9th Wonder speaks on Don Imus and Oprah

9th Wonder speaks on the Don Imus situation and its affect on HipHop

Category:

Music

Tags:

• www.thisisrealmusic.com
• 9th-wonder
• real-music
• hip-hop
• hip-hop-in-context
• hip-hop-classes
• producers
• real-hip-hop
• hip-hop-

[TIRM2007]

"all our hopes" - little brother

[vrobsizzle]

i wish more folks, specially black folks would realize that solja boy and lil wayne isnt hip hop. i'm a producer, and it disgusts me when i see that crap on tv and they have the nerve to call it hip hop...

[tchalla071]

9th wonder is dropping knowledge here. Much respect to him and his music.

[vrobsizzle]

@fsummerour1982 lil wayne is ok, i think soldja boy has no talent what so ever lol but ya know anybody that believes they have the talent to be successful in this business would get alil salty if they saw someone on trying to do the same thing and them making a mockery of what you have a passion for, i like the old wayne more than his new stuff, and soldja boy is trash to me...but thats my opinion lol but yeah yer def. right lol

[vrobsizzle]

@fsummerour1982 lol yeah i know this ive matured alil bit since that comment lol they are apart of hip hop just as much as the next guy, there just needs to be a balance thats all, the music i make is more traditional hip hop with all the samples and its focus on lyrics and raw beats, i just dont like that the industries today focus on only one type of hip hop and milk it till its dry, and give no room for any other type to branch out, except if yer a vet. balance is all i ask lol

[fsummerour1982]

@vrobsizzle Why are you generalizing Blacks? We only consume 30% of the music. I hate to burst your bubble but Lil wayne and Soulja Boi are apart of hip hop whether you like it or not. I personally don't listen to either one of them but Hip Hop is a form of expression no matter how inarticulate or cliche it may sound. They have their own lane but it's up to us to support the artists that we feel are in our's.

[92680BOYD]

those same corporations own Oprah and Imus, that why Oprah purposely went out of the way to not have Public Enemy, KRS-One and other legends on her show speaking about Hip Hop. and, she generalized the whole aspect of Hip Hop down to "rap", which is still a part of hip hop. there's more to it and she should've done her research, whether she likes the music aspect of it or not.

[ndawg1801]

he the mann

[YBGrind]

Hip Hop was and is more than just the gangsta, pimp, hoe, drugs, violence BS we're fed everyday. We need to re-claim it and reshape it once again. Rappers don't want to be seen as role models but they are...it takes a village to raise a child and recording artist is high on the food chain of ppl kids look up to so they needed to stop running from their responsibility to their community and the world as GRIOTS. That's even more history ppl have no clue about.

[YBGrind]

People don't know that sagging jeans was a jail trend for guys to have sex or get raped in jail. They don't REALLY know that the reason why we call eachother nigga, bitch and hoe is because of self hatred, because slave owners programed black inferiority into their psyche so much that it never went away when they became free on top of dealing with racism, segregration, marginalization, KKK and a lack of equality in housing and education that's still a problem to this day.

[YBGrind]

Those companies MAKE SURE that only that 20 percent is played and seen around the world. If you want to hear KRS ONE, Public Enemy and hip hop that has a message, you have to dig that shit up and search for it. They have taken only a part of what goes on in the black community (gangsta, pimps, bitches and hoes) and they've made those figures into Icons. Thats why the culture has a bad name. Kids have no idea of the history of why they're saying and doing what they're doing. Its just a trend now

[YBGrind]

What he said about Snoop, 50 and all the other mainstream rappers being only 20 percent is absolutely correct. Here is the problem.....all the record labels and radio stations are owned by less than 10 companies and they control everything that's played and that's why that's all the world sees. That's why the image of black people and black culture is down the tubes....because of the corporations.

[truthless1]

it's called "let it go" ft. Mos Def on the Separate but Equal mixtape wit DJ Drama