin]

The only real music I heard on this post was Nina Simone at the very end. This vid reminds me of another vid I just watched regarding using a black face to fool black ppl. I love hip hop but the hip hop I love is dead, in its place is hijacked music. The ppl that are now in control of our music do not look like us. The message they want pumped in our head is clear: bm are pimp, drug dealn, genocidal homicidal outlaws &they're woman r baby drinkn, money seekn whores. No need to put a bow on it...

[lafoliequimaccompagn]

nice

[bhimz2]

introduction line hit me on the head XD

[diepiriye]

We challenge each other and I respect that, too.

[OBparamour]

Joined the army at 17 and spent 8 years doing that. Spent 6 years living in a town of about 120,000. Thirty percent of the population was black, and interracial relationships were commonplace there. All I know is that by the time I was 18, I was ready to explore life outside of the environment I was born into. My BF says I analze too much, but it is my nature. I don't agree with all of your views, but you challenge me to think, I respect that.

[OBparamour]

Fulton county, Illinois. Extremely low population, almost no minorities, basically lots of poor, working class whites. I was raised on a small farm (60 acres). I never heard the word "nigger" in my home, but often in the community. There was also an attitude of race-tolerance there by the more educated, but I always found that shallow since the majority of these people had no interaction with minorities. I had little/no interaction with Blacks until about 16. To be cont....